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Following the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan this past weekend, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took a swing at Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., on Monday, saying that "no one with the last name Cheney should even be speaking publicly right now."

Paul's comments come largely in response to Cheney's recent criticism of the Trump and Biden administrations' failureto preventthe Taliban's rise to power.

"The Trump/Biden calamity unfolding in Afghanistan began with the Trump administration negotiating with terrorists and pretending they were partners for peace, and is ending with American surrender as Biden abandons the country to our terrorist enemies," Cheneytweeted on Sunday, laying the blame at both presidents.

On Monday, the estranged Republicandoubled down on her rhetoric, tearing into Trump's secretary of state Mike Pompeoon "The Brian Kilmeade Show."

"The fact that Mike Pompeo was the first Secretary of State to meet with the Taliban, the fact that they were considering inviting the Taliban to Camp David on 9/11 -- that set this all in motion," she argued. "Any deal that the United States would contemplate entering into with the Taliban should be made public in its entirety. I've expressed my serious concerns about the lack of verification mechanism, about the commitment and the agreement that we would go to zero and primarily about the fact that what we have here are a number of promises by the Taliban."

Cheney was qucikly castigated online for omitting the fact that her very own father Dick Cheney, President George Bush's vice president, played a leading role in starting the war.

Chief among Cheney's critics was Sen. Paul, a years-long critic of the American military force in Afghanistan.Paul joined the chorus of condemnation by echoing the words of his own father, setting up something of a Cheney-Paul family feud.

Back in 2011, Paul's father, former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tx., openly supported legislation that would have mandated a military withdrawal.

"The question we're facing today is should we leave Afghanistan? I think the answer is very clear and it's not complicated, that of course we should. As soon as we can," the elder Paul said at the time. "This suggests that we can leave by the end of the year. If we don't, we'll be there for another decade would be my prediction."

On Tuesday, the younger Paul emphasized the lasting wisdom of his father'sobjections to the war.

"It was my father, often alone in his party, who said for decades that the neocons' endless wars would always come back to haunt us," Paul wrote on his website Liberty Tree. "If the neoconservatives and others at the time had listened to Ron Paul back then, the tragedy in Afghanistan would not have been prolonged. Most importantly, it would have saved thousands of American lives and also money that we don't actually have."

Paul also critiqued the rhetoric employed by the war's most ardent supportersafter the Taliban takeover. "Now the same people who still defend the Iraq War and who also wanted to stay in Afghanistan forever are some of the loudest voices criticizing the Taliban retaking control of that country."

"What's clear today is that no one with the last name Cheney should even be speaking publicly right now. This [sic] origin of this debacle lies at their feet," he added.

Paul's op-ed comes amid an unprecedented political upheaval in Afghanistan, with thousands fleeing the country ahead of the Taliban's rule. President Biden has so far offered $500 million aid to support refugees and those "at risk as a result of the situation in Afghanistan," according to The Washington Post. Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor recently told reporters that the U.S. will begin coordinating air evacuations of 5,000 to 9,000 Afghans per day.

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Claims that COVID-19 cases have not increased in Palestine in August are false.

In a tweet from Aug. 10, former Republican Representative Ron Paul alleged that Jewish Israelis are heavily vaccinated, while Palestinians are not. Covid cases are increasing for Jewish Israelis, but not for Palestinians ( here, archive.ph/wip/g6m5X).

Since then, the graph in the tweets (also visible on the Ron Paul Liberty Report from that day, around timestamp 26:05 youtu.be/eKY9GhwVS_o?t=1617 ) showing authentic data from Israel and Palestine but presented without further context (as it also crops out the recent august increase in cases) has been circulating on its own as well ( here, here, here).

The graph in question comes from Our World in Data, found when searching the graph headline (Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people) and noticing the same logo ( bit.ly/2VSHXD6 ).

The X axis in the graph in Ron Pauls clip was adjusted to only show data from May 24, 2021 to July 27, 2021. It also uses an interval of 7-day rolling average cases, not new cases per day ( bit.ly/3jWG2oZ ).

In this short time frame, the data shows an increase in cases for Israel but not Palestine.

In August, cases went up in both countries (see bit.ly/3g7j0L1 ).

A Reuters coronavirus tracker infographic for the Palestinian territories also registers an uptick in August ( here, archived here: here).

Palestine registered its highest number of new cases per million people on Aug. 12 (154.47) since May 28 (151.72), per Our World In Data figures.

