GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, July 12, 2021

JOE BIDEN IS RIGHT: AFGHANISTAN MISSION HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.

ICHEOKU says yes indeed, Joe Biden was there in the White House war room, with other members of White House war council, watch the mission in Afghanistan
accomplished with the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2nd 2011.  The photograph with Hillary Clinton flinching as potshots were fired into Osama bin Laden forever burnt into our memories and assumed an eternal status of an iconic photographic image, comparable to the Marines in Iwo Jima raising of an American flag. So, American troops should have been withdrawn from Afghanistan or at least their withdrawal from that gawdawful parch of earth should have begun on the day after, on May 3rd, 2011. 

But ten additional years later on, some blood thirsty urchins are still campaigning for an extension of American troops presence in Afghanistan and you ask yourself why? What else will be a reasonable amount of more time for these people, short of an indefinite stay of American troops in Afghanistan. What else do these people want American troops to achieve in Afghanistan within the extended time they are canvassing for, which has not already been achieved? Except of course they will allow the Talibans to be completely nuked and forgotten with, otherwise there is no other meaningful reason to continue with the Afghanistan engagement. Therefore, bringing the troops home now is the only way to correct an anomaly which should have been corrected since May 3rd, 2011. 

American forces were sent to Afghanistan in the hunt for terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants who attacked America on 9/11. The troops killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 and have to a large extent also neutralized many of Osama bin Laden's operating officers. Their mission ended or should have ended immediately soon thereafter and any discovered terrorist can always be hunted down from anywhere, without the need of having the troops in Afghanistan. The ten years extended stay of the troops in Afghanistan, post Osama bin Laden's killing, was only due to Deep State's military/industrial complex machination as there was no  actual need for it. They wanted a prolongation of their war profiteering business and ten years should be enough already; and no more blackmailing of the White House into any further extension.

Therefore, a complete withdrawal of every remaining American troop from Afghanistan by the set date of August 31st 2021 is quite in order. America have mission accomplished its objective in Afghanistan and no longer has any business remaining in another people's country. American troops are not the policemen of Afghanistan nor should their original mission be changed from the hunt for Osama bin Laden into nation building of Afghanistan. Enough of the losses in treasure and blood; and like Joe Biden rightly argued, how many more American lives must  be wasted in Afghanistan and how much billions of dollars is worth expending further in such a place that has no direct benefit to the wellbeing of the United States of America. ICHEOKU says not another life and not a dollar more.

Afghanis are very ungrateful and unappreciative of America's sacrifices in their country and do not deserve any further assistance or protection from America. They have shown so much hostilities to America, both by words and actions; killing American soldiers and military contractors including an American General. Their former President Hamid Karzai especially, was particularly very hostile to America and has been running his foul mouth against America, instead of showing a servile gratitude for all that America sacrificed for his country. His acerbic utterances alone are even enough to wish Afghanistan bad, but that will not be necessary. Let them take care of their business and at least prove that they have earned the right to have a country. Afghanistan is for Afghanis and they must protect and defend it for their benefit. 

They do not deserve any further and continuing America's protection, especially not indefinitely; as a child born twenty years ago in 2001 when American troops were first sent into Afghanistan is now already an adult and possibly, a parent as well. It is time for Afghanis to mature into real grown ups and do what is necessarily needed to defend their country from a band of Taliban bandits; and if they cannot, let them lose their country to them. America have wasted enough resources, both financial and human; and time to cut the losses and scamper the hell out of that desolate country, even came ten years ago. Many of American fighting men and women are within the age range of 18 and 20 years, so the twenty years of America's presence in Afghanistan should have produced enough Afghanis fighting men and women to protect and defend their country.

If the nearly 40 million Afghanis, give and take 20 million of them adults, cannot protect themselves and country from a band of power grabbing Taliban, so be it. Better still, they should ink some contract with Blackwater's Mr Erik Prince who is probably less occupied at the moment, to carry on with where American troops have now stopped and help them kill off those remaining Taliban irritants. But unfortunately, Afghanis apparently love their Talibans and majority of them love that way of life, the reason they have allowed Talibans to run amok in their country. The Talibans are Afghanis and so are those American trained Afghani soldiers who were sabotaging America and killing American troops when they were in Afghanistan; and the same soldiers are now surrendering to the Taliban and joining forces with them. 

Joe Biden made the right call and by far the best foreign policy decision of his administration as no more American life deserves to be wasted in Afghanistan. Twenty years was more than  enough. Even an arrangement such as America has with South Korea and Japan will not be viable as a possible alternative with Afghanistan because Afghanistan is an impoverished country and cannot afford to pay for America's open-ended stay and protection of their country. Also, unlike the South Korea and Japan experience which is geared against foreign invasion, Afghanis are killing themselves in a quasi civil war and America cannot afford to be caught in the middle of such internecine war between people who are just killing themselves. If being ruled by the Taliban is what the majority of Afghanis prefer, so be it; otherwise let them rise up and defend themselves. 

Thankfully, Joe Biden is standing firm and refusing to buck under the pressure of the Deep State military industrial complex to reverse himself on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. But they are relentless and not giving up and purposefully, desperately overhyping and over-sensitizing the Taliban resumption of attacks, in their attempt to whip up enough sentiments to force a reversal of policy on troops withdrawal. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden must stand his ground as history will vindicate him and uphold his decision to end that American nightmare called American troops overstay in Afghanistan. It is not every country that must practice democracy as theocracy is also an acceptable form of government. So, if Talibans insist that Afghanistan must also become a theocracy just as the Vatican and Iran are, it will not be the end of the world. 

But the decision to checkmate them and prevent such an outcome is entirely for the majority of Afghanis to make. If the Talibans are the majority, then they can march straight unto Kabul for all ICHEOKU cares and establish their Talibanized theocracy. Americans cannot pretend to love Afghanistan more than Afghanis themselves and be the ones dying and losing countless treasure in defense of Afghanistan from the Talibans. If Afghanis want a different lifestyle from the Taliban styled way of life, then let them prove it by defending their preferred lifestyle. Afghanistan is for Afghanis and it is their burden to protect their country from all enemies foreign and domestic, including the Taliban. They have enough able bodied men and women to defend their homeland, but if they choose otherwise, it means that their country is not worthy dying for and therefore not worthy of existence. 

Therefore, let the Talibans take them hostage and do with them whatever they pleases. The United Nations Organization can also move in there and continue from where America has just stopped or better still, let their neighboring countries worry about any impending implosion. But under no account or pressure of the Deep State military industrial complex as well as some other third party countries, who are trying to blackmail Joe Biden into reversing course, must the withdrawal be aborted or even extended by another day past the scheduled August 31st, 2021 due date. America has borne the burden of the world for far too long while other huge powers and large economies such as China and Germany have been enjoying a free ride, freeloading on America's largess and growing exponentially. Enough of the unfairness and now is time to bring all the troops home. So long Afghanistan and that mission is now archived as accomplished. 

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