Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , [Reading up on Mullah Baradar. He is the co-founder of the Taliban. He was captured in 2010 in Pakistan by a team of ISI & CIA officers. He was then freed in 2018 at the request of Trump admin. In Feb 2020, he reached a "peace deal" with the Trump admin on behalf of the Taliban.], Link , Link , [“No country has ever really done what we did here. No country has ever deliberately chosen and charted a course into its own humiliation when there was no national demand for withdrawal above all things.”]....[We stand exposed today not as a country that finally exited a war we could no longer even imagine a victory in, as had been the case in 1975. Rather, we are revealed as a country led by a feckless president who chose to refuse to grapple with the obvious potential consequences of a decision he wanted to make so he could be declared a war-ender and a peace-maker. History will declare him something else, something worse, something darker. The real horror for Afghanis is that history will begin to make its declaration about Joe Biden this week, as the Taliban begin working their depravity on the them and the nation from which we once rightly took great national pride in having liberated.]