Taliban....

[securespark]

......Yesterday: "We want to have a good relationship with all countries, including America....."

.......Today: Taliban filmed wearing US army uniform.

 

[transam]

The news on Afghan TV

Whilst reading the news the news reader had 2 armed taliban fighters behind him

good incentive for him not to get the message wrong

 

[Deleted member 18243]

The only good thing about the taliban is that they are anti-vaccine and anti-mask.

 

[Londoner2]

They have their own ways, u have your own ways.

 

[charliegolf]

Leave em to it for a decade. Make travel to and fro like the USSR in the cold war. Close em off.

 

[JP_]

Maybe they can rule the country better - it didn't take them long to take back control, they must be pretty well organised and equipped. The more recent images have shown that they are not wild desert men with AK47s any more, but a well equipped army.

Maybe time to try to gently bring them into the fold. Sanctions then encourage them to be more moderate in return for trade.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

I heard a year or two ago that there was a worldwide shortage of medical morphine and diamorphine because of an underlying shortage of legal opium.

 

[motorbiking]

Maybe they can rule the country better - it didn't take them long to take back control, they must be pretty well organised and equipped. The more recent images have shown that they are not wild desert men with AK47s any more, but a well equipped army.

Maybe time to try to gently bring them into the fold. Sanctions then encourage them to be more moderate in return for trade.

All sorts of theories as to how that happened. Lots of powerful countries want to see trouble for the US and its western allies.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

A risk that all bullies face is the arrival of a bigger one.

 

[motorbiking]

I think I'd rather a dominant US, than the alternative choices

 

[bernardgreen]

but a well equipped army.

being well equiped does nothing to influence the way they will treat people they do not like. In recent history there was a very well equiped army that treated a few million people as Untermenschen ( sub-humans )

 

[IT Minion]

I think I'd rather a dominant US, than the alternative choices

Perhaps, but we should be aware that we don't get to choose.

 

[JP_]

being well equiped does nothing to influence the way they will treat people they do not like. In recent history there was a very well equiped army that treated a few million people as Untermenschen ( sub-humans )

of course not. My point only is that for a while the press has portrayed them as rebels in caves with AK47s, rather than a proper military threat.
Goes to show what a good job the GB and US troops were doing to keep them down.

But the question now is, if we're not going to support a puppet regime with our military, what do we do? We can't ignore the problem.
Sanctions and diplomacy has to be the way ahead.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

.......Today: Taliban filmed wearing US army uniform.

Well, they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

The only good thing about the taliban is that they are anti-vaccine and anti-mask.

I think Corona is the least of Afghanistan's worries.