Taliban taking over Afghanistan

[Neveragain]

I'm sure tackling climate change will be a cinch. Just give the government more money.

[Tgo01]

Biden hiding out at Camp David for a few days and his press secretary is suddenly taking a week off.

LOL

You can't even make this shit up. The least Biden can do is own this shit. He's saying he bears zero responsibility for what is happening. He's sticking with his story that Trump literally twisted his arm until he withdrew from Afghanistan. What an absolute coward. But you all knew that when you voted for him.

[Methais]

We stay there until we know it's not going to create a humanitarian crisis

Again, it matters what happens to people even if they were born far away from you.

Imaginary lines on an imaginary map do not make us a different species. They're just ink lines.

That's something a lot of you here don't seem to be able to get through your heads.
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If 2 decades and trillions of dollars didn't do it, then what else would you suggest? Pretty sure sending in social workers isn't going to have the desired effect.

[Tgo01]

The only thing we could have done was to make Afghanistan a territory of the US and force democracy and safety and social issues down their throats, but Democrats tell me that's imperialism and imperialism is racist and bad so I guess we had no choice.

I just wish Biden grew some balls and owned his decision, but that's unlikely to ever happen.

[Gelston]

If I had 20 years and 2 trillion dollars I could at least create an Army that could hold a country for more than a weekend.

Of course, they were just busy embezzling the fuck out of that money and not actually caring about creating a functional army, because the US and NATO is there to fight for them.

Local Army commanders used to invent fake soldiers and keep the salary.

[Methais]

We should never have withdrawn. It's something I'll never forgive Biden for.

I was against it when Trump talked about it, and I'm against it now. It was politics over humanity .

But you'll still vote for him again. Assuming he's still alive and still in office by then.

[Ashliana]

But you'll still vote for him again. Assuming he's still alive and still in office by then.

You REALLY didn't think that one through, did you? Not that you ever think anything through, Methais, but this is quite the performance.

[Tgo01]

If I had 20 years and 2 trillion dollars I could at least create an Army that could hold a country for more than a weekend.

Of course, they were just busy embezzling the fuck out of that money and not actually caring about creating a functional army, because the US and NATO is there to fight for them.

Local Army commanders used to invent fake soldiers and keep the salary.

How come the Taliban, with presumably much fewer resources, seem to be able to put together a functioning army?

Or are they like 99% completely incompetent whereas the Afghan government army is 100% incompetent?

[Methais]

You REALLY didn't think that one through, did you? Not that you ever think anything through, Methais, but this is quite the performance.

Back where you belong mongoloid.

[Gelston]

How come the Taliban, with presumably much fewer resources, seem to be able to put together a functioning army?

Or are they like 99% completely incompetent whereas the Afghan government army is 100% incompetent?

Because the ANA is a shell army. It is claimed there were 300,000 soldiers, but how many probably don't exist? And then you got the ones that just take their issued stuff and go home.

Add on to that the corruption from their local leaders that just keep the money that is meant to pay them and yeah, why the fuck would they want to fight the Taliban for people that don't even care about them in the first place?

People think of Afghanistan as one country, but it isn't. It is a bunch of countries. Each tribe is basically its own country. The Taliban is attractive because they see them as people kicking out invaders imposing these silly national laws on them.

Hell, there were people that thought we were the Soviet Union when I was there.