Have you ever seen movies where the bad guy makes the innocent dig their own grave before they are executed? The US is digging it’s own grave in the graveyard of empires and executing itself.

http://taskandpurpose.com/cnn-russia-taliban-weapons/

The report, authored by Nick Paton Walsh and Masoud Popalzai, states that two separate groups of Taliban fighters have received “improved weaponry … that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government,”…

There’s only one problem: CNN’s report falls apart after the headline. While many of the weapons flaunted by militants certainly appear Russian in origin, the videos provide little direct evidence of a recent arms transfer from the Russian government to Taliban forces, according to weapons experts from U.S. Special Operations Command and several non-governmental conflict arms organizations interviewed by Task & Purpose. Read the rest of this entry »