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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

You make very good points. It will be interesting to see how far the Taliban are willing to compromise their traditional ways to get infidel money that allows them to run Afghanistan :-). It will be interesting to see if infighting breaks out in the Taliban. However, I confess that I am a lot more worried about what is going on in America, where I and my children and their families live, than I am worried about what is going on in distant Afghanistan where America never should have gone in my opinion. I don't see how any American could think the land war invasion of Afghanistan would work out good for America. Perhaps if America hires the Mossad to screen all the Afghan refugees, that will weed out most of the radicalized Muslim sleeper agents? :-) Can the Mossad weed out refugees infected with Covid-19? Should the refugees and returning Americans all be separated and quarantined before being allowed into public America?

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BlueRootsRadio's avatar

I share your fears, but I'm more fearful of the American Taliban that stormed the Capitol on Jan 6th. They are here now and planning attacks right under our noses.

I live in a very diverse neighborhood with many immigrants. I'm both happy and sad to report they are some of my best neighbors. Happy because they have come here with nothing, worked hard and have bought homes and are paying taxes. Sad because there are other neighbors who descended from immigrants but speak and act hatefully towards their new neighbors.

I have total confidence in our system now to root out the bad guys. That is one lesson learned from the mistakes made with the one-way Saudi pilots from 9/11. That's why the process takes so long. The one's getting in now must have been in the pipeline long enough to be cleared. The rest are being staged in other countries around the world.

For the record immigrants repay in taxes multiple times more than the aid they received from the federal government to come here and get settled. I'm happy to have everyone of them, we need more people to stay competitive.

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

I agree.

I'm soon 79. White Alabama native, I live in an old urban apartment building with other whites, blacks, browns. Asians, Indians, Middle-Easterners. We seem to all get along but for a couple of whites who have trouble getting along with anyone at times, nothing to do with their politics or religion.

The white American Taliban and their Ayatollah are one reason I came off the sidelines, reluctantly, and voted for Joe Biden. The other reason was Biden was at least talking about trying to save the planet and Mother Nature from humans. I can imagine the planet and Mother Nature rooting for Red China's bioweapon to save them from humans.

I have huge difficulty accepting rank amateur small aircraft Arab pilots were able to precisely navigate huge commercial airliners on 9/11, after which America was locked down but important Saudis were allowed to leave. I read reports of seasoned American airline pilots, who regularly few such large American commercial airliners saying no way rank amateurs could have navigated the 9/11 aircraft as they did.

The white American Taliban mob on Jan 6 represented a far larger white American Taliban mob, which had waited a long time for a leader they could rally around publicly.

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