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https://twitter.com/omarali50/status/1442710092059590672He 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,
https://twitter.com/tintestintes/status/1442551541236305924For your edification, they are here:dni.gov/ICIG-Whistlebl…
https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1442227791945162758sped 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.
https://twitter.com/MujMash/status/1433674778078941184You're part of the problem. Be part of the solution or shut up.
https://twitter.com/LatoyaFerns/status/1433688107602235392The 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
https://twitter.com/akhil_oldsoul/status/1430195573064302597Data:
https://twitter.com/akhil_oldsoul/status/1430190964459532291"You are an unaccomplished, barely literate red neck who needs my mother to buy your underwear, who barely passed that shithole Waynedale Highschool. The highlight of your life was playing high school baseball.
https://twitter.com/akhil_oldsoul/status/1430190964459532291"You came here filthy, drunk of whtever you could ferment on your ships, festooned with microbes, unable to work this soil. The Native Americans didn't need you, yet they tolerated you...and you killed them."
https://twitter.com/dhnexon/status/1427857348954046465from Kabul to Doshambe. As soon as you crossed the border, women were walking in the streets, working in fields and markets, girls walking to school. The Aghan side was still festooned with UNXO and bereft of women.
https://twitter.com/clary_co/status/1427629850131673105Most folks don't know that the Khatami government offered us assistance in the early days. They were very constructive at Bonn and they continued to offer help for well over a year. And then the Axis of Evil thing went down. So I suggested Iranian GLOCS for commercial goods
https://twitter.com/awmannes/status/1427633381299396617The Pakistanis have used their strategic assets (fastest growing nuke program and terrorists) to coerce us to keep the IMF and other funding sources to happen because "Pak is dangerous to sanction." The US has always sucked up to Pakistan ostensibly for what officials
https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1427462680173031425Biden always opposed COIN. He called his preferred method "Counter Terrorism Plus." He was right. COIN was a farce especially when your enemy had sanctuaries in Pakistan. But he also wrong because without pressuring Pakistan, CT Plus would have failed.
https://twitter.com/dhnexon/status/1427298993634168836It is true that Bush looked at Mush's soul and said "He's not a double-crossing snake." When in fact, he was precisely that. Instead of recognizing geopolitical realities and the FUCKING map, the COINistas argued for their surge.
https://twitter.com/ImmranKhalid/status/1426691734206132230Pakistan found the opportunity to retaliate against Afghan malfeasance violently in 1973 when President Daoud ousted his cousin, King Zahir Shah, and began an aggressive suite of modernizing reforms under Soviet tutelage and encouragement.
https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1426190349664354311The firs thing you need to know is that we did not "spend" 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan. Why? Much of that amount came back in contractor fees to the United States because virtually ALL of the training of ANDSF went through shitbird contractors.