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Creatively Christian
"ghanistan" Discussed on Creatively Christian
"From enjoying science fiction and fantasy stories into creating them also. So how can we use the explosion of superheroes as an opportunity for the gospel. Yeah so. I've got a young adult superhero series. That's out it's the christian series and So i thought about a lot about this in writing it and getting picked up by smaller and The superheroes are in my opinion our current mythology in back in the day. You had zeus and poseidon Or you had thor and loki which were norse mythology. And of course now they've been co-opted by marvel and are actually out there in the marvel universe but people would tell these stories about trying to understand how life is and how works with super with these godson goddesses and mythology stories. And really you think about it. A lot of our current day is we want to be able to make sense of the struggles. We have in world Somebody greater than ourselves and okay. Life is hard and they're these people that can have special abilities. I mean think of the first ironman movie where he goes in the dealers net. Ghanistan very still topical right now and Kind of wish implement their but who is the was the great superhero. Who's the person who but the most on the line and sacrificed most for us. And when the ultimate victory over evil in my mind as jesus christ and so Yeah i think we can definitely use superheroes and just talk through Some of that aspect and built. Show the gospel with it. I have a t shirt in well. I used to have a t shirt with. Jesus and off marvel superheroes and jesus is saying. This is how i saved the world. And i've seen that before it's cool shirt. Yeah i. I no longer fit that now but Have to buy another one. My family and i watched the every single marvel series have all the disney plus series and after a after every episode. We compare it to the bible. At least i do and My daughter tries understand But my wife is so much more into marvel than i expected her to be. She started with one vision. Said i don't care about one division. And then i didn't try to push it on her but she saw me watching and listening to the explainer videos and she got hooked into it so.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Joe Biden Is America's Greatest National Security Threat
"It has been twenty years yesterday. The anniversary of nine eleven which is a moment's a day in history that i think changed all of our lives instead assan. Maybe even a different trajectory in life and it was difficult to look back on twenty years and certainly it made it even more difficult with the way that we were led out of afghanistan over the last month by the biden administration. Our first question is for mark levin and sad. We'd like you dr. Sebastian gorka to be our one responder mark. What is our greatest national security threat today. joe biden. i'm not cleaning. I am not kidding. The people he is surrounded himself with a disaster. He's got a secretary of defense that helped create the isis caliphate. He's got a sector stay. Who comes out of the ivy league. Schools really doesn't know a damn thing same with his national security adviser so when you look among those people it's absolutely a disaster. The idea that we've american citizens in enemy territory the idea that we would leave afghan patriots. Who fought with us in enemy territory. The idea that twenty years after nine eleven the taliban will be stronger and bigger control the entire country about ghanistan with the backing of al-qaeda and china and russia iran sees this north korea sees is all of our enemies see this we are in dire dire
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"ghanistan" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"They got killed in the case of New york state but there has to be room for debate which biden and with his supporters. you know they. there's no room for. They want to shut the. They don't want him to be allowed to travel. Should go on airplanes. I mean that crazy. What's her name when the doctor from. Cnn he she smiles and she says some of the most evil stuff she smiles used to run planned parenthood. So you know she's got a dark heart and she says just crazy stuff like this go far enough. We should stop interstate travel by people who are unvaccinated so again like this reporter. Spn or turtle boy or someone who's a pregnant woman. A pregnant nelson williams is correct by the way that's her name. And they can't cross state lines according to the the the doctor. The official doctor of cnn. This crazy woman win. And i'm thinking wait a second. That's a constitutional right. You can go to the next date. You can't stop me because of medical choices. The steps madness. The number of people who agree who understand that. It's total madness that concerns me. How many people think. Oh yeah what's your some night or watch you know this. Jonathan kaye part one of these crazy lunatics. They don't mind at all. Sound totally totalitarian. It's like The coverage of the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven. I was i was running. I was getting tired. Retweeting the lunatics who compared it to january sixth. I mean literally they're comparing and bush. You know implied this which is why so. Many people are disgusted with a lot of people on twitter. A lot of people in the media said. Yeah it's kind of like january. Sixth again we'll go over the numbers quickly on nine. Eleven two thousand three two thousand nine hundred. Seventy seventy innocent people killed at The towers and the pentagon and shanksville January six one person killed eight unarmed protester. Ashley babbitt by a cop. I don't think he could bear something that happened with. Three thousand people died to something where nobody was killed. That's our symbols. That's why impulse. I see symbols symbols. Gotcha symbols what about when All those crazy cavanaugh. Protesters barged into the senate during hearing. Was that like nine. Eleven yet at. We don't talk about no okay okay. We'll keep them but it was crazy. Bush embarrassed himself. Not as bad as biden embarrassed himself but it is interesting. That what joe biden wanted was a photo op was a ceremonial kind of photo of a good optic for nine eleven. What did he get. he got this disasters. Pull out of afghanistan. Thirteen service people killed one hundred and forty something civilians and our last act and the new york times had to actually report this our last act. Nf ghanistan they lit up a family of ten including a guy a.
MSNBC Morning Joe
"ghanistan" Discussed on MSNBC Morning Joe
"Thank you joe for for having me on today as we approach this anniversary there were moments of extraordinary heroism and the response to nine eleven inside the towers at at the pentagon and of course we all know the story of a flight ninety three where the passengers resisted rather than allow the plane to be to to strike probably the the capitol building that story became sort of lionized in in nine eleven lor but one detail encountered the my lemon commission before is that the group of passengers that was considering rushing the cockpit paused to take a vote before they did so The voted they deliberated and then they act it and nothing striking struck me as quite so so american. Is that the the notion of of pausing in the midst of this unfathomable stress and fear to engage in sort of a deliberate and delivered consultation like that that that struck me as one of the most american moments of of that early response carlos a this twenty year anniversary so important that our leaders Whether in politics are whether they're thought leaders reflect on twenty years. What we've gotten a right and what we've gotten wrong. It's so it's so important to look back and figure out as you said what parts of the test we failed. You reread these twenty. One books. somebody them so important. What was your takeaway are your takeaways from what we got wrong over the past twenty years the test of nine eleven that i that i write about in in the you mentioned is whether we can respond to this horrifying assault on america and still via meredith still uphold the values that we profess the very values that are leaders. Told us were were. The reason behind the attacks remember president bush on on the night of nine eleven said the reason we were targeted was because of our values because we stand for freedom and openness and opportunity and democracy and the rule of law yet in our in our prosecution of the war on terror. We didn't always display those high values. We sometimes revealed some of our our lowest impulses whether that was deception or brutality or overreach or even delusion we entered a necessary war in iraq turned a war of liberation to occupation there. We prolonged the war in afghanistan by being less than forthcoming about how that war was progressing as my colleague. Craig lot has on his book yet. Ghanistan papers engaged in the brutal interrogation of terrorism suspects as article in the in the senate torture report. The irony is that after spending so many years attempting to spread democracy around the world. Democracy at home deals weakened and the the same building that al-qaeda attempted to strike on september. Eleven thousand one and sale to the the us capitol building was assaulted by our own citizens. Twenty years later. David ignatius when. I ask at my colleague carlos about his essay which is extraordinarily every everyone should should take a look Nine eleven was a test. We failed in that carlier. Summing up i think the somber mood at the country has twenty years later as we as we look back not simply the tragedy of of nine eleven but at the ways. We responded and yet as you and i have discussed. That's not the whole story that there are lessons learned in this period. Could speak just a little bit about what you think. Those lessons are that are valuable for us. Going forward not a source of shame and embarrassment but but something we can build on. I think one of the one of the lessons we can probably draw from some of the documents. They came out of out of this period such as even the the. Us army marine corps counterinsurgency manual which essentially serves as as a word of caution on. You know what we're doing when we embark on these wars to try to remake the world wars the end of being insurgency warps And i think that in in some ways documents such as such as that one help. Us military and help our our. Our elected officials be more cautious before entering these kinds of of conflicts. I mean the the overarching tests that we passed that we did not fail is that there was not a second nine eleven scale terrorist attack in the united states and that's an enormous success. One one not of the one caveat. I would add to that though. Is that on nine. Eleven in the evening andrew card. Just mentioned the the president's speech that night he didn't say that the job of the united states was now to protect american citizens. He said it was to protect the american way of life and those american values. And i think in in that regard perhaps we were. We were somewhat less accessible colors. Of course nine. Eleven happened after a decade in which america being kind of impotent after the end of the cold war. A one of the things that it struck me happened. Bef- after those attacks in america realized it wasn't an inasmuch control of world events as it it thought it had been. Maybe some of those world events would have happened anyway. We always go to see the rise of china american. It being distracted from what was happening in asia because it got involved in the middle east but it was going to happen anyway and is some sensitive in the world around us. Nine eleven was a searing event for this country but the events of the world around us. The rest of the world happened as they were going to happen anyway. I think that you're seeing some of that. Now and it. It similar perhaps to that period before nine..
