David Frum

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RT @KyleWOrton: #Afghanistan's fallen president, Ashraf Ghani, has surfaced in the #UAE. https://t.co/NfeQzR5sbU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattaikins: Huge lines outside the embassy gates today in Kabul. Airport roundabout is a little less chaotic, but still live fire to co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@marciasmilack @DrDebraSoh She’s making a great recovery , but the accident was scary — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DrDebraSoh: I enjoyed our exchange @davidfrum Feedback so far has been spicy🔥 — PolitiTweet.org

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Real, this isn't? — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn't real THIS ISN'T REAL This isn't real? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DCrittenden1: I always love listening to @davidfrum delve into non-political topics. Here he is discussing raising daughters, parenting… — PolitiTweet.org

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Still true, unfortunately — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WSJ: The U.S. declared the first-ever shortage of water on the Colorado River, triggering cutbacks that will hit farmers hard amid a pu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DCrittenden1 @DrDebraSoh Would have been better if you had joined as planned! — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrDebraSoh At one point in our podcast convo, @DrDebraSoh remarked that men tell her: We'd be surprised how many women like rough sex. I answered that those men might be surprised by how many women tell men what they think men want to hear. https://t.co/bqDmDFjV4H — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrDebraSoh At one point in our convo, Debra remarked that men tell her, "We'd be surprised how many women like rough sex." I answered that those men would be surprised at how many women tell men what they think men want to hear. https://t.co/bqDmDFjV4H — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @portraitinflesh: In which David compares mansplaining to a dog presenting its owner with the mouldering corpse of a squirrel, an analog… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DrDebraSoh: Thank you to the brilliant @davidfrum for joining me to discuss parenting in an age of sexy selfies & digital porn. We al… — PolitiTweet.org

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I also offer some restrained words on the claim of “two sides” to a vaccine “debate” @DrDebraSoh — PolitiTweet.org

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Original plan had been for @DCrittenden1 and me to join @DrDebraSoh together- but attesting to the power of raising daughters right, Danielle had to cancel at last moment to care for her mother after an accidental fall. So it’s just me solo — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @IsaacDovere: George W. Bush, who almost never releases statements about politics or policy, puts one out on Afghanistan — an acknowledg… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FinancialTimes: Pakistan’s glee over Taliban takeover obscures domestic threats https://t.co/ScaHcO6psI — PolitiTweet.org

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NB I wrote this about the US-Pakistan-Afghanistan triangle in 2011 https://t.co/T47X2DmGVe https://t.co/JxZeUhzXrQ — PolitiTweet.org

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It's always better for the US to be in a position where others need America more than America needs them. And that's especially the case with a bad actor like the Pakistani state. END — PolitiTweet.org

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One important motive for the US to leave Afghanistan was to recover more global freedom of action - not to have to worry that holding Pakistan to account might cause an interruption of supplies to Afghanistan. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Pakistan sponsors terrorism, especially against India. https://t.co/oZQPXtqIBe Pakistan wittingly or unwittingly sheltered Osama bin Laden for years. Pakistan got away with it, because so long as US & NATO were committed to Afghanistan - Pakistan had the West by the throat. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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From that point onward, US and NATO operations in Afghanistan could be conducted only at Pakistani sufferance. There ensued the bizarre predicament: Pakistan was both the most important backer of the Taliban enemy -and the most important supplier of the US & NATO force. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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In spring 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. The US and allies sanctioned Russia. Russia responded by - among other things - shutting the Russian supply corridor to Afghanistan. https://t.co/EzWVN4Bh8d 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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moved by rail across Russia then via the Central Asian republics into the northern part of Afghanistan. The Russian route was more expensive, but so long as it was available, the US and NATO had some leverage over Pakistan's misconduct in Afghanistan. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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More thoughts on how we reached this grim outcome in Afghanistan. For the first dozen years of the Afghanistan war, US & NATO forces had two main sources of supply in the landlocked country: Pakistan and Russia. Supplies were either landed in Karachi and trucked north or ... 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: .@davidfrum: "In the fall of 2001, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan was clear, limited, and achievable: find and kill a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @williamnee: "Maybe the most important lesson to take...is the steep strategic cost of America’s fierce partisan polarization. Decisions… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: "In 2001, bin Laden’s death would have concluded the war. By 2011, it concluded nothing," @davidfrum argues. https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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A reader reminds me of this column I wrote in 2011. https://t.co/T47X2DmGVe "As that war winds down to its unsuccessful conclusion, we can only say: it’s a good thing that Afghanistan is not as important as candidate Obama said. If it were, we’d be in real trouble." — PolitiTweet.org