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26 Sep

1. Unclear if this is a signal of a change in #Russia's policy in #Syria, but it deserves note. #Erdoğan's deal with #Putin allowed #Turkey to occupy much of Northern #Syria using forces made up of al-#Qaeda & #Daesh fighters. Recent #Russian bombing in #Barad in SW #Afrin

2. hit and killed several of these Turkish backed al-#Hamzah Division terrorist forces. That group is embedded with Turkish forces and reported to be commanded by the Turkish special forces. Hamza is a monstrous terrorist force that commits crimes against #Kurds and religious

3. minorities and abducts women who are enslaved. There are also reports of Russian helicopters dumping flares over Turkish terrorist held region of North East Syria. IMO there will never be peace in Syria with Turkey and its terrorist occupying any part of it. Putin may have

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26 Sep

1. The Taliban is not a lawfully recognized sovereign authority. It's a US specially designated global terrorist org. It is engaged in conduct that should authorize re-listing the Taliban as a US FTO. They have given top positions to members of al-Qaeda affiliated Haqqani

2. Network. They were listed as an FTO and are still listed by the UN. The misguided attempt to placate them under the former administration resulted in the current situation, but it is clear the Taliban are a genocidal, barbaric terror cult that can never have international

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3. recognition. Therefore, @StateDept @SecBlinken must designate the Afghan Taliban as an FTO and impose sanctions against any country providing material support for its terrorist activities in Afghanistan. That would most likely implicate @GovtofPakistan that should be also be

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24 Sep

1. Federal systems are inherently more stable in nation states made up of diverse ethnic and religious groups. #Afghanistan is a clear example of a nation state that would benefit from a federal system.

@JoeBiden

2. In the weeks preceding @JoeBiden's April 14 announcement of our withdrawal, I spent time trying to examine whether there's a way to end the #Afghan civil war. I was in full agreement that we should get out, but I was also aware the #Taliban would attack and so without US

3. support, a rout was predictable. Now that we're out, the other actors on Afghanistan's borders are facing the predictable results of a barbaric, inhuman Taliban slaughter of ethnic and religious groups. It has to be stopped. Therefore, I propose creation of separate

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23 Sep

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1. @JamaalBowmanNY says these @HouseDemocrats support removing US forces from #Syria. IMO that will let #Turkey murder #Kurds, #Christians & #Yazidi & install al-Qaeda terror zone. @RepRoKhanna @RepPeterDeFazio @Janshakowsky @RashidaTlaib @RepAndyLevin @RepCohen @RepRitchie

2. These members may be misguided. Lied to by #Turkey's lobbyists. Let them know, their support for Bowman's misguided #NDAA amendment could end their careers. Support all secular, democratic and gender equal Syria. Reject the enslavement of women.

3. The Syrians have done the fighting. We are in a purely advise and assist role. There have been almost no US force combat casualties in Syria. This was the one war we fought smart with local support who died by the thousands while we lost almost zero combat casualties.

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22 Sep

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1. Afghan resistance leaders, long backed by CIA, have fled following Taliban takeover interc.pt/3ECY74N by @matthewacole, @kenklippenstein

@theintercept

2. @theintercept is often wrong, but it's never in doubt. US prepared #Massoud and his force during the evacuation. I spotted it, but never reported it. The battle map was simple, and the options were limited. Massoud had to reach a friendly border, and so he fought a delay

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3. action. Now the ethnic #Tajik #Afghan resistance force has reached the border with #Tajikistan and is preparing the #AfghanResistance. @theintercept's myopic view of the battle space is matched by its inability to comprehend the political playing field.

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14 Sep

1. US Tax policy will be future historian's Rosetta Stone for tracing the cause of the end of the American experiment. From 1940 to 1964 US income tax rates on incomes ranging from over 200k to 400k were over 80%. Most of the time over 90%. The rates started to fall in 1964

2. that I presume was the deal that made the Civil Rights Acts pass. Then the decline increased with Nixon and finally the massive Reagan tax cuts turned American economic life on its head. That massive lowering of top tax rates was accomplished by in large part by a determined

3. group of conspiracy theorists who claimed the reds were going to take over and destroy us all the while the guy who ran the group made his money workding for the Reds. The big lie we are witnssing devour our society was and remains the stock and trade of the

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