Hard Factor
White House Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
"Biden gave a speech that sadly missed on thursday where he was reportedly angry again. This time not afghans or american stranded out ghanistan but at local who are not yet vaccinated against cove in nineteen. I think there's about eighty million of them and therefore he announced sweeping mandates for anybody he feels he can legally require them for as president it mandates vaccines for roughly two-thirds working americans. Here's what the ap tweeted about it breaking president. Joe biden to mandate all employers with more than one hundred workers require covert. Vaccinations or weekly virus tests. The new requirements would affect as many as one hundred million people. Yeah so and of course. Everybody's really mad.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"ghanistan" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Meanwhile if you thought that afghanistan well we're just forgetting about it no big deal. Well no one can get out. So they're bunch of americans who are still stuck there. According to the wall street journal efforts to get one hundred stranded americans and thousands of vulnerable afghans out of afghanistan founded on wednesday as the taliban imposed more restrictions on flights out of the country. According to people involved in the rescue efforts the taliban have refused to allow any commercial flights out of afghanistan since the us military withdrawal since then private efforts to fly people out of afghanistan of hit roadblock after roadblock you negotiations with the taliban have failed to clear the way so my khalilzad america's special envoy enough ghanistan peace talks has been sending urgent request to the taliban to allow americans and afghans salib said one state department official efforts have produced no breakthrough. Okay so the taliban are just holding them hostage but says the administration. They're not being held hostage. Just as remember they were not stranded. Nether not being held hostage. It's just that the taliban are not letting them leave right. Which is like saying that a person who has been kidnapped is not kidnapped is just that the kidnapper refuses to allow them to leave the house. Train them in the basement other than that. They're totally free to leave. Your is tony. Blinken making that absurd contention as of now. The taliban are not permitting the charter flight to depart. They claim that some of the passengers do not have three part documentation while there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground without an airport with normal security procedures in place. We are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground. That's what we've done. That's what we will continue to do. Learning jabber the taliban. It's worked so far. It's working just fabulously. Meanwhile turns hockey was asked I noticed that there's nobody on the ground actually negotiating with talibans. You get these people out or provide them aid or anything. There's no one on the ground at all. Whose fault is that. And jen sock has no answer because obviously it's this administration's faults instead. She's just like we're not going to discuss. Blame us blame no no. We're not going to do that following up on these charter.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black: Joe Biden Is a Total Failure
"Are back with lord. Conrad black the author of president trump. A president like no other latest piece in american greatness and greatness dot com posting right now. Joe biden is total. failure is the title little black. You go through toil doc. His on a it horizon full of the the incredible failures of just the last eight months. You start with stagflation which can kill the presidency. You talk about the crime rates in the us. The open artery of the southern border the disaster of ghanistan on and on and on. I let me let me ask you to put that onto historic perspective. How true is the old soul that it's the economy stupid that all of these things are true. The national security Ramifications and everything else but at the end of the day a president of any party is most vulnerable when it comes to wallets and pocketbooks that That has historically been the leading issue but of course at times other crises arise i in the eighteen sixty election which lincoln one. It wasn't the economy. Of course there was a terrible threat to national unity in one thousand. Nine hundred forty president roosevelt's third term. He ran even with his opponent. Wendell we'll be economy. But he led on foreign policy. But absolutely overriding concern of americans was how to stay out of war but helped the democracy. So we're app four british and canadians and and And roosevelt had you know all all each short of war and great arsenal of democracy and so on and that was a policy that people approved. But normally what you say is right. I mean obviously nothing affects people. I unless they been with really oppressed nothing effects more than than the standard of living the buying power in enjoy the stability of their assets and and And so it it. It is traditional biggest. The biggest factor and it is it is about to to assault this administration. I think
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Afghanistan: 20 Years of Mindless Mission Creep
"September. The eleventh was planned out of afghanistan. Three thousand people murdered in the space of one hundred and two minutes in a country. That was truly perfect to establish it. Training base is to house a mastermind. A of muslim fundamentalists never functioned as a nation on even during the monarchy that ruled it for a few years in the one thousand nine hundred seventy s no the nation whose genetic warrior bloodymindedness soul alexander the great defeated so the british empire at its height defeated so the soviet union which dis- deployed helicopter gunships against civilians. Landmines disguised as plastic toys to main but the children of that benighted nation. None of them could defeat the afghan tribes and our elite after deploying the best of the best special operators special forces. Cia pamela trees in october the month after september the eleventh in an amazing mission the quintessence of irregular warfare unconventional warfare. With just three hundred guys literally on donkeyback with laptops and laser-guided munitions leveraging twenty-one thousand indigenous anti-taliban northern alliance took down a tyler ban. This tried the out kind training camps and forced been laden to run and hide in likewise fundamentalist pakistan that amazing mission october. What happened twenty years of mindless mission creep. Twenty years of cretans. Who'd been to harvard and yellow convincing us and themselves because they believe as well that we're going to create democracy in south asia. The girls will go to school. Music will be legal again. And they'll be hospitals across ghanistan and civil society and gender studies. At the university. In kabul cretans imbeciles all of them
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Fighting Continues in Panjshir Valley as Anti-Taliban Resistance Vows to Hold Out
"The taliban have declared victory. In the eastern provinces of punchier the part of afghanistan to fall under their control the group posted of their pfizer raising their flag in the territory however the region's resistance groups maintain. They haven't been defeated. Let's get the latest now with surgeon. Gazelle a visiting teacher at the london school of economics. Welcome to the program. So is john. Do you think the war is really over now homeless. Do we actually know about what's been happening in punchier. Well the war has perhaps An ended in the sense that the taliban have declared victory across afghanistan but there will be another conflict internally where you will see pockets of resistance across the ghanistan against taliban role and that is something that will likely last for years come because there is resistance towards the taliban at the moment it is not significant enough to concern them but it is something that is noticeable and it is getting a support across many of the urban centers of the country. And what about in in pens year. The region's resistance groups. They claim that they are still fighting. Well the resistance in punchier. Is that now off. A insurgency ironically similar to how the taliban used to be previously the punchier valley is a geographically very difficult place to control. It's god valleys and ridges and no one had previously been able to take control of it. Not even the soviets during the occupation of aghanistan in the nineteen eighties. So the fact that the taliban claiming victory and they've been able to hoist their flag in the capital of punchier is significant but they don't entirely controlled into the whole region off the punt share valley. There are still some pockets of resistance.
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
"ghanistan" Discussed on Armstrong & Getty On Demand
"To put together. The story gotti weirdly. I don't know if he lost his mind. Or if he was a crackpot all along his a professor by the way he is a an intellectual technocrat that kind of person. No boy picture that kinda guy running. So everything's theory to him and as we were talking about on the show a lot yesterday for whatever reason these people don't seem to get that might makes right has been the history of humankind and always will be and you can have all the theories you want about the way things wanna work but if a big guy in a beard and a gun shows up smash your face he gets to dictate unless you can stop it. And that is beautifully phrased and what are your best. And and and how some people don't get that is beyond me but according to the washington police because they spend their time in the ivy tower vaca -demia they have no idea how humankind actually worth dave before so the taliban thirty miles outside of town on saturday the day before he actually ends up leaving the country. He's having meetings about some sort of economic Stimulus plan that. He wants to come up with for afghanistan as soon as the americans leave. He's having meetings about this and people are looking around like are you crazy. What are you talking about. Wow he's walking the halls of the presidential palace talking about complicated technocrat government things not realizing that he's about to be overrun as the taliban strolls to the capital absolutely amazing so at some point is advisors mindful of the last time the taliban had conquered kabul so russia went into afghantistan. They were there for about a decade put in a government and then got out of there because osama bin laden and the taliban drove the russians out but the russian government held on for three years of run nef ghanistan before they had before the taliban a we didn't last near as long The russian government hung on soviet government hung on for three years before the taliban took over the country and marched into kabul and when they marched into kabul last time They found the soviet president disemboweled him in hung his body from a traffic light in the middle of kabul. Yeah so the advisors for ghani went to him on sunday morning. That's when the talibans actually walking into town and said look. Do you remember what happened last time. This is what's gonna go gonna happen to you and for some reason that penetrated his professorial ed and he thought job. I better get out of here and grabbed one hundred stone fail me now. And according to some reports he grabbed hundred and sixty million dollars in got to the airport and left the country but up until the final hours. He was still discussing We need a new water plant out in the east. Wow wow how crazy is that here right. It is tragic comic. You know. I had heard a i read in the new yorker like a month or so ago and they were talking about how the trump administration had left the president of afghanistan completely out of the conversations because they couldn't deal with him and it was being presented in the new yorker. That was a big mistake by the trump administration to not involve the president of aghanistan. I'm thinking now you've got to admit it seems a little i does but i'm thinking now. The reason that they were dealing with them is living in la la land about reality and say they just thought we'll talk to somebody else. Yeah that is wild anyway The ultimate point being the washington post has a lot of other journalists are are laying a lot of blame up until up and until the final hours at the feet of the biden administration. So i forget to reprint are sound clip. Do we have the the key clip of the day. The short version we opened the show with go ahead commitment holes to get everyone out that in fact we can get out and everyone should come out and that's the objective. That's what we're doing now. That's the path. And if you're american forces there's american citizens left we're going to stay little. Get them all out so we we edited that out Edited part of that outward george stephanopoulos and what about the people who were left and by states away get out even if we have to stay passed the thirty first even if he asked to stay past thirty first unequivocal. Well department of defense spokesman. John kirby you yesterday said that we don't anticipate a military role and trying to get additional. Us citizens out of afghanistan. The low hundred. We'll we'll figure it out. Don't worry about that'd be fine. Don't worry about so getting back to one of the questions you post earlier. You're talking about the the outright denial of furnishing the taliban with the kill lists which is what they will become and then the increasingly muddy denials the the reporting that substantiated. It the way. All of that makes the administration look or the way that biden pledging. We'll stay till they're all out and then it clearly doesn't happen. How that makes them look. I think i understand the answer to this. But i'm disgusted by it. Why doesn't somebody say starting with the ancient president because of the incredibly rapid collapse of the afghan government which we should've seen common. We were forced into a situation where we had the cooperate with the taliban to save the most people. It's a highly imperfect relationship and we wish it hadn't happened but it did so. Yeah this sucks. Were dealing with it. Is there no room in american politics or that sort of taking responsibility. apparently so you're better off issuing childlike idiotic. Face smeared with chocolate. That wasn't me in the cookie. Jar style denials. That's better politics. I guess i don't get that at picture is something that green night-vision picture of the commander of the eighty second airborne being the last guy to walk on the plane last soldier on the ground after twenty years of doing whatever we were doing at is some picture yeah and in general or brigadier generally some sort of general with a rifle in hand full battle rattle last guy off the ground not a good ending not a good ending This being reported taliban arrested the top afghan cleric who spoke out against the insurgents. He'll probably be killed by the end of the day as was That folksinger. I tweeted that story out yesterday. Some popular folksinger in afghanistan. Because they don't allow music there. They went to his house Arrested him in him. Shot him right there. Talk to him for a while in his house with his family then just shot him because they're crazy people because he was playing music and you can't allow that sort of thing. I know they executed a leading comedian. Nice folks you know some of you would say and i might say long with you. There's lots of countries where they do that sort of thing. We're just not talking about it today. We don't hear about.
