THIS MUST BE THE MOST SERIOUS POST I HAVE EVER MADE Sunday, July 11, 21

THIS MUST BE THE MOST SERIOUS POST I HAVE EVER MADE - Denis Hall I was lying in bed this morning looking at the ceiling and thinking. I’ve done that many times before of course but this morning was different. My bedroom ceiling is slightly sloping and made of those Pinex tiles - about 18 inches by 9 inches - and they are laid out with each tile straddling the joint of the next two - just like a brick wall is made. I noticed this one tile that was directly in my line of sight and it looked a bit embarrassed. It was precisely where I would put one of these ceiling TVs when they invent them - so I realised that this tile might know that its days are numbered. That reminded me of Joe Biden - and at first, I couldn’t figure the connection between him and my ceiling tiles. Then I thought about Jo Biden and Afghanistan inside the same thought - and he has just pulled all those American Troops out of Afghanistan - regardless of all the Americans and others including Australians and New Zealanders - who have died there trying to hold the Taliban back. The thing about the Taliban - is that they are Radical Islamic - and they never sleep - and they hate the West and they hate all other religions so much that they blew up some very huge and historic Buddhas that had been carved into the side of a cliff. But then - when we look at a map of that Afghanistan region we see the possibilities. I am going to write this slow so we all understand what I’m getting at. The Americans, (leaving Afghanistan as I write,) have left behind the vast majority of their military stuff. BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars worth of military installations, communications equipment, and modern airbases and airports and infrastructure and trucks and vehicles and tanks and parts and guns and all kinds of stuff to equip an army all the way down to underwear, uniforms, boots and cafeterias and freezers full of food - not to mention - all the Afghan people who worked for them. Now - read carefully - Those Afghan people who worked for the Am