My latest in PJ Media:
Richard Burgon, a member of the British Parliament for the far-Left Labour party and Secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs, demonstrated Tuesday that the Left’s commitment to the redistribution of wealth is indefatigable: He declared that what the West really needs to do now is start forking over money to the Taliban. Burgon tweeted: “The crisis in Afghanistan is the result of 20 years of disastrous military intervention. Just as in Iraq & Libya, backing US-led invasions led to a huge loss of life. There is no military solution in Afghanistan. The focus now should be on reparations and supporting refugees.”
Yes, reparations. Paying reparations to Afghanistan would essentially mean funding the Taliban, which has a billion-dollar budget as it is and has no need of the largesse of British or American taxpayers. And Burgon is not alone. Britain’s far-Left Stop the War Coalition issued a statement Sunday demanding that the British government “take a lead in offering a refugee programme and reparations to rebuild Afghanistan, an act which would go a great deal further in advancing the rights of the Afghan people, women in particular, than continued military or economic intervention in the fate of the Afghanistan.”
The call for reparations to the Taliban has been heard on this side of the Atlantic as well. Shabana Mir, an associate professor at American Islamic College in Chicago, first implied that Afghanistan didn’t need any help from the West: “The Western savior narrative vis-a-vis Afghanistan is a framing of Afghanistan as in need of Western help, as dependent on Western help — rather than as a Western-exploited and Western-ravaged people and land.” Then, however, she added: “The U.S. owes s**tloads of reparations to Afghanistan.” The U.S. should have no say in how this money is used: “I have hopes that Afghans can build, if military contractors and the U.S. would get the hell out of the way.”
Meanwhile, far-Left Canadian “journalist” Paul Jay believes that “there must be significant reparations paid to the Afghan people to be administered by the U.N.” Another Leftist “journalist,” Spencer Ackerman, who was primarily responsible ten years ago for getting all mention of Islam and jihad removed from U.S. counterterror training, asked: “What do we owe the Afghan people? We owe them a life they can live, resettling them in the United States if they so choose, and we owe them reparations. Reparations is a charged word, and I do not use it here to suggest that reparations for the descendants of the enslaved ought to wait until we pay reparations for the War on Terror. I mean here that throughout history, the losers of wars have had to pay reparations, though typically to the regimes and not people. But it is people whom the U.S. owes, not regimes.”
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Terry Gain says
These leftists are mental. Tell them to depart – using a sexual connotation.
CogitoErgoSum says
Let’s see how loud they yell once China starts sexually connotationing them.
Eleanor says
Thanks for the laugh Cognito. I didn’t know who this guy was, so did some research, and from the photo above, looks like he has turned from a straight looking leftie Suit and Tie, to a Number One woke leftie plonker. The photos say it all really.
Jayell says
‘Plonker’ seems to sum this specimen up. I wouldn’t trust him with a barrow outside an East End pub, which probably his level. Maybe he’d change his tune if he was told he had to pay the reparations out of his own welfare money.
Check Burry says
He is a solicitor, I recon I know what he solicits. He needs informing about how many millions the talibums already have, which they should now use re rebuild a New Dump, sometimes call by Mr Trump a SH.
maria says
They are evil and should be banned from the US. Send them to Gitmo together with Bidet, Harris and Pelosi
bill says
I hope it will be treated with the ridicule it deserves. However I am not confident with the Biding admin. in control. Considering the USA and its partners have just made a donation of billions of dollars/Euros of high tech military equipment to the Tban I think they should be paying reparations to the Western coalition!
Wellington says
Islam is the enemy without to Western Civilization—easily, no contest here, Western Civilization being the most productive major civilization in all of history.
Modern Western Leftism is the enemy within to Western Civilization. And the enemy within is virtually always a more lethal enemy than the enemy without.
