Posted on 08/13/2021 7:02:10 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
The Taliban have captured another three provincial capitals in southern Afghanistan, including in Helmand, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the past two decades, as the insurgents press a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling the capital, Kabul.
And the United Nations is warning that a "humanitarian catastrophe" may be emerging in Afghanistan as civilians flee the oncoming Taliban.
The loss of Helmand's provincial capital comes after years of toil and blood spilled by American, British and allied NATO forces. Hundreds of foreign troops were killed there over the course of the nearly two-decade war.
The insurgents have taken more than a dozen provincial capitals in recent days and now control more than two-thirds of the country just weeks before the U.S. plans to withdraw its last troops.
While Kabul isn't directly under threat yet, the losses and the battles elsewhere further tighten the grip of a resurgent Taliban, who continue to press their offensive.
"The U.S.-backed Afghan military has been no match for Taliban fighters who are taking advantage of the vacuum left by the U.S. troop withdrawal," says CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi. "With stunning speed, Taliban fighters are sweeping across Afghanistan."
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Matched only by the leftists destroying this country while the conservatives and patriots sit on the sidelines.
How soon will the taliban start preparing for a raid on the US as on 9-11.
Sounds like they just changed the country name from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Did they show pics of the Biden directed USAF resupply missions to the Taliban fighters?
Didn’t both parties threaten to impeach Trump for wanting to remove troops entirely? Joe continues to undo the good work, peace and stability abroad, that Trump was able to maintain. No one is afraid of a response from Joe.
Well heck!, they picked up all the best equipment just laying around.
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Should have destroyed everything.
But Xio Bei Din wanted to give it to his buddies.
Send them Antifa..they’re be right at home there.
And maybe we could reclaim a few of our cities/states?
They probably already have something in the planning stages.
Afghanistan is in reversion to the mean while being televised.
The Afghan army is just dropping weapons and turning tail. They won’t even fight to protect their own people, their women, their children. They own this.
Will the defeated towns engage in guerilla warfare against their conquerors?
Biden is incapable of remembering or commprehending what happened in Vietnam. A capable Commander in Chief would have handled this differently. Soon the airports in Kabul will be under mortar and rocket attack. They will close. Already the cabal that runs Biden is realizing that this “withdrawal” is becoming a visual political disaster for them. Soon the 3,000 troops being sent into Kabul to “aid in the evacuation” will need reinforcement and support. Inevitably they will evolve into a garrison to prop up the failed Afghan government. More young Americans will die and become maimed. Nothing will be accomplished.
[[No one is afraid of a response from Joe.]]
he will ‘draw a line in the sand’ and the taliban will soil themselves and lay down their weapons and surrender- just ask the msm- they’ll tell ya
how many afghan soldiers are actually taliban?
All of them now.
Absolutely NOTHING STUNNING about this at all.
100% predictable
100% expected
I highly doubt that. The Afghan army is taking their US provided weapons and training and joining the Taliban. $88 Billion worth!
It’s a nation populated largely by 8th Century knuckle dragging savages. Why should any of this be surprising?
“The Afghan army is taking their US provided weapons and training and joining the Taliban.”
I have no doubt some of them are. Piss ants. All of them.
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