| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| It's the same old Taliban, and they still don't care how | 2021-12-30 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476691236337512481 | 1476691236337512481 |
| How the NYT staff and families got out. | 2021-12-24 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474442154768363520 | 1474442154768363520 |
| Taliban puts its best foot forward for interview. | 2021-12-13 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470540217228533761 | 1470540217228533761 |
| The fall of Kabul, stunning in its suddenness. | 2021-12-12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469913457738883074 | 1469913457738883074 |
| To the victor belong the spoils - Taliban upholds ancient | 2021-12-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466998727600586753 | 1466998727600586753 |
| Traditional Taliban policing. | 2021-12-01 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465945279434158083 | 1465945279434158083 |
| Afghanistan collapses as aid groups struggle to support | 2021-11-30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465689261022142474 | 1465689261022142474 |
| What's happening to the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan? | 2021-11-25 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1463990607806812161 | 1463990607806812161 |
| Nobody puts much faith in a Taliban promise. | 2021-11-16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460614204604305408 | 1460614204604305408 |
| Beneficiaries of rewritten history. | 2021-11-15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460086446677639168 | 1460086446677639168 |
| Afghan refugees end up in - Iran - probably on their way | 2021-11-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458665971049140226 | 1458665971049140226 |
| There are always Quislings and Petains to collaborate. | 2021-11-02 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455363591289274373 | 1455363591289274373 |
| The triumph of Trumpism in - Afghanistan! You don't need | 2021-11-01 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455257008899117056 | 1455257008899117056 |
| Mission creep - right over the edge of the cliff. | 2021-10-27 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453493978381176836 | 1453493978381176836 |
| Taliban are confident about ISIS. But Afghanistan is | 2021-10-24 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452105808947257346 | 1452105808947257346 |
| The Taliban have no idea how to run a modern urban society. | 2021-10-20 | 97 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450712746186592259 | 1450712746186592259 |
| Will Pakistan come to regret sheltering the Afghan Taliban? | 2021-10-18 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450075326160117763 | 1450075326160117763 |
| Now the Taliban is the target of a violent insurgency. | 2021-10-12 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447917545340628999 | 1447917545340628999 |
| A quid pro quo with Taliban? | 2021-10-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447346327092793348 | 1447346327092793348 |
| Taliban think they can handle Islamic State on their own. | 2021-10-10 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447080585109774339 | 1447080585109774339 |
| What is worse than the Taliban? | 2021-10-08 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446506604531093506 | 1446506604531093506 |
| The Taliban is against drug addiction in Afghanistan - | 2021-10-07 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446114722839818243 | 1446114722839818243 |
| The Taliban's only way to finance their power without | 2021-10-06 | 179 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445875929427767307 | 1445875929427767307 |
| Why the Taliban was so successful in rural areas. | 2021-10-06 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445636980977532930 | 1445636980977532930 |
| At least we got some of them out. | 2021-10-04 | 135 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445119796849229832 | 1445119796849229832 |
| Afghanistan - blame everybody except Trump. | 2021-09-29 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443059088041013249 | 1443059088041013249 |
| Prophecy fulfilled! | 2021-09-28 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442641235475243011 | 1442641235475243011 |
| How the Afghan military collapsed. | 2021-09-26 | 413 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442135531391913985 | 1442135531391913985 |
| Taliban used social media to win the war. Will they | 2021-09-25 | 419 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441563878693826565 | 1441563878693826565 |
| Afghanistan's economy is collapsing as fast as its | 2021-09-24 | 155 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441268678067036163 | 1441268678067036163 |
| Same old Taliban will rule the same old way. | 2021-09-24 | 144 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1441250257459814402 | 1441250257459814402 |
| All of Afghanistan's neighbors have their own varying | 2021-09-23 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441055047786250242 | 1441055047786250242 |
| The day the music died. | 2021-09-23 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440861270823948288 | 1440861270823948288 |
| Afghanistan reverts to form - | 2021-09-20 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440036232898048012 | 1440036232898048012 |
| Neither GOP nor Democrats want to publicize their mistakes | 2021-09-19 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1439465140106055682 | 1439465140106055682 |
