spanners and hammers
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looking at the news we not managed to get out yet !!!!!! gunny highway says it best " what a clusterfuxk ""
Time to go back in to Afghanistan
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The article is designed to show him in a bad light, probably justified, and then adds in the bit about HIM walking of with the cash, that is physically impossible, if they dont believe he did take the cash or transfer the cash, which is more likely then why make/print the allegation ? Its typical journalism these days chuck enough mud and some will stick, add a bit of sensation and it sticks better,
Mr Jones
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China's military top brass, probably in Kabul as we speak. Their new 'silk road'has to go ahead.
Massey4517
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We are where we are now. However doesn't this go all the way back to meddling in others affairs even up to 100 years (probably inaccurate) ago. All leading to what went on for the last 20 years.
oil barron
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I threw my remote at the TvAnyone noticed that T Bliar has weighed into the blame game today. This from the man who has made himself £millions, touring the world talking of his great success in starting wars...
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Nice theory of course, but it's only big talk, when your enemy hides among women and children. The reality is that, while you hand-pick your way through them, trying not to create innocent casualties, it just becomes something that grinds on forever.
Danllan
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Everything is theoretical until it's put into practice; there are ways around what you describe and we did it very, very well in Malaya. But Afghanistan a) was never of any particular importance, and b) was a lost cause the moment the US decided to gap it.
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I see the Taliban are dictating the timing of the west's withdrawal. No more time, they say. Uncle Sam going with tail between his legs.
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Trumps deal with them to be out by the end of May, so they have already allowed one 3 month extension.
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Oh. Deal? What did the Taliban give in the deal?
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Gave Trump first option on building them a golf resort in Kabul.
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On a serious note, this whole episode will go down as a disaster.
Does Biden not appreciate the issue on the ground?
And even if the Americans pull out next week, why cant the Brits and, dare I say it the EU, put in enough troops and kit to keep the airport open for longer - there's enough empty (?) planes going in there atm.
I say this as a keyboard warrior rather than a real one..
Does Biden not appreciate the issue on the ground?
And even if the Americans pull out next week, why cant the Brits and, dare I say it the EU, put in enough troops and kit to keep the airport open for longer - there's enough empty (?) planes going in there atm.
I say this as a keyboard warrior rather than a real one..
oil barron
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Free passage for anyone the allies want to evacuate and not to harbour isis again.
The Taliban were not considered baddies until they allowed Bin Laden to hide in the mountains. They had an embassy in Washington
The yanks said Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan. Then again the yanks said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Hey ho….
oil barron
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One was true. One was a lie of the highest order and I believe it came from the UK, although G Dub was very keen to pore petrol on it.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the penny has finally dropped in UK government circles. Tobias Elwood, chair of the Commons Defence Committee, had acknowledged that the so called US / UK ”special relationship”, is over. It appears the yanks didn’t send as much as a text, never mind a high level political phone call, before the latest act in Kabul.
That would have been Biggles driving then?
Vietnam?
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Short of genocide, there will never be a military victory over an insurgency.