If only we could ship all that water west...

-- idea from my six-year old.

He's not wrong. I worry that we have seen persistent problems and still haven't figured out how to mitigate them...this goes for more than just floods and famines and droughts.

It's nearly everything. The war in Afghanistan? Did we learn anything? I seriously doubt it.

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Hell, we still may not leave.

Washington — President Biden warned Sunday his administration's efforts to evacuate thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies from Kabul following the Taliban's rapid takeover of the country was going to be “hard and painful” regardless of when the mission began, as work getting people out of Afghanistan ramps up.

“Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began, would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now,” Mr. Biden said in remarks about the ongoing chaos in Afghanistan. “There is no way to evacuate this many people without pain.”

The president continued to stress his administration's “first priority” in Kabul is evacuating U.S. citizens “as quickly and as safely as possible,” and said discussions are taking place about keeping American forces in Afghanistan after August 31, his deadline for completing the U.S. withdrawal.

“Our hope is that we will not have to extend, but there are going to be discussions I suspect on how far along we are in the process,” Mr. Biden said.

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In other news:

Two young boys steered a car into safety in Houston on Friday night after their father was shot and killed while driving.

The two brothers, eight years-old and six, told Houston police that their father was driving when they heard a loud noise and thought a rock hit the car at around 11 p.m., according to NBC Houston affiliate KPRC.

Upon seeing their father slump in the seat, the boys steered the SUV off the freeway and onto a service road, where they ran outside to seek help. Police said they found a woman exiting a Chili’s restaurant nearby the car who called 911.

Only in America...

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Bill

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