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.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI LIED: TROOPS WITHDRAWAL WAS NOT SUDDEN.

ICHEOKU says like a bad workman who quarrels with his tools, he is pointing elsewhere as his woes. Instead of looking inward at his crass incompetence which left him flatfooted as the Taliban threatens his presidency, the man who loves to adorn his Ahmadzai Pashtun tribal regalia is now blaming America for doing something which was long overdue. What is abrupt or sudden or hastily or speedily in a 20 year notice of intention to withdraw forces from Afghanistan or did he think that it was going to be an open ended engagement of United States forces in Afghanistan. 

Any rational man and a president for that matter, should have anticipated that a day certain would come when all the "foreign" troops in Afghanistan will withdraw and then made preparations in advance for that eventuality. He should have raised a well trained fighting force army of one Afghanistan, incorporating into it all the various militias in various regions of Afghanistan. He should have also embarked on a mass orientation of Afghanis to lure them away from the Taliban. He should have also allowed American forces the free hand to kill enough Taliban and that way, put the fear of God in them never to again raise up arms against the Afghanistan government in Kabul. 

He should have also outlawed or banned the Taliban, declare them a terrorist organization and proscribe them from Afghanistan and made being a member of the Taliban a death sentence offense. He should have, for added measure, threaten them that he will authorize Americans to nuke them if they don't put down their arms. Within the seven years he has been president, from Barack Obama to President Donald John Trump and now Joe Biden, he should have cuddled America more and showed American troops in Afghanistan much love. But no, he continued from where his predecessor, Taliban Hamid Karzai, stopped and continued to criticize every collateral damage, no matter how minutiae and unintended. His desire was to be seen as the Grand Imam of Afghanistan and a leader who knows best what is good for Afghanis. 

Unfortunately, his showboating has brought him and his country to the cusp of annihilation in the hands of the Taliban, who vowed that his time as Afghanistan president is over and that they will bring him to justice. possibly by hanging him in the city center of Kabul. The Taliban said that the Afghanistan nation has decided to prosecute the national traitors and bring them to justice and declaration of war on them, making false accusations against them and also providing false information about them cannot prolong President Ashraf Ghanis' life, inshallah. If the Taliban does not speak for the majority of Afghanistan people, why is their message spreading so fast and support for them growing in such large numbers that many Afghanis are joining forces with them, fighting and dying, against the government in Kabul? 

If Taliban is not the preferred government by Afghanis, why are Afghanistan soldiers defecting to them, with weapons turned over and thus increasing the firepower at the Taliban's disposal? Those Talibans are 100% Afghanis and they are more popular than the government in Kabul as shown by the rapid manner in which they are taking over villages, towns and cities. It  shows that the government of President Ashraf Ghani is unpopular and does not represent the majority of the people of Afghanistan; and in a democracy, majority rules. So, instead of President Ashraf Ghani making excuses that the speedily deteriorating situation in Afghanistan was caused by the abrupt withdrawal of American troops, which he warned Washington against, he should rise up and live to the oath of office which he took to defend  Afghanistan from all enemies, foreign and domestic. 

As he correctly pointed out, the protection of Afghanistan people is his duty and nobody else, not even the departing American troops. Therefore, as he promised, let him now live up to it, maintain it and in any other event, including his inability or incompetence to meet the expectations of Afghanis, his office let another take. He should resign now and run away into exile or bravely face the fate which a victorious Taliban will surely administer to him, an assured hanging in the public square in Kabul. Former President Hamid Karzai deserves to be dealt with too, except that he is a closeted member of the Taliban himself and might be spared the noose because of some "sacred" blood allegiance. 

There is something about those Afghanistan leaders that spells "cannot be trusted." They are two faced and they play hanky-panky with their society as well as those "foreigners" who came to help them secure their country. Their time of reckoning has finally come as the Taliban will very soon hold them accountable. They should be left to their own device, to defend and protect Afghanistan and if they cannot, because of various tribal disloyalties and sabotages, then let Taliban take control, mete out justice to them as only the Taliban knows best how to; and then forcefully unite Afghanis using their time tested instrumentality of harsh Islamic imposed extreme sharia order. 

Good enough, Afghanis have been surviving for thousands of years and they will still keep on surviving and even possibly thrive under the Taliban, regardless of whatever repression they may be forced to live under. Afghanistan's neighboring countries are definitely supplying the Taliban weapons, logistics and funding; so why hasn't Kabul done something about it, using good neighborliness diplomacy. But no, instead of finding ways to break the backbone of the Taliban by cutting off their lifeblood, the leaders in Kabul are embroiled in old tribal disloyalties and ancient treacheries to the detriment of the Afghanistan. The Taliban are having a feeding frenzy on the disunity in Kabul. Anyway, tired of Ashraf Ghani's excuses, will revert when it  finally falls to the more popular and much loved by Afghanis, Taliban.

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