6 responses to “Sunday’s Forum”

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   Gregory Lawrence Brown

   October 12, 2025 at 10:55 am

   October 12, 1960
   One of the legends of UN history is a tale that spread across the world and the decades. Did then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev remove his shoe and bang it on a desk in the UN General Assembly Hall in 1960?

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   Richard Gardner

   October 12, 2025 at 11:35 am

   In the “I haven’t been paying attention to that part of the world recently,” category, the Taliban has attacked Pakistan https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmzmn4971zo
   But don’t worry, the USA USA USA is going to get back its base in Afghanistan, or something.
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   Mikey

   October 12, 2025 at 11:41 am

   Trump has apparently forgotten he was President on January 6, 2021.

   https://nitter.net/GovPressOffice/status/1977253387927478642

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   Michael Reynolds

   October 12, 2025 at 1:04 pm

   @Richard Gardner:
   I saw this and I’ll admit it surprised me as rather foolish. Pakistan has a real military – an air force, for example – the Taliban does not.
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   DK

   October 12, 2025 at 2:45 pm

   @Michael Reynolds:

   Pakistan has a real military – an air force, for example – the Taliban does not.

   So did Russia in the 80s and the United States in the 00s-10s. This wouldn’t be Afghan paramilitaries’ first rodeo against an allegedly superior military power.

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   Michael Reynolds

   October 12, 2025 at 5:39 pm

   @DK:
   They’re fighting in the open, not up in the mountains. And the latest news is that the Pakistanis are rolling over the Taliban and have seized the border positions. I’m surprised that these smart and very experienced guerrilla fighters got themselves into a conventional fight with the Pakistanis.

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