Posted on 10/08/2022 10:09:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Afghanistan is now perhaps the most dangerous country in the world, controlled by Taliban terrorists who are sheltering dozens of anti-Western jihadi groups while torturing, raping, starving, and killing their Afghan opponents. Yet the one person who could make a credible claim to be the leader of an opposition group to overthrow the Taliban has been unable to draw international support or unite fellow Afghans behind him.
Ahmad Massoud, the 33-year-old son of an anti-Taliban war hero, leads the National Resistance Front (NRF), which is concentrated in the Panjshir Valley, a lush and mountainous province close to the capital, Kabul, where the Taliban have been struggling to dislodge them in the year since they took control of Afghanistan. The NRF is one of at least 22 resistance groups the United Nations says have emerged since the Taliban’s takeover last year. A few thousand men are fighting in disparate groups, taking and holding territory in a dozen provinces mainly across the north, where anti-Taliban sentiment is strongest. But they’ve yet to form a cohesive opposition to the Taliban, who have an increasingly tenuous hold on power as factional feuds emerge and international legitimacy remains elusive.
Not that the Afghan resistance is getting any help from Washington. The Biden administration has insisted it will not support an armed opposition and seems to regard the Taliban—led by dozens of sanctioned terrorists—as partners in counterterrorism rather than part of the problem.
Despite repeated warnings of the Taliban’s long-standing relationship with al Qaeda and its affiliates, the world awoke to the danger, Massoud said, when a U.S. drone killed al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a Kabul villa associated with Taliban deputy leader and interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani.
“Now the world is paying attention,” Massoud told Foreign Policy during a recent trip to Europe.
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How quickly Ukraine is forgotten.
Ha. Not even for a moment.
Nope… there’s no money to be made in Afghanistan now. The corruptacrats have all turned their eyes and fingers in the Ukraine direction.
Afghanistan has been a benighted hell for over 200 years. Some people seem to forget this.
CC
You nailed it. The MIC caravan has moved onto more fertile lands.
Well, have fun, then. Leave us out of it.
NOPE. NOPE. and NOPE.
20 years. Thousands of lives lost. Thousands and thousand more injured. Billions and billions and billions wasted and stolen.
They had their chance. When the Taliban finally re-emerged they took Afghanistan back with barely firing a shot. Afghan police and military were laying down their weapons or joining the Taliban when they showed up in town.
It shouldn’t be our responsibility to feed them. They should ask Russia. No luck? Try China.
Tell Hunter the Northern Alliance/Resistance has heroin and he’ll be sending them arms in a second for a cut of the action.
I wish Mr Massoud well but his cause is his and his alone. No US tax dollars or military equipment. If the Taliban are the stronger than that wretched country is all theirs. We should care less.
All we had to do was remove the few bad apples, and then a strong, pro-Western democracy would flower in Afghanstan, filling the nation with a love for individual rights, rule of law, and shopping malls.
The SAME neocons told us the same damn thing about China flourishing into a wonderful western democracy if we JUST OPENED TRADE to them, instead this country is becoming more like China every damn day!!
Now?
Like it hasn’t been for several decades?
Is it because we left $85 billion in advanced US equipment?
So glad we spent 21 years there...
Other people forget Afganistan of the 1950s and 60s.
IMPEAT FOTY SIX!
Biden’s, well his admin, assumed power almost exactly 1/2 year before the disastrous pull out. It was his governments first significant action and a harbinger of things to come.
He might be our first experience with Kakistocracy in 200+ years.
In summary he stopped the Wall, killed the Keystone pipeline, put off students paying their loans back, reinstated Fauci and got the US back in WHO who had recently announced China had nothing to do with COVID (despite no evidence). He also nominated the USA’s first female director of National Security, someone who rose to some power under Obama—Arvil Haines.
That was literally his first day of executive orders.
....there is never any mention about the untold numbers of Americans who are still trapped in that s**thole of a country....just no longer a news item, I guess.....shameful...
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