And let me be more expansive, to wit, modern Western Leftism, with its many nefarious and destructive metaphorical tentacles, has struck into the heart of the West. You see this with the Democratic Party of the USA being so compromised by Leftist tenets. You see this in the UK, Germany, France, et al. where modern Western Leftist sentiments exist not on the margin but now are “in full flower.”
Put another way and briefly, if Islam needs to be destroyed (or at least highly contained) to preserve the West, Leftism is even more important to destroy. Indeed, while I might “settle” with Islam being contained, a la Communism during the Cold War, I will NOT settle for Leftism being contained. No, it must be destroyed precisely because it is the principal enemy within.
Keys says
Agree Wellington.
One of the Left’s most “nefarious and destructive metaphorical tentacles”, in my opinion, are the uber-wealthy “Globalists” who believe there are a few billion too many people in the world.
For these self-perceived Elite, the hordes of “deplorables” must be humanely eliminated so that the “carbon footprint” can be reduced to reverse “cataclysmic climate change”. You know, the kind caused by farting cows, because too many deplorables love to eat ice cream and beef – especially beef Wellington.
The ruling class sees it as foolish to give stupid “deplorables” a voice in governing. The time for free Western Democracy with their Constitutions with Bills of Rights for “deplorables” has passed. Only those who know best ought to govern, so humanity and the planet can survive and thrive.
This, but one tentacle strangling Western Civilization along with, more personally, me – a Deplorable.
Raja says
Yes Wellington, As usual great stuff.
Leftism remains an enemy within. All the “class” struggle proponents and supporters have invariably fallen into the abyss of destruction for ages, killing millions in the process, akin to islam which never lags behind.
gravenimage says
+1
Westman says
“There is no military solution in Afghanistan. The focus now should be on reparations and supporting refugees.
Yes, there is a military solution to Afghanistan and it is unthinkable.
It should a free peoples choice to lock the Taliban and Afghanistan completely out of Western society, disallowing any immigration except for those who previously served the cause of freedom and became trapped in Afghanistan.
The Afghan nation’s soldiers, who abandoned it to the Taliban, have written an indelible evaluation of the primitive “herd of cats” quagmire that Afghanistan shall always remain under ISLAM.
The two workable choices for a hornets nest are to keep it isolated or destroy it. Associating with it is, and has always been, disastrous for all who attempt. Feeding it with “reparations” would be the very definition of insanity.
john smith says
Wellington, an excellent insight as to the real problems western civilization is facing.
Infidel says
Fully agree, Wellington. Once upon a time, I’d think that Islam was the biggest enemy we have. But I’ve concluded for quite a while now that the Left is an even bigger enemy, since it freely draws from our ranks, starting in schrewls and pervading all academia
gregbeetham says
Schrewls? Covfefe? 🙂
Infidel says
Schools that screw your kids. I welded them into a single term
Infidel says
P.S. Rush Limbaugh was the one who originally came up w/ this word ‘screwl’, since he felt that schools were screwing him ?
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent post, my compliments.
My very brief take:
1. Muslims in the United States – bad.
2. Leftists in the United States – bad.
3. Red – Green alliance in the United States – very, very bad.
gregbeetham says
The lefties are just opportunists, they are of limited intelligence, or living in denial, or too stupid and ignorant of the history of Jihad to know that their treasonous alliance with Islam will result in vast amounts of regret at some point in the future, just like some of the meddling do gooders in Afghanistan are right now. There is a reason why you shouldn’t feed the wildlife.
Richard R says
Communists always call for reperations
John Magne Trane says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsuNY8eUfU
gravenimage says
Brilliant stuff, John! Everyone should watch this.
john smith says
Thank you for this link John, it’s hilarious but truthful. Agreed Gravenimage, everyone should watch this.
gravenimage says
Leftists in U.S. and UK Want Reparations Paid to the Taliban
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Reparations? Why, because we curbed their raping and murdering somewhat for 20 years? Bad dhimmis!
Johnny B says
The left can pay with their own money, because then we can be sure the Taliban are never going to get rich. The left always wants others to pay for them..
