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Scholar of South Asian pol-mil affairs, inter-sectional feminist, pitbull apostle, scotch devotee, nontheist, resister. Views R mine. No rubes. RT≠endorsement.
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Sep 28, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
@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,
Sep 27, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
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.
Sep 27, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
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.
Sep 4, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
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.
Sep 4, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
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).
Sep 3, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
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...
Sep 3, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
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
Aug 24, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
You are blocked after this. India has a very serious indoor plumbing problem. This is well known. No one likes to talk about it and it has very serious health effects for many rural Indians as it a serious vector for illness. Also, women are victimized while defecating outside. Data:
cnet.com/news/india-spe…
Aug 24, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
When my stepfather degraded, using racial epithet, my first college sweetheart who was black, I told him point-blank "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.
Aug 24, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
So I don't get such numb-headed commentary from anyone EXCEPT Muslim-hating Bhakts, ISI parasts and white male supremacists. So your posited scenario doesn't arise. When I get harassment from White Supremacist, this is what I say to them: "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."
Aug 18, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read
It's easy to feel overwhelmed and under-empowered to help our Afghan colleagues. While perhaps trivial, here are some things you can do TODAY and NOW. 1. Sign this letter from Scholars at Risk urging Secretary Blinken to undertake a select set of clear, doable tasks to offer a modicum of security to Afghan scholars, researchers, and public intellectuals whose lives are now in great peril.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Aug 18, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
In fairness, both were/are shitty. I still blame Reagan for acquiescence to Pakistan's preferred insurgency modality: jihad. In the end, we fueled the slaughter of Afghans and created the conditions that propelled Al Qaeda. The impact of our errors hit home while roadtripping from 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.
Aug 17, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Funny story. It must have been the tail of the first George W. Bush term, I was in a congressional hearing and I raised the issue of the GLOCs and how they compromised us and how we needed to revivify the cooperation with Iran. Most 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
Aug 17, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Obviously, it didn't happen. I'm curious to see what FATF does. We needed Pakistani ALOCS and GLOCS for the withdrawal. Will the USG and UK push so hard to keep Pak from getting the black list it so deserves? I know the UK won't because of domestic politics. But the US? The 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
Aug 17, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
India is the only responsible actor right now. India is offering emergency, free visas to Afghans (livemint.com/news/india/ind…)
Here's the details:
India has introduced a new category of fast-tracked electronic visa called "e-Emergency X-Misc Visa"

Click on indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/Registra… Visa category is "Emergency X-Misc Visa".
If the link does not redirect to the application page, click on "For eVisa by Bureau of Immigration, Apply here" on the Homepage
On the landing page, it redirects to, click on "Apply here for e-visa".
Aug 17, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
This guy is just one example of this phenomenon. (And I generally agree with him.) But there is a group of folks who either don't know/ don't remember/don't bother reviewing a very public account of Biden's role in these discussion over COIN when he was VP. Biden 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.
Aug 16, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
No. For one reason: the fucking map. As long as we had a footprint that required reliance upon Pakistani GLOCS and refusal to work with Iran, which had been VERY HELPFUL, this would've failed. It 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.
Aug 14, 2021 11 tweets 2 min read
Sit down, Beta. School is in session. Pakistan began it's jihad in Afghanistan in 1974 under ZA Bhutto. Would you like Pakistani sources on this? Pakistan 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.
Aug 14, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
All of you opining that @ashrafghani lacks legitimacy, you have the US government to blame. The US foisted this constitution upon Afghanistan, inclusive of the Single Non-Transferable Vote system which notoriously produces illegitimate governments. The SNTV system, coupled with the US-approved and Karzai-insisted lack of political parties, means that a person can win a seat with just a few hundred votes because the electorate is split by dozens of candidates.
Aug 14, 2021 22 tweets 4 min read
@NarangVipin @ProfTalmadge I've been working on these issues for years. Here's an amuse bouche of the problems. I've done my time at the Kabul Military Training Academy the COIN school, I've attended training programs in Helmand, Mazar etc. The 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.