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You mean trillions.is there a better way to flush down billions of dollars with little to show for it?
At the very least there is no point in attending or sending your kids to an university in Kabul. When you have people wanting to gun you down you get a weapon, not books.Unless they really make considerable efforts to basically completely change their way of living and thinking, there's no point being there.
Not everyone can be like the Japanese or Germans.
You mean trillions.
Pure insanity. RIP to the students. Such extra cowardly psychos the attackers were, to prey on a place like a school. I hope Allah surprises them with an eternity of Uberknees to the balls in the afterlife.
Anything with Jones Jr. whopping ass is a like for me. Who you got for the Tyson exhibition?
At least you didn't spend it on something stupid like socialised healthcare.
To be fair we can't even prevent our own incel lone wolf attacks.Good thing all of that money, time, lives and resources we used over there to stop the Taliban and terrorism worked.
great legend in your avatar.
Heard about this on NPR the day it happened, they played an interview with a lady who said something like "How can we have hope when are children are being slaughtered?"This happened on November 2nd. We were apparently too consumed with our election to notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack
Well, all but one:
All the media reports at the time were saying 19 casualties, but now it's 32. It's 35 dead counting the gunmen:
Interesting is that despite ISIL claiming responsibility most Afghan government officials believe it was the Taliban despite the deal they signed with Trump's administration in February. The Taliban spokesman insisted they were not complicit.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/02/terrorist-attack-kabul-university-shatters-hopes-afghanistan/
The Taliban is already becoming the new PLO. They'll insist they're a legitimate political organization, insist they want peace, insist whoever they politically oppose are the real barbarians...yet apathetically look on as terrorist attack after terrorist attack unfolds against that same group they vilify. So predictable.
In searching to see if another had already made this thread I rediscovered this 2016 discussion:
80+ dead, 230+ injured in Kabul
The Afghan "government" is a puppet state that can barely function, what is even the point of propping them up if they can't effectively government the country? I say cut and run and hope that in time there's a revolution against the Taliban from below. Either that or stop messing around and occupy the country with overwhelming force for at least a decade, if not to or three, and invest heavily in things like infrastructure, basic education, healthcare and so on.At the very least there is no point in attending or sending your kids to an university in Kabul. When you have people wanting to gun you down you get a weapon, not books.
The Afghan government should focus on total war until they are able to destroy the Taliban and their allies.
Well, yes, but if they(their gubmint) don't do something they will be even weaker. Or just call it a day and hand over everything to the Taliban.The Afghan "government" is a puppet state that can barely function, what is even the point of propping them up if they can't effectively government the country? I say cut and run and hope that in time there's a revolution against the Taliban from below. Either that or stop messing around and occupy the country with overwhelming force for at least a decade, if not to or three, and invest heavily in things like infrastructure, basic education, healthcare and so on.
Muslims are the number one victim of Islamic terror.So its Muslims killing other Muslims.
So I guess it makes sense what Macron is saying by excluding funding of Mosques from hostile sources like Saudi Mosques who fund radical style Islam.
People like Sadam and Erdogie bad Dogie are quick to point that Macron is being a hardline anti Maslim.
But Its not Mackron turning Muslims into explosives right?
Racist! 50 pages later....Religion on piss strikes again
It's a sad state of affairs. It's difficult not to crumble, and to not give up out of pure exhaustion. The afghan people have suffered so much. What can realistically be done? Alliances, treaties, strong arming?
If only it was that easy.