The Conflict in Afghanistan

[Gnasher]

13 minutes ago, Aventus said:

Are they?

Well they have in the past, dunno if they are currently.

 

Taliban?

Yes

 

Machine guns?

Depends on the definition, machine guns and automatic rifles are different things but are usually thrown into the same category. 

 

School girls?

Yes, but school boys too. We shouldn't be more outraged over one gender being killed than the other. 

I believe he implied they were at present that's why I asked for evidence, my questions annoyed the forum police if nothing else.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, stringvest said:

This thread is like watching a fight break out in the audience of Deal or No Deal because one person was sitting on another's knitting.

OH YEAH!!

 

Well what about Israel??

[YorkshireRed]

6 minutes ago, stringvest said:

one person was sitting on another's knitting.

To be fair, some things are worth a fight to the death over.

 

I mean, it’s not hard to check for someone’s knitting before you take a seat. Shows a monumental lack of consideration and is probably some form of indirect discrimination. 

[Arniepie]

3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Not sure any are making that argument - there is only one reason the US went there and that is Bin Laden.

 

Over the course of two decades other issues have been amplified - certainly anyone would agree womens rights is one. Now whether "we" should be telling other folks what those should be is a different conversation.

I think it's certainly being hinted that one of the plus points of the invasion is things like improved rights for women, and whilst the case can be made ,it conveniently ignores 100,000 dead civilians and rampant corruption in the gmnt(the irony)

 

I think the major issue is what happens now.

Someone mentioned several pages back there must be a degree of support for the Taliban in the villages,and there certainly seemed to be a lot of dissatisfaction with the gmnt.

I think what's clearly been proved is militiary intervention doesnt work.

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Are we really using the deaths of school children to score internet points?

 

Fucking hell.

 

Oh, Malala Yousafzai, Afghan school girl, Nobel winning global activist, famously machine gunned in the fucking head, one of many attacks on schools, especially those teaching females, for having the audacity of wanting an education?

 

What next rejecting the existence of Elvis unless empirically verified by peer reviewed journal.

 

You want evidence provided for that, Jesus fucking Christ! 
 

Shark well and truly jumped.

 

EDIT: Fuck it, I was going to put it in the ‘slebs you’ve met thread, but I met her a few years back in Oxford on something we were both attending. She’s lovely and I can confirm she exists, didn’t ask to see the bullet wound though, will do next time mind. I’ll dig a picture out if I can find it.

 

Er calls people thick after posting load of shit that has no relevance to the point. Like fucking groundhog day. It was only yesterday you told me you were putting me on ignore you bullshitting low mark cunt.Don't worry I note Section's rode in on a big white horse to bail you out.  Now fuck off and do one.

[Strontium]

1 minute ago, Arniepie said:

I think what's clearly been proved is militiary intervention doesnt work.

 

Apart from all those other times when it worked really well. And in Afghanistan where it worked for 20 years.

[Jairzinho]

Not quite so well for the tens of thousands dead, obviously.

 

Thought we at least picked a better team though this time.

[TheHowieLama]

8 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

 

Someone mentioned several pages back there must be a degree of support for the Taliban in the villages,and there certainly seemed to be a lot of dissatisfaction with the gmnt.

 

 

On 18/08/2021 at 10:14, TheHowieLama said:

I think the West underestimated the advance work the Tally had put in. That and there is a good chance they were duped by the parts of the Afghan military brass.

 

[Gnasher]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

Seems to be true.

[Jairzinho]

They have done some serious work on their PR. 

 

Credit to them for that.

[Captain Turdseye]

34 minutes ago, stringvest said:

So much anger on the forum.  Can't you go and get a job or a hobby you melts?

See, if I wrote something like this I’d be bombarded with WhatsApp messages calling me a Prefect Cunt. 

[skend04]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

They have done some serious work on their PR. 

 

Credit to them for that.

They're just copying the likes of Trump and Johnson. Bullshitting whilst they go round mopping up the "collaborators" behind the scenes.

[stringvest]

2 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

See, if I wrote something like this I’d be bombarded with WhatsApp messages calling me a Prefect Cunt. 

That's what happens when you're whoring your telephone number out to all hands.  

[Captain Turdseye]

Just now, stringvest said:

That's what happens when you're whoring your telephone number out to all hands.  

Mind your own business. 

[Arniepie]

19 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Apart from all those other times when it worked really well. And in Afghanistan where it worked for 20 years.

What like Iraq?vietnam?

 

Yep well obviously apart from the massive loss of life on both sides,endemic corruption and making that area of the world even more combustible, it was a roaring success.

[VladimirIlyich]

If only there were actually 'good guys' and 'bad guys' rather than just pretty much bad guys all round. Which atrocity is the 'least bad' seems to be the only way of finding the 'good guys' in this war film.

[Strontium]

3 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

What like Iraq?vietnam?

 

Yep well obviously apart from the massive loss of life on both sides,endemic corruption and making that area of the world even more combustible, it was a roaring success.

 

Amazingly enough Iraq and Vietnam weren't what I had in mind.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Amazingly enough Iraq and Vietnam weren't what I had in mind.

 

36 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

OH YEAH!!

 

Well what about Israel??

 

[Anubis]

49 minutes ago, stringvest said:

So much anger on the forum.  

Fuck off…

[SasaS]

What do you all think, how long will the Taliban last in power this time?

[Anubis]

Just now, SasaS said:

What do you all think, how long will the Taliban last in power this time?

Is this a sweepstake?

[Gnasher]

On the subject of weapons,  seems the Taliban have a whole load of new M4 and M14 assault rifles to play with now, curtesy of uncle Sam,

 

 

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2021/08/22/Videos-of-Taliban-s-weapons-seizure-in-Afghanistan-embarrass-Washington

[Anubis]

Quote

“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone. But certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Tuesday.

“Obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us,” he said.

 

You don't say, Jake.

[Jairzinho]

16 minutes ago, SasaS said:

What do you all think, how long will the Taliban last in power this time?

[Strontium]

22 minutes ago, SasaS said:

What do you all think, how long will the Taliban last in power this time?

 

Until the next time they murder 3,000 Americans.