about leaving friends behind. Operation Pineapple Express and all that. This was one of those people.

The right was laying into Biden about leaving the Afghani people that helped our troops.

for allowing someone who fought for us to resettle in the U.S. under the asylum program.

If fighting for the U.S. means that you will be stuck in your country in the event the U.S. loses or pulls out, why would anyone in their right mind fight for the U.S. side? There just has to be more to his motive than this story presents.

And this is one more reason why electing (and appointing) back-stabbers and people of no moral character - presents such a (long and short term) danger to the country.

A U.S. with no friends or reliable allies in the world .... Is a mere shadow of it's former self.

But I think he heard trump was reviewing all of the asylum seekers and was afraid his visa would be revoked and he would be deported to a certain death.

He likely saw just like we did , trump revoke visas of others and thought his was going to be next.

I hate this excuse for shootings

Mental was my first guess.

USA has plentiful access to mental health treatment, therapy, group counseling, meds, etc. Way better than the Middle East for sure where they may be culturally resistant to seeking treatment.

So I don't accept it as an often repeated excuse when somebody shoots a bunch of people in our country.

Soldiers who return and lose their minds.

He had enough of violence in Afghanistan so he came here to perpetrate more violence against people who had nothing to do with his unit back in Afghanistan? Hmmm...gonna need to muddle that one around for a while.

... and then one day, quite possibly not due to any identifiable cause, it finally blew out.

So he snapped and decided he'd rather die immediately or in an American prison. Doesn't justify his actions but being a CIA asset attacking people, even if combatants, in his own country may have left him warped. We usually train soldiers in their teens, or at the latest early 20s before their brains have fully developed rasoned restraint. This has been feeding America's violent side since it's inception, constantly sending kids off to war or "missions".

No other way to spin it.

If fault is to be laid, it belongs on the doorsteps of two Republican misadministrations: W and Trump.

…. votes by legal voters in Florida was illegal and Scalia’s reason to hear the case @ all was that
the w bush would be embarrassed by something or an other because he was already declared the
winner by the media. I will guarantee you that the Republicans in Florida knew that an honest count
would have made Al Gore President. President w ignored over 70 warnings about about Al Qaeda,
bin Laden, hijacking planes, and plans to attack Washington D.C. and NYC and the rest is

Liberal Media =

Carrying a huge load of PTSD.

No support, just assumed to be able to delete all those experiences and settle down to being a useful member of society.

Human nature doesn't work that way.

We have machete wielding violent gangs who make the news here occasionally.

Most of them come from African countries with civil wars happening.

I remember that WV units were among the first sent in, and two WV casualties within a week made the local news. It happened again a few weeks later. Of course, WV has an unusually high percentage of its population in military service of one kind or another. So maybe it's all coincidence -- or maybe he took a special dislike to WV soldiers.

One of the casualties owned a bicycle shop down by the river; I used to walk by there all the time. It was really weird in the post-9/11 atmosphere to walk by there and know that a guy who used to work there had died fighting the Taliban, thousands of miles away.

Brilliant.

The arrogance of a country that believes only THEIR innocents matter while murdering the "natives" with impunity all over the world...

Oh the tears and outrage when the monster it created in its own image is unleashed on the "wrong people"....

Truly