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** FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
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It is not a man’s duty as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
– Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience ([link removed]) ” [1849]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 2, 2021
Crocodile Tears for Women's Rights in Afghanistan ([link removed])
Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to date exceed 70,000 people.
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