Grief runs deep in Musa Qala as Taliban victory brings weary relief

Sep 18, 2021 View Original Article
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"A previous foreign invasion brought Sufia a fifth-grade education that she is proud of in a village of largely illiterate women, but only by default because her family fled to Iran as refugees after Soviet troops abducted her father, enabling her to go to school there."
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10% Conservative
"But they also admit they were out-organized in 2020, when they had high hopes of taking the statehouse, and instead, Donald Trump showed surprising strength in the predominantly Hispanic Rio Grande Valley, an outcome they would prefer to characterize as unique to Trump, but one that may be evidence of a broader shift among Hispanic voters across the country."
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"Despite whispers that Beto O'Rourke, who has spent the past couple of years trying to build up Democratic strength in Texas, will challenge Abbott, there are as yet no candidates at the top of the ticket who could provide a contrast or an alternative vision."
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-10% Liberal
"Democrats I spoke with shared anecdotes about religious leaders urging congregants to vote Trump at the top of the ticket; Webb County Democratic Chair Sylvia Bruni told the reporter Jack Herrera that she left her church after her former priest called Democrats 'baby killers' from the pulpit and encouraged the congregation to vote for Trump."
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-10% Liberal
"The last thing Biden said in the last presidential debate was 'We're goa transition away from oil and gas,' which is what provides all of our jobs, Strother said."
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-12% Liberal
"Facing little pressure from his left in a state that ended up redder than the polls predicted in 2020, Abbott has focused on ensuring that he can't be outflanked on his right by primary challengers, who currently include Don Huffines and Allen West."
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-16% Liberal
"Those dramatic political maps of 2020 can be misleading -- some of Trump's success amounts to attracting small numbers of votes in sparsely populated areas, and some Trump voters also voted for down-ticket Democrats."
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-16% Liberal
"What we see on the ground just does not have a simple answer, and Greg Abbott's 13th-century solutions like an $800 million fence are not the answer we need ..."
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-16% Liberal
"O'Rourke's strong showing against the Republican senator and social-media troll Ted Cruz was in a midterm year with a Republican in the White House."
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-18% Liberal
"U.S. Representative Chip Roy made a joke about hanging during a congressional hearing; Roy represents an affluent district, so presumably the proposed lynching would take place in the parking lot of an organic grocery store."
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-28% Liberal
"Greg Abbott surrenders to the coronavirus"
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-30% Liberal
"It is never the horror story and the horror movie that Republicans paint for the counties north of I-10, state Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents San Antonio and several border counties, told me, pointing out that most asylum seekers are rejected, and most border crossers end up being expelled under a Trump-era coronavirus declaration that Biden has kept in place."
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-18% Liberal
"It is never the horror story and the horror movie that Republicans paint for the counties north of I-10, state Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents San Antonio and several border counties, told me, pointing out that most asylum seekers are rejected, and most border crossers end up being expelled under a Trump-era coronavirus declaration that Biden has kept in place."
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-18% Liberal
"It is never the horror story and the horror movie that Republicans paint for the counties north of I-10, state Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents San Antonio and several border counties, told me, pointing out that most asylum seekers are rejected, and most border crossers end up being expelled under a Trump-era coronavirus declaration that Biden has kept in place."
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-18% Liberal
"Texas Governor Greg Abbott has leaned into the culture war, signing laws effectively baing abortion and critical race theory, loosening gun restrictions, and approving an almost certainly unconstitutional law barring social-media companies from moderating content."
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-32% Liberal
"Texas Democrats told me that Biden's remarks about phasing out oil in his final debate with Trump seem to have done him real damage in the Rio Grande Valley, where many people rely on energy jobs."
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0% Conservative
"Texas Democrats told me that Biden's remarks about phasing out oil in his final debate with Trump seem to have done him real damage in the Rio Grande Valley, where many people rely on energy jobs."
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0% Conservative
"Texas has certainly trended bluer over the years -- in 2012, Barack Obama lost Texas by 16 points; in 2020, Joe Biden lost it by a little less than six."
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-78% Liberal
"Texas has certainly trended bluer over the years -- in 2012, Barack Obama lost Texas by 16 points; in 2020, Joe Biden lost it by a little less than six."
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55% : A previous foreign invasion brought Sufia a fifth-grade education that she is proud of in a village of largely illiterate women, but only by default because her family fled to Iran as refugees after Soviet troops abducted her father, enabling her to go to school there.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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