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You know, the afghan people had to have a stake in it as well, and, you know, you have to throw up your hands at some point, say americas involvement with countries that we dont understand is probably always going to edge towards a catastrophe. thats what has happened. >> let me ask you about when you were writing your book. was there something, lawrence, that kept you awake at night and now 20 years later with all that weve learned, is there something that still keeps you awake? >> oh, yeah. yo...

So kabul is just a city that hosts militants. we have great power. those powers are attacking the united states on every level to include misinformation to further divide us. we have a domestic terrorism threat that is as scary as the international terrorist threat with domestic terrorists and white supremacists. we have a global pandemic that is attacking all of us. we have a lot of threats to deal with today and we have to keep our eyes on the ball. we cannot just pick one threat and focus on ...

We will make you pay. that will never stop. >> a day that remains painful for the united states. a day where 2,977 people never came home after going to work or getting on a plane including 2,753 people in new york after the terrorists flew two planes into the world trade center and thousands more who survived that day died later or still suffering, physically and emotionally from the horror of that day. "outfront" now lawrence wright is the politzer prize winning author of "al qaeda and the roa...

كشف الكاتب الكندي الأصلي وكاتب العمود في صحيفة نيويرك تايمز “ديفيد بروكس” في مقال له عبر صحيفة The Salt Lake Tribune الأمريكية عن تراجع شعبية جماعات الإسلام السياسي في العالم. وقال بروكس: كانت الفترة من عام 1979 بمثابة انطلاقة قوية لجماعات الإسلام السياسي حول العالم، حيث ازدادت على ن...

Afghanistan's economy is hanging by a thread; Iran makes the best of the Taliban; the "resistance" finds inspiration; five must reads on Afghanistan.

The consequences of this faulty thinking, and the revival of global terror, is grave. 

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At least one official in the Biden administration failed to comply with federal law when they unmasked Tucker Carlson’s name after it was inadvertently (allegedly) collected by our intelligence community monitoring the communications of third parties. And the unnecessary unmasking of his name, followed by the inevitable leak, alerted foreign adversaries that their communications were being collected.   On July 7, 2021, Axios Jonathan Swan reported, “Two sources familiar with Carlsons commu...

Lichaamshaar, achternamen en de beste manier om een CEO te zijn Een jonge Fidel Castro op de werpersheuvel bij de New York Yankees? Het gerucht was een eigen leven gaan leiden. Voor de Cubaanse revolutie zou hij als pitcher proefgedraaid hebben bij Amerika’s meest tot de verbeelding sprekende sportteam. Een gretig in stand gehouden mythe, zo blijkt uit het boek Fidel Castro and Baseball van historicus Peter C. Bjarkman.  Het fabeltje paste in de manier waarop Castro de honkbalsport politise...

Photo by The White House America has an accountability problem. In fact, if the Covid-19 disaster, the January 6th Capitol attack, and the Trump years are any indication, the American lexicon has essentially dispensed with the term "accountability." This should come as no surprise. After all, theres nothing particularly new about this. In the Bush years, those who created a system of indefinite offshore detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, those who implemented a CIA global torture prog...