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Does anyone here fear an uptick in potential terrorist attacks now that the country the USA has been supporting for 20 years is on the verge of collapse to the Taliban? On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 no less!
Trillions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of casualties on both sides - the Afghan people have spoken - they would rather live in a medieval Islamic society than the 21st century. I don't have any problem with that as they were in power before 9/11. However, the Taliban have turned their country into a base for global jihad (and before I get any indignant answers from Muslims on this board about how Jihad means "peaceful struggle" and yours is a "religion of peace" the Taliban have a long history of known associations with various radical, armed groups) and this could mean NYC is a target again.
Does anyone here fear an uptick in potential terrorist attacks now that the country the USA has been supporting for 20 years is on the verge of collapse to the Taliban? On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 no less!
Trillions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of casualties on both sides - the Afghan people have spoken - they would rather live in a medieval Islamic society than the 21st century. I don't have any problem with that as they were in power before 9/11. However, the Taliban have turned their country into a base for global jihad (and before I get any indignant answers from Muslims on this board about how Jihad means "peaceful struggle" and yours is a "religion of peace" the Taliban have a long history of known associations with various radical, armed groups) and this could mean NYC is a target again.
Kabul was actually a very modern city until the Soviet Union invaded it, so I think your characterization that the Afghan people have "spoken" is misleading. They've gone from being occupied, civil war to being occupied and now abandoned.
It was time for us to exit, should have never been there to start with, thanks to Bush/Cheney's war machine and defense contractors though, we invaded an entire country to capture Bin Laden and then never left for over 20 years and now we've handed them our own weapons of war to fight back with.
Though the way some of y'all want a civil war here because you can't get a steak without a vaccine, I'd think you'd welcome more terrorist attacks after Jan. 6th, because my freedoms above all else, right? So does it make a difference if it's foreign brown folks or Joe Schmoe from down the street taking matters into their own hands?
Kabul was actually a very modern city until the Soviet Union invaded it, so I think your characterization that the Afghan people have "spoken" is misleading. They've gone from being occupied, civil war to being occupied and now abandoned.
It was time for us to exit, should have never been there to start with, thanks to Bush/Cheney's war machine and defense contractors though, we invaded an entire country to capture Bin Laden and then never left for over 20 years and now we've handed them our own weapons of war to fight back with.
Though the way some of y'all want a civil war here because you can't get a steak without a vaccine, I'd think you'd welcome more terrorist attacks after Jan. 6th, because my freedoms above all else, right? So does it make a difference if it's foreign brown folks or Joe Schmoe from down the street taking matters into their own hands?
Kabul is just one city and the capital. ONE WEEK AGO the Taliban controlled none of the provincial capitals. Today they control ALL of them including the capital. And they did all of this while barely firing a shot. The Afghan National Army just melted away like the ARVN in South Vietnam 1975. There was barely any support for the national government outside the capital. What is worse is that a large part of the national army and police had been infiltrated by the Taliban years ago. So, all these men had to do was change out of their uniforms on their days off. They would not have been able to do any of this unless they had the support of the surrounding population.
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