You are certainly welcome to comment on this website if you use your name.  We don’t like pen names on this site.  But I am asking you to be civil and at least try and make some sense with the things that you say.  You are simply interested in lashing out most of the time.  Do you see a mental health professional?  Because you should.  It is obvious to the readership here.

The Taliban is at its core, a hardline Islamist and Wahabist extremist group with its origins in ultra religious militant behavior in 19th Century Saudi Arabia.  They are loosely allied with the Islamist nutjobs that attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11.  They are, more or less, the theological equivalent of extreme Calvinist nutjobs in Western Christianity that are attempting to bring about the Second Coming of Christ by starting a war in Israel involving the entire Middle East.  In a word, they are deluded. We have our religious nuts too.  You can see that a lot in the last Administration.  The Taliban are not the only religious fanatics in the world, although admittedly, right now they are the most active and the most dangerous.  We have our own you know.

Why would we award citizenship to a group of ultra militant Islamists who were the theological inspiration (we assume) for the 9/11 attacks?  What would be our rationale?  How does your point in any way reflect on Americans serving in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade?  What is your overall point?  How exactly does it relate to this news article in the New York Times?

If you want to lash out in anger or frustration, trust me, I understand that.

But try and make sense in your anger, okay?

CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)

“A local socialist’s anti-fascist legacy”