Jim Mattis to Pakistan: Time to End War in Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that it was time for Pakistan to get onboard with peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan.

“We are looking for every responsible nation to support peace in the sub-continent, and across this war in Afghanistan,” he told reporters before a meeting with the Indian defense minister on Monday at the Pentagon.

“It’s gone on now, its approaching 40 years; 40 years is enough. It’s time for everyone to get onboard, support the United Nations, support [Indian] Prime Minister Modi, support [Afghan] President Ghani and all those who are trying to maintain peace and make for a better world here,” he continued.

Afghans fought against a Russian occupation beginning in 1979. The war ended in 1989 — when the Taliban promptly took over — and installed fundamentalist rule and allowed the Taliban to take safe haven there. In 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan after al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden planned the 9/11 attacks against the U.S. from the country.

Mattis’s comments came in response to a question over whether the Defense Department has confidence in Pakistan’s willingness to help.

President Trump recently sent a letter to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asking him for his government’s help and cooperating in advancing peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

The U.S. believes Pakistan wields significant influence over an influential Taliban branch known as the Haqqani network, whose leadership is believed to have safe haven in Pakistan.

The Trump administration has doubled down on diplomatic efforts to end the war. Trump in October appointed Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad to spearhead those efforts, and he has reportedly been meeting with members of the Taliban and the Afghan and Pakistan governments.

The U.S. is trying to kickstart Afghan government-led talks, but the Taliban considers the Afghan government illegitimate and prefers to speak with the U.S. There have been no breakthroughs, according to the Washington Post.

The Taliban has insisted that U.S. troops leave the country as part of any peace deal, but the U.S. fears that once troops leave, the government will fall to the Taliban and al Qaeda will reestablish safe haven there and plot more 9/11-type attacks against the U.S.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/12/04/defense-sec-jim-mattis-pakistan-end-war-afghanistan/

“Afghans go home and fight for your country and its future,” Swedish historian says

“Shouldn’t these young men try to give their homeland a brighter future by doing their part in the fight against Taliban and IS warriors?” asks Swedish historian Lars F. Eklund.

Lars thoughts are that naturally, people want to escape war. Or is that really so? If the motherland and its people are at stake?

If the young men in Poland, Norway, France and Britain had fled in the 1940s, the Nazis would probably still have ruled in Europe.

As a citizen in a country, you have certain duties. If the country in question is dysfunctional, in war, corruptly controlled, threatened by totalitarian forces, then the duties won’t decrease. They increase.

Should we not help the Afghans then? Yes, of course we should. But we should help them to do their duty to their homeland, not to avoid it.

Through, for example, military and democracy education, so that, at their return home – perhaps in company, with flying banners and sounding pipes – they can establish peace and democracy in their country plagued by Communism, Islamism and chaos.

And those who don’t want to carry weapons can surely work in health care, emergency services and civil defense. And if they don’t want to?

Then we should ask ourselves if it’s likely that men who don’t want to help their old homeland, where their relatives live in great distress would suddenly become trustworthy, loyal and dutiful citizens in their new homeland. And stand up for Sweden, if war or crisis would strike us one day.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/afghans-go-home-and-fight-for-your-country-and-its-future-swedish-historian-says/

Cop Kidnaps Mentally Unstable Woman from Hospital, Cuffs Her, Rapes Her on Hood of His Car—Only Gets 90 Days

A police officer abused his power, kidnapped a mentally diminished woman from a hospital, handcuffed her, raped her on the hood of his car, and he is only doing 90 days.

In August of 2017, Curtis Lee Arganbright, a Westminster police officer, was asked to take an unruly woman home from the hospital. She was allegedly attempting to steal items belonging to the Emergency Room after checking herself in for alcoholism. But instead of getting the woman safely home, Arganbright took her down a dark road and raped her on the front of his car while she was still in handcuffs.

Instead of felony charges for sex assault by force, sex assault by a person in a position of authority and false imprisonment, the officer reached a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanors of unlawful sexual contact and official misconduct. As a result of the sweetheart deal, some have alleged, Arganbright now only has to serve 90 days in jail followed by four years probation, and has to register as a sex offender.

Criminal defense attorney Dan Recht told Denver’s Channel 7 news the prosecution likely believed they did not have enough evidence in court to get a felony conviction. Recht described the difficult scenario.

They have a victim that was intoxicated. An officer saying that she was sexually aggressive and he foolishly and unlawfully reacted and was sexual, but that it was consensual…At the end of the day. It’s clearly he said, she said. Except that he’s a police officer and it’s an abuse of power.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kidnaps-woman-hospital/

CAUGHT OUT: NATO Soldiers Discovered in Donbass Near The Front Lines

LUGANSK, Novo Russiya – An unidentified detachment of soldiers wearing NATO uniforms was seen by the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk (RPL) in Donbass territory controlled by Kiev, the head of the press entity Yakov Osadchy told reporters on Tuesday.

