Olaf Dreyer

Scientist, writer, photographer, consultant, and always curious.

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

I have many issues with Critical Race Theory (#CRT). Mainly these two:

* CRT was created in opposition to the civil rights movement.

* CRT contains post-truth elements.

Some thoughts:

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[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

@Lexialex You are absolutely right.

(The monument was erected when there were still no official relations between the US and Vietnam. It really does mark the capture.)

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

@Lexialex I think you are wrong here. For the text on the memorial see this link:

https://t.co/vW1DG18b5H

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

More from @Sarah_Chayes:

[Sarah Chayes @Sarah_Chayes]

This is my most recent post on Afghanistan, answering readers' questions. https://t.co/x3UrhMmJ3R

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

@IvoHDaalder Thoughts @RoryStewartUK?

[Daniel Bachler @DanyX23]

The fact that political parties in Germany 4 weeks ahead of the main parliament election are not in a bidding war for infrastructure proposals in light of this is insane. 2% negative interest annually...

[Azmat Khan @AzmatZahra]

1. They may not be on your TV screens right now, but there’s a generation of Afghan youth in rural areas whose lives over the last 20 years were forever changed by the war playing out directly in front of them—when the American public was not watching as they are now.

[Christoph Niemann @abstractsunday]

"Exit Strategy"
My cover for today's @NewYorker

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

@pYranhia Something to add @Krajamine?

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

It also quotes this great piece by @Sarah_Chayes. If you have not read it yet, do it now:

https://t.co/VDmc485AnL

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

This by @EdwardGLuce is very good.

https://t.co/evmC6S4UlZ

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

It recounts this episode:

[…] Blank took then senator Biden to Afghanistan three times, including an infamous visit in January 2009 … in which he disgustedly walked out of a dinner with Hamid Karzai, the then Afghan president […]

Biden had his mind made up a long time ago.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

This by @RoryStewartUK.

Just watch it. #Afghanistan

[Constanze 🇪🇺 Stelzenmüller @ConStelz]

Why? Because@staceyabrams is why

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

Germany is moving helicopters to Kabul to help with the evacuation.

Nice.

[Verteidigungsministerium @BMVg_Bundeswehr]

Wir erweitern unsere Operation in #Afghanistan. Darüber haben wir gerade den Deutschen Bundestag informiert. Noch heute werden 2 Hubschrauber des Typs H-145M nach #Kabul verlegen. Dadurch sollen zu Schützende von ihrem Aufenthaltsort in Kabul auf den Flughafen gebracht werden.

[David Enrich @davidenrich]

Wow. https://t.co/HyKO18UGfg

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

I think the #CRT discussion has been wholly dysfunctional. The loudest voices on both sides scream into their respective echo chambers, without knowing what CRT actually is.

This, with @janecoaston, is different. Civil & well informed. Worth your time:

https://t.co/aHqVBL4YaQ

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

Hearing of several organisations, companies and philanthropists who have chartered planes, have elaborate, detailed plans in place, ample resources, but are not allowed to help get people out.

[liz 🇵🇸 @lizatliz]

This is really really worth listening to

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

This is the article in the @ft by @amykazmin and @KatrinaManson:

Mistrust and mysterious surrenders: how Kabul fell to the Taliban

https://t.co/3AGJ1NJA17

[Olaf Dreyer @olafdreyer]

[…] There is something unexplained […]

This is how the story in the @ft about the rapid collapse of the Afghan forces ends. A post by Sarah Chayes hints at how a more complete answer might look like:

https://t.co/VDmc485AnL