Cutting off the dates before to the segment Paul focuses on means the graph also doesnt show trends over the course of the pandemic (compare bit.ly/3xM7xq8 ). As presented, it also does not show the uptick of cases in Palestine in August.

Testing capabilities in Palestine are also lower compared to Israel. In a situation report ( bit.ly/3m9lxYY ), the World Health Organization said: In the Gaza Strip, COVID-19 testing is rather low, with an average of 598 tests per day conducted over the past month (16 July 12 August). However, positivity is still rather high and continues to increase, reaching 27% on 12 August- the highest reported positivity rate since late May.

Though it is not true that Palestinians are not vaccinated against COVID-19, there is a lower vaccination rate compared to Israel.

As of Aug. 14, 2021 the Palestinian territories have administered at least 1,053,252 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, thats enough to have vaccinated about 11.2% of the countrys population ( here ).

Israel has administered at least 12,062,285 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, thats enough to have vaccinated about 66.6% of the countrys population ( here ).

As reported by Reuters ( here ), the Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and it is changing assumptions about the disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies.

Vaccine protection remains strong against severe disease and hospitalizations caused by any version of the coronavirus, and those most at risk are still the unvaccinated, according to interviews with 10 leading COVID-19 experts.

Misleading. COVID-19 cases have increased in Israel and Palestine in August; a graphic with authentic data, but based on selecting misleading dates, fails to show the recent uptick in Palestine.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

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On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul shared a video of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul, making many prescient points about Americas foreign policy that really hit home today, particularly regarding the disastrous situation in Afghanistan.

The video, of Pauls famous What If? speech, had the former congressman and presidential candidate trending on social media.

Sen. Paul then wrote a column discussing his fathers advice from years ago at the news site Liberty Tree.

RELATED: Liz Cheney Says Trump Bears Very Significant Responsibility For Disaster In Afghanistan

Sen. Paul wrote, After America was attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001, my father, Republican Congressman Ron Paul, voted for a U.S. strike on the Taliban in Afghanistan for harboring the 9/11 terrorists.

But our military is not meant for nation building, Paul added. Not for policing the world. Not for imposing democracy in places that have never known it.

The senator observed, Not only are these bad ideas, but they arent the point of our military and they do nothing for our national defense.

The libertarian-leaning senator explained what went wrong.

Unfortunately, that was the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney neoconservative vision of perpetual U.S.-led wars around the globe, Paul wrote. We know how that worked out in Iraq. Now we are learning how it ends in Afghanistan.

But this isnt hindsight, Paul said. It was my father, often alone in his party, who said for decades that the neocons endless wars would always come back to haunt us.

Paul said a GOP that was more like his father would have been preferable, then and now.

Paul wrote, Yet, if the Republican Party had been more like Ron Paul than Dick Cheney throughout the aughts, it would have saved our country a lot of heartache. If Barack Obama had actually ended the wars he promised to, like Dad had long urged, we would have been better off.

The senator thinks those responsible for these overseas debacles should remain silent.

Now the same people who still defend the Iraq War and who also wanted to stay in Afghanistan forever are some of the loudest voices criticizing the Taliban retaking control of that country, Paul said.

RELATED: Trump Demands Biden Resign In Disgrace For Afghanistan Disaster

If after 20 years of preparing Afghanistan to govern itself, it immediately bends to extremists the moment we leave, what did hawks think we were going to accomplish over another decadeor ever? Paul asked. Was two decades not enough time?

Paul then direct aim at the daughter of Dick, Liz Cheney one of the most aggressive neoconservative hawks in Congress.

Whats clear today is that no one with the last name Cheney should even be speaking publicly right now. This origin of this debacle lies at their feet, Paul wrote.

He added, Whats even clearer, is that unfortunately the warnings of a Republican congressman from Texas years ago now feel more prescient than ever.

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Today is Friday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2021. There are 133 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring liberalization drive.

On this date:

In 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley calling on President Abraham Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free the slaves and end the Souths rebellion.

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.

In 1882, Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture had its premiere in Moscow.

In 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

In 1979, swimmer Diana Nyad (NY-ad) succeeded in her third attempt at swimming from the Bahamas to Florida.

In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.

In 1988, a cease-fire in the war between Iraq and Iran went into effect.

In 1989, fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames (tehmz) in London after colliding with a dredger.

