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When you’re hard situation, you have to have hope to make it through. But hope is not delusion. How do we know when our hope is reasonable. Some Sunday thoughts.
Timestamps, Links, & Resources
0:00- Intro
3:50- Hope is not delusion
Bible studies on Hope
8:36- Delusion is not hope
10:30- Hope requires recognizing the goodness of God
12:34- Afghanistan passports
The dilemma of getting passports for children.
18:36- What it looks like when God opens doors
20:30- Afghan miracle worker
25:39- My new task – Finding a Turkish teacher
28:09- Afghanistan news
June 20, 2023: Pakistan: Government must stop harassing and arbitrarily arresting Afghans seeking refuge
Pakistan: Government must stop harassing and arbitrarily arresting Afghans seeking refuge
AFghan got to safety in Germany, but went back to Afghanistan for family and was killed by the Taliban
The terror of the Taliban continues!
Hamidullah Behlol was an employee of a German company. Despite being evacuated to Germany, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹, 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗼… pic.twitter.com/UfTzdpPdUa— Natiq Malikzada (@natiqmalikzada) June 23, 2023
Young Afghan committed suicide in despair. He had been waiting for his P2 humanitarian parole application to the US to be processed.
A young Afghan committed suicide by throwing himself off a 6 story bldg. He should have been in college, instead he was waiting on unfulfilled promises from @StateDept @USCIS & under constant pressure from @GovtofPakistanhttps://t.co/mAAfIdJHRh pic.twitter.com/E8FBEDdVW4
— Carla Alvarez (@RaisedtoWalk) June 23, 2023
June 23, 2023: n Afghan refugee committed “suicide” in Islamabad, Pakistan
یک پناهجوی اهل افغانستان در اسلامآباد پاکستان «خودکشی» کرد
USCIS put a block on processing of Afghan humanitarian parole cases
33:10- Generation Jihad podcast
Ross Wilson & the debacle of the Afghanistan withdrawal
The Long War Journal and Afghanistan analysis
Just listened to the first episode of Generation Jihad by @LongWarJournal published in March 2020. All I can say is "holy crap." A quote, "no deal is better than a bad deal with the Taliban."https://t.co/klrjJwMuDY
— Carla Alvarez (@RaisedtoWalk) June 23, 2023
March 2020: Generation Jihad, Episode 1: The U.S.-Taliban Withdrawal Deal
Hosts Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn review the U.S.-Taliban withdrawal agreement. They discuss why it isn’t a true peace deal, the Taliban’s ongoing alliance with al-Qaeda, and how the U.S. never dealt with Pakistani duplicity in America’s longest war.
February 21, 2023: Generation Jihad – Episode 88 – al Aqeda and Islamic State findings in new UN report
Host Bill Roggio and (now official) co-host Caleb Weiss are joined by former coordinator of the UN Security Council Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring team Edmund Fitton-Brown to discuss findings in the latest UN report on the Islamic State and al Qaeda.
June 15, 2023: Generation Jihad, Episode 94 – Al Qaeda ha key roles in Taliban’s Afghanistan
Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project’s advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK’s Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Team.
Edmund’s former team at the U.N. just released its which details (among other troubling issues) just how embedded .
Bill and Edmund dissect the report’s findings.
Conditions of the Doha Agreement
I just read the Doha agreement. We committed to both sending money and "not intervening in domestic affairs." Does that include not giving asylum to the 🇦🇫 citizens the Taliban is trying to kill. Is that why the @StateDept is delaying processing?https://t.co/H2eK08mLFI pic.twitter.com/ITYFyQQml2
— Carla Alvarez (@RaisedtoWalk) June 23, 2023
The Doha Agreement
https://t.co/H2eK08mLFI
Zalmay Khalizad: One of the authors of the disastrous Doha agreement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
April 27, 2023: FDD’s Long War Journal’s response to Zalmay Khalilzad’s Twitter thread
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/04/fdds-long-war-journals-response-to-zalmay-khalilzads-twitter-thread.php
38:00- Whitewashing of the Taliban
June 18, 2023: The Taliban Government Runs on WhatsApp. There’s Just One Problem.
The Taliban administration is stuck in a cat-and-mouse game with WhatsApp, which is off-limits to the nascent government because of U.S. sanctions.
Taliban supporter appointed to UNAMA
The @StateDept @nytimes @VOANews & now @UNAMAnews … So much effort to whitewash the Taliban. Delusion may be easier, but reality doesn't change. The Taliban are terrorists & thugs https://t.co/gaMDiTBjll pic.twitter.com/qlfF85bTvw
— Carla Alvarez (@RaisedtoWalk) June 21, 2023
44:06- The reality of the US withdrawal
We hung Afghans out to dry after the Doha agreement
-> In 2019, when the Afghans were beating the Taliban, US+ flew 613 sorties of direct air support.
– > In July 2021, when Afghan forces were fighting the most difficult and decisive battles of the war, they got just 18 sorties of air support.
— What the hell happened?
🇦🇫🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/94qOahq4qN
— Stephan Jensen (@StephanAJensen) June 22, 2023
Al Qaeda is operating training camps in Afghanistan
1) The UN Sanctions and Monitoring Team report notes that Al Qaeda is operating training camps in 5 provinces – Helmand, Zabul, Nangarhar, Nuristan & Badghis; safe houses in Kabul, Helmand, Herat, and Farah; and a media operations center in Herat. https://t.co/PJBZmSSp2Y
— Bill Roggio (@billroggio) June 13, 2023
