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Biden Says U.S. Will Seek Retribution for Kabul Attacks; 'We Will Hunt You Down'

WASHINGTON—President Biden said the U.S. would seek retribution for the attacks Thursday in Afghanistan that killed 12 American servicemembers and dozens of Afghans and promised to continue evacuation efforts. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Mr. Biden said during remarks Thursday evening at the White House. He said he had instructed his national security advisers to develop response plans to the attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. evacuation effort wo ...

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A Salmonella Outbreak Has Spread To 17 States And It's Linked To Italian Meats

By DEEPA SHIVARAM You might want to wait before making your next charcuterie board. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is investigating two salmonella outbreaks in 17 states that are linked to Italian meats like "salami, prosciutto, and other meats that can often be found in antipasto or charcuterie assortments." There is an active investigation underway, but no recalls have been announced. As of Tuesday, 36 people had fallen ill and 12 were hospitalized, the CD ...

Omaha Steve

UK animal charity staff caught up in deadly Kabul blast

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — A former Royal Marine who runs an animal charity in Afghanistan said Thursday that he, his Afghan staff and dozens of dogs and cats were caught in the chaotic aftermath of a suicide attack outside Kabul’s airport as they sought to get a flight out of the country before evacuation efforts end. The attack — involving two explosions and gunfire — hit near a gate where people gathered attempting to get into the airport. At least 13 people were killed, and U.S. officia ...

Omaha Steve

Washington state officials destroy first 'murder hornet' nest of the season

Nest located in the base of a dead alder tree about one-quarter mile from where a resident reported a live sighting on 11 August Guardian staff and agencies Officials in Washington state said they had destroyed the first "murder hornet" nest of the season, which was located near the town of Blaine along the Canadian border. The Washington state department of agriculture (WSDA) said it eradicated the Asian giant hornet nest on Wednesday. The nest was located in the base of a dead al ...

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Tropical Storm Ida forms in the Caribbean, could hit US as a hurricane

Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Caribbean Sea and confidence is growing that a potentially major hurricane could hit the United States by late this weekend or early next week. Exactly where and when is still to be determined, with these details expected to come into better focus once the center of the system is located, perhaps later Thursday. "The center of the [storm] will pass near of over the Cayman Islands tonight, the Isle of Youth and Western Cuba Friday, and move over the sou ...

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

Biden made the hard choice in Afghanistan, and the right one

(Washington Post) Before serving in Congress, I was an infantry platoon commander in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. In the summer of 2012, we patrolled three Taliban-contested villages on the Helmand River. On each patrol I would visit a tribal elder. They would serve me hot, sweet goat-milk tea. I would sip it in the 100-degree heat and smile politely. They would listen to me talk about the American mission and smile politely. Neither side could stomach it.

TheProle

Biden Says U.S. Will Seek Retribution for Kabul Attacks; 'We Will Hunt You Down'

(Wall Street Journal) President Biden said the U.S. would seek retribution for the attacks Thursday in Afghanistan that killed 12 American servicemembers and dozens of Afghans and promised to continue evacuation efforts. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Mr. Biden said during remarks Thursday evening at the White House. He said he had instructed his national security advisers to develop response plans to the attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. evacuation effort would move forward, he said. “We will not be deterred by terrorists,” he said, adding, “We will continue the evacuation.”

Galraedia

The Media Manufactured Biden's Political 'Fiasco' in Afghanistan

(NY Mag) America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has yet to cost our nation a single casualty. Evacuations of U.S. citizens and allies from Kabul’s airport are proceeding at a faster pace than the White House had promised, or than its critics had deemed possible. Afghanistan’s decades-long civil war has reached a lull, if not an end. On the streets of Kabul, “order and quiet” have replaced “rising crime and violence.” Meanwhile, the Taliban is negotiating with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai over the establishment of “an inclusive government acceptable to all Afghans.”

In other words, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a “disastrous” and “humiliating” “fiasco,” in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists.

kpete

Let's Not Pretend That The Way We Withdrew from Afghanistan Was The Problem

(Ezra Klein/NYT) Focusing on the execution of the withdrawal is giving virtually everyone who insisted we could remake Afghanistan the opportunity to obscure their failures by pretending to believe in the possibility of a graceful departure. It’s also obscuring the true alternative to withdrawal: endless occupation. But what our ignominious exit really reflects is the failure of America’s foreign policy establishment at both prediction and policymaking in Afghanistan.

To many, America’s pretensions of humanitarian motivation were always suspect. There are vicious regimes America does nothing to stop. There are vicious regimes America finances directly. It is callous to suggest that the only suffering we bear responsibility for is the suffering inflicted by our withdrawal. Our wars and drone strikes and tactical raids and the resulting geopolitical chaos directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis.

This is the deep lacunae in America’s foreign policy conversation: The American foreign policy establishment obsesses over the harms caused by our absence or withdrawal. But there’s no similar culpability for the harms we commit or that our presence creates. We are much quicker to blame ourselves for what we don’t do than what we do.

babylonsister

Committed to doomsday narrative, media downplay evacuation triumph

(Eric Boehlert/Pressrun) Don’t hold your breath waiting for journalists to acknowledge that their assessments of Kabul have been badly undercut by the stunning evacuation success. For the first 10 days of the refugee crisis, the media obsessed over "optics" and how they were "disaster" for Biden. Suddenly though, the press shows little interest dwelling on the optics of successfully extricating nearly 100,000 people without a single U.S. casualty. Instead, the press remains married to its narrative.

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