The Conflict in Afghanistan

[Kepler-186]

5 minutes ago, Anubis said:

I don’t think you can liberate something from a building that was still under your control at the time, can you?

I’m submitting the script for Kabul has Fallen to Netflix now. 

[Anubis]

[Anubis]

Kabul airport is looking like the Jerusalem airport scene in World War Z. Military helicopters chasing people out of the path of military transports. People clambering onto commercial aircraft not realising they’re grounded. Horrible to watch.

 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Maybe a few of their cricketers can defect to us. This was as predictable as Fatty O’Lardarse winning a doughnut eating contest. 

[Anubis]

Just seen Mohammed Alanjee’s tweet. He is, of course, entitled to his opinion. However, he is also a member of The Law Society, an organisation that promotes diversity and equality. His tweet implies tacit support for a regime that doesn’t. Personally, I think he’s bringing the profession into disrepute.

 

Anuone else wanting to lodge complaint can log on to the Law Society website and find details on how to go about it.

[Strontium]

Varoufakis is celebrating the end of "liberal-neocon imperialism". Stop The War Coalition is demanding reparations for Afghanistan. There's a lot of time left in the day, but these are some strong opening bids.

[Bjornebye]

Fully expecting a new wave of shithouse attacks across Europe in the next 12 months. 

[Section_31]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Fully expecting a new wave of shithouse attacks across Europe in the next 12 months. 

You reckon? It was Bin Laden who was originally holed up there wasn't it that was exporting terror, not the Taliban, who always seemed more concerned with just running Afghanistan and producing heroin.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

You reckon? It was Bin Laden who was originally holed up there wasn't it that was exporting terror, not the Taliban, who always seemed more concerned with just running Afghanistan and producing heroin.

The thousands of prisoners released from government camps in the last few days, many will be Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Them claiming this victory over there could easily fuel radicalism over here. I hope I'm wrong like. 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

 

Just point a finger at them sternly and say "ok, we see you, your card is marked if we endure terror attacks with you helping them we will carpet bomb you for a month". 

 

 

[Strontium]

28 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Varoufakis is celebrating the end of "liberal-neocon imperialism". Stop The War Coalition is demanding reparations for Afghanistan. There's a lot of time left in the day, but these are some strong opening bids.

 

A new challenger enters the arena

 

 

[JagSquared]

11 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

 

Just point a finger at them sternly and say "ok, we see you, your card is marked if we endure terror attacks with you helping them we will carpet bomb you for a month". 

 

 

Didn’t work last time so it’s a hollow threat. 

[Bjornebye]

Some people have zero shame 

 

 

 

 

[Strontium]

[Juniper]

Fucking hell, some of the footage of people falling from the sky having clung to planes taking off is heartbreaking. 
 

Tragic scenes 

[Jairzinho]

Quote

Families of British soldiers who died on previous tours of Afghanistan have criticised the British and US governments’ handling of the withdrawal from the nation as the Taliban starts to seize control.

Speaking to the PA news agency, Graham Knight, 69, father of 25-year-old RAF Sergeant Ben Knight who was killed when his Nimrod aircraft exploded in Afghanistan in 2006, said the British government should have moved more quickly to get civilians out.

He said:

We’re not surprised that the Taliban have taken over because as soon as the Americans and the British said they were going to leave, we knew this was going to happen. The Taliban made their intent very clear that, as soon as we went out, they would move in.

As for whether people’s lives were lost through a war that wasn’t winnable, I think they were. I think the problem was we were fighting people that were native to the country. We weren’t fighting terrorists, we were fighting people who actually lived there and didn’t like us being there.

Ian Sadler, 71, whose 21-year-old Trooper son Jack died when his Land Rover struck a mine in Afghanistan in 2007, told PA:

I was surprised the Americans and the allies had so much confidence in the Afghan national army.

Why did they think the Afghan national army would be able to keep the Taliban back based on just numbers alone? Why did our Government and allies have so much confidence in them?

It proved to be rubbish, really. Why did the president say Kabul will never fall when, at the same time, he must have been planning his escape?

To pull them out so quickly like that... I would have thought it would have been more of a strategic advantage to reduce the British and American influence. When the Nato forces were pulled out so suddenly, the Afghan National Army were left without any direction.

I don’t think any of the British Governments - Labour, coalition or Conservative - have handled the situation in Afghanistan particularly well... The level of support given to our soldiers in Afghanistan was trivial.

It wasn’t until we were out there for about 10 years that the urgent operational requirements came in. Why weren’t our soldiers equipped with mine-protected vehicles? We would have lost a lot less.”

 

[YorkshireRed]

Panic over. Our floppy haired cretin is leading an emergency cobra meeting as I write. It’ll all be sorted by the teatime addition of Neighbours. 

[General Dryness]

2 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

 

Just point a finger at them sternly and say "ok, we see you, your card is marked if we endure terror attacks with you helping them we will carpet bomb you for a month". 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, JagSquared said:

Didn’t work last time so it’s a hollow threat. 

After decades of continuous war, is there even that much left to bomb?

[Captain Willard]

2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Varoufakis is celebrating the end of "liberal-neocon imperialism". Stop The War Coalition is demanding reparations for Afghanistan. There's a lot of time left in the day, but these are some strong opening bids.

Still time for somebody to blame the Israelis. 

[Strontium]

9 minutes ago, captian willard said:

Still time for somebody to blame the Israelis. 

 

As sure as night follows day

 

[TheHowieLama]

To be fair - Dad of Marine sounds pretty legit - even though he has no command of the English language he seems, you know - authentic.

[Bjornebye]

He's certainly passionate about what he tweets 

 

 

 

 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

26 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

As sure as night follows day

 

Nah, it looks like you went out of your way to find that. 

You're cut from the same cloth as outraged 'chelsea rent boy' fans thinking we are homophobic. 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Do you honestly think Stronts typed "anti-semitism+Afghanistan" into the Twitter search and then posted that?

Pretty sure he has followed Dad of Marine for a few years now.

[Strontium]

Good attempt Howie, but you'll need to try harder than that to take Funnneee's place in the Gimp XI.