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Sep 3, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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If only folks like you had reported on this issue instead of pretending it was never happening, maybe we'd be in a different place. Instead, your paper has carried Op-Eds from the Taliban and various lying Pak PMs. Your paper has downplayed Pakistan's support of these terrorists.
You're part of the problem. Be part of the solution or shut up.
The @nytimes also was the single most important paper in normalizing the Iraq war. Y'all suck so much. I'm unable to articulate my contempt for this rag without resorting to indecorous language like...
Jesus Crocheting Christ! That felt good.

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Sep 28, 2021
@calxandr spent much of the years between 2001 and 2010 in Afghanistan. First as Canada's Ambo and then as the Deputy SRSG of UNAMA. Chris, like me, was one of the earliest persons to understand that Pakistan's entire Afghan policy has been about subjugation through brutality.
He does not hate Pakistanis. His correct in his long-standing and data-driven assessment that Pakistan has been immiserating Afghanistan since 1974. He was one of the few people that understood this. If Pakistanis understood that the bullshit their Derp State has fed them,
they would perhaps understand why Afghans hate Pakistan and why anyone who has spent time in Afghanistan comes to despise Pakistan's deep state for being the bloodthirsty creature it is.
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Sep 27, 2021
You don't know the difference between a Whistle Blower and an asset of a hostile intelligence agency? And that's MY problem? Because I am an educator, I will attempt to explain the differences. Snowden and Manning never followed any of the legitimate routes of "whistleblowing."
For your edification, they are here:dni.gov/ICIG-Whistlebl…
Whistleblowers are protected by law.
Instead, Snowden downloaded terabytes of information he NEVER read or evaluated. Ditto with Manning. You cannot blow a whistle on shit you never read. That's Whistle Blower 101.
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Sep 27, 2021
Thank you for that consistency and thank you for clarifying. I am furious at Biden and even think it's impeachable. But Trump didn't leave him a lot of wiggle room when he withdrew thousands of troops in his last moments in power. Biden should've immediately paused the agreement,
sped up SIVs and other relevant visa processing immediately begin the evac. Instead, he kept Zal which signaled his commitment to retaining this outrageous Trump-conceived catastrophe. And worse they both handed our Afghan policy to the Pakistanis.
There was no reason to stop CAS, CASEVAC and the training/maintenance missions much less abandon the embassy. That level of troop commitment was sustainable. Both Trump and Biden are culpable for this disaster and the future terror that Afghanistan and Pakistan produce.
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Sep 4, 2021
During my interview, I was absolutely appalled and disgusted that @PhilippaBBC impugned the FACTS that Pakistan is the single most important factor in making the Taliban the competent terrorist group it is.
Without Pakistan's unstinting and panoptic support to the Taliban, it would be just another militia murdering Afghans. She could be Pakistan's MEA spokeschutia. This is why Pakistan gets away with literal murder.
She bought into the Pakistan "victim" story about the "burden" of Afghan refugees. Pakistan destroyed their country, so that's kind of a second-order effect that it can monetize.
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Sep 4, 2021
I just did an interview with @FRANCE24 and the host, like others, kept asking "how will the Taliban government. They say they are setting up an inclusive government. How will they interact on the international stage." Here are my answers.
1. The Taliban are NOT a legitimate government. They are occupying the country with terror. Their military incursion was supported by the Pakistani military in every way possible. The Pakistanis are currently helping them to professionalize their military (with US equipment).
2. How can the Taliban government be inclusive when half of the population is women and they are excluded? Stop seeing women as invisible. Afghan women matter.
Having an Uzbek or five or a Tajik doesn't make a govt inclusive, FFS.
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Sep 3, 2021
Not true. The Mujahids are not the same as the Talibs. Pak created the Mujahids all by themselves and funded them by themselves from 73 until circa July/August 79. The muj are mostly based in JI, which Pakistan supported in Af from the late 1950s.
The Taliban, in contrast, are Deobandi. They emerged from Afghans who fled to Pakistan and studied in Deobandi madrasahs. The US had nothing to do with that. Although by 1997 the US recognized them as the de facto power and unctuous twats like @US4AfghanPeace tried to work with
the Talibs to help Unocal get a pipeline. rferl.org/a/how-the-tali…
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