Trump signed paid family medical leave for federal workers, continues to fund TSA, and stopped publishing deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria in 2017

US troops in Afghanistan for 18 years protecting American drug interests

Afghanistan war document dump shows Mike Flynn saying everyone lying about success, targeted for ruin by The Swamp for saying so

How all of Afghanistan should have looked the day after 911, but didn't because we no longer have the stomach for real war

Biden: We are leaving Afghanistan in 2014. Period. ...

It wasn't a scandal that Obama and Biden failed to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 as promised, and it still isn't

That elephant in the room which no one wants to talk about is that Donald Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020.

Trump thinks winning a war is about killing people when it's about killing their ability to make war

Afghanistan could have been over and done with before the end of 2001 by destroying all the infrastructure: roads, water projects, dams, electric power stations and grid, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, nuking the poppy fields on the way out.

Not one American life need have been sacrificed, nor 10 million Afghan lives, not that we should care about the rag-headed heathen bastards.

But we are not a serious country.

Public Opinion Research is polling this morning by telephone about possible primary challengers to Justin Amash (MI-03)

Names mentioned were:

Terri Lynn Land, age 60, the shy loser to Gary Peters for US Senate in 2014;

*James Lower, represents Michigan's 70th House District, once worked for Brian Calley, Gov. Snyder's lieutenant;

*Tom Norton, Afghan War vet, sounds a little too eager for war with Iran, seems like a nice guy but can't spell too well, is "pro-Isreal";

Matt Hall, represents Michigan's 63rd House District, endorsed by Fred Upton who seems to hate Trump as much as Amash does, also worked for Terri Lynn Land when she was Michigan Secretary of State, was a "bound delegate" for Trump in 2016;

Bill Hardiman, age 72, Vietnam vet, former black mayor of Kentwood, Michigan for a decade who went on to defeat 2012 Amash challenger Steve Pestka to serve in the Michigan state senate for two terms 2003-2011, was one of five candidates who had sought the seat from MI-03 in the 2010 Republican primary, losing to Amash.

*have already announced runs against Amash

AP: Afghan War reporting to go dark with $737 billion spent since 2001 and more than 2,400 military lives lost

Story.

America won a multi-front world war in less than four years at peak white, but is now almost 18 years in Afghanistan

Laugh of the Day: Trump really blew it canceling Pelosi's government flights

He should have waited until she was IN Afghanistan.

Today Syria . . .

. . . tomorrow Afghanistan.

Seventeen years later America still has 8,475 soldiers in Afghanistan

And Afghanistan has a record 810,000 acres producing opium.

Fewer than 600 acres of opium production in Afghanistan keep the Taliban insurgency alive

There should be a relatively simple solution to that, but Politico has a story here about what we've been doing instead.

The United States is not a serious country.

Australian snowflakes in Afghanistan see a Nazi flag, fear PTSD or something

"Additionally, steps were taken to reinforce education and training for all personnel who witnessed the flag." 

Obviously it was a false flag operation. The Aussies were just trying to have a little fun and convince the Taliban they were friendlies.

The cost of the war in Afghanistan since 2001 is $1.1 trillion, but The Wall would be a waste of money

The top 10 refugee-sending countries according to Amnesty International

Amnesty International, here:

Syria

Afghanistan

Somalia

Sudan

South Sudan

Democratic Republic of Congo

Myanmar

Central African Republic

Iraq

Eritrea

Average country IQ:

83

84

68

71

71

78

87

71

87

85

___________

Average: 78.5

US Average IQ: 98
Germany Av.: 99

Antifa attacks the symbols of the South, Trump pledges to send the flower of it to die in Afghanistan

In 2013, 44% of all military recruits came from the South region of the U.S. despite it having only 36% of the country's 18-24 year-old civilian population. 

Just one big happy Party of Violence.

Trump makes a dumb purchase, and they're more than happy to sell it to him

Trump takes ownership of Afghanistan War

After speech, Afghanistan is Trump's war now

If a tyrant is smart he will keep the warriors preoccupied with their business, not his

"Trump clears way for troop increase in Afghanistan as part of retooled strategy"

"TRUMP RENEWS AFGHAN COMMITMENT BUT SAYS 'NO BLANK CHECK'"

"Trump, who once backed withdrawal from Afghanistan, tries to sell the nation on deeper involvement"