In 2017, actor, comic and longtime telethon host Jerry Lewis died of heart disease in Las Vegas at the age of 91.

In 2019, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an upcoming trip to Denmark, which owns Greenland, after the Danish prime minister dismissed the idea of the United States purchasing the mostly frozen island.

Ten years ago: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived in Russias Far East on a nearly weeklong visit. Jordyn Wieber won her first title at the U.S. gymnastics championships in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Five years ago: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a rally in Virginia that his party had to do a better job of appealing to African-American voters. At the Rio Games, the U.S. womens basketball team won a sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal, routing Spain 101-72. Allyson Felix and LaShawn Merritt anchored the 4x400 relay teams to victory.

One year ago:Accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden vowed to move the nation past the chaos of Donald Trumps tenure and return it to its leadership role in the world; capping a virtual convention amid the pandemic, Biden spoke to a largely empty arena in Delaware. A federal judge cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to get President Donald Trumps tax returns. Trumps former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a yacht and arrested on charges that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall. (Trump, in his final hours in office, would pardon Bannon.)

Todays Birthdays: Boxing promoter Don King is 90. Former Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, is 88. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is 86. Former MLB All-Star Graig Nettles is 77. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 75. Rock singer Monique Powell (Save Ferris) is 46. Jazz/pop singer-pianist Jamie Cullum is 42. Actor Ben Barnes is 40. Actor Meghan Ory is 39. Actor Andrew Garfield is 38. Actor Brant Daugherty is 36.

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Duncanville five-star junior power forward Ron Holland and Plano John Paul II five-star sophomore small forward Liam McNeeley were among 12 players named to the USA Basketball mens under-16 national team Monday.

The team will continue training in Houston through Thursday and will compete in the FIBA Americas U16 Championship that will be played Aug. 23-29 in Xalapa, Mexico. The top four finishers will qualify for the 2022 FIBA Mens U17 World Cup.

The 6-8 Holland helped Duncanville go 29-1 and win the Class 6A state championship last season. He is rated the No. 1 player in Texas and the 13th-best recruit in the nation in the Class of 2023 by 247Sports, and he lists offers from Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Houston, Memphis and SMU.

The 6-7 McNeeley, who transferred to John Paul II from Richardson Pearce in the offseason, is rated the second-best player in Texas and the 12th-best recruit in the nation in the Class of 2024 by ESPN. He lists 10 college offers, including Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Illinois, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and TCU.

Four-star junior power forward Justin McBride, who is from Plano but attends Virginias Oak Hill Academy, was also selected for the team.

Team USAs first three games will be against Puerto Rico on Aug. 23, the Dominican Republic on Aug. 24 and Chile on Aug. 25. The USA is 31-0 in FIBA Americas U16 Championship play and has won the gold medal in all six editions of the tournament since its debut in 2009.

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In early July, Ron Paul penned a column titled Its Saigon In Afghanistan, invoking the imagery of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when US military helicopters scrambled to evacuate personnel from the roof of the US embassy. But Paul suggested that maybe the situation in Afghanistan was perhaps not as dramatic as the situation in Saigon forty-six years ago.

But that was six weeks ago.

Now, it looks like the end of the USs war in Afghanistan may be in many ways every bit as chaotic as the US regimes final defeat in Vietnam.

When Paul was writing his article in early July, we were already getting hints of the direction things were going. USforces abandoned Bagram Airfield in the middle of the night, and the US didnt even tell its allies what was going on. Afghan officials discovered the US was gone hours later. Shortly thereafter, looters ransacked the base.

But that, it seems, was just the beginning. Over a period of a mere ten days, provincial capitals in Afghanistanhave fallen one after the other. On Sunday, the Taliban entered the strategically key capital Kabul. The Talibans reconquest of the country was so fast thateven the US regimes spokesman admitted the militants progress came much more quickly than the U.S. had anticipated.

Now, after spending twenty years implementing regime change in Afghanistan, and after spending more than $800 billionan official figure thats likely far smaller than the real monetary costthe USs strategy in Afghanistan has completely collapsed.

Indeed, for the USs local allies, the situation is far worse now than what it was in 2001. Those who were unwise enough to ally themselves with the Americans over the past twenty years now face reprisals from the Taliban. Death will likely be the result for many.

Not surprisingly, then, Afghanis in recent days have flocked to Kabul International Airport, desperateto find some way out of the countryas the Taliban closes in.

