Thursday, August 19, 2021

Thursday Links

Now that I've posted all of yesterday's travel pictures, it's time to post some links.  Here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.K. military was reportedly left out of discussions of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From FrontpageMag, according to a Taliban commander, jihad is not just about Afghanistan.

From Townhall, Australia has become what Democrats wish the U.S. would become.

From The Washington Free Beacon, media talking heads equate Republicans to the Taliban due to their opposition to abortion.

From the Washington Examiner, the debacle in Afghanistan is President Biden's "second Saigon moment".  (He was a Senator during his first one.)

From The Federalist, leftists live in a fantasy world as they burn the real one to the ground.

From American Thinker, Biden implodes right before our eyes.

From CNS News, according to the CIA, Afghanistan was the world's largest opium producer in 2017, and that opium is an important source of revenue for the Taliban.

From LifeZette, world leaders slam Biden on Afghanistan.

From NewsBusters, the AP promotes young liberals who claim that we would have no climate crisis if President Carter had won reelection in 1980.  (Could he have somehow prevented the increase in China's carbon dioxide production, which has led the world since 2006?)

From Canada Free Press, what will happen to Afghanis as the Taliban reimposes radical Islam?

From TeleSUR, Chileans ask for amnesty for over 800 citizens arrested after protests in 2019.

From TCW Defending Freedom, never mind the world, how does the U.K. save itself?

From Free West Media, police in Cologne, Germany ban a commemoration of slain French priest Samuel Paty and Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

From EuroNews, at least 16 people have died in Lithuania after drinking poisoned homemade alcohol.

From Euractiv, a Spanish court orders an end to the coronavirus curfew in Barcelona.

From ReMix, after 138 people illegally enter Poland from Belarus, the Polish government starts setting up barbed wire on the border between the two countries.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco takes a step toward launching its own military industry.

From The New Arab, under the Caesar Act, the U.S. gives Lebanon to import Jordanian electricity and Egyptian natural gas through Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, the last Jew in Afghanistan promises to stay there.

From News24, Islamists attack a civilian convoy escorted by military police in Burkina Faso, killing 30 civilians.

From OpIndia, Taliban terrorists vandalize pictures of women's faces outside a salon in Kabul.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Afghanistan in 2021 is not South Vietnam in 1975, but worse.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden's disaster in Afghanistan leaves the West defenseless against Islamist terrorism.

From The Stream, critical race theory is not a silly "bogeyman" but a genuine evil.

From The Daily Signal, the discovery of a third new ICBM field shows communist China's continuing "bomb buildup".

From Space War, the extradition hearing in Canada for Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou reaches its end, with a ruling expected in October.

From The American Conservative, "why Hungary matters to American Conservatives".

From The Western Journal, where has Vice President Harris been during the last 6 days?

From Fox News, the Capitol Police arrest a suspect who allegedly claimed to have a bomb in his truck parked in front of the Library of Congress.  (via The Daily Wire)

From The Daily Wire, New York City businesses sue New York's Mr. Bill over his coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From the Daily Caller, New York City's police and district attorney announce the indictment of 13 violent gang members.

From the New York Post, what Taliban members told American reporter Hollie McKay as they escorted her out of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

From Breitbart, a senior Taliban leader promises that there will not be democracy in Afghanistan.

From Newsmax, a local judge in Philadelphia allows the city's statue of Columbus to stay where it is.

From CNBC, Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Angus King (I-ME) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) all test positive for the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated.

And from IndieWire, comedy mogul Larry David and lawyer Alan Dershowitz have an altercation at a grocery store in Martha's Vineyard.

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