Taliban.....civilized LOL, Your so Anti-US you are now defending head-choppers, do me a favor. Get on a plane go to Afghanistan and see how "civilized" the Taliban are. I really mean this, because that remark was so full of shit.
The French revolution involved a lot of head chopping too, and please don't misquote me... I didn't say the Taleban were civilised... I merely stated that they were currently being more civilised than the Americans would be if they were in the same situation... you know... perhaps like in Desert Storm when they massacred enormous numbers of Iraqi soldiers just for fun as they retreated from battle...
Fact is, if you think American is bad the Taliban are far worse. We never lashed young girls for wearing sandals, its disgusting you actually said that
You fine people for being too poor to own a house or afford rent and I rather suspect you would not ignore naked people on the streets of your cities either.
They have a dress code... do you think the west does not?
The taleban beat girls for their footware choices, the Americans ban medicine exports to places like Iran and Venezuela and kill millions... those girls can avoid being lashed by following the dress code, but what do Iranian and Venezuelan cancer patients do to get the medicine they need?
The only reason they are letting those people go is that they are mixed in with US personal and the Taliban aren't dumb enough to start a fight with us, they want us to go, and letting some civilians go is a small price to pay for this.
Yeah, of course... right... they spent the last 20 years fighting you and now they are too afraid to fight you any longer... so why are you leaving... you should stay.
To show that apart from being losers they are two faced as well.
Amusing the shock of the reporter though... clearly hadn't got the memo that the west has flip flopped again...
The fact that Taliban stopped at the airfield and keep restraint on their forces and say "you got untill 11th of September to Leave" is goodwill/mercy from their side.
There is an honour code there... which is something the west lacks.
It is funny SS thinks I love the Taleban... but when these guys were the Muj his brothers were their best friends and lashing little girls for wearing sandals...
Try looking up puppets...
The only ones that should bear the full responsibility of this abysmal failure are the western politicians and millitary leaders.
They excluded the Taleban from all talks since they arrived 20 years ago and needed Moscow to get them to talk more recently... such arrogance would be like saying the Republicans or Democrats in the US are a terrorist organisation and can never have any participation in the future of US elections.... that is never going to work because you can't wipe out that large a portion of the population over any period of time and they are always going to be there.
No country is going to go around purposely bombing ten of thousands of civilians at one spot for the sole purpose they are trying to flee.
When America kills civilians it is because they are terrorists, or in the case of Iraq because they are iraqis... of course America would bomb the air port and they would claim it is because the so called civilians are all taleban and taleban supporters so they are a legitimate target....
Do not be quick to judge things just yet.
The fact that they just haven't whole sale slaughtered everyone they now have at their mercy suggests the political wing of the Taleban have some control.
Amazing how they still think that they rate above Latin Americans (or anyone else really...)
There was a report that the German aircraft took their booze with them, so cannon fodder don't even rate saving over beer and spirits...
Taliban are now padded with massive numbers of civilians and blowing them up on livestream would not be something that USA would be eager to do (without livestream would be a different thing, bruised ego is a powerful drug)
The Americans could easily close down all internet connections in the region for the time needed...
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Not sure why you don't appear happy... in the one message they are clearly showing they are cooperating with the Taleban and have permission to get all these people the west is crying tears about out of the country... those western countries just need to identify who they are and how many they want... but the goal of the post is clear... you are out and we are in... and also a chance to prove when no western countries worried about the rights of women and girls in the country take them up on their offer that those worries were bullshit for the cameras only.
Why did the US just all of sudden pull out of Afghanistan? What were they trying to accomplish? What did they want to achieve from this?
Pretty clear Trump got elected first time saying he was bringing americans home from shitholes that don't matter for US defence... getting 1 trillion dollars worth of rare earth minerals from Afghanistan means nothing if it costs you three trillion and wears out your military doing it.
If Trump didn't make the agreement I doubt they would be leaving now, but because he did they realised it was a chance to get out of an unpopular war that wasn't doing anything for the average American except pissing away their taxpayer dollars for nothing really.
They were probably hoping to blame Trump for anything if it went wrong but it is pretty clear this withdrawal was not planned properly and it has turned out rather badly... The British could have given them a few tips on that too... but the irony is that even with the fuckups there are not lots of american soldiers getting killed by the Taleban so in military terms it is a success, but in political terms it is a terrible disorganised scampering retreat that looks like there was no warning and no planning and some just said go.
What does this mean for China?
What does this mean for Russia?
What does this mean for Iran?
It means Afghanistan is open for business and those illegal drugs are not going to be coming from here any more.
What does this mean for the US?
What does this mean for the EU?
What does this mean for western countries?
Afghanistan might get rebuilt and start to grow and develop like a normal country despite their efforts... and become part of the silk road delivering goods from Asia to EU and back... something the EU might like but the US will hate because it is not something they would benefit from.
I suspect the US might also think now they are out of there they can start turning that muslim area in China into a Chinese Chechnya...
What does this mean for Pakistan?
Probably a lot of refugees, but also maybe a bit more stability on its border.
What do you see happening in the future regarding Afghanistan?
Its chances for peace and stability have never been better...
What the actual ****?. read the following crap on the U.S Afghanistan embassy site.
So they can be tight with money in certain areas....
These Western liberals, they just live in a parallel reality
I'm done with Twitter, I really am. Full of various people who live on Cloud 9.
Which is fitting because twitter really is based on a cloud server, and in every respect is a parallel world where any opinion and anything goes no matter how silly.
Makes you want to strip naked and walk down the main street of any city in the west... no afghan woman can be told what to wear by their new government how can a western government make me wear clothes? What you say.... I am not decent? That is what these Taleban men are saying too... maybe we are not so different afterall.
BTW I would not do that... first of all it is winter, and second of all even I would find it indecent if I saw my own reflection in a shop window or something.
There are massive deposits of iron ore and copper (World's second largest). I believe that a contract for an iron ore mine is out to tender and a copper mine is underway. It is two years before anything comes out of the ground and a couple of $B to develop. Obviously these are ores destined for China. When added in with their other minerals the country could be reasonably well off. Being a Belt and Road transit path will also create wealth and much better transit routes.
There are supposed to be lots of rare earth minerals like Lithium for batteries and other materials that never got properly mined because of the constant state of war in the country...
I do hope he passed out at some point otherwise it was horrifying way to go
The altitude the plane probably flew at he probably froze to death... what with the wind chill factor... it often happens to people stowaways inside the undercarriage bay on commercial airliners too...