Posted on 08/09/2021 9:35:49 AM PDT by kingtom
The Taliban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital on Monday following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centers fall in quick succession and the government struggle to keep the militants at bay.
Taliban terrorist seized most of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took another neighboring provincial capital after a month long siege. The advances were the latest in a series of blows to government forces as U.S. troops complete their pullout after nearly two decades in the country.
The terrorists planted their flag in the main square of Kunduz city, where it was seen flying atop a traffic police booth, a video obtained by the Associated Press showed.
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You can’t start a nationwide invasion with dropped guns. Pakistan, Plan, Russia and Iran to name a few.
Not our circus, not our monkeys. President potatohead just honked them off by bombing some areas pretty much at random.
Bkmk
Soon. Very soon.
Well, that leads me back to my original position - bring ‘em all home.
Probably China.
I still maintain we should’ve left them with the Soviets in the 1970s.
“20 years, billions of dollars and thousands of lives down the drain. Never should have set one boot on the ground in that God forsaken land.”
Yep. I was mobilized for this exercise in FUTILITY in 1992! TWENTY-NINE YEARS LATER...we’re still wasting blood and treasure over there! Grrrr!
Some folk, and ya have to wonder WHO, made fortunes off Afghanistan.
Many very rare minerals there and some have exploited that to become very wealthy..
And remember, insider trading by congress critters is NOT illegal.
Good for ye but not for me.
20 years, billions of dollars and thousands of lives down the drain.
Never should have set one boot on the ground in that God forsaken land.
Truer words were never spoken.......just like VietNam who hogtied our boys and never meant for them to win. We owe our veterans so much who gave so much for POLITICS!
Let’m take the cities, it’s not like they can do anything with them.
Afghanistan is going back to the 9th century. Our 20-year effort only pulled them up to the 10th century.
Biden, like Obama gave the Talis all the weapons that they needed.
Get every American out, let them have at it! I hope they’re nice and organized when the Chinese arrive.
I’ll say it once again, the MIC doesn’t care. They supplied weapons against the Russians, then they supplied weapons to the US, and now they’ll just flip back over to supplying weapons against the Chinese.
We need not concern ourselves with China. We can’t even mop up sand maggots.
You can watch in almost real time the conquest by the Taliban at the Long War Journal.
I would call this a classic Rope-a-Dope, butt...
this is an engineered failure.
So what? Taliban is the legitimate government of these savages.
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