“In the area of ​​responsibility of the 72nd brigade in the village of Svetlodarsk came a detachment of 28 men equipped with NATO uniforms,” ​​Osadchy said.

He added that “the situation in the area of ​​responsibility of the People’s Militia of RPL has a tendency to aggravate.”

Earlier, the head of the press office of the commander of the Donetsk People’s Militia, Daniil Bezsonov, denounced the reinforcement of the grouping of Ukrainian forces in Donbass. According to him, on November 30, at the Kostiantynivka railway station, three trains were unloaded with equipment, ammunition and personnel from Ukrainian forces.

This comes as US Senator John Barrasso’s called to send the US and NATO fleet to the Black Sea, which is linked to Washington’s desire to turn Ukraine into a new source of tension, similar to Syria, Libya and Afghanistan, according to Russian deputy Mikhail Nenashev.

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Previously, John Barrasso appealed to send the US and NATO fleet to the Black Sea in order to demonstrate their strength. He added that additional supplies of anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft weapons are needed from Ukraine.

“The Americans have lost everything in Syria, Libya and Iraq, are being expelled from Afghanistan. They want to make Ukraine one more focus of tension and so they are ready to help Ukraine with their fleet,” said Nenashev.

According to him, US aviation flights near Russian borders and the appearance of American ships near Russian waters, end up favoring the Russian Armed Forces.

“From a military and naval point of view, what American fleet and aviation do for our Armed Forces is a useful job. Our military manages more than 100 tasks annually with these American approaches, their unfriendly visits,” said the deputy.

The conflict in eastern Ukraine between the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and Ukrainian authorities has killed more than 10,000 people since April 2014. The peace agreement signed in Minsk in 2015 helped to reduce hostilities but the clashes continue.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/12/caught-out-nato-soldiers-discovered-in-donbass-near-the-front-lines/

>>4168455

Congratulations Anon. Badass post too make sure you copy it to show him when he's older!

>>4168686

>>4168355 Jim Mattis to Pakistan: Time to End War in Afghanistan

FFS this is notable AF posted last bread and ignored then also.

U.N.: 23 Million Girls in Nigeria Are Victims of Child Marriage

Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage, the country representative for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women revealed Sunday amid a campaign against gender-based violence in the African country.

Nigeria’s Leadership newspaper cited Comfort Lamptey, the U.N. Women’s country representative to Nigeria, as indicating on Sunday that “one in three women and girls aged 15-24 has been [a] victim of violence while one in five has experienced physical violence which is the highest in Africa.”

“She also said for too long, many women and girls have been subjected to various forms of violence, yet have remained silent due to impunity, stigma, and shame, among other inhibiting factors,” Leadership noted.

“With women and girls bearing the brunt of abduction, forced marriage and being used as human bombs [by Boko Haram]. Gender-based violence is evident also in the political realm, where women have reported numerous cases of victimization, intimidation, and harassment, in order to sideline them in the upcoming 2019 General Elections,” Lamptey said.

Violence against women takes many forms in Africa. Last month, Kenyan authorities sentenced a mother to six years for forcing her 13-year-old twin daughters to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) “to avoid a curse from her deceased grandfather,” Reuters reported.

Referring to the recent conviction in Kenya, Mercy Chege, the director at the Plan International charity that rescued the twin girls, told Reuters, “A community member alerted us when they had heard the mother was organizing the girls to undergo the cut, so we informed the local authorities. Unfortunately, we were not able to prevent the circumcision as by the time the police conducted the raid and rescued the girls, they had already been cut.”

Last Tuesday, a federal judge in Michigan deemed a federal ban on the heinous practice in the United States unconstitutional, arguing that while state laws against FGM are valid, the federal government lacks the authority to outlaw the procedure.

U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman’s ruling against the federal ban on the practice came a few months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that “more than 500,000 women and girls in the United States are at risk of or have been subjected to FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting).”

In the United States, 27 states including Michigan have reportedly passed laws that criminalize FGM.

The U.N. believes about 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM.

According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 18 African nations, including Kenya and Nigeria, and 13 industrialized countries prosecute FGM practitioners.

FGM, which involves the partial or total removal of genitalia, can come at a tremendous cost to many girls who bleed to death or perish from infections.

Although adherents of Islam and Christianity both practice FGM, the procedure is prevalent in predominantly Muslim countries, particularly in Africa.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/12/03/u-n-23-million-girls-in-nigeria-are-victims-of-child-marriage/

Seems like the UN is bragging about what they created!

>>4168720

Pffft

Say something DO SOMETHING

not say something then NOTHING

>>4168947

yesterday