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And more importantly, is Dog the Bounty Hunter is still trying to catch Brian Laundrie?
So, what's up with all those American citizens... and green card holders... and deceived Afghans... who missed the last bus out of the graveyard of empires (GOE)?
How did such an important story fall off the radar screen of the American media faster than a UFO? On a related note, whatever happened to the people we locked up at Gitmo and didn't torture, merely interrogated in an enhanced sort of way?
Gitmo has been a thing, well, off and on, for as long as Afghanistan. It was established about the same time we started teaching the locals of the GOE how to all get along so they could develop their hooge hoard of mostly untapped mineral wealth instead of having to rely on poppy farming.
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{Excuse me, my favorite pathetic pasty patriarch, are you allowed to say true dat? Is that racist?}
I don't think so but you might be able to build a case for cultural appropriation.
Now, where was I... oh yeah, Afghanistan.
{Right, and what about Iraq? Whatever happened to Iraq?}
As for the current state of the state of Iraq, There's a State Department Travel Advisory in effect.
Iraq - Level 4: Do Not Travel
Do not travel to Iraq due to COVID-19, terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, and Mission Iraq’s limited capacity to provide support to U.S. citizens.
As for Afghanistan, I googled the phrase — what's going on in Afghanistan today? — and "About 407,000,000 results (0.56 seconds)" were returned.
{Ain't Google somethin'? Looks like you were wrong, Sparky.}
Technically speaking maybe, but when I started scrolling through the hits there wasn't much to find about the current state of the American (and Americanized), um... strandees?
{I'm guessing most western reporters aren't begging to be assigned to the Afghanistan beat.}
True dat. But Al Jezera is there, as you might well imagine, but don't seem to be devoting much coverage to our strandees, as you also might well imagine.
The Associated Press had stories about people like "... 100 students, alumni, and faculty members of the Afghanistan National Institue of Music..." making it out. Apparently, there's Hadith about music lovers having molten lead poured into their ears on the day of judgment but...
{Ouch.}
But nothing about the unfortunate folks I'm interested in.
Devoted columnist that I am, I shall continue to slave over my hot keyboard and mouse with my arthritic fingers, in service to my readers, by checking the Afghanistan web page of the Associated Press early every morning this week.
After all, the AP supplies news to the news media... who are free to ignore it, or publish it "below the fold."
Monday, 10.11.21: The US is going to provide humanitarian aid to a "desperately poor Afghanistan."
"In their statement, the Taliban said without elaborating that they would 'facilitate principled movement of foreign nationals.'" Fingers crossed?
