I would assume that one could make an even bigger argument about that when it came to war in Iraq. You see, that was a far more of a White House chose...
That simply is your bias. Not to think of others as important actors with their own agendas. Better get used to it when the US backs away. Oh, I forge...
You have to be more specific here on just who the CIA backed. Above all, it's the motivation you have to notice. CIA funded all groups to fight the So...
Except the US didn't care a shit about Afghanistan in 1994 as Soviet Union had left years ago. Hekmatyar and the famous Haqqani (now known as the Haqq...
Except it isn't. Perhaps it just feels a bit awkward to write about the destruction of the environment in a country that has seen 40 years war. And Af...
Not for the US politicians. If your argument that the US Army shouldn't ever have been in Afghanistan then sure, it's all irrelevant. But as there wil...
:smile: Yeah, well, actually the numbers of killed don't tell the real picture of the fighting. Advances in medicine, you know. https://upload.wikimed...
And those stock prices tell something? Lol. Do notice that during that time the DJIA has gone up well over 400% during that time and the Nasdaq 900%. ...
There is absolutely no floor to how badly you are screwed. Once you think it cannot get any worse, it does. And then you notice how fine actually you ...
After the possibility of Soviet tank armies coming through the Fulda Gap evaporated, they don't know what to do with their army. There is now NATO Pol...
Because in something that has bad sides has also some good. Yes capitalism and using market mechanism is far better that centralized planning in Marxi...
Of course! In it's Military doctrine Russia sees NATO expansion as the most dangerous threat ever. International terrorism is on 11th place or lower. ...
Oh yes, war is a racket. Well known for ages. It's natural to see everything especially now in an dismal light. Because hard questions should be asked...
Totally right. Above all, in this region the Russians simply tolerated to waited for the American to "self destruct" in the region because...there is ...
How to deal with Pakistan has been the real failure. Or put it another way, Pakistan has outwitted the US. How to be an ally of both sides in a war ha...
Who is putting pressure on Pakistan? I guess nobody is. And let's remember that Pakistan was an ally the US. Sort of. But who cares. The US didn't car...
Has anybody read the actual Trump Doha Peace agreement from February 2020? The actual paper form the US is here: Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afgha...
I think that this emotional but informative interview tells extremely well how badly the administration has dealt with this. And of course, when refer...
Of course. Especially when the acting President went AWOL. You see it's really important to get SOMEBODY to surrender. Nearly anybody will do. So I gu...
A lousy deal (as usual for Trump, just like the deal with North Korea), which was followed with a lousy continuation of a bad deal. First of all, Trum...
Basically the Taleban has to form a government. Then the Chinese, the Pakistanis, Russians or the UN can sit down with them and talk. If things go smo...
Oh I do know them. Insane theatre, that continued then as Hillary's missing emails. It started as Benghazi hearings. But this was the way Republicans ...
Ummm....really? You think a terrorist attack on one Embassy compound legitimized house investigations.... but not a catastrophic collapse of a 20-year...
There are few if any times in history when the past has been by every means better than the time afterwards. Usually things have gotten better, even i...
I wouldn't bet on those guys, especially Hekmatyar (he has to be very old). Gulbuddin and Hamid are the people who always are trying to bounce back in...
Actually, one should remember that for a long time, many years actually, the FBI has considered certain radical animal rights groups as domestic terro...
Our definitions are here different. Perhaps here instead of using a "failed state" the name could be "a collapsed state": a former country without the...
Somewhat. And it's worth noting that Russia succeeded in it's goals with the intervention in Syria. American commentators hoped that Russia would find...
So Secretary of State Blinken declared that the fall of Kabul isn't like the Fall of Saigon. It actually is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vraVCUerV...
Not as before. The IS doesn't hold any large cities or regions as before. Situation in February 2021: https://i.redd.it/3putpscznfi61.png Printed on a...
As I debated with a PF member, right from the start the Taleban was a military objective to defeat for the Bush idiots. So simply just taking out Osam...
There is a multitude of issues here that really undermine the US in ways that the US simply doesn't care to think because it is so wrapped around in i...
Oh you mean that the US would open it's borders to anybody wanting to come to the US from Afghanistan? Or those with visas? I think those that worked ...
There might be a reason just why there wasn't any will to fight. A military needs support, not only bullets and food, but also support from the people...
By total surrender, you can avoid some death, yes. How much reprisals there will be is the question. At least Kabul will get now a fair share of looti...
Yeah no. Their still is a political agenda. Some political agenda. What you are designing are just the perks and additional objectives. Let's remember...
Yes, because there WERE those talks that didn't go anywhere. Because....Americans wanted revenge. Clearly the overthrow of the Taleban was the objecti...
Actually I've made a long argument about this in the War on Terror thread. But to recap my thoughts: a) America has a long tradition how to deal terro...
At the time. Yeah. That's the problem: reasons have to be valid for a bit longer. One has to anticipate what effects one's actions have. So if a Mexic...
If you make a simple extrapolation of what happens to previous US allies in the Middle East, that will happen. First you lost Iraq in the 1950's. Then...
What were they? Because the war continued on after OBL was killed. As I said earlier, it was and is the insane idea of "occupying a country, because i...
Let's remember what a certain US President answered a month ago on July the 8th 2021: https://tbsnews.net/sites/default/files/styles/amp_metadata_cont...
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