The United States's Afghan allies are the victims of strategic narcissism.
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs www.aol.com/exclusive-tr ...
-- Sam Adams (@capatosta122.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Sonny Sharrock - The Past Adventures of Zydeco Honeycup (1987)
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It's an amazing instrumental, so, no lyrics.
Under the category ...
I did not know that ....
Cajun and Zydeco Music Traditions
www.louisianafolklife.org
... Cajun music and zydeco are closely related parallel music forms. Cajun music is the music of the white Cajuns of south Louisiana, while zydeco is the music of the black Creoles of the same region.
Both share common origins and influences, and there is much overlap in the repertoire and style of each. At the same time, each culture proudly and carefully preserves the identity of its own musical expression. ...
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When Did the Betrayal Begin?
Oh, you meant the betrayal that culminated with your cult icon BIDEN abandoning the poor turncoats on the runway while at the same time gifting billions of dollars' worth of eq to the Taliban. OF COURSE we betrayed them, just not as bad as they betrayed their own countrymen. Like attracts like, they did it all for the boy nookie and dope and cash JUST LIKE the pedos in our government.
...Just seeing the thread title, I was going to answer "December 1913"
Some historians will argue the first US (and UK) betrayal was the post-WWII repatriation of anti-Stalinist Cossacks to the USSR. Stalin wanted revenge on them and FDR and Churchill agreed to this at the Yalta Conference. The US called it Operation Keelhaul. One of the Cossacks was the elderly General Pyotr Krasnov. These Cossacks in an Austrian lager fought back furiously knowing that Stalin would have them killed once they were in the USSR: media1.faz.net
@#21 ... Henry Kissinger " 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.' ...
Did Kissinger say it's 'dangerous to be America's enemy' but 'fatal' to be its friend?
www.snopes.com
... In the weeks following U.S. President Donald Trump's second inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, users on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube shared a quote about the purported dangers of existing as an enemy or friend of the U.S., attributing the remark to the German-born American political scientist and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The full quote was, "The word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." ...
The attribution to Kissinger originated with the conservative editor, author and United Nations delegate William F. Buckley Jr., who said Kissinger made the comment during a November 1968 phone call between the pair.
No audio recording of the phone call existed. Despite there being no way to definitively confirm that Kissinger expressed the thought using that exact phrasing during the phone call, all available historical evidence pointed to him as likely the person who originated the words. Decades-old newspaper articles " including a 1974 piece that Buckley, who died at the age of 82 in 2008, authored " attributed the quote to Kissinger. Kissinger, who died in 2023, never refuted the attribution.
A representative for Kissinger's official website did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Until then, Snopes is withholding a definitive truth rating. ...
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