Making the news today....

[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 ……..
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Couldn’t make it up…🤣🤣🤣

[eggsarascal]

What, a political group conning folk out of their money. Whatever next.

[Bob_z_l]

1 hour ago, Rough Hewn said:

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

Are you sure you're not remembering the Rambo film where he joins up to fight the Ruskies?

 

Rambo 3?

[Rough Hewn]

Are you sure you're not remembering the Rambo film where he joins up to fight the Ruskies?
 
Rambo 3?

[Rough Hewn]

Are you sure you're not remembering the Rambo film where he joins up to fight the Ruskies?
 
Rambo 3?

Forgotten that one🤣🤣🤣[emoji106]

[Mark J]

RIP Sean Lock, he was funny.