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Rabel posts intelligent arguments.

You cannot show one post where I have posted a lie.

You are just trying to emulate your hero Trump by telling more lies than he can. Good luck with that attempt.

Rabel posts intelligent arguments.

Yours tend to be simplistic, sometimes to the point of stupidity, and very often completely wrong,

as in your years of maintaining gun control advocates are trying to ban pistol grips rather than weapons,

which has always been wrong-headed,

and banning the weapons is certainly not done for fun

but because they are perceived as a danger to civil society.

Makes no difference what your OPINION is. That's the reality.

Two US troops as well as an Afghan soldier have been killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Nine people were injured in the attack in Nangarhar province on Saturday.

"Reports indicate an individual in an Afghan uniform opened fire on the combined US and Afghan force with a machine gun," US military spokesman Col Sonny Leggett said.

Some 13,000 US troops remain in Afghanistan after the US intervention to oust the Taliban in 2001.

"We are still collecting information, and the cause or motive behind the attack is unknown at this time," Col Leggett said in a statement.

The attacker who opened fire was also killed during the clash, Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member in Nangarhar, told Reuters news agency.

The Afghan ministry of defence said a delegation was investigating the incident together with the US team in Nangarhar.

During a visit to American troops in Afghanistan last November, US President Donald Trump pledged to "substantially" reduce troop numbers.

The Taliban now control more territory than at any point since they were ousted in 2001.

Peace talks between the US and the militants have stalled in recent months.

Postal worker rescues missing toddler after night out in cold

When a Maryland toddler went missing for nearly 10 hours, it was God that helped him get home. That's according to the postal worker who found the 2-year-old boy walking barefoot along a highway.

U.S. Postal Service employee Keith Rollins found the boy on I-95 on Thursday morning — wet, shivering and barefoot. He had been missing since Wednesday night, CBS affiliate WUSA reports.

"It was God-ordained that I be in that place at that time," Rollins told WUSA. "Remarkable, man, remarkable."

The little boy, Ethan Adeyemi, ran away from family members outside his home in Elkridge, Maryland, Howard County police said. Ethan followed an adult outside of the house then disappeared around 10:20 p.m.

The family contacted police, who immediately started a search with fire personnel, K9 units, drones, aircraft and helicopters from neighboring departments.

Neighbors also began canvasing the area, the family said. But it was a stranger, who didn't even know the boy was missing, who ended up finding him.

Rollins was driving on I-95 around 8 a.m. Thursday morning when he noticed something unusual, WUSA reports.

"I happened to see a little head," Rollins said. "I didn't know whether it was a human head or whether it was an animal, so I pulled over and called 911."

He got out of his car and cautiously approached what turned out to be the 2-year-old boy. Rollins said the child was "shivering."

"He only had a pair of sweatpants and sweatshirt, no shoes or socks, so I walked up to him. I said, 'Hey buddy. How you doing? What's your name? Are you OK?' He looked at me, but I didn't get a response from him," Rollins said. Police later told him the boy is believed to be on the autism spectrum and is currently non-verbal.

Ethan has yet to be diagnosed because of his young age, but he claps in response to his name, police said.

Rollins knows kids well — he's a grandfather to a little girl not too much older than Ethan. He knew he had to do something. "Once I didn't get a response from him, I decided to just scoop him up, and I took him to my vehicle," he said.

"I had a sweater that I tried to cover him up with, and turned up the heat and

I called the police back and said that I had the little boy in my vehicle, and within a matter of minutes, the police were there."

The child was taken to the hospital when police arrived and he was treated for hypothermia, his family said. He was home on Thursday night and doing well, an uncle told WUSA.

Many are now praising Rollins as the hero who saved the day — but he doesn't see it that way. "Giving glory to God that I was able to help at that particular time and be in the correct place at the right time," he said. "But a hero? Nah, not at all."

If you can post opinion as fact than so can I.

In my opinion you and your present backer are liars.

Since it is my opinion that makes it fact the way ollie.

And some other posters believe.

During a visit to American troops in Afghanistan last November,

France Quietly Reintroducing the Crime of Blasphemy

Today, in France, using freedom of expression to criticize Islam is clearly an extremely dangerous act, even if you, like Mila, are a child.

France is rapidly going from laïcité (secularism) to lâcheté (cowardice); from freedom of expression to unconditional surrender. France keeps trying to procrastinate while Islamism thrives on the elites' rapidly abandoning their Judeo-Christian values.

Feminist organizations, so quick to denounce "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchal structures of domination", were also silent.

Today, in France, the country of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which always sanctified freedom of expression and the right to criticize religion and ideologies, some within the justice system.... are quietly and de facto reintroducing the crime of blasphemy.

"Are we in France or Pakistan?", asked French intellectual Jacques Julliard. Welcome to the France of 2020, where magazines run headlines such as: "Mila, 16 years old, threatened with death for criticizing Islam". Islamism is becoming pervasive among French Muslims. Since France has not fought it, its hold over France can only increase.

"Let's get to the point: the progressive intelligentsia wants to believe in multicultural living together, even when reality denies it and reveals a society where diversity is translated into social and identity fragmentation", wrote the Canadian philosopher, Mathieu Bock-Côté. When multiculturalism turns into threats to free speech, multiculturalists dangerously take the side of the Islamists.The case of Mila represents all the cracks in the disintegration of French society. According to the French journalist, Dominique Nora:

"A few weeks after the commemoration of the massacre at Charlie [Hebdo], the 'Mila affair' shows the disturbing asymmetry that reigns in France regarding freedom of expression, or more precisely, blasphemy."

]Where are the English troops.

Let us know when PM Johnson visits your troops there.

Why should the UK's Prime Minister visit them?

Why shouldn't he? Showing support for the troops is what leaders do.

head of government

I might have got an aversion to this term if this is used for the head of a government.