Oil and Gas This Week Podcast
"ghanistan" Discussed on Oil and Gas This Week Podcast
"Pros who went quickly heater finger on the pulse of the industry. Thanks for joining us for episode. Two hundred and forty-two hey mark don't even know where to start what's going on in the world right now between afghanistan and hurricane ida my heart's pretty broken forever and you'll meet to do to give a big shot up to our partner airlines. When things i think is really cool is all this stuff is gonna afghanistan. You see all the newsreels about the military evacuate and people. I do want to give a big shout out to our partner. United airlines you've been seen on tv how the military's been evacuating people like crazy which you may not know. A lot of private companies are also evacuate in the citizens and the refugees. Mass ghanistan included united airlines. So far they've managed applaud. Fifteen hundred people that you'll see that the news so big shout out to the united airlines. They're cruiser employees families for doing something. That's a bit risky. But it was the right thing for them to do. So they're getting people out of there. We'll keep our fingers crossed from everybody out there. And we also had some servicemen just recently so quick moment of silence for afghanistan and also for the us marines and seamen and soldiers that we've lost just recently all right. Let's get to news stories. Page all right so Oil companies evacuate employees slash production ahead of hurricane ida. They learned listening katrina. So everybody's a shut down the wills We're looking at about one dot six million barrels of production. That are off line right now. The hurricane just made it through the gulf on. There's a bunch of rumors floating around that. That i just want to type. Try to qualify. You're so one that's going around right now. Is that the shells. More platform has become. A moored is now floating around. That is not true. Just heard from the coast guard that the shells more platform is in is in three thousand feet of water properly more down same way with the ursula and the olympics platforms so all the platforms are in place. I did hear that there might have been a noble drilling boat that capsized. Luckily all those people are safe on. There were some injuries. Think reminder so it looks like the at least what's happening so far at least the the operators in the gulf of mexico like your by safe looks like most of the production. That's offline will come back online. The biggest thing page now is what refineries are down in the gulf coast can be brought back up and we'll reporter that as soon as we have some information on that..
Democracy Now! Audio
"ghanistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Government mumble. A could i ask you to respond to what rafia has said The way in which women were used as a pretext for the us invasion and the fact that the advances that have been made in afghanistan four women have largely been a as a result of the aid economy. Could you could you Respond to that. I mean it's knocking is being a little bit unfair. I believe the situation. I know that there was You know that that happened in afghanistan there's delta balanced but at the same time it is not that you know only that this result of it is not that they women are prep ghanistan. Christopher from the point of view of education loan. i mean so many more girls right now that the they've gone to school graduated from schools and they are and they're ready to take their and and keep on going so many in all the same wave teachers and doctors and nurses and engineers and and these are all because the universities would open because women would announce to go to a part of their higher education not necessarily took the united states of europe but to other countries in asia obser- to win and go and do the complete that education so that whole thing really really changed was changing and if we were given we would be given a number more of a chance. I'm sure this would have taken a route in afghanistan and become that that the majority that that we need in order to really bring about a change and the whole life of the african woman. I know did not happen. That's because it was cut short and then also but at the same time you know. Based kind of taking a part of what she's saying in her her beliefs to me also in a way. It is going to show me as as an afghan and i hope to all of my sisters that they are here then afghanistan or the ones that they are outside for us to see how what you're going to do from here on because you see afghanistan is afghanistan. The are the educated women and that so far that they wanted to have been not all of them left afghanistan not all of them can leave afghanistan so again it's going to be that that that Second in a category of people that they are educated and hopefully occasion is something that you'll fight for will continue to interesting to see what they're going to be happening without the push of the of the of the west end the woman and many of the jews and all of that. I wanted to go to just this past july. When the former republican president george w bush of course responsible for the us invasion of ghanistan responded with a rare criticism of us policy in afghanistan today during an interview with the german news outlet h avella. This is what he said. I'm afraid afghan. Women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. I'm sad and i spend blur. And i spent a lot of time with afghan women and and they're scared so here. He refers to first lady. Laura bush and november of two thousand one right. After the invasion laura bush delivered the president's weekly radio address a first time first lady took over the president's weekly radio address. This is an excerpt. I'm laura bush and i'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al qaeda terrorist network and the regime. It's supports in afghanistan. The taliban and it wasn't just the first lady. Of course a republican in october of two thousand one democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney of new york were burqa during a two thousand one speech to congress on afghan women's rights. Anyone who was familiar prior to september eleventh with how the taliban treat women should have recognized that the taliban are capable of doing just about anything. The taliban controlled ninety percent of afghanistan since nineteen ninety six when they unilaterally declared an end to women's basic human rights the restrictions on women's freedoms in afghanistan are unfathomable to most americans. Women are banished from working. Girls are not allowed to attend school so That was carolyn. Maloney on the floor of the house wearing a full burqa. Her face covered as well. Reveres the courier you document this but if you can Talk about the significance of how the swiss used immediately as much or more than going after osama bin laden and the justification of the us invasion. And then what's happening as mahbouba sarraj says looking at today. What has to happen well. First of all. I'd like to you know correspond to something. Mobile bus said about This kind of thing. The education quote unquote will take root in ghana. Stan i think that is the problem of the approaches. That it's a top down trickle down approach which was devised in by middle class western feminists and then kind of delivered to have gone stan as an export rather than an indigenous. Some of them in afghanistan. i think the the failure is that yes. I've gone to him and might be educated. But they don't have the political capacity to safeguard the rights that they have one in the past twenty days and that's the reason for that is this idea of empowerment as something. Excise from political radicals struggle. Will you know women and a on. Were never able to do that. In the past twenty years and we of twenty seconds okay so but in terms of the worker being those are the theatrics of the west right. It's it's this horrible equation that if you're wearing the burqa your oppressed if you suddenly take it off your free and you see. It's truly tragic to see that repeated again Twenty years after the initial invasion and as the us draws down borka is not indicator of. We're going to leave it there. But i thank you so much for being with us refused. A car is new book is called against white feminism notes on disruption and thank you to mahbouba sarraj in kabul president of afghan women's network. I made me goodman with me..
Democracy Now! Audio
"ghanistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Don't touch my hair by solange. This is democracy now democracy now dot org the warren peace report. I mean he goodman with no means shape as we turn to afghanistan where the taliban held a parade in the country second largest city wednesday to display the made military equipment. They've seized was left behind after the withdrawal of the. Us troops pentagon press secretary. John kirby responded by claiming the us deactivated all the gear us forces abandoned at the airport. Meanwhile general mark milley chair of the joint chiefs of staff told reporters wednesday. It's possible the united states will coordinate with the taliban in the fight against the islamic state. He declined to say whether the us would collaborate with the new taliban government. We don't know what the future of the taliban is But i can tell you from personal experience that this is a ruthless group from the past and whether or not they change remains to be seen comes as the deputy head of the taliban political office and cutter told the bbc wednesday that women may not be able to hold senior positions in the new government. Women also that new top if not maybe they will be in the garment lower because every department of the government ministers because almost half of the workers are women so they can come back to their. What can they can do. But maybe ended up in this new government which is an honest in the top. Four in the cabinet they. They may not be women. Taliban also have said that women can go on to higher education to university. But they have to be in separate classrooms from men and talk by women or the elderly for more we join. We're joined in kabul ghanistan by mahbouba. Sarraj she is the president of the afghan women's network longtime advocate for women's rights. We welcome you to democracy now muga and thank you so much for being with us. You have said that it is a relief that the us military is gone. Can you talk about what's happening in the streets right now. And what has happened to women over these last twenty years for the united states longest war in us history. Thank you ms goodman. First of all going to the part of your question that i said it's a belief that the united states left because especially if you are in afghanistan and the past two years and then when they started making the deal with a toddler bonus for as the p- the the peace agreement was concerned and then specifically in the last two months With the way in know because the united states made this agreement with the taliban that we are going to you know you can have as long as you don't hurt any americans you can go right ahead and have them old. They were helping the the the military propaganda stone from the air. But the rest of it was like you know they were just expect daters and the war was going on and the and the last two months omit the situation got a lot worse The soldiers of ghanistan were dying left and right and and everybody was like was like such a disaster and then and then they were all of these these tugs all over the city of kabul out in the provinces and they were doing their thing and then there was this war and so chaotic that honestly when when they left at that night at the one minute to twelve i was like i took a deep breath and i said thank god this is over because because it was hard on all of us it was very hot to specifically because of the deal that was made that we never knew how it was why it was made like that in because the united states had an agreement with afghanistan to to be with us until two thousand twenty four and then and then they did all of that. So it's like it was very it was it was very disappointing. And it was extremely upsetting. The whole thing for me mumble. But you've also said. That's what's happening in havana. Son now could set the country back. Two hundred years Could you explain what you mean by that. The thing is that you know afghanistan. Afghanistan went through in the past twenty years when the when the us and the world was in aghanistan. The attention more than anything else i mean i mean purposely and deliberately and for all the good intention Was given to the women stand the woman. Afghanistan actually advanced tremendously during this time. The education of women at bounce from the health point of view from the view of the debt of of of Mother and child decreased so much from the woman in not police in the government and having in put type position from the parliament of ghanistan which thirty something percent into a woman or of these they were. They were achievement for the woman in pakistan in the we the turnabout have started with the afghan woman especially with education. Because because you see the same words that the auto being set right now as a as an excuse for the for the Children for example for the older girls not after the cassocks but above for the not to go to school or excuse is giving at the university because of the fact. That's a fact. We don't have enough cadre. People teachers professors to teach university. So at all this was actually said before years before and potatoes and in foreign five where the ton of anwar here in afghanistan so at central peak of the same thing honestly and that is that is ready. This hearth mink in. That is what if they continue like this and this is just another excuse afghanistan. We'll go back in two years so this is because the population of aghanistan half of it right now. Are women the same way. The population of the world order fifty percent of it or or fifty two percent. So as you know you one cannot just disregard the women of aghanistan and say they don't exist. This doesn't work. I mean in the for the advancement of the of the country for the economy. For for the for the work of every single one of the ministries the machinery of the governments to turned afghan. Women are needed so they are not going to be that. So we're going to do. The drop was going to be doing finishing up their place. And that's why. I'm saying that there's going to two hundred years ago. They are not allowed to take park participate in making of kenniston. A better.
