The Destruction of Detachment

Jul 3, 2023

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What happens when we just don’t care? Much of the situation in Afghanistan can be explained by the detachment of those who should care.

Timestamps, Topics & Resources

0:00- Intro

2:50- The abandonment of the Afghan people

8:17- Generation Jihad and our history in the Middle East

The Generation Jihad podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
https://www.fdd.org/category/analysis/podcasts/generation-jihad/

March 8 2023: FACT SHEET: Donald Trump Made the Afghanistan Withdrawal Deal, Released 5,000 Taliban Prisoners

FACT SHEET: Donald Trump Made the Afghanistan Withdrawal Deal, Released 5,000 Taliban Prisoners

In the Dark of War

 

14:20 – Lack of commitment and vision in leadership

Are you willing to admit you’re wrong?

The Afghanistan After Action Report

Biden calls the Taliban our partners against Al Quaeda

June 18, 2023: After escaping the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans languish in Albania in a prolonged U.S. visa process
It’s an emotional roller coaster.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/18/escaping-taliban-afghans-languish-albania-visa-process-00102533

August 31, 2022: Can’t go home, can’t enter the US: Thousands of Afghans remain stuck in between

Can’t go home, can’t enter the US: Thousands of Afghans remain stuck in between

“The US is pretending the Taliban is something that it’s not. It’s Taliban apologia.”

The disastrous Doha defeat agreement showed our enemies how to win against the US.

23:08- The history of democracy in Afghanistan

The history of democracy in Afghanistan

The fight for the Afghan republic

The loss in Afghanistan was unnecessary

The push to repeat the disaster in Afghanistan in Ukraine

Chamberlain and Hitler 1938: What was Chamberlain trying to do?
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/chamberlain-and-hitler/

Neville Chamberlain: A Failed Leader in a Time of Crisis

SIGAR and the Taliban corruption

31:35- The Destruction of Detachment

“But the man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique; we shall get at last a race of conditioners who really can cut out all posterity in what shape they please . . . It is not that they are bad men. They are not men at all. Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessariy unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man’s final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man.  Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis

Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

On the imago Dei: The imago Dei and Human Dignity
https://www.resurrectionchurch.com/imagodei

Definition: The imago dei or the image of God is the theological truth that all humanity has the Creator God’s image stamped on them. Although there is some mystery surrounding this concept, we know one thing for certain: being made in the image of God separates humanity from the rest of creation. Being image-bearers means that all humanity – all children (in the womb or out of the womb) and adults (however old), all men and women, all ethnicities and people groups, all able and disabled, all incarcerated and free people – have inherent and equal dignity, value, and worth. Humans do not earn their dignity and value through work, culture, government, or society; rather, their dignity, value, and worth is given directly by God.  (“The imago Dei and Human Dignity, Resurrection Church)

33:30- Who do we think we answer to?

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! Psalm 14:1 NLT

“Faith: Proof of the Unseen,” – George MacDonald

 

37:40- Afghanistan News

Afghan betrays fellow countrymen with fake SIV information

July 1, 2023: Afghanistan-America Relations Office Under Investigation for Allegations of Profiteering and Providing False Information

Afghanistan-America Relations Office Under Investigation for Allegations of Profiteering and Providing False Information

Incomplete stories

June 29, 2023: Afghans Left Behind by the U.S. Face Hardships After Crossing from Mexico
https://time.com/6290890/afghan-migrants-us-southern-border/

 

 

44:50- Kabul Hope Update

28:14- God, formulas, and faith

50:22- The importance of testimonies

The Imaginative Harvest of Holly Ordway Launch Party

Life in Islamabad

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Carla M. Sallee Alvarez

Carla Alvarez is the founder of Raised to Walk and a founding board member of An Unexpected Journal, a Communications Director at Legacy Marketing Services where she uses her BS in Marketing to create communication strategies for business, and an unlikely case manager and Bible Study teacher for the Afghan Christians of Kabul Hope Latest Series: Hacked: the Saga How an oily politician and a band of intellectual property and identity thieves conspired to erase a third-grade Sunday school teacher, Read more of her work on Google Scholar and Substack or contact her to write for you.

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