Time to go back in to Afghanistan
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Mr Jones
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Rumsfield when quizzed by Cynthia McKinney, days prior to 9-11, couldn't account for his departments missing 3 trillion dollars
Roger Perry
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A trillion is a lot of $$$$$$$$$$ reported that over the last 20 yrs $1.2 tril been spent in/on that country.
If it were seconds 1Tril would be almost 32 thousand years.
If it were seconds 1Tril would be almost 32 thousand years.
Danllan
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Is that the right figure? It works out at >$164m dollars a day, can't be right, can it?
Roger Perry
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Bout 30,000 BC.......................Scary ehIs that the right figure? It works out at >$164m dollars a day, can't be right, can it?
Whatever the figure you can guarantee a fair chunk is resting in the leaders Halalifax account.Is that the right figure? It works out at >$164m dollars a day, can't be right, can it?
Danllan
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Can't be right then, the world only started circa 6000 years ago for most of you lot over there...
Campbell
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I read this book a few years ago, covered in great detail.
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Or we (USA) could have just given every family in Afghanistan a cheque for a third of a million pounds and told them to behave themselves.Is that the right figure? It works out at >$164m dollars a day, can't be right, can it?
However, its kept the US arms manufactures and aid agencies busy and plenty of people gainfully employed.
M-J-G
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You couldn't have given them that money, that gives them power, and we can't give them power.Or we (USA) could have just given every family in Afghanistan a cheque for a third of a million pounds and told them to behave themselves.
Mr Jones
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Also a great read by Alfred W Mccoy, is the Politics of Heroin.
caveman
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Good listen on Afghanistan on LBC radio with Majid Nawaz standing in for dick head O'brien this week.
Roger Perry
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Can't be right then, the world only started circa 6000 years ago for most of you lot over there...
There is no political will to balance the budget.............has not been for many years.Or we (USA) could have just given every family in Afghanistan a cheque for a third of a million pounds and told them to behave themselves.
Keep printing and let it be someone else's problem down the road. The last best hope for fiscal responsibility in America was the Tea party of a few years ago, pretty sobering.
If you want to scare yourself pull up the national debt clock website.
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- Northern Ireland
What will become of the NRF in their valley? Could they hold out indefinitely if the west airdrops food, essentials, ammo and weapons etc, and perhaps air support if under heavy attack?
Pieces_of_Eight
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I can't see that there is enough political will to help them out. They are against the clock and against an unlimited Taliban force, now that fighting in the rest of the provinces is over.
Even if they were helped, the Taliban would never accept them as a legitimate part of the new government.
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Dont think the US would do it,as Trump will have probably agreed not to as part of the withdrawal deal. Besides,what do we actually know about the "Northern Alliance" ?
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Sounds more like a building society than something to scare the Taliban with.
Exfarmer
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The Northern alliance is a group mainly from the Tajik tribes who are a minority tribe with in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a loose collection of different clans or tribes owing allegiance to nobody but their clan. They did until the Russians arrive have a King who had the groupings under a sort of control. He acted more as an adjudicator in the continual quarrels among them, which was mostly based on land holdings.
The Pashtun are by far the largest tribal grouping and the Taliban are mostly recruited from this group.
The Northern alliance formed in the late 90s in response to the Taliban seizing power and were never fully incorporated into the Islamic state.
The Northern alliance though has been notorious for both corruption and changing sides whenever the price is right. It is believed they have supported 6 different groupings since 2,000
The Pashtun are by far the largest tribal grouping and the Taliban are mostly recruited from this group.
The Northern alliance formed in the late 90s in response to the Taliban seizing power and were never fully incorporated into the Islamic state.
The Northern alliance though has been notorious for both corruption and changing sides whenever the price is right. It is believed they have supported 6 different groupings since 2,000
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They sound just about perfect for us and US to pour billions in arms and equipment into.
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They sound just about perfect for us and US to pour billions in arms and equipment into.
They did. That's how the invasion of Afghanistan was successful in 2001/2.