Afghanistan
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A different kind of terrorism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/asia/afghanistan-drone-attack-ISIS.html
I believe a lot of those military ATVs and choppers etc can be disabled remotely. The US will get them back as part of the cargo, one way or another. It might take some good chunk of change lining the Taliban pockets to enable that and I think the Taliban rather take the cash than those vehicles ,which can be tracked or disabled on a whim by the US military.
It's obvious the choppers or any other high tech equipment can't be used.
Hasn't there already been footage of the Taliban test flying a chopper (very close to the ground)?
Thanks to Trump you mean. He was the one who initiated the withdrawal by negotiating it with the Taliban in Qatar (in the absence of the Afghan government no less).
So will you be enlisting this time? Or typing from comfort of your lounge?
Maybe, but this falls on Biden...a vanity project timed so he and his handlers could swing their dicks on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
initiating a withdrawal after 20 years is and was sensible.....the way it was handled, the manner in which they withdrew and left everything behind including american citizens, afghan interpreters etc.....that falls completely on that racist houseplant of a president we have now
Doubt Israel will send troops.
Except that Trump didn't handle it sensibly. Negotiating directly with the Taliban in Doha in the absence of the Afghan government completely demoralized the Afghan Army and government as they knew the US were negotiating their demise directly with their enemy, without them having any say in the matter. What will would there have been to fight it at that point.
Biden screwed up with setting a 9/11 timeline to withdraw so he could scalp a cheap PR win, which has since spectacularly backfired, so that's on him.
Will you?
Are you going to fight for Hamas?
Thing is, I don’t see them invading another country and I don’t see another country invading them so yeah they’ve got all these weapons but no reason to use them beyond ‘mess around and aim at rocks or fly around cause they’re bored’.
That's Khhhamas - get it right.
It's the most likely scenario? It's not easy to judge at this point, but I highly doubt that there was no possibility for Biden to create a scenario in which the withdrawal isn't as catastrophic as this was. In any case the man in charge is responsible for what's happening.
Exactly. Or maybe actually make sure consequences follow if they're not used properly at least. There surely were other possibilities bar leaving all that equipment behind.
Well, obviously Afghanistan under the Taliban are no real international threat, but what about inner terrorism? This equipment can cement their status. Most of that stuff will be sold for a lot of money or used for their own state. Having a fleet of humvees and 300.000 rifles and 100.000 machine guns which are state of the art is pretty nice to have as a rogue state.
Shows your general attitude to killings of innocents for no reasons. My stance here is anti war so how ridiculous you assume I'll join some faction.
I'm not surprised though @Gehrman is one of those western "bhuddists" who listen to a few podcasts and buy into feeling "zen" but is all for war and killings
Killer Zen Buddhists.
Shows your general attitude to killings of innocents for no reasons. My stance here is anti war so how ridiculous you assume I'll join some faction.
I'm not surprised though @Gehrman is one of those western "bhuddists" who listen to a few podcasts and buy into feeling "zen" but is all for war and killings
Projections
What makes Biden racist in this instance or are you talking about his general history?
Calling out war mongering hurts I'm sure.
Ive never been a war mongerer and consistenly voted for parties that aint. I'm not a Zen buddhist anyhow. I'm Nyingma.
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If that's the smoking gun it could be a hell of lot worse. A dinosaur calls a younger man a "boy". But I guess some of the crime bills he made in the past is it.
Oh no, not the b word.
good old southern plantation....trump did the same and shit would go down for sure.
He has a storied history of political policies that coincide with this type of rhetoric
There was even a Supreme court ruling on this. The word itself is not considered pejorative, unless it is said in a condescending tone. Biden here refers to a guy who was the head of his presidential transition team, so he's someone close to him.
I have to say I was somewhat sceptical of the Taliban hanging somebody from a helicopter. That's definitely something that could and probably has happened during the reigns of South American military juntas in the 70s and shit. But I wouldn't expect that from the Taliban in 2021.
No but they can be sold, they’ve got millions to earn in selling to people we probably don’t want having US equipment
Has there been any talk of sympathy for the Taliban among the former Afghan army? The way 300,000 troops melted away against 75,000 made me think a good many were actually Taliban sympathizers, and the army was just a paycheck. I think this is where talk of Afghans not being willing to fight for their country is coming from.
I also don't get how Kandahar falls, apparently the key to the country according to one person interviewered, and the Afghan army of 300,000 only has a tiny number of troops to defend this crucial city? They're saying they have no equipment but the army left 100,000 machine guns and an air force? This doesn't add up.
I also don't get how Kandahar falls, apparently the key to the country according to one person interviewered, and the Afghan army of 300,000 only has a tiny number of troops to defend this crucial city? They're saying they have no equipment but the army left 100,000 machine guns and an air force? This doesn't add up.