Taliban hold ‘humiliating’ parade three years after returning to power in Afghanistan (video)

Sky News Australia ^ | 08/15/2024 | NA

[Nifty]

This should make people's blood boil.

[nwrep]

Amazing that they defeated both the great superpowers - USA and USSR.

[wildcard_redneck]

And people trust the Demonrats to actually win a war.

[Sirius Lee]

The English Empire didn’t do too well either. Alexander the Great made some inroads however, as did the Arabs.

[Steely Tom]

A “Pride Parade.”

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Amazing that they defeated both the great superpowers - USA and USSR.”

Graveyard of empires.

[allendale]

The families of those who made the supreme sacrifice in this American catastophre suffer the most. The physically and psychologically maimed Americans who served suffer as well. If there is any lesson to be learned is that American leaders will avoid future quagmires. People in alien lands cannot be coerced to adopt Western values and should be left entirely alone if they do no harm to America. Yet despite George Washington’s sound advice in his farewell address to avoid foreign entanglements, our leaders influenced by people who benefit financially and ideologically will continue to shed American blood and treasure in these foolish, debilitating policies.

[nwrep]

Indeed. The great Bactrians might be the most powerful people in the world.

[Kid Shelleen]

I am surprised they actually can keep the hardware maintained . I wonder who is helping them?

[DIRTYSECRET]

They should celebrate. They won.

We should give the $4 billion to Viet Nam that Kissinger promised. China will take notice as most of the aid will be military related. Deep state stuff we can approve of. Just push them towards an alliance towards China’s enemies.

[Organic Panic]

Were they holding “Kamala Walz” posters?

Why is she not using her last name like every other presidential candidate?

[know.your.why]

"...those who made the supreme sacrifice in this American catastrophe suffer the most."

Reminds me of this musing from Viktor Frankls book "Mans Search For Meaning": (a fantastic read BTW)

The experience of disillusionment is different. Here
it was not one's fellow man (whose superficiality and
lack of feeling was so disgusting that one finally felt
like creeping into a hole and neither hearing nor seeing
human beings any more) but fate itself which seemed
so cruel. A man who for years had thought he had
reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now
found that suffering has no limits, and that he could
suffer still more, and still more intensely.

[skimbell]

What's even better is that after Jopedo gave them all of this hardware, a couple of State Department agencies “accidentally” sent the Taliban $293M in U.S. Aid that was meant for Afghanistan.
Maybe they meant for them to use that aid to buy fireworks for after their parade?

[moovova]

Humiliating to us... but not the the Biden/Harris admin.

[Resolute Conservative]

“Civilized” countries have lost their stomach for warfare. It is nasty business and you have to fight to win not appease and natin build.

[econjack]

I think the props for the parade were provided by Biden’s ill-conceived exit from the country.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yet despite George Washington’s sound advice in his farewell address to avoid foreign entanglements, our leaders influenced by people who benefit financially and ideologically will continue to shed American blood and treasure in these foolish, debilitating policies.

If we have to use military force, we should have a clear mission objective. That's what we did with Desert Storm. We kicked Saddam's army out of Kuwait so he would not have the control of world's supply of oil. That's clear enough. Once the job was done, we got out.

[Cold Heart]

They drive them till they run out of fuel and then go get another one. That’s their maintenance schedule.

[rollo tomasi]

Apparently this is what trillions of US tax dollars and debt spending is invested towards.

[alternatives?]

“This should make people’s blood boil.”

We are also still sending them money.