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I just can't get excited about this, I'm not going to believe it even if it's on Jimbos telly

I've watched, liked it a lot. I'll not spoiler it but interested to know what you think of the end

The difference is you're a white male and not a Muslim or a female, so check your privilege, as they say

i hate to break it to you folks, but the great British public don't vote on policy or Labour would have won every election in the last 40 years. They repeatedly support labour policies but the vote in the tories. They basically vote for whichever leader they like he best, and the Labour leader always has to overcome an overwhemingly hostile media. All this policy/tactical discussion is irrelevant. people are idiots

Looks like wfh for me tomorrow

Interesting article about Afghanistan in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

The first win had me weeping like a baby

I don't know about you wykiki but Cav in the Tour was the most I've enjoyed any sport in years. Added to that that he is the same team as Alaphillipe who is my favourite rider made it a dream tour.

I'm booked for a walking holiday in Devon from Friday. Caught my ankle in a tree trunk out walking last week and still can't put any weight on it The missus is fuming I would have added a picture of gruesome bruising and swelling but the site won't let me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/29/joe-biden-afghanistan-new-york-times-washington-post Fairly close to where I am

For the longest time I thought the West was on the right side of history, and I was hopeful that as a country we were heading inevitably leftwards. But look where we are. We've already lost Good luck with the test

China is already well on the way to be being the world Superpower but they are doing it financially rather than by invasion. They are lending money hand over fist to developing nations for modernisation and infrastructure, which countries will never be able to pay back. They will then take payment in natural resources and and achieve an economic stranglehold that way.

Again, helping Afghans was never the point of this war. Of course these pictures are upsetting, but its like people can't look beyond the media reporting, which always supports the war drumbeat and actually see whats going on

That's a laudable aim, but isn't and hasn't ever been the point of US foreign policy, here or anywhere else

I'm genuinely baffled as to why you think its a good idea for the US to indefinitely occupy a foreign country. You can't bomb a country, especially one like Afghanistan into being a Liberal democracy We aren't the good guys here

Good grief, you want more of the US being the world's policeman? American foreign policy has been a complete shitshow since WW2, and every intervention they have made has been a disaster.

Makes the US look weak is just blindly following the MSM narrative, to put it in your terms. Why would you want the US to look strong, as what that means in reality killing more brown people Obama and Trump both should have taken the troops out but didn't have the guts. I've not got overly much time for Biden but he has taken an unpopular but correct decision

Of course it could have been worse, they could have been full out conflict with the Taliban. So far, a negotiated withdrawal with the Taliban is by far the best option. Anything else would have been a slaughter

Theyve been training the Afghan Army for 20 years and spending 81 billion quid on that and equipment in the process. It's ridiculous to think another few months would have made any difference After Trump signed the deal with the Taliban in September the only choices were what has happened or go back to war with the Taliban at a huge cost to lives and money. The situation is undoubtedly shit, but there is a lot of naive wishful thinking going on here. There is no good solution

I'm a little surprised that the reaction in this forum that the solution to a 20 year occupation of a foreign country is more US imperialism I also think that considering the situation over there, where there is obviously very little support for the occupying forces, the evacuation has gone as well as they could have hoped

They rolled over because they never supported the US invasion in the first place, they were getting paid to enlist so they did They Aghans at the top were completely corrupt and siphoning money out. The whole war has been nothing but a moneymaking excercise from the start

I'll be honest I think Biden has done the right thing. What's the alternative, stay there forever?. They and we should never have been there in the first place

The war in Afghanistan has been a total success in its true mission which is feeding hundreds of billions of dollars to the American industrial War machine. Anybody claiming there was any other aim is talking bollocks