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Historical Analysis of the Markets and World Events is essential now. While we were all

watching stocks, futures, etc. what happened today August 13,2021. Firstly, your date

equals 8 plus 13 equals 21 and your year equals 21 so a defining day historical like

a new leaf or era is beginning even as we fail to notice it. Secondly, Us Troops pulling

out of Afghanistan after 20 years of this quagmire with the Taliban. You know, the same

Taliban the US and Pakistan conjured up and grew into the thing that it is now with

military capabilities. You watch even Morning Joe today what do hear, they're trying to

sell the narrative that this is the US capitulating to the Taliban and the US is weak after

20 years worth of quagmire, loss of our veterans/military lives, family sacrifice and of

course the wounded vets having to come home not just with lost limbs, etc. but with

more important scares internally leaving many suffering and suicidal at home once here.

No, this is America, our Red White and Blue, the actual American People having stomached

decades of this lost treasure, our US Armed Forces in the field and their families at home

waiting for them to return using Wic checks on the base to make ends meet, now saying

enough is enough. We all remembered the full retreat and collapse of South Vietnam after

two to three decades there and the capitulation of Saigon with people being taken off the

roof tops of the US Embassy as the North Vietnamese Army came charging in. "But" then

no one talked about the human pain and suffering of the South Vietnamese men, women

and children to the NVA sympathizers or the disappearing of people at that time only to

be forgotten historically as the tragedy this was. I met a former women South Vietnamese

Army Officer, who luckily made it to the US after the war ended after spending years in the

jungle hiding from the NVA and the escaping later out of Vietnam. She told that they had

no ammunition to fight the NVA so why wouldn't the SVA collapse under the push by the

NVA. The same holds true now, this morning on Morning Joe, they're all surprised at the

rapid take over by the Taliban all over Afghanistan?!!??? Now they contemplate sending

3,000-4,000 troops to evac American sympathizers and women out of Afghanistan just like

they did in Vietnam in the late 1970's?!!

How do we as Americans not get this stuff. We blew, wasted trillions of dollars on a War

in Afghanistan that was not winnable even as the directing US Generals admitted throughout

this nightmare. And the men and women we sacrificed and for what?

Maybe it's time for the US to figure out as many other Nations have in the past it is far better

not to be always the target as an occupier of any nation or part of any nation as it is easy

to get regional and national groups to fight you and keep you in the quagmire indefinitely

exhausting both your Treasury and your US Military of the finest the World can provide in

the way of Officers and their command. Maybe, we should learn from France and Britain and

Germany that to play both sides against each other so that none of them can win is a far better

resolution to these issues of war and peace. Instead of making enemies of all the Shia while

coddling the Sunni's maybe let them sort it out amongst and between themselves whether in

Afghanistan or else where. This is not to say abandon Sunni Nations but more so not always

supporting sides in these types of quagmires that have "never" ended well for the Invading

Nation or Nations. Did you ever watch the actual fire fights that came out of Afghanistan, they

are thousands and thousands of rounds of munitions and you then extrapolate the result which

is the same Taliban is now there and now out of their hiding places all over the place.

It's time for a much wiser American Foreign Policy that endeavors to provide stability as much

as possible, defending shipping lanes and international waters but more so letting those regional

and national groups sort it out more so than not. The Council on Foreign Relations spokesperson lamented about the Afghanistan women, who wanted to be doctors and

business owners were now in peril and needed US protection? How does one do this in

an insane world of insane actors. We need to be the higher ground "but" firstly in our own

Nation morally and ethically then we speak from that authority and with that authority in

everything we do and say rather than adhering to do what I say not what I do.

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