The Mail, as ever, is being idiotic. What happened 18 months ago was the Doha Agreement, where the US agreed to leave and in exchange the Taliban agreed to stop shooting at them. (View Post)

The US is perfectly capable of doing an air strike that kills the number 2 of a terrorist organization. (It's always the number 2 who gets it, if a recruiter calls you and offers you that job don't t… (View Post)

Kind of ridiculous to think the Bush/Cheney wars were anything to do with a "liberal international order". They wanted to punish some brown people for 9/11 then nobody else could work out h… (View Post)

When do we reckon the British media is going to switch from demanding the government get refugees out to demanding they stop them coming in? Around November/December, I guess? (View Post)

I mean, the whole enterprise was fucked from the get go? What's the part where you're thinking, "it would have gone smoothly if they'd done x, why on earth didn't they do x?" The obvious x … (View Post)