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Here's What You Need To Know... Did the U.S. leave Afghanistan helpless to prevent the rapid Taliban takeover? Here's a poorly-aged statement: "I do not believe the government is going to collapse or the Taliban is going to take over," U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad told senators in April. And indeed, even the Taliban is surprised at the ease with which Afghanistan is falling. But U.S. troops have been in Afghanistan for 20 years — what happened?
The first problem is that only the Afghanistan special forces are staying in place long enough to pose a threat by the Taliban — and because these elite soldiers aren't regular infantrymen, they're easily outnumbered. Relying on guerilla warfare will only get you so far when the rest of the army is fleeing. More than 1,000 members of the Afghanistan security forces escaped to neighboring Tajikistan as the Taliban waged attacks throughout the country's northern region.
The Afghanistan soldiers' escape represented the largest retreat since the new conflict began. Now, President Biden has ordered an emergency evacuation of American citizens from Afghanistan. So far, the Taliban has avoided antagonizing U.S. forces by staying away from major cities — and even, in some cases, calling troops back from the front lines to give NATO and U.S. troops a wide berth. But the takeover is rapidly becoming absolute, and the Taliban took Kandahar on Wednesday. Failing a stable, U.S.-installed Afghanistan government, Biden needs a new plan.
Why are so many employees quitting all at once right now? Earlier this week, a dollar store in Lincoln, Nebraska officially reopened after all the employees quit. A cashier left a sign on the door before leaving this weekend that read: "We all quit! Sorry for the inconvenience!" Assistant manager Breanna Faeller and the store associate were the last two standing on Sunday. By the time they threw in the towel, even the manager had resigned.
"The working conditions were so bad because it was a never-ending cycle of trying to play catch up with everything," said Faeller. "We had five employees, max, at all times. You can't run a whole store with five employees. We couldn't keep any cashiers hired because they only made $10 an hour and it definitely wasn't worth the pay for everything we had to expect them to do. They are only supposed to work up to 20 hours a week and they were working 35-40."
This story is eerily similar to what happened at a Nebraska Burger King not that far away. All the employees left the fast-food establishment after enduring a 90-degree kitchen and being understaffed for months on end. Workers at that location posted the exact same sign in a marquee outside the restaurant that read: "We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience." The manager wound up going to the hospital because she became dehydrated while working.
Biden calls on OPEC for oil as gas prices soar, but what does that mean? Things are getting complicated for Biden's energy agenda. As Americans have surely noticed every time they go to pump gas, energy prices have soared largely due to Biden's policies on federal oil and gas sales. Before he took office, the U.S. was mostly self-sufficient when it came to oil… but this came at a cost.
Burning of oil, gas and coal from government-owned lands and waters is a top source of U.S. emissions, accounting for 24% of the nation's greenhouse gases. Oil and gas account for the biggest chunk of human-caused fossil fuel emissions from federal lands following a drilling surge under former President Donald Trump. Biden wants to substitute fossil fuel production and consumption with policies that promote renewable energy on public lands, such as wind and solar power.
Domestic oil producers said Biden should have looked to them to bolster the nation's oil supply and lower gas prices. Instead, Biden turned to OPEC, a cartel of 13 of the world's largest oil producers and a handful of nonmember allies, including Russia. (Bonus points if you remember what Russia had to do with Europe's energy dependence.)
Calling on OPEC to produce more oil is the only way for Biden to keep his party's climate credentials while appeasing the many, many Americans currently in veritable physical pain over their gas bills. But the move raised eyebrows on both sides of the political aisle — by calling on OPEC, Biden just showed himself to be inconsistent when it comes to the clean energy agenda.
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