China fears 'Islamist terror attacks' from 'Uyghur militants' now that the Taliban controls Afghanis

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12. Distraction/Deflection

Ever notice how politicians have to prop up an enemy to focus everyone's attention on? We have the Taliban, China and Russia. And us for them. It just seems they need an "enemy" to keep people from noticing how fricken inept they are about mundane things like balancing the budget, keeping basic infrastructure working, supporting education systems and maintaining some form of basic health-care.

The Taliban barely have 2 cents to rub together. They can't number more than a couple thousand hard-core members and they're half a world away from the CONUS. No one wants to live under their regime that prohibits you from listening to music, dancing or restricts free movement and forces you to listen to long-winded esoteric religious discussions.

And here we have the media and politician having hissy fits about some far flung country most people have little to no understanding of, including themselves. It's just deflection to keep folks from focusing on taking care of things that would really have an impact on most of us.