US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
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#2Ugh. Winning hearts and minds. I wonder how long that US flag remains on the robot.
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#3Congratulations Republicans. YOU caused this.
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#4We're doing such a bang up job in Afghanistan and around the world. Really glad I was born in a declining super power.
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#5Original article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarybrueck/2017/06/29/denied-...
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#7Yeah, remember that part where we declared war on Iraq for no fucking reason? Oh wait, no... that's not correct... we did have a reason...
“Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bomb
Iraq,” Clarke said to Stahl. “And we all said
no, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need
to bomb Afghanistan. And Rumsfeld said there
aren’t any good targets in Afghanistan. And
there are lots of good targets in Iraq.
Put another way, there was never any rationale for anything we ever did anywhere. All of this is bullshit. Don't even bother trying to make heads or tails of it.
Nothing was ever supposed to get fixed, made right, redressed.
The travel ban? Why does it exist? Because they're fucking assholes. Not because anything matters.
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#8Congratulations Republicans. YOU caused this.
It's both of your awful political parties. The Democrats embrace mass deportation, drone bombings, surveillance, arms dealing and regime change, and so-called "smart power" which excels only in increasing the cost of killing thought criminals, average civilians, and a tiny minority of actual terrorists abroad.
I agree that the language Republicans use is more alarming, and tends to appeal more directly to fears that most Americans have. But at the federal level the two political parties have been essentially the same for 30+ years, with the exception of a few social causes that are very important but don't have much to do with the actual day-to-day operation of the US government.
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#9So this gets unflagged, but it's still completely gone from the front page even though it has a very good upvotes / time ratio. I really dislike that about HN. This is clearly an important discussion.
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#10So this gets unflagged, but it's still completely gone from the front page even though it has a very good upvotes / time ratio. I really dislike that about HN. This is clearly an important discussion.
Still says [flagged] to me.