Verge of a hostage crisis?

As I have said, they will hold several hundred Americans, they need stuff, and the only way to get it is from the United States, so they will attempt to exchange hostages for it. I will not venture here what their threats will be, use your imagination, with savages, in your thinking, as your protagonists.
Further, they will select those Americans who are the most important, the most valuable.

So sad.

@averagejoe1 said
So sad.

@averagejoe1 said
As I have said, they will hold several hundred Americans, they need stuff, and the only way to get it is from the United States, so they will attempt to exchange hostages for it. I will not venture here what their threats will be, use your imagination, with savages, in your thinking, as your protagonists.
Further, they will select those Americans who are the most important, the most valuable.

So sad.

What to do?
Eventually all the main Taliban characters will be in one building: their parliament.

One really can’t have them owning modern Western weaponry.
Morally, one can’t let them take hostages or abuse woman’s rights.
One doesn’t even pretend that they won’t allow anti-Western terrorism to base there.

Of course, the woke amongst us will tell us that they are just different and should be respected. Perhaps we can send the woke to Afghanistan to wake up?

Or perhaps… you know… just nuke them. Not the woke, they’ll be set to whine, but strategically behead them sooner than later.

Perhaps with their first threat… a wee retaliation of sorts.

I mean, it’s not like they’re a force for good in the world. Being religious and all.

Ah. But civilian casualties? Well, it’s not like that’s ever stopped the West before. And let’s be honest, there’s gonna be tons of dead civilians there no matter what happens…

This is what you get when you invade another country. It’s going to get messy and the world is not going to be a better place, no matter what.

Nuke them, I say.

@shallow-blue said
And all because your boy Donald freed a couple of thousand criminals last year and let them build a base of operations before tossing the whole sorry mess in Biden's kap.

Sad indeed.

@averagejoe1 said
Funny, I have not seen that as the reason. Must be on the wrong channel. How do libs know so much more about world events than do conservatives?

@averagejoe1 said
As I have said, they will hold several hundred Americans, they need stuff, and the only way to get it is from the United States, so they will attempt to exchange hostages for it. I will not venture here what their threats will be, use your imagination, with savages, in your thinking, as your protagonists.
Further, they will select those Americans who are the most important, the most valuable.

So sad.

@averagejoe1 said
Funny, I have not seen that as the reason. Must be on the wrong channel. How do libs know so much more about world events than do conservatives?

@wildgrass said
Your reaction is pure partisan hackery. This outcome is messy but unavoidable, according to most foreign policy experts who predicted it. The only question was "how messy?". Now we know, because a president finally had the stones to leave. If Trump were president while this was happening, you would be defending America.

Instead, "so sad". That's sad.

@shavixmir said
What to do?
Eventually all the main Taliban characters will be in one building: their parliament.

One really can’t have them owning modern Western weaponry.
Morally, one can’t let them take hostages or abuse woman’s rights.
One doesn’t even pretend that they won’t allow anti-Western terrorism to base there.

Of course, the woke amongst us will tell us that they are ...[text shortened]... to get messy and the world is not going to be a better place, no matter what.

Nuke them, I say.

@averagejoe1 said
Shallow and Wildgrass, please learn from this properly responsive post by Shav. Thankyou.

@shavixmir said
What to do?
Eventually all the main Taliban characters will be in one building: their parliament.

One really can’t have them owning modern Western weaponry.
Morally, one can’t let them take hostages or abuse woman’s rights.
One doesn’t even pretend that they won’t allow anti-Western terrorism to base there.

Of course, the woke amongst us will tell us that they are ...[text shortened]... to get messy and the world is not going to be a better place, no matter what.

Nuke them, I say.

@averagejoe1 said
I am going to agree with Shav, since I have no friends here anyway. Nuke them, and, yes, there will be civilian casualties. But, they will be worse savages, a cancer, a growing nest of terror for many years to come if we don't. Is everyone glad that we did not fight the 'Japanese', but ended it quickly? Is there a difference? The Japanese citizens likely did no know t ...[text shortened]... rl, but then, the afghans are in the same innocent status.
Hiroshima worked. Kabal will work.

Anyone notice bombs going off in Kabul?

@shavixmir said
So you think strategically nuking them is the way to go?

How many civilians casualties do you reckon with?
What will be the international fall out?

That’s an interesting one. Will the OPEC nations retaliate with oil embargos?

A serious alternative is going into the Panjshir valley with commando forces. Strengthening the resistence there, arming them to the teeth a ...[text shortened]... ely, the Taliban is a rebel force and in no real position to actually effectively control a country.