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Hi Ann; could you describe more or have you written more elsewhere on what is misstated in their piece?
July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Those are cool they resemble cababa lilies from Alabama with the big tendrils underneath the blooms. Those only grow in the little river canyon
June 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
He’s right about New York though. New York unions are a special case and they’ve done a lot of damage to the city over the past 40 years. We can support organized labor but we don’t have to be knee jerk yes men in response to things that have made life worse for New Yorkers
June 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Amazon fire 8, and sideload the play store it isn’t difficult
June 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I don’t think they’re actually fighting
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Let’s see how long it takes before this gets someone angry on the hook
June 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bin Laden was an idiot conspiracy theorist like most terrorists are, and you shouldn’t treat his critiques seriously. He’s like Dylann Roof who shot up a church because he was mad about Trayvon martin being sanctified. They’re not rational people they take small things and fixate
May 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It’s fucking stupid to call 9/11 the result of American foreign policy because we were pretty cool with the Muslim world before it happened outside of Iran, and Iran and bin Laden didn’t get along. We backed Pakistan, non-atheist North Yemen, and Sunnis across the region.
May 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Yes, questions of scale. Until the GWOT we weren’t that involved. Desert storm was a one time thing and we dipped, us being entrenched in the Middle East is the direct result of bin Laden. You can read history on Al Qaeda it’s well documented that personal weird grievances drove it at first
May 31, 2025 at 4:32 AM
We played both sides of the war, we didn’t have a favored party really though we did find saddam some public praise. We should’ve stayed out that’s clear
May 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
That’s Indonesia, and he didn’t have much of a problem with it because our allies were religious conservatives. And yes it was awful
May 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It makes sense, the Soviet Union borders MENA and Central Asia, but we weren’t players there like we were in say Brazil. We did the coup in the 50’s in Iran and like I said mostly just moved weapons. The USSR had a full puppet state in South Yemen.
May 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Because I’m very well acquainted with our policy in the Middle East and was hands off compared to the rest of the world. The Soviet Union was directly involved in a way we never were. We didn’t reinvade Iran after they toppled the shah the way they did Afghanistan.
May 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I’d be very surprised if we supported India against kashmir but I’d have to check again, we supported Pakistan in every conflict against India from Nixon-Trump 1
May 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Like why he attacks us and not Russia is incredibly bizarre and personal, Russia supported wars against Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya before 9/11. We invaded Iraq to protect a Wahhabi ally
May 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I mean the reality is really complicated and weird. A guy who had no problems working along side us in Afghanistan turned and decided we were his real enemy when he wasn’t appointed the hero he thought he would be. It’s a weird complex story that isn’t driven by what you would expect
May 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Great man theory matters when one man makes a decision, historians don’t actually split between great man or trends theory anymore because that kind of dogmatism leads you to ignore critical factors. People use power sometimes, he had an initial continent of like 100 people it didn’t take much
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Most of the hijacker’s were those who came to bin Laden to participate in other conflicts like the Afghan/northern alliance war, or the war in Bosnia.
May 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The twin towers bombing was in February ‘93.
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
He was perfectly fine with American involvement when it suited him, he had no problems with Americans until the first gulf war and he never said he was actually mad about Saddam, he himself offered to fight him.
May 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Maybe she also shouldn’t say the US kind of deserved 9/11 and then pretended she hadn’t actually said that because she used the flimsiest wording possible.
May 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
And the twin towers
May 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
By the time Somalia happened he had already bombed multiple US Embassies
May 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
WW2 parties aren’t a thing, Pearl Harbor parties are not a thing, I guess we do Memorial Day but that’s more because it’s a day off in good weather
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM