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The Taliban take Kabul : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 17/8/2021

In departing and leaving stranded colleagues to their fate, the bookish Ghani, preferring pen to gun, had time to leave a message on Facebook.

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The Taliban take Kabul, & they are welcome to it.

Wouldn't it be great if China did go into Afghanistan, & get caught up in the mire the place is. They may be more ruthless than Russia, but would that help much?

Of course the yanks, meaning the west, can't do much about China, or they will take their electronic components & drug industry basic products & go home, leaving us all sick & in the dark. We really have stuffed up, & our future does not look good.

Meanwhile the elites wage a pretend war on the poor little CO2 molecule, as if it has some significance to our future. Talk about destroying our future tilting at windmills, Don Quixote was less mad.

God help our grand kids.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 4:43:06 PM
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China has said that it will be interested in cooperating with the Taliban. No surprise there!
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 5:32:12 PM
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The real question about all this is, how many Taliban are residing in Australia !
They'll be linking up with the 'reformed' ISIS types before long.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 5:47:57 PM
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Dear mhaze,

Your take on the Nazis was pretty abysmal but this takes the cake.

The Yanks went in to spank a country for harbouring Al Queda and 9/11. We went along because we need to keep brownie points with the Yanks, not because any Afghans poses a threat to us in the slightest.

They severely degraded the Taliban but held hands with some spectacularly unsavoury war lords to do so. We held up our end of the bargain.

They splashed a hell of a lot of money to those they recognised as corrupt officials and militia, and turned a blind eye to terrible behaviour by many of them.

Vengeance was never going to create a democracy and those who thought otherwise were kidding themselves.

Trump had done a deal with the Taliban and wanted the troops gone by May. Biden kept them there until August. Of course the withdrawal was going to be fraught and it wasn't done well, but the fact is after 20 years the Yanks are gone.

The Vice piece from 8 years ago showed the missteps the Yanks were determined to conduct. The writing was very much on the wall even then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI&ab_channel=VICE
Posted by SteeleRedux, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 7:39:12 PM
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SR wrote:"Your take on the Nazis was pretty abysmal "

Well anyone who reads that thread will see that you understand the rise of the Nazis in the same way as my budgie understands Newton's Third Law of Motion. But it is is true that my attempts to educate you on this have proven to be an abysmal failure.

You say that my post takes the cake and then proceed to utter not a single word to illuminate that assertion.

SR, I know you've been made to look the fool over the past month or so. But if you want to salvage some self-esteem, you need to do it by intelligent argument rather than untethered assertions.
Posted by mhaze, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 10:34:32 PM
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Joe Biden went directly against the advice of his generals and made a complete balls-up of the withdrawal humiliating the US in the process and has to take 100% of the blame.

The only positive note is that his presidency is now in the toilet as with his chances of re-election. In one stroke he has made Trump look competent.
Posted by shadowminister, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 4:07:03 AM
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