Recent News Developments

SHOULD WE WELCOME THE TALIBAN?

The fact is that the Taliban is going to be ruling Afghanistan. At their news conference it sounded like they were trying to be reasonable. What is the point in getting the relationship off to a bad start with all of this negativity?

Why not give them a chance? This is mostly a new generation of the Taliban. Maybe this is Taliban version 2.0.

In my early teens I watched the Fall of Saigon live on the news. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is being compared to it and there was the same "all is lost" tone. The president of South Vietnam abdicated and left, and the U.S. famously evacuated waiting people from the roof of it's embassy by helicopter. The Communists allowed the evacuation, they could have shot at the helicopters but they didn't.

Except that all was not lost. Today, as we saw in our recent visit there on this blog, Vietnam is a modern country and an ally of the U.S. and the west.

The best thing that we can do is to give the Taliban a chance. All of this negativity is going to accomplish nothing. I wonder what kind of food the Taliban has. Do they have their own version of chapati or roti?

BIBLE PROPHECY DEVELOPMENTS

I haven't seen anything about other countries yet but the news from Britain is that the country's entire land line network will be shut down in 2025. All land line phone calls will then be made over the internet, by methods such as VOIP. 

But as with so many other recent technical developments this makes it easier to monitor all communications. The land line system is also used for alarms, ATMs and traffic lights. I wonder if this will make it easier to monitor or control these.