US foreign policy doesn’t give a shit about women. It’s not why we invaded 20 years ago. Women’s rights were used beatify the argument, but invasion would have happened anyway.

Saying feminism was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan is revisionist history, IMO.

Being a Hollywood A-Lister is not a basic human right.

I Saw Her Standing There (“She was just 17, if you know what I mean”) was written by Paul McCartney when he was in his teens. 1962 is the year he turned 20. George was 19.

No Johnny, you did this to yourself.  Your decision to sue for defamation led directly to all of your dirty laundry hung in a public courtroom.  That you didn’t see that would not end well for you shows how impaired your judgment is. Fact is that even without the details of your retched behavior and abuse, you haven’t…

Let’s set aside the Amber Heard stuff for a moment.

I don’t it’s exactly true that people don’t want to see him in films anymore. There is a massive fan-based push to get him back in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I do absolutely think that he sabotaged his own career and I think that he’s continuing to sabotage his career. I think that people are absolutely…

In the whole Depp-Heard conflict, I'm firmly on team no one, and I've caught a lot of heat from people I know for saying so. They both seem like shitty people, but it gets me seeing so many people stanning for Johnny Depp. Why? He hasn't been a good actor in at least a decade, and loving him because he was a pretty…

After a time, celebrities begin to think that they are entitled to be celebrities, when it’s always been a temporary title.

I’m not sure how it works with cases this old, but I imagine that generally they don’t admit it not because the victim would get money, but because it’d basically act as an admission of guilt if it was tried as a legal case - money is one thing, going to jail on a pedophile charge is something VERY different. 

agree, just commented similarly

He deserves to go to jail if true, but apparently his calendars and even film crews have him in California and London in April and May of ‘65 and nowhere near New York. Maybe she got the year/months wrong?

I didn’t make anything up, nor did I imply that you said twenty years or forever. You implied that there was a way to protect women and children that didn’t involve our continued military intervention. My question was reasonable.

Should have? Of course not. It is repellent. It would have been the only way to win the quagmire we made for ourselves though.

who told you I support it? Also the Washington Post article you refer to as to educate us is just very light on specifics: stop nation building, start diplomacy, be more inclusive, stop corruption. Ok but that’s the Taliban you are talking about, not a coherent, modern age group of thinkers.

We were trying to build a nation out of a place where most of the people don’t even care about the nation. What matters to them is their village, tribe, or ethnic group, living in a country who’s borders were drawn by Europeans without consideration for any of those things. The average person living in a small farming…

Does Biden bare some of the blame, especially given how people are now dying in airport crushes due to lack of a plan B? Yes.

It wouldn’t have helped. As soon as we started pulling back in any serious way, including evacuating civilians, the Afghan Army would have dissolved back into its home villages, and the Taliban put their pedal to the metal like they did. There is no such thing as a planned evacuation in war. There is only holding the…

Many of your points are valid, but there are other factors at play too. Coulda-woulda-shoulda aside, all we have left now are a series of “heartless” options. Leave thousands of US citizens and their Afghan associates behind to die, or send 1000 young Americans in to face a deadly enemy for a what would hopefully be a…

The most corrupt government and military on earth falls without a fight, surprisingly. Our government always knew there was no rebuilding Afghanistan, but no congress or president wanted to take the political hit, so they chased good money after bad. Meanwhile the arms makers made a killing.