Afghanistan - SB Hopper

Here comes the rain again

It was a dark, windy, and rainy night. Sounds like we're going to get drenched here in the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe everyone! Let's hope it helps with western wildfires. I thought this was a pretty cool description from the National Weather Service [https://www.weather.

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I feel lousy

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Next time...

I apologize for all the links of late. I'll get back to my stuff soon, but my mind has been on Afghanistan. Feel free to skip this one. I had a long talk with a friend about Afghanistan last night. We agreed that the situation was heartbreaking. We

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We'll keep doing it until we can't

I think about this scene in the Dark Knight when I think about U.S. foreign policy. Credit: Nizzinny. I think most YouTubers are cool with having their work shared like this. If not, let me know and I'll delete it.Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. I'm

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Weekly Roundup

There's really not a weekly roundup. Maybe I'll start one as a way of avoiding too many links. The situation in Afghanistan is scary. I feel terrible for the Afghan people, but I am glad that we are ending our military occupation. My foreign policy days

shoulda been a tweet

Shoulda been a tweet: Ackerman as Obi-Wan

Boy have I been wrong about Afghanistan the past 15 years. I thought it was part of the Forever Wars. A war that we happily allowed U.S. elected officials and DOD personnel to lie about. If you haven't read the Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers [https:

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The Afghanistan Papers

For a long time now I’ve been experimenting with Substack to see if it fits into my flailing freelance efforts. I like writing, and sometimes I feel like I’ve got things to say that might be worth sharing. I’m hoping to do more writing in 2020. If