Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 40 23.1%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 48 27.7%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.5%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 60 34.7%
  • Total voters
    173
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05_never_again said:
Outside of such a situation, I think the American people (and for good reason) have limited willingness to engage in overseas engagements.
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The American people could be wrong. They were in 2001.

Shouldn't we be talking more about the bigger picture (War on Terror)? When was the last time you heard a politician talk seriously about that?
 
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‘Mayhem…This Was Nuts’: CNN Reports Kabul Airport In Chaos Despite White House Assurances

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CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, who has been covering the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan from outside the relative safety of Kabul airport’s military sector, called the situation Wednesday “mayhem” and “nuts,” despite White House assurances that the airport is secure and evacuations are proceeding.

‘Mayhem…This Was Nuts’: CNN Reports Kabul Airport In Chaos Despite White House Assurances
 
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Afghanistan started off as a fight to kill Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and topple the Taliban. All of that was achieved by 2011. Why the war didn't end there is anybody's guess. Its a shame our current President wasn't actively engaged in politics back then. Too bad Obama didn't leave him a blueprint on how to end the war like the one he used to end Covid.

Oh wait..
 
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Velo Vol said:
The American people could be wrong. They were in 2001.

Shouldn't we be talking more about the bigger picture (War on Terror)? When was the last time you heard a politician talk seriously about that?
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You mean before or after 9/11? After 9/11, I think there was plenty of a will to fight against al-Qaeda. Not so much to overthrow the Taliban and remain in Afghanistan for 20 years trying to build a government.
 
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05_never_again said:
You mean before or after 9/11? After 9/11, I think there was plenty of a will to fight against al-Qaeda. Not so much to overthrow the Taliban and remain in Afghanistan for 20 years trying to build a government.
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The Taliban had their chance to turn over Bin Laden, they chose not to.

We should have hammered them into dust for destroying the Buddha Statues. Thanks Bill Clinton.
 
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We Told Him: Deep State Intelligence Turns on Joe Biden After Afghanistan Failure

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Intelligence agencies are pushing back Wednesday against the White House narrative that the sudden fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban caught the administration off guard.

The New York Times reports intelligence sources who claimed by July their reports seriously questioned the Afghan military’s ability to resist the Taliban, even as Biden was telling reporters at the White House that it was unlikely that the government would fall.

We Told Him: Deep State Intelligence Turns on Biden After Afghanistan Failure
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says U.S. expressed "in no uncertain terms" at the United Nations through "a very strongly worded press statement" from the Security Council that "we expect the Taliban to respect women's rights" and "to be respectful of humanitarian law."

Critics baffled by UN ambassador boasting of 'very strongly worded press statement' to Taliban: 'Wut'

Holy Sh!t..its exactly like Hans Blix from the Southpark Movie..
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We must be at a low point if we are begging and pleading with the Taliban to "respect women's rights." The Taliban have zero concept of human rights, let alone women's rights.
 
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n_huffhines said:
And now they vote Republican yet these unfounded fears about how immigrants will vote still plague the right.
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Cubans for the most part are productive citizens. They are/have escaped what the liberals are trying to make the US into. Republicans/conservatives aren't against immigration. They're not against Hispanic immigration. They're against illegal immigration. They're against immigrants that come here for the free stuff.
 
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VFL28 said:
We must be at a low point if we are begging and pleading with the Taliban to "respect women's rights." The Taliban have zero concept of human rights, let alone women's rights.
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A short time ago, the Taliban released a video of them shooting a woman in the city who wasn't wearing a burqa (spelling?). These people are sick, but if anything, we should have learned a very important lesson...despite what our leaders tell us, we are not all the same. Human beings are comprised of diverse cultures, customs, and tribes. It was foolish for us to assume that, through military conquest or goodwill, we could somehow superimpose western values on people who did not want to be like us.
 
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Tyler Durden said:
Why shouldn't they be here?
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I am concerned with the vetting process and supposedly extended family is being bandied about. Should we be concerned if some $hit breaks put over here in a few years?

This doesn't include the financial impact which is cheaper relocating them in the ME.

Another thing is hindsight is 20-20, but if we have a better strategy for pulling out then I think we aren't dealing with this mess.
 
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'There is no help here': Only 2,000 were flown out overnight on military jets that could have taken 10,000 - as Pentagon says it hoped rescue would go 'more smoothly'

America flew just 2,000 people out of Kabul overnight on jets that could have taken 10,000 in the latest night of shambolic efforts to get tens of thousands of people out of Afghanistan and away from the Taliban.

Overnight, 18 C-17 US Air Force jets left Kabul last night carrying 2,000 people including 365 Americans, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said on a phone briefing with journalists on Wednesday morning.

One of the planes that left on Tuesday night had a CBS reporter on board who estimated there were 300 people on her flight. The remaining 17 jets would have just 100 passengers each, when 50,000 remain at the gates of the airport waiting to be saved.

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This is the scene at the city entrance to the airport in Kabul. It is being controlled by the Taliban and US forces are on the inside but the people waiting to fly out can't get through the fighters at the front, and are being given no help by the State Department

US puts just 100 passengers on planes that can carry 600 out of Kabul | Daily Mail Online
 
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Velo Vol said:
It was easy to sell anti-terrorism campaigns when terrorism was fresh in everyone's minds. A different matter when it's been years since an attack. Hardly anyone even tries, except for the low-hanging, "Keep Musilims out of our country" crowd.
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It's hard to push a narrative when policy is in direct conflict with the threats we face.
 
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Tyler Durden said:
Why shouldn't they be here?
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How many have you signed up to take into your one bedroom apartment?
Pay for food & clothes & send their children off to school each day. Since you're so giving.
Don't worry about others .... you can start doing your part anytime you feel free .... Hondo.
 
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