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"ghanistan" Discussed on Makom Israel Teachers Lounge
"You can say that it's not wise. But certainly the focus here was on establishing the relationship and showing how warm it was and how warm it was in comparison to the netanyahu obama relationship and that even though netanyahu was in probably most people And even though. I think it was important for benadryl. Show that even though he's he's right winger that he a democratic administration can get along. It was more of a netanyahu thing that he was personally affiliated with the republican party and democratic is and bennett wants to show that that is not him that he is. He's his own man. I will also say that's not. Forget that bennett won seven seats in the last elections. And he is somehow prime minister he does not have a ton of legitimacy. He's ruling overs leading a ideologically. Incoherent coalition of islam is far left dislike merits pro settlers the spectrum basically the anti bg to diverse diverse. But that's good in some ways and in politics that bad because what are the goals here like. How does this represent what people voted into office for. They didn't vote them to office. They gave him seven mandates. So it's important for him to show that he is actually israel's leader now and to get that photo op in the white house and to to show israelis perhaps the world that that he is that leadership image. That went less well. Because when you get your meeting put off and you have to spend two days of your time stuck in a hotel. Because the president of the united states can't meet you on thursday that certainly reduces how how powerful and how serious you look so. There's no question that was a bit disappointing for the israeli side Can you do you have any sense of how the meeting looked to the israeli community. And then how the meeting look to the jewish american community Because i think our listeners are sort of in kind of in both places sometimes And so like you're like you're talking about the the image that it created and the statement that it made for for the people watching people interested. Do you have any sense of kind of what kind of your depends who the person is. I think because if someone is has really appreciated what. Netanyahu has done over the years and saw him as a capable strong leader. Then they're gonna see bennett agreeing not to criticize the iran deal as a capitulation of a weak leader. However if you're someone that thinks that the israel. Us relationship. The bipartisan israel. Use relationship must be protected at all costs and the netanyahu unnecessarily made waves sometimes for personal reasons. Then you're going to appreciate the fact. That bennett was able to get through a very positive visit with no public disagreement. So again it depends where you are politically and in what you care about. All in all it was somewhat low stakes. Nothing too big was accomplished here again with the f. Ghanistan story in the background. Initially right so. I knew that he was finding america when the the withdrawal fiasco..
The World and Everything In It
Biden Forcefully Defends U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
"President biden addressed the nation from the white house on tuesday mounting. His most forceful defense yet of his decision to withdraw from afghanistan and the nature of that exit. I was not going to extend this forever war and hours not extending a forever. Exit e called the us air lift to extract more than a hundred and twenty thousand afghans americans and other allies and extraordinary success that despite a deadly attack last week that claims the lives of thirteen u. s. troops in nearly a hundred and seventy afghans at many americans allies left behind biden said many of the americans stranded enough ghanistan are dual citizens and added that quote ninety percent of americans who wanted to leave. Were able to
Tara Brach
The Blessings of Enough: Discovering Contentment in Daily Life
"Is this inner freedom of realizing. We'll be right where we are so. I'd like to start by responding to some of the questions and misunderstandings that arise around any consideration of contentment. And some imagine contentment is being this kind of dissociation from the world dreamy floating that's above and beyond life's difficulties kind of the image of a cow. Contentedly munching on grass of meadow. Or something like real trance-like and actually true contaminant involves a full presence with the life. That's right here with him around us and it doesn't mean we don't experience difficult emotions. It means were okay with feeling. Whatever is arising so by way of example this week inner contentment for me has not blocked me from feeling alarm and angry for those an up. Ghanistan those and haiti. It hasn't stopped me from feeling Fear concern for a dear friend of mine who has brain cancer. It hasn't stopped me revealing an bogged down on by my own physical discomfort. I've been dealing with a sinus infection. So contentment enables us to be okay with this arisings of grief. Our fear pain with the with the ups and downs. And it allows us to have a sense of of balance of a fundamental. Oh kanus in the midst of it and this kind of freedom is captured by one of my favorite Phrases from azan masters says that enlightenment is to be without anxiety about imperfection more contemporary version of it is elizabeth kubler ross. Who says i'm not okay. And you're not okay. And in so k now it's really this presence. That's large enough to embrace our imperfect world
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"ghanistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Competent colleagues out State department were inservice officers. Who were serving across the national security council. Some of them known to be pro refugee an pro as heavy as and pro p. Two's and many as people get pushed out in the national security council. They're replaced by stephen miller allies. And so what i did was i work closely with my colleagues to figure out how we're going to navigate this careful situation and i look. I briefed vice president former vice president pence about the scenario. I told him. I was meeting with numerous organizations who were raising serious concerns about what was happening here whether it was budget cuts for the refugee resettlement programs for afghans anti rockies and other refugees and they were kind of they were asking the question. They were saying what is happening here. What's happening at the state department. When i dug into this. And i actually go and meet people at the state department. I find myself faced with when a stephen miller is right allies one of the strongest supporters. And it all sort of comes together for me. I come back and say well. I don't know how we're gonna counter what's happening here across the us government when we have a group of people that are actively working to undermine the entire system in a statement to the new york. Times a stephen miller responded to your accusations saying the sole reason anyone is stranded. Enough ghanistan is because joe biden stranded than there in the single most imbecilic active strategic incompetence in human history. And of course President trump has weighed in and he's attacking biden a calling his responses in basilicas. Well you're responsible via well. I think trump had four years to do something about getting these people out of harm's way who were in the system waiting to be processed and so i think what you see now is a scenario where president biden takes office. He comes in. They realized that the program has gotta. They've spoken about this before where they come in. And they realize that There the program is definitely in need of resourcing and staffing. And so this is not something that you can just flip a switch and turn on overnight. It's a cumbersome process and if it's if it wasn't functioning the way it should have which. I know that it wasn't because i know this firsthand. It's going to take some time. So you end up in a crisis situation now where you are trying to figure out how you're going to protect thousands of people whose lives are going to be at risk once withdrawal. If that were the case. And i know for a fact that the trump administration was planning this withdrawal for several years. Now why were they not actively prioritizing this population so that we wouldn't be in this situation we're in today olivia trial and thank you for spending time with us former homeland security encounters advisor to former vice president mike pence now director of the republican accountability project. When we come back we look at how right wing radio host larry elder. Who wants mentor to young. Stephen miller could become the next governor of california if voters.
the NewsWorthy
ISIS-K Claims Responsibility for the Deadly Kabul Attack
"Was the deadliest day for american troops in afghanistan in a decade two explosions ripped through the crowds outside the kaaba airport. And it happened just hours after the warning. We told you about yesterday when the us and other governments warn people to leave that area because of terror threats ultimately thirteen american service members were killed and eighteen. Were hurt on top of that. The blast killed at least sixty afghans and heard at least one hundred and forty of them. The explosions happened outside the gate. Where huge crowds of people are screened for bombs and weapons before moving forward to get on an evacuation flight. The isis terror group claimed responsibility for these attacks. The taliban who recently took control of afghanistan were not thought to be involved they condemn the attack in fact the taliban and isis are considered rivals not allies and right now at least experts say. Isis is the bigger threat to america's efforts to evacuate people from the country. Top military officials say they worry about more attacks still flights taking off from the kabul airport just with more security. The us has evacuated about one hundred thousand people so far and has promised to keep flying. Americans in american allies out. Buff ghanistan up until august. Thirty first tens of thousands of afghans who qualify for special immigration. Visas are still waiting to be evacuated as well as hundreds of american citizens. But that's no longer the only mission there in an emotional speech from the white house. President biden said he's ask commanders to strike back against isis with force telling the group's leaders quote we will hunt you down and make you pay flags around the. Us were lowered to half staff to honor the bombing victims. Both us military and innocent
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Cost of Leaving Afghanistan
"Afghanistan is going to see so much terror so much slaughter so much torture and so much rape. And i said so the entire time i was completely opposed to withdrawing from afghanistan. I was right. It brings me no solace or comfort to say. I was right because i think rationally almost never allow a motion to dominate my thinking. The argument that were there twenty years. It's time to leave. Is one hundred percent emotional argument. There is not an intellectual scintilla of rationality in that argument. The answer to the question is so what question is not how long we are. The question is is it. Good that we are there now. You see it isn't good when we leave. I knew the taliban would take over. Did you not. And i'm speaking to fellow conservatives. i think having at least half the conservatives. The country wanted to leave. We're not there to do nation building the hell would nation building. That's not why we were there. We were that preventive ghanistan from becoming a terrorist state and the price was relatively minimal. Twenty five to thirty five hundred soldiers almost none of whom get killed. They did at one point but they had for years. There isn't a single shocking thing except the way biden the most incompetent Awful bad crook to be president of the united states. Not in my lifetime in american history. The manta crook. He's nothing he stands for. Nothing except joe biden. He was elected sitting in a basement. He was elected because the press convinced people. If either that or cheating or both convinced convinced people that donald trump is satan.
