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U.S. has persuasive intel Taliban do not intend to abide by terms of peace deal, officials say
NBC ^ | March 6, 2020 | Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian and Dan De Luce

Posted on 03/07/2020 11:29:14 AM PST by Leaning Right

The U.S. government has collected persuasive intelligence that the Taliban do not intend to honor the promises they have made in the recently signed deal with the United States, three American officials tell NBC News, undercutting what has been days of hopeful talk by President Donald Trump and his top aides.

"They have no intention of abiding by their agreement," said one official briefed on the intelligence, which two others described as explicit evidence shedding light on the Taliban's intentions.

Trump himself acknowledged that reality in extraordinary comments Friday, saying the Taliban could "possibly" overrun the Afghan government after U.S. troops withdraw.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; taliban
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To: LeoWindhorse

Deploy FAE’s on all Known Taliban concentrations or hide-outs.

Use them in the passes to Pakistan to eliminate the ability to retreat .

Offer a bounty on Taliban and ISIS fighter ear sets .


61 posted on 03/07/2020 1:53:08 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: hanamizu

Do you think there’s any way to withdraw without blood? I’ve been thinking about this since the first Tora Bora fiasco and cannot figure how to get out of that sh*t hole without losing people and a serious bloodbath.
Back then I was all for some revenge but I was not big on boots on the ground.

I seem to remember writing what a hornets nest it was and Bush doubled down running in to Iraq. Guess I’m being rhetorical but I can’t see a way to leave. Plus the Talibunnies will just burn and pillage all the opium poppies...I’d agree with that part.

Ideally I’m all for a raptura disappearing act. Tired of losing blood and treasure in far off lands


62 posted on 03/07/2020 1:53:16 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Agent Orange all poppy fields


63 posted on 03/07/2020 1:55:03 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Leaning Right
U.S. has persuasive intel Taliban do not intend to abide by terms of peace deal, officials say

Still not our problem...

64 posted on 03/07/2020 2:00:33 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Per the White House web site, Afghanistan is still producing bumper crops every year.

So send the DEA.

We need to leave.

65 posted on 03/07/2020 2:03:57 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: poinq
We can only save a few who want to be saved.

We shouldn't bother until every homeless American veteran is taken off the streets and made whole. It's a damn shame that even a single American veteran is homeless, nevermind the tens of thousands there are.

66 posted on 03/07/2020 2:17:51 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Leaning Right
Consider a soldier who is in the current Afghan army. He’d have to know which way the wind was blowing. He’d have to know that once the Americans leave, the current puppet government will collapse.
That soldier should probably desert the first chance he got. Because if he waits too long, he’ll probably be killed in the collaborator bloodbath that is sure to follow the Taliban victory.

Nobody likes traitors and those so-called Muslims, who have collaborated with us will be killed.

A fundamental Muslim should be working against us Infidels, and not helping us out with our Infidel agenda.-Tom

67 posted on 03/07/2020 2:31:03 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Leaning Right

The only intel one needs to know the taliban lies is that they are muslim.

JoMa


68 posted on 03/07/2020 3:26:18 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: BeauBo
Basically, the civil war would be back on again, and the country at risk of falling back into another “Mad Max” period of warring gangs and Militias

That's not something that I would care about. If it's saracens killing saracens, why complain?

69 posted on 03/07/2020 4:44:22 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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