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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 ...

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... On Jan. 20, 1,660 Afghans set to come to the United States had their flights canceled by an hours-old Trump administration.

It is frustrating, yet unsurprising, that the new administration's first priority was to continue its betrayal of allies who trusted the U.S.

During the United States's war in Afghanistan, the U.S. government hired local staff to serve in combat. They worked as interpreters, truck drivers, security contractors, and other positions.

Their service proved invaluable, and they saved American soldiers' lives.

As the war progressed, they came under threat. The Taliban hunted them and their families. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-31 11:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

aol.com
OK boomer

#2 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 06:05 PM | Reply

had their flights canceled

-what's that mean? can they still come if they find their own way?
I'll know more after archive finishes choking down that horrid link...

#3 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 06:09 PM | Reply

The Taliban hunted them and their families.

taint easy being a traitor chomo in mohammadland. they even had to bring their kidnapped bachabz boys to the base for safety.

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan | FRONTLINE
PBS
https://www.pbs.org Home Documentaries
A startling investigation into an ancient practice that's once again flourishing: the organized sex trade in young Afghan boys.

...practice that's once again flourishing
-after the invasion. hmm. sort of like the opium growing once again flourishing after the invasion.

#4 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 06:17 PM | Reply

Their service proved invaluable, and they saved American soldiers' lives.

-Hey! Idea! Don't invade them? Save all the lives, and a bunch of money, too!

#5 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 06:22 PM | Reply

@#2 ... aol.com
OK boomer ...

The article in the summary is from Lawfare Media, not AOL.

Where did your current alias get aol.com from?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 06:40 PM | Reply

"The United States's Afghan allies are the victims of strategic narcissism."

Trump supporters don't realize it yet, and some never will, but the United States's Afghan allies have a lot in common with United States Trump Supporters!

Ask a Trumper about Pat Tillman being a victim of strategic narcissism, if you require additional details.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-01 06:48 PM | Reply

Where did your current alias get aol.com from?

There's an aol link in the bsk summary.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-01 06:48 PM | Reply

@#8 ... There's an aol link in the bsk summary. ...

OK, I looked. That AOL link points to a Reuters news article.

So, the mention of an AOL link looks like little more than a lame deflection attempt to try to degrade what I posted.


Which then begs the question (a question which the subsequent comments of that current alias seem to support) ... why?


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 08:28 PM | Reply

Sonny Sharrock - The Past Adventures of Zydeco Honeycup (1987)
www.youtube.com

It's an amazing instrumental, so, no lyrics.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 08:31 PM | Reply

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. ...


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 08:34 PM | Reply

...the mention of an AOL link looks like little more than a lame deflection attempt to try to degrade what I posted.

Of course it was.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-01 08:41 PM | Reply

That's right, focus on the AOL no-op.
Totally ignore the 1600 traitorous chomos that are 'being hunted' because they sided with the invaders, called in airstrikes on their neighbors, got their neighbors killed then kidnapped their sons for sex slavery.

#13 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 09:23 PM | Reply

@#13 ... That's right, focus on the AOL no-op ...

Your current alias is the one who raised it. Typical, try to blame it on someone else.

Now, it is trying to blame others for its own lame deflection attempt.

Do try harder.


And, fwiw, I popped your "the 1600 traitorous chomos" into a couple of search engines.

I got similar results from them...

... It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search ...

So, what is your current alias trying to say?


thx.



#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 09:35 PM | Reply

archive.is
lamps crappy link

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"

#15 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 09:41 PM | Reply

lamps ,
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

#16 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 09:49 PM | Reply

"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."

"betrayal that culminated"

Good call.
Everything you describe started with Trump.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-01 09:52 PM | Reply

#15

When Traitor Trump is your Cult Leader, moral outrage on your part is laughoutloudable.

Do you even have the slightest clue how moronic you sound?

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-01 10:05 PM | Reply

@#16 ... I don't want to talk to you no more, ...

... and your current alias illustrates that desire by "talking" to me?


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 10:07 PM | Reply

@#17 ... Everything you describe started with Trump. ...

Yeah.

That seems to be the case here.

So, why the denial?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 10:10 PM | Reply

Everything you describe started with Trump.

#17

-textbook case of TDS

Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com quotes 11331139-it-ma...
Henry Kissinger " 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.'

#21 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 10:27 PM | Reply

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

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-01 10:31 PM | Reply

It started about the same time as the coverup of Pat Tillman's death by the GQP filth.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-01 10:34 PM | Reply

@#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. ...


#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 10:52 PM | Reply

When Traitor Trump is your Cult Leader

-Naah, he means nothing to me, save as entertainment. But, neither do I suffer from TDS..
politics is not binary! god! it's a spectrum!

#25 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-01 10:53 PM | Reply

neither do I suffer from TDS.

lol ... daddysfist spends 60 hours a week sucking orange taint

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-01 10:58 PM | Reply

One is either for Traitor Trump or against him; either a patriot or a traitor enabler by obfuscating for him on these pages daily.

So sole advantage of which goes to JeffyBelle, who now has company. Bad company, but company still.

#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-01 11:03 PM | Reply

textbook case of TDS

We need to draw a bright line between derangement syndrome' and I just hate that -------------.' Too much pure hating is getting categorized as derangement syndromes and it's a disservice to haters everywhere.

#28 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-02 09:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"TDS" is only used in good-faith by people who've lost their minds. They are projecting.

#29 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-02 09:09 AM | Reply

-textbook case of TDS

Sure. I guess the facts have TDS too.

"President Donald Trump ordered an immediate evacuation of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Somalia after his election loss in November 2020"

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 09:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-textbook case of TDS

#21 | Posted by itchyp

Is that the syndrome that makes you forget when trump freed 5000 taliban fighters?

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-02 01:14 PM | Reply

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