BTeboe says
People in hell want ice water.
gregbeetham says
The cavemen have been breaking the agreements one after the other so the reparations I’ve got in mind is a few airborne divisions dropped around Kabul to remove the cave dwellers one way or the other, who cares how it is done, just get it done. There’s already 7000 US troops in around the airport so they could breakout after the proper airlift support is brought in, vehicles etc. to help with the assault.
Chief Nick says
Excuse me, but the Taliban doesn’t want to rebuild, they want to destroy from Israel to America and all points along the way stretching East and West from Afghanistan.
Anybody that feels America owes the Taliban anything needs to read history. The Taliban is why Afghanistan has been at war for so many years. It is one of the tribes that will come together to destroy the non-muslim world then turn in on itself and enter into endless conflicts over which offshoot of Islam is right.
The Taliban is no different than Hitlarian Nazism, in fact it is far worse since the Nazis at least treated their women with a modicum of respect and gave them the same freedoms they gave men and they didn’t perform FGM on little girls or marry and have sex with 9-year olds.
somehistory says
I was watching an old movie online…Chris Noth was a very bad guy…and at the end, there was the “local news” from Southern CA. During the years when clinton was president.
The news was all about somalia and the murder of 12 American servicemen by mozlums…some guy named ‘mo ham ed’ was the big shot leader; no real government, mozlums in the street celebrating the murders and dragging one of the Americans through the streets, kicking, stomping and spitting on his body. Another American pilot being held hostage by the mo creep terrorist, with his photo showing him bruised in the face.
And, the discussions by American and U.N. “authorities” of doing some “humanitarian” stuff there due to the chaos and lack of government. clinton was promising/threatening harm to those in power if any more servicemen were killed.
mozlums….By now, those “in charge” should know what kind of evil can be found when “tribal warfare” is interrupted by non-mozlum military in countries where there is no established government.
tgusa says
As a a true Constitutional American I am a natural humanitarian. Using US Constitutional standards I couldn’t be anything else..
Hardcore leftists represent 10 percent of the population. Middle of the road leftists represent perhaps 20 percent of the population. But both of those numbers are my guesstimitation. That number leaves 70 percent that agree with everyone else. As a result of the media echo chamber everyone believes they are one of the few that think similarity.
Never let the minority fool you. All of what they say is a lie and it doesn’t matter where to reside on the planet. Now is the time for all Free People to say…no more. Look around the world and then look at what is not being reported. The powers that be know that one group rebelling leads to another and another and eventually it gets out of control.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Talibans know how to get money https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drugs-opium-taliban-afghanistan/.
Crusades Were Right says
Ah, yes…
…. welcome Mohammedan refugees fleeing from Mohammedan oppressors…
… AND pay the Mohammedan oppressors.
It all makes perfect sense!
And anyone who disagrees is a RACIST…
… right, comrade?
Crusades Were Right says
[refugee programme]
“Refugee programme” = leftist voters importation plot
I’m sick of this bloody “programme”…
… will somebody PLEASE change the channel? lol
JCA Reid says
What about the Taliban/Islamic World compensating the Wes, other countries & the People for the cr*p they’ve deliberately inflicted upon them? Thought not. Taliban owe New York City for 2 Skyscrapers, Airlines for 3 downed Jets, Pentagon, plus over the murder of 3,000 souls. Thought not.
OLD GUY says
Let’s call it what it is a migration invasion of the west by muslim/islamist.
Anestos canelides says
Liberalism is a mental disorder
gravenimage says
More stupidity:
“Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan”
The U.S. government owes reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past twenty years of war and brutal impoverishment.
https://progressive.org/latest/reparations-in-afghanistan-kelly-210715/
These tools think that Afghanistan is poor because the Americans gave them so much foreign aid. Note that Afghanistan under the Taliban was an economic basket case–but these “pregressives” have not noticed that.