Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma says South Africa has made good progress in building social cohesion and promoting a new single national identity, although work is still continuing in this regard.
In the long shadow cast by the legacy of South Africa’s system of racial apartheid the fetid stench of racism permeates the body politic. Cricket South Africa and the South African national team are not immune. It is with South Africa’s history of apartheid in mind that we must evaluate Quinton de Kock’s position in […]
trump s timeline. he put this in place. but, when wee look at and i couldn t undo that. unlike every other policy of donald trump s that joe biden has tried to undo in the last seven months. he is bound by nothing. if you wanted to take a different approach, he could. i actually agree that it s time to end our time in afghanistan. but a couple thousand troops here and there at bagram or elsewhere to maintain a counter-terrorism mission pretty easy investment. moving away from nation building which was never going to work because there was nothing to build. i say that with great respect to the afghan people. for afghan girls who have a chance to go to school otherwise never. we i understand the stakes of what the taliban are going to do to people ruthlessly taking them back centuries in application. at the same time, the nation building project was doomed to fail. have a counter-terrorism mission. we are going to need it because this is going to be a breeding ground for terrorism, u
reason that we should have stayed, why we did stay after overthrowing taliban. you re quite correct. a lot of other missions got added on. i think that was clearly a mistake. but it still made sense and would make sense to stay there now as an insurance policy to make sure that groups like al qaeda, isis and others can t take root there, can t get sanctuaries in afghanistan to threaten us in the united states and threaten our allies around the world. biden yesterday in his statement pointed the finger, in part, at the afghan military for folding here, which is not an unfair criticism. i wonder where you place the blame, and why you believe the afghan military, supported for 20 years both by american blood and treasure and training and advise and support, why the military didn t stand up to the taliban. well, i think this was part of the misconception about what our role was in terms of the nation building project. i think there was a lot of