Its doesnt take an immense amount of imagination to recall the images of those who were desperate to escape from the US embassy in Saigon.

So now we reach the stage of figuring out who is to blame for this total strategic failure in Afghanistan.

Some politicians will try and use the US regimes failure in Afghanistan to score points against the Biden administration. We already see it with some Republicans who still havent figured out that the American public long agostopped caring about the war.

Its easy to see the partisan reasons for this, but if we want to honestly focus on whos to blame for the utter waste of time and resources that was the war in Afghanistan, we have to look far beyond just a handful of civilianpoliticians.

Yes,much of the blameshouldgo to the civilianbureaucrats, because they share an immense amount of the blame in bringing about this strategic blunder. George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Madeleine Albrightare just a few of the politicos who encouraged the continuation of this lost war.

But the fact is the civilian war architects were encouraged and enabled every step of the way by Pentagon bureaucrats (i.e., the generals), who were only more than happy to have an excuse to pad their budgets and increase their relevance on Capitol Hill. As Ron Paulput it this week:

The generals and other high-ranking military officers lied to their commander-in-chief and to the American people for years about progress in Afghanistan. The same is true for the US intelligence agencies. Unless there is a major purge of those who lied and misled, we can count on these disasters to continue until the last US dollar goes up in smoke.

And of course, the Pentagon allied itself with the private sector industries that suppled the materiel. Paul continues:

The military industrial complex spent 20 years on the gravy train with the Afghanistan war. They built missiles, they built tanks, they built aircraft and helicopters. They hired armies of lobbyists and think tank writers to continue the lie that was making them rich. They wrapped their graft up in the American flag, but they are the opposite of patriots.

Or, as Timothy Kudodescribes it,

Across two decades, our military leaders presented rosy pictures of the Afghanistan War and its prospects to the president, Congress, and the American people, despite clear internal debate about the validity of those assessments and real-time contradictory information from those fighting and losing the daily battle against the Taliban. Or, to put it in the words of John Sopko, the inspector general who issued a series of reports known asthe Afghanistan Papers: The American people have constantly been lied to.

Nor did the military officers council caution or peace.Douglas MacGregor at theAmerican Conservativecorrectlyrecalls:

All that can be said with certainty is that between 2001 and 2021, none of the senior officers expressed opposition to the policies of intervention and occupation strongly enough to warrant their removal. None felt compelled to leave the service and take their opposing views to the public forum.

When it became clear that the collective strategies and tactics in Afghanistan and Iraq were failing, not only General David Petraeus, butmost of Americas senior military leaderschose to prevaricate and distort facts in public to show progress when there was none. How many American lives might have been saved had someone only told the truth will never be known.

Moreover, Petraeus and countless military technocrats continued to call for more military action while trying to place the blame on others.1Doug Bandowsums it up:

Many of those once responsible for U.S. forces in Afghanistan while in authority have taken the lead in trying to perpetuate the mission. For instance, David Petraeus is busy trying to shield his reputation andshift blame to Bidenas the Afghan project collapses. Joseph Dunford, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, recently co-chaired the congressionally mandatedAfghanistan Study Group, which predictably insisted that the United States should stay in the country. What other conclusion was imaginable? As the entire geopolitical enterprise collapses, its promoters insist that American forces should stick around with no good purpose and no realistic plan of action.

Indeed, the incompetence of the USs military leadership has been on clear display in recent weeks as the US-trained and US-armed military personnel have been impotent in the face of Taliban advances. The USs military hierarchywas specifically tasked with training these Afghan forces, yet its now clear how wellthatdirective was carried out.

The complicity of the military brasss role has always been especially damaging, because the generals have long banked on the unwarranted amount of credibility they enjoy with the public. As Kudo notes:

The promise that victory was just around the corner proved intoxicating to presidents and politicians, not to mention everyday Americans, who blindly trusted anyone with four stars on hisepaulettes. Despite the partisanship and institutional mistrust of the past two decades, the military consistently has been themost trusted institutionin the country, rated highly by roughly 70 percent of Americans. Cloaked in near-universal trust, these officers repeatedly argued that an unwinnable war could be won.

Unfortunately, because of this, military personnel are likely to continue to be shielded from the criticism they deserve.

After all, there is a persistent habit among many Americans to repeat the narrative that all wars will be won if only the politicians listen to the generals, and let the generals do their job. One still hears this today from those who still engage in wishful thinking aboutthe Vietnam War and who still cling to the idea that the war could have been won if only the military experts had been in charge. In actual experience, however, the lost war in Afghanistan is what we get when we listen to the generals.