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========== It's the same old Taliban, and they still don't care how much the people suffer, as long as it's proper Islamic suffering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/30/afghan-taliban-crackdown-aid/ The Taliban don't need foreign aid. They'll support their soldiers in the traditional way, by selling opium. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-30 23:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476691236337512481 ========== How the NYT staff and families got out. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/23/world/asia/kabul-evacuation-afghanistan.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-24 18:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474442154768363520 ========== Taliban puts its best foot forward for interview. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-united-states-only-on-ap-kabul-taliban-c0475a3370ea219aabb3ded311911cc1 He might be sincere, but does he really speak for anybody other than himself? Afghanistan is inherently tribal and sectarian, no matter who is nominally in charge. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-13 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470540217228533761 ========== The fall of Kabul, stunning in its suddenness. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/magazine/fall-of-kabul-afghanistan.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-12 06:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469913457738883074 ========== To the victor belong the spoils - Taliban upholds ancient Afghan traditions. And convinces the people that they are no different from their predecessors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/asia/afghanistan-land-ownership-taliban.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-04 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466998727600586753 ========== Traditional Taliban policing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/30/taliban-killings-security/ The best that can be said is that IS would be worse. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-01 07:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465945279434158083 ========== Afghanistan collapses as aid groups struggle to support the people without supporting the Taliban. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/afghanistan-humanitarian-disaster-aid/2021/11/27/5d2f859a-4ee4-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html Taliban are rural terrorists, not urban economists or engineers. Picture the Jan 6 insurrectionists trying to manage Silicon Valley. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-30 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465689261022142474 ========== What's happening to the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan? Exactly what happened to the Americans in western Afghanistan - winning the battles and losing the war. And they have the same kinds of overly-optimistic spokesmen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/22/taliban-isis-afghanistan/ #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-11-25 21:58 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463990607806812161 ========== Nobody puts much faith in a Taliban promise. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-islamic-state-group-taliban-kabul-race-and-ethnicity-8c81cda1748fe0fc92224317a7adf92b But IS is worse. Nobody doubts their promise that they will kill everybody they don't like. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-16 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460614204604305408 ========== Beneficiaries of rewritten history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-taliban-afghanistan-fighters/2021/11/12/94c31236-3cad-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html GOP would be proud to have such success in schools. But what will they do next? Taliban no longer want continuous revolution, but that's all these boys know. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-15 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460086446677639168 ========== Afghan refugees end up in - Iran - probably on their way to Europe since Iran has its own problems. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-middle-east-taliban-tehran-europe-b713519bab3c2fd37702113e9ce08bb6 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 79 time 2021-11-11 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458665971049140226 ========== There are always Quislings and Petains to collaborate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-afghanistan-hazaras/2021/11/01/096c9690-3775-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-02 02:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455363591289274373 ========== The triumph of Trumpism in - Afghanistan! You don't need any expertise or experience if you are loyal enough! https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-middle-east-health-kabul-fa7a556f60fe6eee85328acffb2f728a #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 46 time 2021-11-01 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455257008899117056 ========== Mission creep - right over the edge of the cliff. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-joe-biden-taliban-european-union-8b14058e29dbb4e0e5c4fa71b751ebe8 Let it be a lesson, though the same lesson has been offered repeatedly and always fails to stick. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-27 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453493978381176836 ========== Taliban are confident about ISIS. But Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, and right now the Taliban is the empire. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/23/afghanistan-isis-pakistan-intelligence/ #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 51 time 2021-10-24 02:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452105808947257346 ========== The Taliban have no idea how to run a modern urban society. Their acquaintance with modern technology has advanced from AK47's to cell phones. They can't even suppress an insurgency just like their own, except worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-policing-isis-afghanistan/2021/10/18/7e3dce46-26a7-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 97 likes 1 time 2021-10-20 06:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450712746186592259 ========== Will Pakistan come to regret sheltering the Afghan Taliban? The Afghans are now sheltering the Pakistani Taliban. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-religion-pakistan-islamabad-taliban-3d002d01a1fee6f7f868ae9cd3f243a8 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 116 time 2021-10-18 12:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450075326160117763 ========== Now the Taliban is the target of a violent insurgency. Can they handle it better than the previous government? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-islamic-state-group-united-states-middle-east-fbfab79028913b255cd94af3fdcff366 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-12 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447917545340628999 ========== A quid pro quo with Taliban? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-taliban-islamic-state-group-united-states-0f386a9d22bafa86601c8a6251b02bc6 The Taliban is not going to be recognized as legitimate until it has free contested elections - but their position is that democracy is incompatible with Islam. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515629175448263 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 15 time 2021-10-10 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447346327092793348 ========== Taliban think they can handle Islamic State on their own. They have not been successful before. https://apnews.com/article/business-taliban-islamabad-middle-east-islamic-state-group-4d419bb70259f93f7165169889d05ff1 As for the Afghan currency reserves, the west should use those to pay resettlement costs of Afghan refugees. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-10 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447080585109774339 ========== What is worse than the Taliban? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-prayer-religion-2b9d9863da38661ba6fa186a72ac5352 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-08 16:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446506604531093506 ========== The Taliban is against drug addiction in Afghanistan - but exporting drugs is a major source of foreign exchange. https://apnews.com/article/business-only-on-ap-taliban-kabul-afghanistan-312374ad26aa5741394b2308bfd99487 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 92 time 2021-10-07 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446114722839818243 ========== The Taliban's only way to finance their power without becoming a client state of a foreign power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/05/afghanistan-drugs-could-become-bigger-danger-than-terrorism/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 179 time 2021-10-06 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445875929427767307 ========== Why the Taliban was so successful in rural areas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/afghanistan-village-us-taliban/2021/10/04/e531303c-214a-11ec-a8d9-0827a2a4b915_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 217 time 2021-10-06 06:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445636980977532930 ========== At least we got some of them out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/cia-afghanistan-allies/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 135 time 2021-10-04 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445119796849229832 ========== Afghanistan - blame everybody except Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/28/mark-milley-senate-hawley-blackburn/ without providing an explicit credible version of what they'd have done differently. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 85 time 2021-09-29 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443059088041013249 ========== Prophecy fulfilled! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/us/politics/afghanistan-taliban.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 98 time 2021-09-28 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442641235475243011 ========== How the Afghan military collapsed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/25/afghanistan-security-forces/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 413 time 2021-09-26 14:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442135531391913985 ========== Taliban used social media to win the war. Will they tolerate it used against them? They could ask experienced foreign powers for help in censoring their internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/technology/afghanistan-taliban-social-media.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 419 time 2021-09-25 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441563878693826565 ========== Afghanistan's economy is collapsing as fast as its government did. But there's no way to help the Afghan people without propping up the Taliban government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-taliban-economic-assistance/2021/09/23/237cda86-1c90-11ec-914a-99d701398e5a_story.html The most likely outcome is as a client state of some foreign power. #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 155 time 2021-09-24 05:10 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441268678067036163 ========== Same old Taliban will rule the same old way. https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54 #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 144 time 2021-09-24 03:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441250257459814402 ========== All of Afghanistan's neighbors have their own varying agendas for Afghanistan. None of them coincide with US interests. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-united-nations-taliban-shah-mehmood-qureshi-258c17303271aa440cf60f5a9444e143 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 95 time 2021-09-23 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441055047786250242 ========== The day the music died. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-middle-east-music-arts-and-entertainment-afghanistan-a2ac1095df0568387d6cee15eb82a3b5 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 84 time 2021-09-23 02:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440861270823948288 ========== Afghanistan reverts to form - https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-dubai-united-arab-emirates-taliban-6df3070c89439104fdb1aad0a1400bc6 factions fighting in shifting alliances with no definite resolution likely. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 63 time 2021-09-20 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440036232898048012 ========== Neither GOP nor Democrats want to publicize their mistakes about Afghanistan. An independent commission will be required to obtain a credible analysis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/afghanistan-general-austin-miller-testimony/2021/09/17/cb14c90e-1711-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1500775853600262 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 29 time 2021-09-19 05:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439465140106055682