Do you equate TV preaching, door to door canvassing, and lobbying for changes to the law with beheadings, summary executions, suicide bombing and hijacking?
Provincial capital in Afghanistan falls to the Taliban
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Not always a lot of contractors were logistics getting supplies to and from Afghanistan and personal, equipment contractors also built and maintained the bases and sometimes serviced the equipment it’s cheaper for the army those contractors weren’t in combat at all so They don’t really meet the definition of mercenary
Really? Do you have some source that says that they were not in combat? Considering that more of them were killed than all the NATO and US forces combined.
Oh well, at least it will be cheaper for a couple of acquaintances of mine. Between paying Toronto condo rents and being a heroin addict, shit's been tough!
You are uninformed. The Taliban, when they last were in charge, almost eliminated the opium cultivation. The American occupation resurrected it.
I didn't refer to the past... I referred to the future.
It is my humble opinion that Opium can and will be weaponized... much like the the Chinese have flooded us with cheap fentanyl.
So why did the Americans weaponize Opium?
The Taliban had reduced the Opium harvest by 99%.
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The Taliban are not like any other. They will adhere to the Muslim fairh while fighting. To not to is to not trust in Allah.
You are thinking like a Westerner. Until you stop you won't ever understand what went wrong. And how they think.
We'll see. That crop is an awful lot of money for a posse of Koran-snuffling goatherds to pass up on.
And not all of the dudes in power there are Talib. Some are just along for the ride. Give it a few years.....
To behead a journalist is "to not trust in Allah"... its them admitting Allah is not real, and could not possibly dole out a punishment of his own. Because if they believed, they would allow him to do his job.
Biden just gave an address about Afghanistan. He said, essentially, that Afghanistan fell quickly because Afghans refused to fight for their country.
If Biden is right, are such persons refugees?
If Biden is right, are such persons refugees?
Sigh.....
The Muslim faith allows for followers to behead journalists, especially Muslim ones who are critical of imams and leaders. Or Sharia Law. They are declared apostates.
But it does not allow for the usage or manufacture of drugs. Period.
You are speculating in the wrong direction. I'm stating the reality of the belief system. There isn't a philosophical argument here. These are as hardline believers as it gets.
In the short term sure. Once they consolidate power they will wipe them out.
They don't care about time. They will just bring the war to the producers until they are all dead. There won't be investigations or arrests. They will just kill them.
Just like they did last time.
The ones who sided and worked for the armed forces and diplomats sure are. They did risk their lives.
They need to be allowed to leave and given a path to citizenship.
Go look up the definition of "Convention refugee", Dutch.
Seriously. Then you'll know.
I think any educated woman in Ghan now has a valid refugee claim. Anyone who doesn't agree with fundamentalist Islam as well. Anyone who has written or said anything critical of Islam or the Taliban.
That's several thousand people, maybe more.
Mixed information.
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Profits and poppy: Afghanistan's illegal drug trade a boon for Taliban
The United States spent more than $8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan's opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to airstrikes and raids on suspected labs.
www.reuters.com
Opium: Afghanistan’s drug trade that helped fuel the Taliban
Taliban are involved from poppy planting, opium extraction, trafficking to charging smugglers export fees.
Opium production in Afghanistan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Desperate people hang on to taxiing US Military plane
crazy video.. what boggles my mind is they are desperate enough to risk insanity like this, but not pick up a gun and fight for their lives? Better go down in a blaze of glory or just get shot like a dog trying rather then get crushed under the wheels of a C-17 or sucked into and engine, or get crushed when the landing gear is retracted.
crazy video.. what boggles my mind is they are desperate enough to risk insanity like this, but not pick up a gun and fight for their lives? Better go down in a blaze of glory or just get shot like a dog trying rather then get crushed under the wheels of a C-17 or sucked into and engine, or get crushed when the landing gear is retracted.
What boggles my mind is that the thousands and thousands of highly trained analysts in all the think tanks in Washington DC could not foresee this. They are highly trained in warfare, foreign relations, politics, government affairs and other useful disciplines.
At the same time, it was crystal clear to a feeble minded individual as myself, with my best years behind me, and no training in these disciplines.
Did they not at all recognize that the Afghan Talibans were fighting for their country and hated invaders and occupiers that bomb and kill civilians and insurgents alike, while the western invaders and their mercenaries surely would go back home one day.
Etc.
The American empire is impotent.
At the same time, it was crystal clear to a feeble minded individual as myself, with my best years behind me, and no training in these disciplines.
Did they not at all recognize that the Afghan Talibans were fighting for their country and hated invaders and occupiers that bomb and kill civilians and insurgents alike, while the western invaders and their mercenaries surely would go back home one day.
Etc.
The American empire is impotent.
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