"American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,"
What are your thoughts? Is this a shameful defeat or merely putting the end to the unwanted and costly war? And what do you think the aftermath will be? Chaos and violence? Another totalitarian regime? A refugee crisis? The rise of terrorist attacks? Anything else?
ModBrother in law was a marine medic during Operation Iraqi Freedom. They are required to pick up all dead and wounded, whether it is our own or not. He swears that even their blood has a different smell.
Plus, they don't use toilet paper.
They use their hand.
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Incidentally, Iraq is Shiite like Iran, while Afghanistan is Sunni like Saudi Arabia. The Middle East was already devolving into a Sunni versus Shiite powder keg. I expect this to accelerate with the United States out of the picture. I actually wish these assholes would go to war with one another. All we care about over there is the oil, and since war is expensive, oil production will probably continue to the music of explosions and gunfire.
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The Taliban also need to scare millions of Muslims into the EU because that will help further galvanize the far-right in Europe.
Afghans don't like girls. They like Dancing Boys:
What I find amusing is that 20 years of training the Afghan soldiers and giving them equipment went for nothing. They didn't bother to defend their own country. What was that all for?Drugs.
But why the drawback?
Alternatives have been found.
Wonder why "The Taliban" are so moderate lately?
They are awash with Western drug money.
And hope to still get some more out of it.
Also I want to add, the majority of the local inhabitants are not friendly to the Taliban regime. Not to mention all of them would better like a democracy, than a fundamentalist state with no freedom for the individual.
I hope it won't, but I am expecting the problem of fundamentalists to grow since it has gained a foothold.
I want to add, not only women and the LGBT community have reasons to be afraid of the Talibans, but every single individual that wants freedom.
What Dimitri said.
Funding goes up for fighting it when troops and private soldiers are paid to let the heroin poppies fulfil their purposes.
And after they killed Bin Laden and practiced helicopter landings there was really no cover left to stay there. But they did in small numbers, and much opium was produced. Now I guess the Taliban can go back to torching the fields not paying bribes to them.
They just learned so much from Central American contra. :D. Yeah, looking at you CIA. Glad you got to collect on all that "Panamanian" money.
