My apologies Kermit, I misread the post and then corrected.
It was never stable under the Taliban they essentially closed the country to foreigners and those who did ventured in were caught and killed,
Hence why it could be construed it was stable there was little of no information about what was going ok on the country coming out ,
They had b52s and gunships carrying out strikes ,it seem to be a case of to wide of a front to make much of a difference ,
The worse part they were traveling in convoys which should have made it easier to target too
Bearded nut jobs?
You clearly don’t understand that country or the talibans capability. If they fight back they will be infiltrated with suicide bombers and innocents will die quickly.
They aren’t fighting against the Taliban army, they are fighting against an ideology. Two very different things
So far it does not seem to be high on the agenda for ordinary people in the US but if there were to be some sort of Saigon type imagery that would be seriously damaging to the Biden administration.
It may yet turn out to be very damaging regardless or people might just be happy to leave and not spending all that money.
They could have easily sent the drones in or at least have some planes fly overhead as a warning to slow them down. Everything should have been about slowing them down.
Makes me think that some people wanted this to happen.
They have stayed Toby, because they could not run...no choice, and the ones who did run, had good reason to run. Be interesting to see in the next few weeks how the information flow develops.
Well now... looks like The president and Afghan army are less than useless
Astonishing just how quickly the ANA folded.
20 years and all those billions upon billions of dollars, and they simply disintegrated almost instantly.
could Biden not have stalled the army from leaving ? very bad move on his part........
While this is true, they also don't want endless outside occupations either. In the last 40 years, 30 of them has involved a foreign power calling the shots and absolute chaos reigning. It's ironic, but under the Taliban in the 90's, Afghanistan has had its most stable period. They may well not be exactly what every "Afghan wants", but at least they are being ruled by "their own" as it were, i.e. a Pashtun lead group interested in Sharia, as harsh as their interpretation of may well be.
To be perfectly honest, that is more than likely the reason why the Taliban has swept through the country like a knife through melted butter. They aren't meeting any resistance, because there is very little to meet.
Woot? I never said any such thing 😡
Apology accepted in advance.
*you changed Kermit to some, ty
No one representative of the Left actually says this. It's just a trope thrown out by some.
Wll we even know what happens now?
https://twitter.com/mattczeller/status/1426958374722232321?s=19
To embed I think you press enter immediately after you paste the link and it does it automatically.
About 226 Irish personnel rotated through Afghanistan over fifteen years, normally seven at a time. Normally found in Kabul/HQ, for much of the time the Irish ran the counter-IED cell. That said, I ran across an NCO who worked with an Irish signals officer. Since the Irish ran the CIED cell for 12 of the 15, that gives three years they were doing something else entirely, even assuming that all seven personnel were exclusively in the CIED cell when it was under Irish administration.
In the meantime, furthering the "There is no similarity between Kabul and Saigon" line, this is a photo of a Department of State helicopter over Kabul yesterday.
This is the exact same helicopter (by builder's serial number) as seen fourth from the camera in 1975, photo taken on a US carrier during the evacuation.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E82BA4BX0AA_nJn.png:large
how the hell does one embed an image?
Who actually said that? Sounds like bs. There's something wrong with them if they did.
100% of roles for men is still a quota right? Right??
No politics or political parties permitted under Sharia law. 😑
To be fair Sky News has improved A LOT in the last few years. It used to be in the unwatchable abyss of tabloid television.
Psychological fear , stand and fight till you run out of ammunition because your government won't /can't resupply you ,end result your dead ,run away and live another Day till a friend or neighbor points you out to the local death squad and face the same death ,
Remember some would have remembered the Taliban others would have seem what Isis did in Iraq mass genocide
Once the first dominoes fell, that was it.. the rest just fell in short order. The difference between the approaching Taliban and the defending police / army was the Taliban had conviction and determination, while the defenders did not. And why should they the way they were treated by their own Government? For them, it was a question of survival,,,and they chose the winning side. And that may not save all of them when the Taliban start checking who did what on the Government side....Poor Afghans. They dont deserve what has happened to them, they are just pawns in a bigger game. Look to who kept the Taliban funded and active these last 20 years.
Maybe the Taliban will announce generous gender quotas in the new parliament?
It goes to show how easy it is to take towns and cities if there isn't a strong armed and willing defence.
We are lucky we have the Turkey buffer in Europe. A lot of people were befuddled into how ISIS were just able to roll around Syria and Iraq and seized most of the country. It's not as hard as people think. Classic Blitzkrieg. Roll in, the police/army have done a runner, the locals are unorganized and just want to stay alive. Town seized.
I'm not usually a fan of Sky News but they are having some outstanding coverage and interviews today.
The mental gymnastics they do to explain how the treatment of women in Islamic culture is actually feminism in action is hilarious.
Interesting watching the left's muted reaction so far.
They desperately want to attack the big bad American empire but are equally puzzled by the theocratic cave men taking over🤪
What to do? Who's the target?😣
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But they have an army and Police force. It doesn't really make sense that 80k fighters could roll through uncontested unless 99% of the army/police don't really care if the taliban take control?
So many have ran from the cities the taliban have taken over, but majority stay, and so far we've not see them get violent with them, of course we have reports of all the girls getting rounded up, but how much of this true, and how much is propaganda
It's the will of enough of them for it to end up with the Taliban in power.
I share your worries about innocent people over there, it's awful to see those knuckle draggers regain power and a sad day in international relations.
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