Eric Florack on August 25th, 2021

From a few years ago…

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I said a few months ago…..

Let me take you back in time just a little bit.

Following Judicial Watch’s 2015 report on the 2013 meeting, Senator McCain issued a statement decrying “false reports

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Eric Florack on August 25th, 2021

This stuff is going downhill so quickly I can’t keep up with it so I’ll just pass along thoughts that I’ve written down as they occur:

# Where are the followers of Islam who are aghast at what has happened

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Eric Florack on August 24th, 2021

From Victory Girls this morning, comes a confirmation of something I’ve already told you:

There are lots of people who could take the fall for Joe Biden regarding Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Chairman

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Eric Florack on August 21st, 2021

Bruce Springsteen:

Let’s be fair about this. The guy’s an above passable entertainer, and honestly I thought “Tunnel of Love” as an album was absolutely brilliant, particularly for the genre.

But again in all honesty, I tuned out when he

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Spencer Brown has the details

Do you realize that our supposed leadership hasn’t gotten one thing right about this covid-19 thing?

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Eric Florack on August 20th, 2021

Guys, I keep hearing chatter about the possibility of Joe Biden being escorted out of the White House by his own party.

As little as a few months ago I would have said I doubt it, and yet, today it’s

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Eric Florack on August 19th, 2021

Lost in all the noise about Afghanistan is the fact that Afghanistan shares a border with China.

Democrats usually scoff when they are told that the second amendment was intended by our founders to keep the government under control. Weekenders,

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Folks, I’m seeing a lot of chatter from The usual suspects telling us about how we should be firing the military responsible for the bungling in Afghanistan.

I must say that I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument. But let’s consider

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Eric Florack on August 19th, 2021

I mentioned the other day that Joe Biden has now had his Saigon moment. As if to confirm that, we Now find that Kamala Harris is visiting Vietnam.

The White House in explaining the trip suggested it was to

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Eric Florack on August 18th, 2021

My old boss, Roger Kimball makes the following suggestion in his most recent article for The Spectator:

To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year

Ehhh…I’m

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Eric Florack on August 17th, 2021

I think I should point out that Bill Gertz has been banging the drum about Chinese involvement in Afghanistan since the early 2000s. Observe for example a post I put up in 2007, where in I quoted Bill as

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2021

Our occasional Chicago correspondent, Jerry Saperstein, sends this along:

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I’ve previously expressed my opinion that Biden abandoned Afghanistan so precipitously because he was ordered to.

China is the first nation to recognize the new Taliban government:

“China extended an

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2021

If something requires government to make it work, it won’t.

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2021

One of the bylines I’ve been using on this website for many years now is that problem solutions require proper problem identification. You have to properly identify what the problem is before you can solve it.

Now, I have

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2021

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