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Taliban say they now control 85% of Afghanistan's territory

Breaking news - Afghans run Afghanistan
Can you prove that all the current members of the Taliban are Afghan? For all we know, there are jihadists from other areas of the world in their ranks.
 
And trump surrendered to Erdogan and left the kurds guarding our terrorist prisoners THOUSANDS OF THEM letting them back on the battlefield. ALSO YOU KNOW TRUMP WOULD HAVE PULLED OUT OF AFGHANASTAN AS WELL - GET REAL.
 
If people didn't want Biden to end Trump's Forever Wars they would've voted for Trump. As it is, Landslide Biden is finally bringing our boys home.
Trump started the war in Afghanistan? I had no idea he was Prez back in 2001! Damn....you learn something new every day!
 
Just wondering Helix...Since your ephiany to liberalism, do you believe that American's should be able to keep anything they earn?

Do you want to strawman? I can ask strawman questions.
 
Can you prove that all the current members of the Taliban are Afghan? For all we know, there are jihadists from other areas of the world in their ranks.

No need to move the goalposts. It's a simple google search away, but there are books out there as well.

The vast majority are from Afghanistan, yes with some Pakistanis since the Pashtun regions cross the border into North West Frontier Province, though its hard to call them 'foreign' in that sense. There have always been a handful of foreign jihadis in the movement, but at its core and in its leadership, it is a local movement. This is fairly common knowledge to anyone who's studied or read up, or been over there as either a journalist or doctor or aid worker or soldier for that matter because its their books and articles we read anyway.

In any case it is hardly incumbent on little old me out here on the internet to pwove there are no foreign Taliban at all, whatsoever, and it would hardly be relevant.

Now if it's really foreign jihadis you're looking for,ISIS has been making inroads in Afghanistan and the Taliban have actually been fighting them. not that either are a particularly nice bunch but here's the thing about the Taliban - it's their country. They were there before in one form or another, will be there after, and it's not called the Graveyard of Empires for nothing.

The West tried for twenty years to rein it in, that's long enough. Might as well let the country sort itself out because apparently all the king's horses and all the king's men and two decades of occupation couldn't do it for them. We'll always be there anyway, backing one warlord or arming another or selling planes to the government, just as it has always been.

 
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What were the Trump republicans here saying about Syria not long ago?
 
GOP is worse than taliban
No, they are not. That kind of divisive language is exactly the same as Trump liked to use. Why do you want to be like Trump?
 
No, they are not. That kind of divisive language is exactly the same as Trump liked to use. Why do you want to be like Trump?
Wouldn't expect a self-proclaimed fascist to understand. Are you sure you aren't a trumper yourself?
 
Do you want to strawman? I can ask strawman questions.
Just a question…You seem to want the taxpayer to give up/pay for more and more…So, I was just curious…
 
Just a question…You seem to want the taxpayer to give up/pay for more and more…So, I was just curious…
Ok. I don't support a 100 percent tax rate.
 

A one size fits all, set of laws, that you would enforce on Iraq and Afghanistan, all the same. Going to elections for all levels of government, very many times. Keeping them busy with it. And then leave after 2 years maximum.
 
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This is a logic at the level of the Holocaust... which lasted longer than the Second World War... it started earlier... and if you think like you, Jews, Gypsies, Balts and Slavs, were not strong against the Holocaust... however, still no.
Wow. Straight to the Holocaust. Its clear that discussing this with you will be pointless.
 
Tldr
 

This is an adult site involving reading and thinking. But, for you, there are messages with videos you can watch. Even sometimes videos that are no more than 15 seconds long ideal for you. lol
 
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People have no clue how many little countries we are in and protecting against the Religion of War, Islam, created by a sociopathic genocidal warlord for which the religion calls for using lying, breaking treaties, torture, mass murder and war to expand the religion. It is estimated the Great Muslim Empire killed over 200,000,000 people, the equal to more than a billion today as a percentage of world population.
 

Who is the "we" that you claim can stop or defeat the Empire of Islam?
 

Roughly 99 percent of Afghans are Muslims bud.

Trying to pretend we are “protecting them from Islam” is incredibly stupid.
 
Trump started the war in Afghanistan? I had no idea he was Prez back in 2001! Damn....you learn something new every day!

Obama bombed more countries than any president since WW2 and saw no reason to askf or a declaration of war, even when the open goal was to overthrow a government and assassin the leadership and the leader's family (Libya).
 
These wars are impossible to win unless using ancient tactics and the tactics Mohammed himself used to covert people all the way to France and India.

The method? Killing 200,000,000 - the equal to well over a billion today. Ancient war was war of terror and no tolerance. If any city or village didn't do everyone demanded, turn over they young males to serve in their military, pay and do anything demanded, did not convert, everyone would be killed - no exceptions - and the city destroyed. Then move on to the next. There was little tolerance for other religions and if allowed, highly oppressed and taxed.

This was how war was done. Unless willing to kill and mass kill at the slightest opposition, making it clear the way you deal with insurgents hiding out is to kill everyone that may possibly be related, their entire clam, their village and just keep killing. Torture. Rape. That was the practice of every empire and nearly all ancient warfare - and it works if the goal is conquest, occupation and PERMANENT submission generation to generation - those people literally becoming one of your own nationality and military service.
 
imo, Afghanistan was going to fall back to its old ways no matter when the US withdraws.

How many remember Trump wanting US out by May 1 2021?
Yeah, I think this is the classic political BS. Neither side wanted to be there forever, neither side had a way for us to get out without gotcha consequences occurring, so neither side knew WTF to do about this situation. Those who claim otherwise and try to use this to attack their political opponents are just hacks.
 
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