It's incomprehensible to me that people didn't see this coming. As soon as Trump mentioned pulling the US troops from Afghanistan I thought that it would inevitably lead to the Taliban resu… (View Post)

It is bizarre that people are so dismissive of "fantasy" as a genre, when swords and sorcery, science fiction, and super hero films are the staple of the movie business. The film business i… (View Post)

Radio 5 was sniggering about the LotR show this morning, "not my cup of tea", "never seen the films", and so on. But the first season alone has a budget basically the size of what… (View Post)

He's talking absolute rubbish. In late 2001 the Pakistani ISI evacuated much of the Taliban leadership, and then the US pretended it didn't happen, and essentially allowed the Taliban to re… (View Post)

Al-Qaeda was based in Sudan when the larger Bojinka* plot was being prepared. It would be nice to think we just had to hold one bit of territory to thwart them, but it's total nonsense. * Based … (View Post)