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If the fall of Afghanistan leads to another 9/11...

What country are they most likely to attack?

  • Europe, it's easier to get to

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • America, damn the Atlantic and Pacific!

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Somewhere in the Middle East

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Russia

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • China, remember the Uyghur Muslims!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other, specify below

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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So a few years go by. The Taliban allow terrorist groups like al Qeada to use Afghanistan for a base once again.

These terrorist groups launch another 9/11 attack, killing thousands of foreigners.

What country are they most likely to attack?
 
So a few years go by. The Taliban allow terrorist groups like al Qeada to use Afghanistan for a base once again.

These terrorist groups launch another 9/11 attack, killing thousands of foreigners.

What country are they most likely to attack?
You left the two they hate most off the list.
 
Oh, never mind. They can’t hit us again. The borders are much too tough to breech. And the thousands of Afghan refugees are very well vetted. We are a hard target indeed.😝
 
AQ or ISIS doesn't need a large area, just resources, for planning another 9/11 style attack.

Though the US does monitor global terrorist organizations much closer since, including their funding sources and bases of operations. I believe they would've already hit the west again if it were feasible. The few troops we had left in Afghanistan were mostly for keeping the gov and society stable.
 
AQ or ISIS doesn't need a large area, just resources, for planning another 9/11 style attack.

Though the US does monitor global terrorist organizations much closer since, including their funding sources and bases of operations. I believe they would've already hit the west again if it were feasible. The few troops we had left in Afghanistan were mostly for keeping the gov and society stable.
Resources like high tech weapons systems, fixed wing aircraft, attack helicopters, tracking systems etc? Yeah, no way they get their hands on that stuff
 
Resources like high tech weapons systems, fixed wing aircraft, attack helicopters, tracking systems etc? Yeah, no way they get their hands on that stuff

None of which is either functional or that they're trained to operate. AK's, rocket launchers, and IEDs are their mainstay.
 
So a few years go by. The Taliban allow terrorist groups like al Qeada to use Afghanistan for a base once again.

These terrorist groups launch another 9/11 attack, killing thousands of foreigners.
The 9/11attacks were planned in Hamburg Germany, most of the perpetrators were Saudi and funded with Saudi money, and the pilots were trained here in the US. It's absurd to think Afghanistan cultivates any terrorist threat to the USA - or ever did! Just because bin Laden was there doesn't mean anything was ever launched from there.

Here is al Qaeda in the world today.

 
So a few years go by. The Taliban allow terrorist groups like al Qeada to use Afghanistan for a base once again. These terrorist groups launch another 9/11 attack, killing thousands of foreigners. What country are they most likely to attack?
Bit off on the past scenario... :unsure:

The 9/11 terrorists didn't come from Afghanistan, they didn't train in Afghanistan. They came from 'friendly' Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and trained here in the states. In American flight schools, taught by American flight instructors. They did so under the noses of a wide variety of law enforcement and security agencies.

Al-Qaeda has enough bases to train, they don't need a Ft. Bragg or 29 Palms to train. It is quite probable al-Qaeda has been training in Afghanistan all along, certainly in Pakistan's NW Territories so Afghanistan is just one more place not a requirement to attack Western Nations... ✌️
 
So a few years go by. The Taliban allow terrorist groups like al Qeada to use Afghanistan for a base once again.

These terrorist groups launch another 9/11 attack, killing thousands of foreigners.

What country are they most likely to attack?
The 9/11 terrorists were trained to fly in Florida. So by your logic we should have invaded Florida. What was more damaging, the flight training or the mountain obstacle course?
 
None of which is either functional or that they're trained to operate. AK's, rocket launchers, and IEDs are their mainstay.
They couldn’t fly jets either in 2001. They can also sell them. No matter how you spin it. Leaving it all there was stupid
 
They couldn’t fly jets either in 2001. They can also sell them.
Only if it's worth selling something that is non-functional.
No matter how you spin it. Leaving it all there was stupid
No. Any other dispensation of those assets had some cost associated with it, including time constraints. Bagram was turned over to the ASF and central government control.

The same exact thing, only worse by orders of magnitude, happened in Iraq, when Iraqi military forces fled Ramadi. That's the fun of being in the military industrial complex. You profit by making so much more damn stuff when your products are destroyed, abandoned, or fall into the "wrong hands". Good business, eh?


"Leaving it all there" is on them - not on us. That's not spin - that's just facts.
 
Only if it's worth selling something that is non-functional.

No. Any other dispensation of those assets had some cost associated with it, including time constraints. Bagram was turned over to the ASF and central government control.

The same exact thing, only worse by orders of magnitude, happened in Iraq, when Iraqi military forces fled Ramadi. That's the fun of being in the military industrial complex. You profit by making so much more damn stuff when your products are destroyed, abandoned, or fall into the "wrong hands". Good business, eh?


"Leaving it all there" is on them - not on us. That's not spin - that's just facts.
If it was nonfunctional , is it any surprise the Afghan Army bailed? I thought we equipped and and trained them to defeat the Taliban. I mean Biden said they outnumbered them 3 to 1 including an air force. So, was Biden lying about that as well?
 
If it was nonfunctional , is it any surprise the Afghan Army bailed? I thought we equipped and and trained them to defeat the Taliban. I mean Biden said they outnumbered them 3 to 1 including an air force. So, was Biden lying about that as well?
As well as nothing. They bailed because they hadn't been paid in months, their civilian authority fled, and their commanders fled. I can only assume that, after robbing their own troops of the salaries our tax dollar$ provided, the elites finally had enough funds in their Swiss bank accounts to get out of country safely.

If you're looking for a liar, try the last occupant of the White House.
He was the all time CHAMPION of the WORLD !!
 
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