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There is a book, \u2018Afghanistan where God only comes to Weep\u2019 where the many years of turmoil have reduced the people of Afghanistan to terror and tears. And when one realizes that the US was the one who entered the war, training and arming the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden to chase out the Russians, and now to abandon their support against the very people they said they cared for is brutish and very American. Pulling out and leaving their Afghanistan allies to perish under the Taliban.<\/p>\n

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We see this kind of selfish behaviour exhibited by governments the world over, where the dictator mentality is gaining ground, and politicians and countries treat people like dogs under their command.<\/p>

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America on the other hand gives the impression that they are the leaders of democracy and must police the world to install their type of \u2018democracy\u2019 which is usually race-based and allows for their American interests to be maintained.<\/p>

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After using Afghanistan as a dog uses a rag-doll for twenty years the good and fair, old and respected Maximum leader Biden looks at the war-torn country which they have reduced to abject poverty and exclusion from the rest of the world and says they must now fight their own war and find their own freedom.<\/p>\n

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Something is wrong with what our leaders are eating, drinking, smoking, or shooting up! Those who may have managed not to imbibe or be \u00a0drugged are so caught up with enriching themselves that the people do not matter as the spirit of corruptionism takes hold of their administration.<\/p>

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It\u2019s like us here in Antigua, going from bad to worse, where there is such contempt for the people of Antigua like those of Afghanistan; they are used, abused regularly as incompetents, as charlatans, deracinated imbeciles, thugs, inbreeders, and reduced to abject poverty.<\/p>\n

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If God only weeps Afghanistan, what about Antigua!<\/p>

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