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Aljazeera says the Taliban blitzkrieg that dismantled 20 years of neocon and liberal imperialism in Afghanistan has also marked an ignoble end to all manners of pretences. Twenty years ago, the US pretended it was going to Afghanistan to dismantle the Taliban

The Economist says if the propagandists of the Taliban had scripted the collapse of America’s 20-year mission to reshape Afghanistan, they could not have come up with more harrowing images. As insurgents swept into Kabul.

The Guardian says for Donald Trump, the former US president, beating the drum of “America first” was something of an obsession. “The future doesn’t belong to the globalists,” he once told the UN. “The future belongs to patriots.”

The New York Times says Taliban fighters brandished Kalashnikovs and shook their fists in the air after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, defying American warnings that if they did not hand over Osama Bin Laden, their country would be bombed to smithereens.

Aljazeera says police say 5 people have been killed in a rare mass shooting in the UK after a gunman opened fire on a house in the city of Plymouth in England.

The Mirror says a woman has told of the terrifying moment she says she saw a gunman burst into a house and begin shooting.

Express and Star says the suspected Plymouth gunman spoke of being “beaten down” and “defeated by life” in videos posted online just weeks before the massacre.

Daily Mail says the maniac shooter who murdered five people in Plymouth before turning his gun on himself was a nihilistic YouTuber who fantasised about being The Terminator.

The Guardian says Ted Lasso has changed my life. It’s about a coach of an American football college team who, improbably, is taken on as manager of an English Premier League football team.

The New Yorker says naturally, “Ted Lasso,” the picture of a Midwestern gentleman, introduces the lady first. In the opening scene of the series, Rebecca Welton gazes at a Hockney on the wall.