FT Politics
British Troops Could Be Forced to Pull out of Afghanistan Prematurely
"Delighted to be joined by simone with kim. The former considered defense and foreign secretary in a week when the taliban shot the west with rapid advance of ghanistan. We'll be examining whether this sleeves. Uk foam policy. What does it mean for the so-called special relationship on what does it mean for the future of phone interventions so malcolm. Welcome to paint politics you very much. So obviously we're in the august period. Parliament has been recalled this week and we saw very spicy debate. How much of it did you catch him. What did you make the contributions to mp on this fake pressing issue of how the case ended up in this situation of being forced out of our ghanistan much quicker in a way if you really want to have to leave joel good but it seems to have been a very somber occasion not surprising and that's often when the hudson cummings is at its best when there are real issues everyone does something. Very bad has happened and you get members of parliament. Speaking very much from the hot. Tom tooken hatton particular biz to have moved the husselmann's unsurprising because he has both a military background in a strong good knowledge of foreign policy. Now if we look at what's happened over the past week that we know the us forces what going to withdraw themselves foam afghanistan by the end of august. And it's not a decision that the uk's being particularly happy with because we've heard from the defense secretary ben wallace who's made it quite clear that in fact. The uk export every other alternative. Do you think those ever realistically any alternative. Because in that house of commons debate. Lots of mp's of decried how we've abandoned afghanistan how we have no secured the gains that were made over the past twenty years but really. I'm not quite clear. What the alternative could have been. When i think you're bears are very important question. Because i think the really two issues running in parallel there was the more fundamental question. Should nato dictated. United states remained militarily in afghanistan indefinitely with the aspiration to ultimately defeat the
FT Politics
UK Troops Forced to Leave Kabul Prematurely
"I'm delighted to be joined by simone with kim. The former considered defense and foreign secretary in a week when the taliban shot the west with rapid advance of ghanistan. We'll be examining whether this sleeves. Uk foam policy. What does it mean for the so-called special relationship on what does it mean for the future of phone interventions so malcolm. Welcome to paint politics you very much. So obviously we're in the august period. Parliament has been recalled this week and we saw very spicy debate. How much of it did you catch him. What did you make the contributions to mp on this fake pressing issue of how the case ended up in this situation of being forced out of our ghanistan much quicker in a way if you really want to have to leave joel good but it seems to have been a very somber occasion not surprising and that's often when the hudson cummings is at its best when there are real issues everyone does something. Very bad has happened and you get members of parliament. Speaking very much from the hot. Tom tooken hatton particular biz to have moved the husselmann's unsurprising because he has both a military background in a strong good knowledge of foreign policy.
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"ghanistan" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
"This is our focus now. And when this is finished we will complete our military withdrawal and finally bring to an end twenty years american military action afghanistan. Thank you may. God bless our troops our diplomats and all those serving in harm's way and now take questions. Eight p zeke miller ghanistan also promised not to to help to bring out those who helped america in its war effort we've seen these heart wrenching images at the kabul airport of people trying to get their thing. I think of the people who can't get to that airport. You made the commitment to get american troops out to get get american citizens out. Will you make the same commitment to those who assisted in the american war effort over the last twenty years number one and number two. What is your message to america's partners around the world who have criticized not the restore all but the conduct of that withdrawal and made. It made them question america's credibility on the world stage. I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world. I've spoken with our nato allies spoken with nato allies. The secretary of state our national security has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world and our allies as has the general are. Excuse me i keep calling him a general but my secretary of defense. The fact of the matter is. I have not seen that of fact the exact opposite. I've got the exact opposite. Things were acting with dispatch for acting committee. What we said we would do. Look let's put this thing in perspective. Here what interested. We have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone. We went to afghanistan ghanistan for the express purpose of..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Biden Doesn't Believe We Could Have Gotten out of Kabul Without "Chaos"
"Will for joe biden and hit the people around him. that have never done anything successful in their life. Like lloyd austin and like mark milley the art of the fail that runs d. c. They never would think creatively enough to say. Hey can we have. Maybe set up a perimeter. Maybe we should defend kabul till all of the americans are out. Maybe we shouldn't pick an arbitrary date like september eleventh in the heart of the killing season to get out maybe we should withdraw slowly and not all at once. Maybe we should secure the cities outside of kabul. Maybe we should make sure the president. I love ghanistan. Doesn't flea with one hundred sixty nine million dollars in a puppet government cut seventy four. You said he don't think this could have been handled. This actually could have been handled better in any way. No mistakes no i. I don't think it could have been handled in a way that they're we're gonna go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten now without chaos ensuing. I don't know how that
Pod Save America
"ghanistan" Discussed on Pod Save America
"Have all the fun. The same folks who fully embrace donald trump's deal with the taliban withdrawal. Us troops now seeing opportunity to inflict political damage on joe biden in a way they haven't been able to yet so some of them are criticizing the execution of the withdrawal like democrats and journalists. Have the neo. Cons and the hawks are doing their. You know we should have stayed forever thing but the maga- wing of the party which is basically. The whole party has decided to zero in on the refugee issue hoping to open a new front in the culture wars by scaring people into believing that brown foreigners are coming to terrorize their communities. And of course donald trump himself hasn't been able to shut up about this over the last few days. Let's take a listen all of the years. Our country has ever been so humiliated. I don't know. Would you call it a military defeat or a psychological defeat. There's never been anything like what's happened here. We will see. Many refugees ref ghanistan resettled in our country. And coming months. Probably in your neighborhood and over the next decade that number may swell to the millions. So i we invade and then we're invaded. It is extraordinarily expensive to resettle a refugee in the united states. They get free. Healthcare they get free education. They get free housing. They get free food. They get cash welfare. Thanks to find. They can tell more about ghanistan than they did before nine. Eleven our borders wider open now than it was before nine eleven. It's president refuses to do anything about it isn't really our responsibility to welcome thousands of potentially unvetted refugees from afghanistan. So there you have it. Let's start with trump Feel about donald trump being out there on the attack. Donald trump who invited the taliban to camp david cut a deal without the afghan government. to withdraw. Us troops also deal that freed a bunch of taliban prisoners. One of whom is now president. Novak ghanistan And then put out statements after he left office. And when joe biden was president criticizing biden for not withdrawing troops even earlier than he did. That's the trump who's out there. Criticizing joe biden. Now he also in that interview just decided to pat the talent on the back for being good fighters. Could you imagine what fox news would do of. Joe biden it done that mean. It's weird down model of consistency. It's strange that he is not being consistent here. But i think that there is a this was a really interesting part of the tummy beck official pad save the world that i think democrats by administration should talk about more which is how donald trump's mishandling of this tied their hands and a lot of ways it was terrible deal it was he cut out. The afghan government sent the contractors. Home released a bunch of taliban prisoners and biden was forced with. This was always going to be shitty choice. Always gonna be a tough choice but biden ability to his hands. Were tied by this and a lot of ways. And i think there are. That is a story that has not been told enough in our overly simplistic media narrative of this And i think it also helps politically to remind. Democrats of the rule. Trump played in creating the situation. Will i think and jim newell has a great piece in slate about this. Which is a lot of these trumpy. Republicans including trump himself because they were all pro withdrawal and in fact criticizing joe biden for not withdrawing fast enough. They want to jump in on this. Joe biden pylon. That's happening in the press and even among some democrats But they know that they were. The joe biden. Basically did something that they wanted him to do which was to withdraw completely from afghanistan so their only option is here to start a culture war over refugees Which is what they do best You should definitely read this. Jim newell piece in slate but he talked about. Stephen miller kicked us off with a few tweets and he said miller who's morning routine sipping coffee and skinning the united states overnight birth certificates to check. How well the caucasians kept up. Just a great way to describe stephen miller. That's neither here nor there But i do think it's something to watch and it's also because look. There is reporting that the reason that the bite administration was so slow to process a lot of these special immigrant. Visa applications is that they were concerned about the domestic political backlash over bringing afghan refugees to the united states. Which i really hope isn't true. Because that i think deserve a lot of criticism To be worried about that kind of The political situation there And you know one administration official told politico it's like they want the credit from liberals for ending the trump cruelty to immigrants and refugees. But they also don't want the political backlash that comes from actual refugees arriving in america in any sort of large numbers now again. The by demonstration is currently trying to bring afghan refugees to the united states. So they are doing the right thing now but i do wonder how do you think about how do you think about the politics of the refugee issue and how this plays out in general as we sit here today. The public broadly and in a bipartisan. Fashion supports increasing the number of special immigrant visas for our afghan allies. But that is one moment in time and we should recognize that there is nothing. Republicans want more than an opportunity to emerge fears about immigration with fears about terrorism. 'cause you look back to two thousand sixteen we always. It's always like who's going to pay for the wall mexico but really. What was.
