From the BBC:
Under a deal with the militant group, the US and its Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a commitment by the Taliban not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control.
Excuse me? I don’t want to sound like an old lefty feminist… but, uh, isn’t the Taliban, per definition, an extremist organisation?
Any foreign troops left in Afghanistan after Nato's September withdrawal deadline will be at risk as occupiers, the Taliban has told the BBC.
Don’t get me wrong. I totally opposed the war in Afghanistan. Still do.
But it is rather irksome to have some retarded towelhead (and when you’re a fascist, religious nutcase with a predisposition to hating women, I feel free to use the term in abundance) issueing such threats.
20 years and the West still couldn’t wipe out the morons. WTF!
Seriously. Call yourself an army America? 20 years and the enemy is still taunting you and threatening you.
Man oh man.
What a world.
The Afghan campaign has been an unmitigated failure. The Taliban already control about one third of the country, and will most likely overrun the rest and depose the current pseudo-govt in Kabul within 6 months. Twenty years of nation building have utterly failed to take root there. How sad for the Afghan people.
EDIT
With cowards like this, maybe only three months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57720103
@shavixmir saidNo worries. The Chinese are coming. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9755531/China-prepares-Afghanistan-following-Americas-departure-Belt-Road-program.html
From the BBC:
Under a deal with the militant group, the US and its Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a commitment by the Taliban not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control.
Excuse me? I don’t want to sound like an old lefty feminist… but, uh, isn’t the Taliban, per definition, an extremist organ ...[text shortened]... ica? 20 years and the enemy is still taunting you and threatening you.
Man oh man.
What a world.
@eladar saidBecause Reagan invaded smaller countries?
This whole thing just goes to show why Reagan was a good President while the Bush family made terrible Presidents.
@no1marauder saidBecause when the rats that inhabit Lebanon attacked our troops, he pulled our military out. Unless you are willing to wipe out entire villages, women and children including, there is no end game in the Muslim world. Better to just leave them alone and treat all of them as terrorists if they want to be outside their country.
Because Reagan invaded smaller countries?
@eladar saidReagan was the idiot who commissioned the Saudis to raise a mercenary army to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan with CIA intelligence and US funding. Those mercenaries, the Mujahadeen, morphed into the Taliban, whom America has been fighting these last 20 years. Wake up and smell the coffee.
This whole thing just goes to show why Reagan was a good President while the Bush family made terrible Presidents.
@moonbus saidYeah, no way the Afghan People would have resisted the Soviets but/for the CIA.
Reagan was the idiot who commissioned the Saudis to raise a mercenary army to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan with CIA intelligence and US funding. Those mercenaries, the Mujahadeen, morphed into the Taliban, whom America has been fighting these last 20 years. Wake up and smell the coffee.
You need a history lesson.
@moonbus saidIndeed!
Reagan was the idiot who commissioned the Saudis to raise a mercenary army to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan with CIA intelligence and US funding. Those mercenaries, the Mujahadeen, morphed into the Taliban, whom America has been fighting these last 20 years. Wake up and smell the coffee.
@moonbus saidAnd that changes what I said how?
Reagan was the idiot who commissioned the Saudis to raise a mercenary army to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan with CIA intelligence and US funding. Those mercenaries, the Mujahadeen, morphed into the Taliban, whom America has been fighting these last 20 years. Wake up and smell the coffee.
@no1marauder saidThe CIA supplied the money and connections to weapons which enabled the Mujahadeen to shoot down Soviet choppers.
Yeah, no way the Afghan People would have resisted the Soviets but/for the CIA.
You need a history lesson.
And the money and supplies enabled the Mujahadeen to carry on fighting, draining the Soviet’s bank account.
Bit of a pity it led to the Taliban…
@shavixmir saidThat's like saying the Vietnamese would have never forced out the Americans but/for Soviet and Chinese aid.
The CIA supplied the money and connections to weapons which enabled the Mujahadeen to shoot down Soviet choppers.
And the money and supplies enabled the Mujahadeen to carry on fighting, draining the Soviet’s bank account.
Bit of a pity it led to the Taliban…
It trivializes the heroic resistance of these people and makes every outcome the result of the efforts of a few large nations' geopolitical maneuvering.
I'm not buying it.