But dont expect any meaningful reform. In the United States, when bureaucrats fail, they usually get rewarded with larger budgets, such as when the USs intelligence community allowed 9/11 to occur right under its collective nose.The same is likelyat least in the short termfor the Pentagon. The generals will simply pivot to argue for ever-larger military budgets in the name of fighting China, Iran, Russia, and other perceived enemies.

In other words, the generals and the civilian politiciansare hard at work planning the next Afghanistan. Lets just hope the taxpayers who pay for it all may be a little less nave next time.

*About the author: Ryan McMakenis a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for theMises WireandPower&Market,but readarticle guidelinesfirst.

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Ron Belcourt, 78, died Monday, August 16, 2021, after a courageous battle, succumbing to the injuries he received in a fall in September 2013. Ron peacefully passed away with his daughter Brenda at his side at Peace Hospice in Great Falls.

A Celebration of Life service will be at 7:00 p.m., Monday, August 23, 2021, at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. His funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church with burial to follow at Highland Cemetery.

Memorials in Ron's honor may be made to the Friends of Havre Animal Shelter or Great Falls Peace Hospice.

Ron's family is grateful for the caring staff at Peace Hospice.

Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements.

Please visit Ron's online memorial page at http://www.hollandbonine.com to leave his family a message of condolence.

Ron was born August 24, 1942, in Fort Belknap, Montana to Edward and Pearl (Wells) Belcourt. After attending Havre High School, Ron immediately chose to enlist in the United States Navy. He was honorably discharged in 1966 after receiving the Good Conduct Medal. Ron was very proud of his service in the Navy and enjoyed traveling overseas - with Japan being a favorite destination.

He met Patricia Lucas in North Long Beach, California, and they were married in 1966. Together they raised three children and made the decision to move to Montana in 1971 to get away from the unpredictable earthquakes in California.

Ron attended Northern Montana College and obtained his bachelor's degree in elementary education and counseling. He was proud of his accomplishment and was the only member of his family to receive a college degree. While in college, he received the Who's Who of American Students Award in 1976.

He graduated college in 1976 and began his career as a high school teacher and guidance counselor with Rocky Boy Schools. Ron impacted many students' lives at the high school over his years of teaching and as a counselor, receiving the Counselor of the Year Award in 1983.

Ron was described as a quiet, gentle, humble, reserved man with a noble spirit, a determined character and an iron will.

Ron was a family man with compassion for animals and people. He always loved music and was an avid reader, with Edgar Cayce being one of his favorites.

Ron loved to golf! His son and son-in-law have good memories of their time on the courses. He was described by his daughters as "grandpa-on-the-go." When he wasn't out and about, he could be found sitting with his animals, visiting his brothers or sisters on the phone and watching football.

Ron was a strong advocate for AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) for over 22 years and it was there that he took a role in mentoring others to overcome their addiction battles as he had proudly overcome his own addiction to alcohol.

Ron also served as an anger management counselor and touched many lives with the various organizations he volunteered with.

Ron was devastated when his wife of 32 years, Patricia, died in 1998. He found solace and comfort in music and became a member of the Other Brothers band as a guitar player and a vocalist. He enjoyed practicing and performing music around the area. He felt it brought joy to others and helped heal his loss. Many people would compare Ron to Elvis Presley.

In September 2013 Ron experienced a life-changing fall and as a result he suffered a traumatic brain injury and was never quite the same. He continued to be honored, loved, and supported by all his family.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Patricia Belcourt; granddaughter Mary Rose; sisters Carol Belcourt and Janice Sargent; and brothers Gary Eagleman, Mike Belcourt and Harvey Belcourt.

Ron is survived by daughters, Angela (Paul) Silvestri of Conrad and Brenda (John) Goulet of Great Falls; son, Curtis (Carrie) Belcourt of East Helena; grandchildren James Gameon, Dr. Julie Gameon, Shawn Paul Silvestri, Jennifer Neiffer Atchsion, and Garret Neiffer; great-grandchildren, Paislee and Bodie Neiffer; brothers Kenny Belcourt, Larry (Georgette) Belcourt and Marvin Belcourt; sisters Donna (Jeff) Sharp, Evelyn Belcourt, and Darla Friede ,; and numerous nieces and nephews and many friends.

"Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9.

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