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"ghanistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"John by meena karimi and the afghanistan national institute of music. This is democracy now democracy. Now dot org. I made me goodman with meet. Shaka's we continue to look at the situation in afghanistan and the us withdrawal on wednesday president biden defended his handling withdrawal in an interview on abc. News with george stephanopoulos. No mistakes no. I don't think it could have been handled in a way that they're we're gonna go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing. I don't know how that happens but just last month. On july eighth biden rejected the idea. Taliban takeover in afghanistan was inevitable. Several top democrats have vowed to pro biden's afghanistan exit strategy report from the special inspector. General for f- ghanistan reconstruction said the. Us quote struggle to develop an implemented coherent strategy over the last twenty years in twenty twenty while on the campaign trail. Then candidate biden acknowledged. Us officials had lied to the public about the war in afghanistan for more. We're joined by craig. Whitlock investigative reporter for the washington post long covered afghanistan. The author of the new book just out the afghanistan papers a secret history of the war. It's goes beyond biden to look at how the past three presidents trump obama and george w bush deceive the public year after the year about the longest war in us history. Welcome back to democracy now craig. I mean the whole debate. And congressional congress now saying they're going to look at this exit strategy obscures. What the us did in afghanistan for the past twenty years. And that's why you so deeply look at in the afghanistan papers. I describe what they are can. Papers are hundreds of interviews notes and transcripts of interviews that special inspector general breath ghanistan conducted with key officials who who played important roles in the war. Over twenty years These documents that were not made public and the washington post at the sue. The government of team them under the freedom of information act took us three years to obtain these documents. But what they show is as you stated earlier. The public narrative was that he was always making progress. All these president said we were going to win the war in private. These officials were were extremely pessimistic. He said they didn't have a campaign plan. We can have it. Strategy didn't understand afghanistan.
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
Biden Stands "Squarely Behind" Decision to Leave Afghanistan
"Political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight if anything the development of the past week reinforced at any new us military involvement ghanistan. Now was the right decision. American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dine in a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. We spent over a trillion dollars trained and equipped and afghan military force. Some three hundred thousand strong credibly well-equipped a force larger in size than the militaries of many of our nato allies. We gave them every tool they could need. We could not provide them was the will to fight for that future. Some very brave and capable afghans special forces units and soldiers. Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance of the taliban. Now there is no chance that one year one more year five more years or twenty more years. The us military boots in the ground of made any difference. Here's what i believe to. My core is wrong to order american troops to step up. When afghanistan's own armed forces would not. I'm now the fourth american president to preside over warrant afghanistan to democrats and two republicans. I will not pass this responsibly. On responsible fifth president. I will not mislead the american people by claiming just a little more time in afghanistan will make all the difference nor will i shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here.
No Agenda
"ghanistan" Discussed on No Agenda
"You wanna do ghana stan. Let's do afghanistan only have to touch but they're pretty I've i have a couple. I got a coupon have I have afganistan rundown. But let's do the rap. Which i think is best. This is on npr. This is actually cut you. Three clips got taliban rap. Npr and then to and then then there little connection to china which is beginning to become a huge humiliation for china. i think if people get kluber. let's start with taliban taliban rat by in recent days. The taliban have captured huge territory in afghanistan including many of the country's largest and most important cities president biden issued a statement reaffirming his decision for a us withdrawal and explaining the steps. he has taken but the situation is dire. The un estimates that since may nearly a quarter of a million people have been forced from their homes due to the conflict and there are reports of afghans fleeing to the capital kabul desperate to find a way out of the country. This surge defied all predictions forcing reassess. His they try to figure out what could happen next for a look at the possibilities we're joined by. Npr national security correspondent. Greg mary hi greg i don. I don. What's happening today. The taliban claimed another big prize on the battlefield today. They seize the important northern city of mazaar-i-sharif. This was one of the last big cities. The government had the taliban now control virtually all the northern southern and western parts of afghanistan The associated press is reporting. The taliban appear to be within ten miles of kabul president. Ashraf ghani Just has the capital and some other parts of eastern afghanistan. He gave a recorded speech. That was televised. He said he would prevent further instability. Hard to imagine that that would reassure anyone. there's no sign that government is capable of stopping this taleban surge. So given. what options does the government have. They are shrinking by the day. They can rally and put up a fight to defend kabul. They do have resources. But it's it's really not clear that they have the will they could try to negotiate with the taliban but power-sharing isn't realistic right now it would be more. Perhaps about the terms of surrender which has happened in other cities in recent days and a third possibility is just a total collapse at the government and the troops will will simply flee. What at the other thing. I don't understand but maybe get to it. Why is the military industrial complex allowing this pullout. Is this the non pullout. Is that exactly what is going on here is. They're they're not gonna not gonna pull out all right. We have a lot of explaining to do the date put us. I mean the the pentagon the pentagon has got to have a lot of explaining to do because they wouldn't let anyone leave. And if you remember. I don't know if you remember this but this is about two or three years ago. He played a bunch of clips. They somebody went and did an investigation on on our involvement in afghanistan. They with the tape recorder and they record all these generals in their opinions and district. This is just before trump got elected when this took place and it was played during the trump administration. That's when general. Flynn was the one who kind of blew the whistle on this whole thing being a giant sparse. Big-money suck yeah. It was a big farce and he was the only general who came out and said so and come out and that was around the afghanistan papers. Yes that's right. That's if ghanistan pay which was showed just trillions of dollars going everywhere just farce the scam and was bad news and flynn was the only one who said it ever recorded saying it and that put a target on his back and you saw what happened to him but so there is. I believe there was a direct connection between what flynn had to say about afghanistan and what happened to flint. I wasn't wasn't a team player. no he he was embarrassing. Everybody yeah you're not a team player. He's what happens to you and so he ended up getting screwed over and But this whole thing is a fiasco from the get go. It was a fiasco during their fiasco in bush didn't go. Bush didn't follow the lead of his dad of doing something quick and easy get in and get out. I mean that old man at least knew that much he got in and stayed in and then he got stuck in there in. This obama ran for presidency. If you remember we take it to the bank. As a matter of fact that he's going to get out never got out. So obama was in for eight years with biden and the never got out. So what was that all about. So then trump gets his. We're getting out. And then they let him get out so he didn't get out either and so biden now gets us out and biden's already. I don't have a clip on. There was a bunch of new. You can hear him. Biden's blaming trump. So it's all trump's fault. The historical biden clip is the one. That's funny though you have it. Yeah yeah i do. Actually yeah president. I publicly silent about the taliban's accelerating takeover afghanistan privately consulting with the secretary of state and defense as well as national security adviser the rapidly deteriorating situation following the presence decision to withdraw. Us troops from a war. He believes his lasted too long and cost too. Many lives sparking fierce criticism. Well it's a disgrace and it's a national humiliation. Didn't have to be this way. The president's aids today standing by his comments from just seventy two hours ago. We're going to continue to keep our commitment. But i do not regret my decision. But now you're questioning the execution of that plan. He owns this now completely. It isn't donald. Trump's afghan policy is still biden's rush to remove americans now drawing harrison's to the chaotic evacuation from vietnam more than forty five years ago despite the president's promise otherwise there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the united states from afghanistan. Still for those who served and sacrificed disbelief and sadness. I'm really upset angry with with what's going on right now. Retired army ranger comment. So what i'd like to ask you for we continue is that moment the The withdrawal was it's like saigon. was that the. The embassy were the helicopter on saigon. Yeah yeah you are older. Than i. I was then. So what was that like. Was it a feeling of defeat was similar to now is at the same. Like what the hell did we do. I don't think that the american public ever saw any of these things as defeat. I believe because. I think i can reflect this. I think the american public saw these things as fiascos. They never went into the war seriously. They were always police actions. And we got rousted. Because we just we didn't have a heart wasn't in it if you really if our heart was in it were dropped bombs on these people. But it was just like a fiasco the same thing with the korean war of fiasco. This was a fiasco. This is a fiasco. Iraq was a these are fiascos run by our military and intelligence zero and intelligence at our intelligence agencies. Squandering money baby doing a favor. We don't know 'cause they always like to say well you. If you only knew won't be so happy proven you'd be happy and you'd be say. Wow you guys are the best But instead is a lot of money squandered. And and i probably wouldn't be happy if someone would finely somehow audit the pentagon and see where this money is going It's going to happen. We had.
