Posted on 09/14/2021 7:40:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I’m think everyone already knows that Lindseed. 😏
Linda, Linda, Linda.
You RINO two faced hack.
Exactly
I thought the WH staff were referring to the Taliban last week as “businesslike and professional”.
What are we to believe?
The way they are getting cash money out of Biden I'd call them better than Wall Street pros.
“They are now the national government of Afghanistan.”
And the national government of the US.
wy69
Most are equally despicable.
“He wants a war. That is all.”
Countries determined by the Secretary of State to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism are designated pursuant to three laws: section1754(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). Taken together, the four main categories of sanctions resulting from designation under these authorities include restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance; a ban on defense exports and sales; certain controls over exports of dual use items; and miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.
So far there are four countries designated under these authorities: Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Iran, and Syria. And Iran is going to have the bomb shortly. So this list is not worth much, but it is a step without drawn weapons. But with the leaving of an entire county’s worth of weapons behind in Afghanistan, reported at as much as $83M worth for funding for that area, they are now a far more formidable problem.
wy69
Phoney baloney and plastic banana.
Trump called it quicksand and Bush and Graham and all the people who support constant “wars” in the world like Afghanistan are supporting constant “Vietnam Wars”.
Graham and his buddy McCain realized you can’t use Americans to do it forever so they recruited jihadists to do it in Libya and Syria.
Pakistan created the Taliban. Their intelligence agency that gave us the Taliban should all have assumed room temperature a long time ago for starters.
Symbolic BS Senator Graham.
What have we gained from designating enemy soldiers as “terrorists”?
Honestly. It’s a made-up word, it does not tell us what is to be done, while the ways to engage with enemy soldiers have stood the test of time.
And since the Taliban are NOT terrorists in any conventional sense, it’s further misdirection.
Call them what they are. Then choose - victory, defeat, or surrender. Correct language illuminates the real options.
What is “international terrorism”?
In your discussion, please contrast with “acts of war”, and define how responding to “international terrorism” would produce better outcomes than responding to “acts of war”.
(Hint - one produces a thing called “victory”, and one does not).
“(Hint - one produces a thing called “victory”, and one does not).”
There is no such thing as victory over terrorism except at each interpretation. It continues until it’s aggression can be totally stopped and as long as there is a person that can recruit others, it won’t. And at this point in history it is that terrorists move to other groups when they can’t work by themselves to fight and possibly at some point go out on their own with a new group. I do not know any terrorist group that has been conquered to the point they have been obliterated. Too many heads on the snake along with too many scales.
The first of them was the PLFP formed in 1967 by George Habash. Then it got rolling when it split to form the PFLP-GC by Ahmed Jibril in 1968. And if you are going to cover all the terrorist groups, you might consider those not even tied into the Islamic pattern like the IRA, in Ireland, formed in 1919, that were trying to unify Ireland under a socialist regime and still are. There was a split in 1969 when the Provos left the Officials because they wanted to use direct armed conflict. The IRA was broken down at that time into village representatives of both factions and went on their own in many cases. So the small groups were fighting independently with the British and protestant regions who they killed on a lot of occasions. Just like the current batches in the middle east and around the world.
There are currently 74 active large terrorist organizations based in the middle east not including their support groups and separate branches listed by our federal government that they are willing to identify. There are another 14 inactive that still have members and are in hiding also designated by our government, many with the other groups. It’s kind of like trying to figure out all the different religions in the US. We all worship a deity, just a little different way. And that’s why we have so many instead of one or two actual religions. And that’s how we differ from the middle east. They are not very tolerant.
wy69
Not sure Tamerlane or Vlad the Impaler would agree.
But on a serious note - you are right, there is no victory over terrorism, which is why I'm sure our elites chose it as a metaphor instead of war on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
In fact, by choosing (incompetent) war on the wrong targets, they assured a steady supply of new "terrorists", which they clearly need for purposes of their own.
“In fact, by choosing (incompetent) war on the wrong targets, they assured a steady supply of new “terrorists”, which they clearly need for purposes of their own.”
That one is agreed upon as the only thing we are vanquishing is ourselves and our never ending proposal to get into other peoples’ business until they get pi$$ed enough to get stupid and get a lot of their people killed to meet their virgins. You can’t win a conflict with someone who doesn’t care even though they know they can’t win, just punish. And that’s why we shouldn’t be on the top of the food chain.
Timir? An interesting ruler of the Timund empire which lasted until the late 1500’s in India where the followers died out peacefully without going to war with the British. The last ruler was Babur, a descendant of Timur through his father and possibly a descendant of Genghis Khan through his mother.
Vlad Țepeș, or Vlad the Dragon because of the organization he belonged to, was the protector of his land and his surfs. He didn’t want war, but he did get his point across. He enlisted the help of Hungary to get it done
He didn’t come out at night and bite people either. That one belongs to Universal Studios, Hollywood. Kind of a bad take on bloodthirsty.
wy69
The actions of Xiden’s admin can only make sense if we assume its purpose is to harm the US.
Thousands of dead Americans are collateral damage.
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