" President " Manchin SPEAKS - Biden Agenda - Biden Era

CNN - Politics: Reports " Manchin upends Democrats' push to enact Biden's agenda this month, calling for 'pause' on $3.5 trillion bill "

Lets Get Real:

At last the Democrats have a SANE Senator, spending 3.5 trillion on anything is tends to be BAD.  One has to recall that the Great Depression only came to end with the development of Government spending during World War 2.  Also the Great Society spending was meant to do deal with race relationship problems in the US, what happened, billions spent and the result, NOTHING, more black men are in jail than white men, welfare costs have gone up, black and white one parent families, the poor on welfare. Senator Machine is a moderate, lets hope he stands by his word, spending yes but not 3.5 trillion, the right spending is more important than general spending.  Lets be clear, Biden is NO FDR or LBJ. 

Panjshir Valley Battle - Afghanistan/Biden Era

BBC News: Reports " Fresh fighting has been reported in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, the final pocket of territory which remains out of the hands of the Taliban.  "

Lets Get Real:

One hopes rather than thinks that MI6 and the CIA have agents on the ground in the Panjshir Valley to make sure that the resistance to the Taliban put up a fight and keep them with enough weapons and ammunition to keep going in till the winter.  In the winter the waring factions do not fight, its a hard winter in the Mountains of Afghanistan.  One can postulate that the CIA has request that they be allowed to support the Resistance, of course that depends of President Biden, with his action over the few weeks, one is NOT HOPEFULL, Biden does not understand national security and never will.  Anything that keeps the Taliban on edge is good, the West could increase support to the level that keeps the Taliban on their word when it comes to not supporting terrorists such as Al Qaeda or Daesh or the spin off ISIS-K.  As to the civil rights of women, this blog does not hold out much hope, the TALIBAN are EVIL, and their word cannot be trusted, they have already killed a folk singer and are doing house to house searches in search of those the worked with the Western Allies,  they have closed down music stations and broken up musical instruments, they have not changed.