Making the news today....

[Steve Bullman]

President Joe Biden -

There's going to be no circumstance where you're going to see people being lifted off the roof of a (sic) embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,' the president said during a press conference on July 8, 2021.

 

[eggsarascal]

8 minutes ago, Commando said:

Sleepy Joe….what an utter 🤡.

Him and our own clown should hang their heads in shame.

[Stere]

2trillion dollars spent on the Afghan War by the US, had to look up how many zeros a trn has....

 

2,000,000,000,000

 

i.e. two million million

 

Trillion - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Likely be a be a genocide of "western collabrators" left behind and the shia minoirty group.

 

Hazaras - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

 

Now taliban seem the long term future rulers......

Edited August 16, 2021 by Stere

[Khriss]

I remember the old Sandy Gall footage of the mujahedin in the 80s, crossing borders with weapons, they were hard as nails then, Russians now Americans kicked out  K

[eggsarascal]

Wait till they do find the Westeners. According to the news Kabul airport is overrun with people trying to get out. Shouldn't 'we' be sending planes in to get 'our' people out?

[nepia]

12 hours ago, Khriss said:

I remember the old Sandy Gall footage of the mujahedin in the 80s, crossing borders with weapons, they were hard as nails then, Russians now Americans kicked out  K

They saw us off twice a long time ago too remember.  No-one's ever truly taken the country

[sime42]

Tough people, tough terrain.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

17 minutes ago, nepia said:

They saw us off twice a long time ago too remember.  No-one's ever truly taken the country

I think, from memory, Ghengis Khan did - albeit not what we currently call Afghanistan which is a kind of ‘made up’ country anyway. 
 

There was a chap on LBC a day or so ago that claimed the Sikhs conquered it also but I didn’t catch his background detail. 
 

Reporting today seems to indicate that Trump signed a ‘hand over’ deal with Taliban and this is the conclusion of that deal. 
 

There have been a lot of ‘military types’ providing outraged commentary on various outlets today.  I can appreciate that - people made sacrifices, some made the ultimate sacrifice, many made great personal sacrifice.  That’s what the military do. But that emotion clouds the judgement. 
 

There is no way for Western military intervention to ever succeed in that region. That’s a hard reality that ‘we’ need to suck up and get a grip of. 
 

Once you grip that, and set personal emotion aside, it opens up a different way of thinking about what really has to happen. 
 

It is a widely accepted definition of insanity to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. 
 

‘We’ need to be out of Afghanistan. 
 

Now we are. 
 

It’s a bitter pill but that is Trump operating at a higher level than many can appreciate. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Marxist fundamental principles corrupted by exploitation of the gullible masses, individual and organisational dishonesty, corruption and personal greed, 

 

Who could ever have seen that coming 😂

 

it’s not as if every single historic example socialist/communist/Marxist doctrine has taken exactly the same path 😂😂😂

 

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[Rough Hewn]

Someone remind me of the James Bond film where he joins the ……..
🤣🤣🤣
Couldn’t make it up…🤣🤣🤣