Democracy Now! Audio
"ghanistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Welcome to democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report the warren peace report. I mean he. Goodman more arrests have been made in connection with last week's assassination of haitian president juvenal christiane emmanuel sunol is accused of working with the masterminds. Who plotted the killing. After flying into haiti on a private jet. He's believed to be a haitian-born florida. Based dr police say he planned to assume the presidency and use the men involved in the killing as part of his security team. Haiti's police chief said his forces are working with colombian officials so far twenty six colombians including former soldiers are suspected of being involved in the assassination. Eighteen of them have been arrested along with three haitians. The arrested men were reportedly recruited by a miami area. Security firm called. Ct you security. Five suspects remain at large to haitian americans who were arrested last week claim to have been acting as interpreters. The us said it's sending senior fbi nda chess officials to port-au-prince but has so far denied request to send troops to haiti though. Says it will increase you. S military aid there. Meanwhile unrest is growing. In haiti amidst the political turmoil and the worsening economic crisis politicians are fighting amongst themselves painting since eighteen. Four of the country has a leadership. Call people the always use the people to defend their own interests. Haiti is also struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic as the country has yet to see. A single vaccine will go to haiti for the latest. After headlines. covid. Nineteen cases. Rosen forty two. Us states over the past week as the vaccination rate has slowed down and the more transmissible delta variants spreads over ninety nine percent of us. Cova deaths in june were among unvaccinated people the centers for disease control issued new guidelines urging schools to fully reopen in the fall but leaving major decisions in the hands of local officials the cdc said fully vaccinated students can moseley forego mask wearing even when inside but that three feet of distance between children's should be maintained if possible and six feet between adults or between adults and students in new york. City officials were forced to halt the transfer of an house. People from empty hotel rooms to congregate shelters after the legal aid society filed a motion. Saying it's a violation of people with disabilities and certain health conditions in cuba. Thousands took to the streets of havana and other cities in rare anti-government protests denouncing the island's economic crisis during the covid nineteen pandemic cuba's facing its harshest phase of the pandemic with skyrocketing infections. The island said new record. Sunday with over sixty nine hundred positive cases people are scrambling to cope amid short issues of medicine. Food and other resources do catastrophic us sanctions no vaccines. Thousands of others led counter protests sunday in support of the cuban revolution and president. Miguel diaz canal who accused of instigating anti-government protests on the island and urged the biden administration to lift the blockade. The top us military general nf ghanistan stepping down today in a symbolic end to the nearly two decade occupation army general austin scott miller overseeing the us war in afghanistan since two thousand eighteen last week president biden said the us military will complete its withdrawal by august thirty first so it's leaving hundreds of soldiers there. This comes taliban fighters have stepped up their offensive seizing more territory and surrounding major cities. This is a resident of the northern city of kunduz. Those jiang judy on the fighting is ongoing. In the situations worrying many people have been displaced from their homes wind will. The situation ended our demand for the central government is to make this clear whether they should hand over the city to the taliban full control by themselves in clear the whole area from insurgents so that we can live a peaceful life if theo pius. National electoral board says incumbent. Prime minister ahmed has won a second five-year term in office. His party's landslide. Victory came after fewer than forty million people in a nation of one hundred ten million registered to cast ballots with no voting at all taking place in three of ethiopia's ten regions that includes the to grind region home to six million people. Four hundred thousand people into greier and famine with nearly two million more on the brink after prime minister abi pursued devastating military offensive against the separatists. In sports news england's football is condemning racist attacks on social media aimed at black players on the national team following their loss to italy and the euro twenty twenty final sunday england lost to italy. Three two two during penalty kicks. The english team responded on twitter quote. Where disgusted that some of our squad who have given everything for the shirt. The summer have been subjected to discriminatory abuse online. We stand with our players. They said in venice italy officials at the g. Twenty summit have backed a proposal calling for a global minimum tax for at least fifteen percent in effort to curb taxations and loopholes for major corporations. The proposal faces many potential obstacles including objections from businesses and low tax countries. It also currently excludes financial services firms and of industries. Protesters gathered in venice called out the exclusive gathering of the world's twenty largest economies hristo keno economic model. That we want to. It is the same economic model that today. At the g twenty they will try to propose again to get the laws economy back and speed after dacoven nineteen crisis. This model of tourism capitalism and exploitation is not a sustainable model to recover from the economic crisis president biden issued a wide ranging executive order friday to curb anti competitive practices which he said stifle economic growth and lock workers and to low wage jobs. What we've seen over the past. Two decades is less competition and more concentration at holes our economy back we see the big agriculture and big tech and big pharma list goes on rather than competing for consumers. They are consuming their competitors rather than competing for workers. They're finding ways to.
The Young Turks
11 House Democrats Object to Ilhan Omar's Comments on Hamas and Israel
"Democrats are going after one of their own representative ilhan omar after she asked a perfectly legitimate question to anthony blinken. Who is the secretary of state. Now the question how to do with the investigations pertaining to war crimes that have been committed by various organizations or various governments and so the critical statement There was a critical statement following the hold on. Let's take that down. There was a critical statement by her colleagues following the exchange that you're about to watch right now with representative omar anthony blinken take a look. I know you oppose the investigation in both palestinian and enact ghanistan. I haven't seen any evidence. In either cases that mystic boards can both can and will prosecute alleged warcrimes and times against humanity and i would emphasize that in israel and palestine. This includes crimes committed by both israel security forces them hamas in afghanistan and includes crimes committed by the afghan national government and the taliban so in both of these cases if domestic points can't or won't pursue justice and me opposed the sec. Where do we think the victims of this oppose it. Crimes can goal for justice so that was an important question to ask because the international criminal court which wants to probe the israeli government for possible war crimes against the palestinian people in gaza that the united states government the biden administration specifically does not support. So she's trying to ask well if you don't agree with the international criminal court investigating this and we can't rely on domestic governments to investigate their own warcrimes. Then how do you propose we do. These
No Agenda
"ghanistan" Discussed on No Agenda
"So convoluted. I had to clip it now. Remorse discovering vaccines gave us the internet and so much more than our our mars inventing vaccines. It gave us the internet now around mars. Discovering vaccines gave us internet. And so much more okay. Now i'll give you. That is a great clip. And i i know exactly how it happened. He's reading for his problem is he can't not he can't talk. He has to read for a prompter can't not use prompting right so he i mean he doesn't eat can't when he starts to ad lib. You know there's a lot of people are holding their breath and so he just it was like somebody left a comma out or they didn't space the prompter correctly. S exactly what you know. That's exactly what happened. he's not coherent. We're going to give me something. Yeah you said. I thought you were ramping up for clip of the day. But if it's it's the moments gone the moment's gone. oh that you wanna clip. No you actually got clipper today earlier. Yeah very early And then i d. I let it pass and now i've i've been reluctant to give clip and then when i came with my northrop clips which should have gotten clip today snub. Them about no war. No being stop stop stop. I did not snubbed them. I thought you were going to do something else. Based upon a previous email thread. And i said no no. We're on the same page. So i know put in my mind shoved my fact you were were within a nanosecond and getting click today for that particular clip. It was good clip. It doesn't matter. I was restrained by my by my angst over the previous. Screw up on my part and then your failure to recognize a good clip. When you heard next time. We'll leave that for the post mortem and we can just continue with this show. We do post mortem all right now. This is what shocked me now. I'm particularly interested in afghanistan Ever since we discussed the pull out of the troops being total horse shit. Oh yeah we'll pull the troops out but we're leaving ten to fifteen thousand contractors there to protect the poppy fields and this is now at this point i can just say it's a fact There's a great article by my favorite professor william engdahl called the politics of heroin and the afghan. Us pullout Which is in the show notes. John the afganistan heading and it's a very well discussed very well researched And lots of links and it goes back to hamad karzai the brothers and the and the heroin trade and the bottom line is dyncorp. Is there with all of the contractors in there and it's air america shuttling the heroin not directly to the united states. Where i have some thoughts. But i'm very interested in afghanistan and he tied this together with something that i thought was the most disgusting thing i've heard any american politicians say ever worn afghanistan. Remember the debates here for never meant to be multigenerational undertakings of nation building. We went to afghanistan to get terrorists. The terrorists who attacked us on nine eleven and we said we would follow some of bin laden the gates. Oh man do you remember that. Oh yeah is the second by the way he said that a couple of times in the last week or two. Yes so just the gates of hell reference and. I just want to see if i can get a date on the gates of hell. I'm looking at i'm looking this is so old. This goes back to episode seven hundred ninety nine of this show. We will follow them tau faisal. That's how long we've been tracking this ghanistan to get terrorists. The terrorists who attacked us on nine eleven and we said we would follow some of bin laden the gates of l. Do it. The upper are values kind of seeing the gates of hell and we delivered justice to bin laden. We degraded the terrorist thread about kite in afghanistan. And after twenty years value. valor and sacrifice. Do you hear what he says. Now this is a flood but remember in context of the heroin. The poppy fields being protected by the united states soon just contractors listened to the flood. Gosh this we degraded the terrorist threat about kite in afghanistan and after twenty years values our value. He says yeah twenty years of value value. That's truth wants to come out. I can't look at it any other way. Twenty years of heroin value graded the terrorist threat about afghanistan and after twenty years value valor and sacrifice valiant but it came out as value so it doesn't matter the mouth nygard. The mouth is full of the mouth slows over with the hardest full of valor and sacrifice. It's time to bring those troops home. Even as we do maintain over the rising capacity to suppress future threats to the homeland make no mistake and twenty years. Terrorist terrorism has metastasized. The threat is way beyond afghanistan. Those intelligence committees the foreign relations committee. Defense committees well. We have to remain. Vigilant gets a threat to the united states wherever they come from al qaeda and isis in yemen serious amalia other places in africa and the middle east and beyond and we won't ignore what our intelligence agency determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to a homeland today. White supremacist terrorism. We're not going nor that either. My fellow americans look great to come together to heal the soul of this nation. So the president does this whole rundown of the horrible terrorists all over the world and says but we cannot ignore our intelligence agencies who say the most dangerous terrorists not not a anyone who wants to blow stuff up or stab people or shoot people know. It's white supremacists right here in america. I find that a shocking thing for a president to say and for those under the spell of the democrats and the liberals just like the ones. I encountered on vacation in mexico who within five minutes of speaking said well white supremacists. They've stopped having sex with their cousins. You'll be much safer in the country. That's what you're delivering president biden and he has.
Worldly
Biden Will Withdraw All US Forces From Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021
"It seems like finally after a really really long time. United states may be ending its presence not ghanistan president joe biden ounce this week that the us would withdraw all combat forces by september eleventh. Twenty twenty one. The twentieth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks and very close to twenty years of the united states being in afghanistan. Is this going to happen. Really and what does it mean for both afghanistan. M united states if it does happen. Those are the questions that we're gonna talk about today. Unworldly part of the box media podcast network. I'm zac beach. I'm here with jenna. Williams and alex ward. Hey man news twenty years in the making my goodness yeah. It's it's kinda weird That this has lasted long Like narcissistic louis. It reminds me that. I'm older than i thought i was. Because i really remember. They was very aware of the beginning of the afghanistan war. Like around thinking. I was not an adult. But like you know cognizant human being and we've been fighting it for twenty years certainly longer than my entire adult life. It's wild and he's definitely an adult so you're older. Sorry john i did not mean to make you feel great amazing. Making gen field is my favorite thing to do. Yeah it's great.
