It seemed so simple at the time: the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan removed the ruling Taliban expeditiously. The ragtag band that ran Kabul was no match for the world's sole superpower.
The tendency to dehumanise migrants has been widely noted in the media. But what is rarely questioned is the way the refugee issue is being used as an opportunity to demean the moral status of others too, especially Eastern Europeans, and Hungarians in particular.
Not only has Germany's stumblebum chancellor made Europe's migration/refugee crisis even worse than it was always going to be, she have taken the opportunity to disparage and insult a number of the EU's eastern member-states.
The Visegrad Four countries today again defied the EU Commission by rejecting its proposal to move some 160,000 recent migrants from Greece, Italy, and Hungary to other EU member states using a quota system, as shocking video footage emerged from a migrant camp in Hungary showing the extent of th
The firm says the upgrade has gone live in the first ten towns , with services eventually being extended across its entire 10.5GHz network, which reaches every district.
Europe is fracturing along multiple lines of cleavage, torn by an emerging Kulturkampf over migrant flows before it has overcome the bitter conflict at the heart of monetary union.
Slovak President Andrej Kiska, right, and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, left, pose before their meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, Thursday, Sep. 10, 2015.
