Taliban in control way to go Joe

vantexan

Well-Known Member
Can't help everybody in this world just not possible. We gave them 20 years to be responsible for their own freedom. Either they were going to put up a fight or not. Clearly they didn't.
I agree to a certain extent but just watched an interview with Lara Logan who used to be a "60 Minutes" correspondent and lived in Afghanistan and interviewed a lot of prominent Afghans. They told her that the U.S. had the power to stop the Taliban at anytime. That the Taliban was supplied by caravans coming from Pakistan through a particular valley and the U.S. made no effort to stop them. We were in Afghanistan for 20 years because the U.S. government wanted us to be. I think you can figure out why. As for the Afghans they lost a lot of men fighting the Taliban but lost their advantage when the U.S. withdrew air support. And many if not most were there for a paycheck. When the corrupt Afghan government stopped paying them and fled the country with untold millions they no longer had an incentive to fight. They have a very different mindset about freedom and all that. Doesn't release us from our duty to get Americans and helpful Afghanis out of the country though.
 

rod

Retired 23 years
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DELACROIX

In the Spirit of Honore' Daumier
the problem is the leadership is incompetent and that puts the 8ty deuce in danger.

They need to get them out now! The Brits got it right by going after their citizens. Right now the taliban fighters are celebrating their great victory over the great satan. One day soon they will go back to their old ways and something bad is going to happen to our people left behind.

It will be “Jihad” and thousands will soon be executed...

I fear that it is too late...
 

fishtm2001

Well-Known Member
donald's Afghanistan expert on the National Security Council, Lisa Curtis, told The Associated Press "the Doha agreement was a very weak agreement" that gave the Taliban too much, including the release of 5,000 prisoners. It ultimately weakened the Afghan government in place.
 

DriveInDriѵeOut

Inordinately Right
donald's Afghanistan expert on the National Security Council, Lisa Curtis, told The Associated Press "the Doha agreement was a very weak agreement" that gave the Taliban too much, including the release of 5,000 prisoners. It ultimately weakened the Afghan government in place.
It had an escape clause: The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed. They did, but Biden chose to stay in it

“If he thought the deal was bad, he could have renegotiated. He had plenty of opportunity to do that if he so desired,” Miller, a top Pentagon counterterrorism official at the time the Doha deal was signed, said in an interview.
 

UnionStrong

Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
It had an escape clause: The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed. They did, but Biden chose to stay in it

“If he thought the deal was bad, he could have renegotiated. He had plenty of opportunity to do that if he so desired,” Miller, a top Pentagon counterterrorism official at the time the Doha deal was signed, said in an interview.
They’re already trying to call it the Trump-Biden withdrawal plan! 🤣🤣🤣 lying idiots!
 
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