Podcast RadioViajera
"ghanistan" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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The Rich Roll Podcast
Optimize Your Brain: Fighting Cognitive Decline With Nutrition & Lifestyle
"What is it about age or maybe neurology that makes people set in their ways as they get older. It is a weird thing right. It really is more difficult to entertain new ideas. I think it varies from person to person but in my experience just comfort you know when once you set a path in. You're comfortable with it. Your brain doesn't really allow you to change that math. It's like walking on a snow track. It's so deeply set in the walls or sol-solid that it's difficult for you to actually make a new pathogens and it requires a lot of reflection and judgment and being okay to make mistakes and the discomfort in being uncomfortable the comfort in being uncomfortable. They can help you set noise but it does seem like that becomes much more of a challenge. It does it does We the whole idea of change is not normal. I'm talking about chronic change acute chain. We're good at it because an acute change we had to for millions of years. There's a tree there's a lion you know. Better make change in my decision making. I'm not going to go down. This stop long-term change were not designed for that were not our brains are not designed for long term change. That's a completely different mechanism. And and if we and if we don't address that i mean to be honest i know that it's not be recalled. Our political stances. Everything is around this concept of being with change. I always say about. Five percent of population is future seekers. Another ninety five percent is passed protectors And you have to be pass protector in many ways because protection has worked. Whatever has gotten you here as you depending on the past patterns right but all the change in society in the world around us is by those five percent. Whatever i'm using arbitrary number that are comfortable. This is weird. People comfortable with change with the unknown. The three hundred sixty degrees of are known. You're willing to go there and yet this house. that's comfortable you're willing to leave it to go to the next place. That's an unusual concept Were which comes with the frontal lobe but but That's why as we get older. We become more set on all the strings that connects us to the past. You want us. To sever sever sever suffers to go to a new path. That is unknown at a time. Where i'm already vulnerable. Yeah that's too much risk. Yeah yeah is there a genetic piece to that when you look at that five percent can you isolate out what it is that distinguishes them neurologically from very early. You can tell there. There's a genetic component environmental component that genetic anxiety is at the core of all this stuff or term that is like anxiety we using anxiety as a just as a word. That's as filler. But it's a little more than that. Our ability to deal with the world around us for the most part for at the beginning is genetically you can see children. We have two children both trust me. We're gonna talk about them. But they're very precocious. Yeah incredibly but the understatement of the century go ahead make very different very different. Alex is what you could see when you when you I'm not putting him down. Because this is not a weakness this is just our proclivities. We can change you when you put him on the sand when he was six months. Old us som- do this. He hated sand. Sofi would crawl to the ocean. Having right away. I mean that's a threat. Why are you not threatened. By very thing you're supposed to be threatened by north right so that threat aversion versus not the river part of it is intrinsically ingrained in us part of it is actually data shows part of. It's actually program how your mother reacts to anxiety provoking moments mother because the is there all the time wherever you're around the most and how they react know how they promote challenging situations and anxiety provok- situation how they react with it and how they deal with it is the forget about leadership masters. I got a phd. Forget about that ends and starts there. Yeah you create situations that are a little bit anxiety provoking. You fail nothing. My parents didn't react badly. You succeed great how you react. And how does micro environments of threat version threat response. Threat creation and response is the foundation of all leadership. Yeah i would think from an environmental perspective or i mean an evolutionary perspective that You know maintaining your membership in good standing with your community is paramount right. So if that community is welcoming to people who pushed the boundaries and try new things. That's one thing but if that sort of thinking outside the box is gonna alienate you than You there's gonna be some pushback right there's a disincentive. That's that's butting up against somebody's willingness to entertain new ideas or try new things always an and the culture that's been set in place that creates an aversion to change the language the micro languages that anything that somebody brings that his little threatening to the status quo. You have things out. This is a this is arrogant. The word arrogant to push away. People who have new ideas is universe. It's it's such a ubiquitous silencing technique and When you look at when you look at the main reason why people are not willing to change his the fear of being ostracized like you said. Nobody wants to get out of that comfortable zone. Because it's really difficult to be alone in your way of life in your new methodology in your new habits and that's that's the first step that people have to challenge themselves to take over right given that though it's interesting that most environments are not really that permissive when it comes to free thinking and creative expression and most are pretty regimented around. What's okay and what's not but it would. It would seem like we should be more encouraging to that permissive environments. And why is that. Why are we not able to make that more. The case as opposed to you know the slim five percent or whatever it is. Yeah well we have ghanistan and with taliban around us yet. That same mentality exists here in the medical community and by the way this is me not bashing dramatic medical community like part of the only the medical community here to know about just their mentality. that's all know. But but the stagnant comfort with the status quo. Right is the same thing. I mean the hallways of your limbic system are the same You might have put it better clothes and better beards and you know my beard was a little better here than that but if the mentality is i must maintain it's not always over. I must maintain the status. And i don't know even why because it makes me uncomfortable. It's a satan. yeah. I mean to In two thousand two before we met two months earlier. I'm an experimental therapeutics branch. That's as wonky as as experimental as it gets speaking with nobel prize winners two months later. I'm in afghanistan. Speaking with taliban leaders. Both places trying to bring change. And i can promise you. The the the language was much more sophisticated But the blockades same protection of the status quo. That's why i mean when we talk about. Dementia we talk about stroke. We talk about mental health. Even now that repetition of the same patterns over and over again. I'm now some other. Studies are starting with clinical trial with hundred people. Fifty people six. We're done. We know what works.
UN News
On EU's doorstep, UN raises alarm for thousands of young migrants sleeping rough
"Whatever. Two and a half thousand migrants and refugees have been forced to sleep rough in bosnia herzegovina for several weeks on the european union's doorstep despite the fact that suitable sheltered accommodation is available in an interview with you and uses daniel johnson. Peter our chief of mission in bosnia for the migration agency describes the of trying to find a quick solution to this urgent problem. You also explains why it's so important at all. Countries abide by their international commitments to helping vulnerable people in line with the global compact for safe or leeann regular migration adopted by majority of u n member states in december two thousand and eighteen years ago has been a transit country for migrants from greece trying to reach other parts of the european union. Since dan rea two thousand eighteen we've had a perennial problem of a lack of accommodation in bosnia herzegovina. Each window reface seamer thought john just but this year to challenge is actually larger because we have two thousand five hundred eight thousand five hundred refugees in bossier to gopinath sleeping in inhuman conditions. The reason for this is the ability of bosnian political system. If you want to decide where accusations should be because ironically or or cynically she won't. We actually do have sufficient spaces in two centers that we could open within twenty four hours but because a political resistance at the local level do locations. Dc's not happy so it's not a matter of the seasons. It's not a matter of money but it is a matter of political decision-making which obviously now he's ready urgent because the winter conditions are getting worse as we speak so you say that there's a problem of administrative procedure and there's also local opposition to housing the migrants. So that's a very difficult position for you to be in but as you say. The immediate problem is is really urgent. Because it's so cold and the camp that to the emergency count the leaper. Emergency tent camp burned down after being closed because it wasn't suitable for migrants didn't have electricity water. So what exactly is the un migration agency managing to do to help these people well. We're certainly pursuing a two track approach if you like the one we have increased our humanitarian assistance to people sleeping outside interest jackets winter. I sleeping bags sold packages we to get our partners. The danish refugee council and requested try to cover everyone while he's somehow reducing human suffering. Eat obesity does not provide an answer to the need for human accommodation while the other part of the work. We're trying to do trying to support the authorities at different levels to come together and to build a consensus as to where these new accusation could be. So these are the two efforts. But you're sort of stuck in as a un agency in the sense that while we have the resources it's not to or any other un agency to decide where my accusations should be that he's really up to the sovereign country in this case. Both here to go now to decide. I can just go to building erica. Dc sanal migrant accusations so. We're very much dependent on the local political process in while you can support while he can bringing ideas while driving people to get at the end of the day. You're dependent on local. Political decisions has the opposition to migration and migrants in bosnia. Been growing is it. I mean we're not talking about tens of thousands of people by any means are we know we're talking about today. In the county i would estimate about eight thousand five hundred. Marcus enrich In the country of three point five million inhabitants. That should not. I mean that he's not a a a large crisis by any stretch of the imagination There are two issues their first modern stint be located in two parts of the country canceling saudi avoid sonic canton and the frustration specifically again. He's as so being left alone in not heavy as sort of a national strategy. Few michael spreading these accusations center south across the country when it comes to the local population licenses. Debtors small minority that. He's very vocal on facebook older social media channels sometimes using a very phobic language my senses however that if you look at the majority of people they may not have wanted bosnia to become a country for transit migration but they do agree that while the migrants should be our country that they should be taken care of properly absolutely an just wondering what it is that the un migration agency needs to happen. Obviously you want to relocate migrants and for the most part they young men on the where are they from well in terms of the solution. The solution is relatively straightforward from humanitarian operational perspective. We need additional accusation in structures that are adequate ford winter. I think that's in terms of the solution where we need to go in terms of the makeup of the mike and refugee population. Here we have about eighty percents single males and twenty percent families with children and unaccompanied children usually boys between sixteen and eighteen for these families and children. We have sufficient activation so we don't have any families children or unaccompanied or separated children sleeping outside. The challenge faces itself with the single males in terms of nationalities. Biggest group Bangladesh of ghanistan north africa in iraq. He's the makeup of the population that we go have here. I'm what do they tell you. These these young men. Why have they come to europe. Well they've gone to europe of course. Individual circumstances differ but most of them have come to europe to look for a life somewhere fleeing conflict in afghanistan but many of them are looking simply to go to placing within the european union. Start working and send money back to their family. That is sort of the story. You almost universally here. And
Newscast - Africa
UAE stops issuing new visas to citizens of 13 Arab and Muslim-majority countries
"According to a document by state owned business punk the united arab emirate has stopped issuing new leases to citizens of thirteen mostly muslim majority countries including iran turkey syria and somalia documents which was send the companies operates the park and was seen by the reuters news agency cited and immigration circular. That's came into effect on november eighteen. It said applications for new employment and visa visit feces or suspended until further notice for nationals outside the uae from countries including of ghanistan libra and yemen. The documents show that a visa ban also applies to citizens of algebra kenya iraq. Lebanon pakistan the end tunisia.