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Ron Howard narrator: “It wasn’t. In fact, Hermes had his party catered by the good folks at Popeyes.”

 

Stop it, you. Now I want some Popeyes.

 

Nothing makes people happier than telling them you have Popeye’s chicken sandwiches and strips at your party.

Trump might’ve been onto something with that fast food party.

 

Now I want some Popeyes.

 

I'm thinking of going right after this errand.

With Journey on XM.

 

Twenty years, trillions spent (much of it off the books) and nothing to show for it other than a lotlotlot of dead Afghans and bin Laden’s scalp.

 

Go Hill Toppers!

 

His name is Choad, yes?

 

I”m pretty sure it’s Big Red.

 

And of course it happened due to graft.

KABUL — The spectacular collapse of Afghanistan’s military that allowed Taliban fighters to reach the gates of Kabul on Sunday despite twenty years of training and billions of dollars in American aid began with a series of deals brokered in rural villages between the militant group and some of the Afghan government’s lowest ranking officials.

The deals, initially offered early last year, were often described by Afghan officials as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and a U.S. official.

Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with more than a dozen Afghan officers, police, special operations troops and other soldiers. .…

The Taliban capitalized on the uncertainty caused by the February 2020 agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between the militant group and the United States calling for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some Afghan forces realized they would soon no longer be able to count on American air power and other crucial battlefield support and grew receptive to the Taliban’s approaches.​

Thanks, Trump. Your deal just imploded.

Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions — The Washington Post

 

That was a Bush decision, not Rummy.