Taliban Poll

Are you happy the Taliban are now in control of Afghanistan?

  • 1) Yes

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • 2) No

    Votes: 21 84.0%
  • 3) Don't care

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .

Darts

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Question: Are you happy that an armed group of murderous thugs are now in control of Afghanistan?
 

Frankfooter

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Question: Are you happy that an armed group of murderous thugs are now in control of Afghanistan?
You should read this entire article.

What did Afghanistan itself achieve under US occupation? A comprador class of political elite totally alienated from its own people, beholden to the false promises of the US military and political hegemony. Afghans are now back to their own devices. Whatever happens to them is better than the indignity of 20 years of military occupation that had created a comprador class of politicians who crumbled like a hollow sandcastle as the Taliban spread its military might.

The Taliban fighters are Afghans, too. They did not come from the moon. This is their country and they are not any more fanatical and conspiracy driven than those tens of millions of Trump supporters, the QAnon believers, anti-vaxxers, Proud Boys, and the rest of them. If people are scared of Taliban leaders Haibatullah Akhunzada, Mohammad Yaqoob, Sirajuddin Haqqani, or Abdul Ghani Baradar, they have not been paying attention to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Marine Le Pen, Stephen Miller, Geert Wilders or Steve Bannon. Same level of sugar density, different bucket.

The overwhelming majority of Afghans have had no choice but to live with the Taliban. Just like Iranians, the Saudis, the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Egyptians have to deal with their criminal ruling regimes. They all deserve much better than the fate has assigned to them. Fanatical, reactionary, retrograde, or not, the Taliban is at home in the region.

What did two decades of American military occupation bring the Afghans? Peace, prosperity, democracy? Are Americans capable of any such gift to any country on this Earth – least of all “democracy”? Can the country of Donald Trump and the home of the Republican Party even fathom to procure democracy for their own country, let alone gift it to another?

As soon as the US census data came out and racist white Republicans realised their numbers are thinning they launched a systematic attack redistricting the country in a way that dismantles even a pretence of democracy.


Afghanistan is the land that gave the world Rumi, the Herat school of art and architecture, countless other poets, philosophers, mystics, historians and scientists. It can handle a gang of “Proud Boys” in Pashtun gear too.
 

HEYHEY

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They're a nice bunch of people. We should bring the Taliban to Canada after all they're just misunderstood
 
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oil&gas

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Talibans are not nice guys to be sure. Somehow they didn't bomb
their country like some foreign invaders did. That explains why
they have their people's support.
 

Darts

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Somehow they didn't bomb their country like some foreign invaders did.
Not sure about other "invaders" but I doubt the Americans killed more innocent Afghans than the Taliban did and are still doing. The Taliban like Mao and Stalin probably killed more of their own people than any foreign power.

That explains why they have their people's support.
That probably explains why so many Afghans are heading for the exit.
 

mandrill

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Talibans are not nice guys to be sure. Somehow they didn't bomb
their country like some foreign invaders did. That explains why
they have their people's support.
They performed a number of very nasty massacres however. On one occasion, many, many women and children were packed into a metal goods container with no water and roasted in 40 degree desert heat until all had died.

They're simply more tenacious and familiar than the outside competition.
 

WyattEarp

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Talibans are not nice guys to be sure. Somehow they didn't bomb
their country like some foreign invaders did. That explains why
they have their people's support.
It's hard to say how much of the people's support the Taliban really has. If you have a gun at your head, you will support almost anything.
 

Frankfooter

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Not sure about other "invaders" but I doubt the Americans killed more innocent Afghans than the Taliban did and are still doing. The Taliban like Mao and Stalin probably killed more of their own people than any foreign power.
Americans likely killed way more.
 

contact

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Americans likely killed way more.
Keep defending the Taliban terrorist Frankie where are your stats? Back up your claim

I want to see the numbers since you’re claiming the Americans killed more I want to see the numbers of Afghanis killed by the Taliban versus Killed by the Americans not counting Afghani taliban Terrorists who were killed by the Americans
 

The Oracle

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Keep defending the Taliban terrorist Frankie where are your stats? Back up your claim

I want to see the numbers since you’re claiming the Americans killed more I want to see the numbers of Afghanis killed by the Taliban versus Killed by the Americans not counting Afghani taliban Terrorists who were killed by the Americans
You're obviously suffering Talibanaphobia.......
 

shack

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Oct 2, 2001
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Question: Are you happy that an armed group of murderous thugs are now in control of Afghanistan?
So far 1 out of 23 voted yes. Where's all that leftie support for terrorists that you keep talking about but NEVER reply when challenged on it?

This poll you posted just proves how clued out you are, driven by your right wing bias.

How long until you delete this thread?
 
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