The Conflict in Afghanistan

[Gnasher]

19 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Although an Islamic scholar on R4 yesterday said the Taliban are now good lads and all Muslims are celebrating their return. 

No these are the good guys, they buy our weapons and they let us stage boxing events and stuff.... 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52358476

[VladimirIlyich]

10 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

No we invaded Afghanistan so schoolgirls could read Jane Austen books.

I thought it was to start a war between MacDonalds and KFC?

[Rico1304]

25 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Would have been interesting to see the reaction in the media here if the orange sex case was still in charge.. as he would presumably have done exactly the same.

No, he’d have left in May.  This is his plan 

[Rico1304]

12 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I thought it was to start a war between MacDonalds and KFC?

Mustn’t. Criticise. Islamic. Fundamentalists.  

[Gnasher]

5 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Mustn’t. Criticise. SAUDI ARABIAN Islamic. Fundamentalists.  

fixed.

[Arniepie]

Obviously this thread is just choca with people defending the taliban.

 

[Rico1304]

Just now, Arniepie said:

Obviously this thread is just choca with people defending the taliban.

 

Again, who said that?  

[YorkshireRed]

War with the US imminent (not really).

 

Although it is about time we brought those rapscallions down a peg or two.  
 

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

Mustn’t. Criticise. Islamic. Fundamentalists.  

????

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

Mustn’t. Criticise. Islamic. Fundamentalists.  

 

Imagine seeing the Taliban machine gunning schoolgirls for daring to get an education and still pushing the line that we're the bad guys.

 

I actually saw a keyboard warrior the other day accusing Malala Yousafzai of performative activism, apparently without irony.

[Gnasher]

21 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Imagine seeing the Taliban machine gunning schoolgirls for daring to get an education and still pushing the line that we're the bad guys.

 

Wow, "machine gunning schoolgirls" shocking if true, any links for that?

 

Also at the worry of upsetting the forum police, if that makes them the "bad guys" and I totally agree if true, using your own logic doesn't that make the child killers in the below link "the bad guys"?

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1080402

 

Or do the killers in the above link receive a free pass?

 

21 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

I actually saw a keyboard warrior the other day accusing Malala Yousafzai of performative activism, apparently without irony.

Yeah irony, that's the word.

[Strontium]

I didn't even need to click on the link to know what it would be about.

 

Obsessed.

[Captain Turdseye]

Not actually anything to do with Afghanistan but this was recently uploaded to YT, about the Iraq War, first broadcast around the time the shit started really hitting the fan with bombings on UN personnel and (I think) before they captured Saddam. 
 

Couldn’t sleep last night so ended up watching it until about 4am. Really interesting. 
 

 

 

A lot of these PBS Frontline docs are really good. There’s one called Bush’s War which goes into loads of detail about the lies they told to justify the intervention in Iraq. 

[Gnasher]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

I didn't even need to click on the link to know what it would be about.

 

Obsessed.

No you rightly pointed out people who murder children are "bad guys" I agree with you and I obviously include the Taliban in that description. The only difference between our standpoints is whilst the vast majority of the world's population find the killing of children by any country/terrorist group/organisation abhorrent some people give some country/group/organisation a free pass. 

 

Anyway any chance of that link?

[Gnasher]

3 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Not actually anything to do with Afghanistan but this was recently uploaded to YT, about the Iraq War, first broadcast around the time the shit started really hitting the fan with bombings on UN personnel and (I think) before they captured Saddam. 
 

Couldn’t sleep last night so ended up watching it until about 4am. Really interesting. 
 

 

 

A lot of these PBS Frontline docs are really good. There’s one called Bush’s War which goes into loads of detail about the lies they told to justify the intervention in Iraq. 

I'll have a look at that after, have you seen the BBC doc from last year on the Iraq war? Gruesome.

[Captain Turdseye]

Just now, Gnasher said:

I'll have a look at that after, have you seen the BBC doc from last year on the Iraq war? Gruesome.

Yeah, saw that. 

[YorkshireRed]

Flag being waved at a certain unmentionable ground at the weekend. 
 

Makes me proud to be a Red.

 

Some of the comments though…

 

Make me ashamed to be a human.

 

[Gnasher]

2 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Not actually anything to do with Afghanistan but this was recently uploaded to YT, about the Iraq War, first broadcast around the time the shit started really hitting the fan with bombings on UN personnel and (I think) before they captured Saddam. 
 

Couldn’t sleep last night so ended up watching it until about 4am. Really interesting. 
 

 

 

A lot of these PBS Frontline docs are really good. There’s one called Bush’s War which goes into loads of detail about the lies they told to justify the intervention in Iraq. 

Some time off so watched this one from a few years back. Paul Conway, the photographer is from Liverpool and a massive red. Marie Colvin was a superb journalist and the film is basically Conway giving testimony to his friend.

 

It's on BBC I player Storyville 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/09/under-the-wire-documentary-review-marie-colvin

[Arniepie]

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

 

Wow, "machine gunning schoolgirls" shocking if true, any links for that?

 

Also at the worry of upsetting the forum police, if that makes them the "bad guys" and I totally agree if true, using your own logic doesn't that make the child killers in the below link "the bad guys"?

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1080402

 

Or do the killers in the above link receive a free pass?

 

Yeah irony, that's the word.

I'd suggest that thanks to the actions of us and the Americans over 100,000 people in 1 country alone,have lost their lives,its a bit pointless seeing things in such simplistic terms as good guys and bad guys.

I dont find it interesting however that our original reason for invading the country, basically revenge for 9/11,is somehow getting removed from history and we apparently went in ,to improve the rights of women.

[Bjornebye]

Hang on has someone whose just said school girls getting machine gunned down (without a shred of evidence to back it up) mentioned irony ……. I mean fucking wow the hypocrites lying hypocrite isn’t arsed when Palestinian kids get hosed down buy gunboats when playing on a beach …. Pure evil. 

[Bjornebye]

Hahahaha revenge negs waheyyyyy someone doesn’t like being made to look like a hypocrite 

[Strontium]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Hang on has someone whose just said school girls getting machine gunned down (without a shred of evidence to back it up) mentioned irony ……. I mean fucking wow the hypocrites lying hypocrite isn’t arsed when Palestinian kids get hosed down buy gunboats when playing on a beach …. Pure evil. 

 

Some chutzpah to accuse me of not supplying evidence of schoolgirls getting shot when I literally mentioned Malala Yousafzai in my post.

 

Have to say this reinvention as the forum's only Gnasher stan account is even more tedious than the usual offerings.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Some chutzpah to accuse me of not supplying evidence of schoolgirls getting shot when I literally mentioned Malala Yousafzai in my post.

 

Have to say this reinvention as the forum's only Gnasher stan account is even more tedious than the usual offerings.

Where is the evidence? Not saying it didn’t happen but come on quoting someone’s name isn’t evidence. You’ve just asked for evidence on a tweet from a Labour mp on another thread …..
 

What is it about your hypocrisy being commented on don’t you like? 

[Strontium]

Am I really being asked for evidence that the Taliban kill schoolgirls. Is this really happening. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Am I really being asked for evidence that the Taliban kill schoolgirls. Is this really happening. 

As you described it yes. You’re also being asked to show the same level of disdain to Palestinian children being killed. Oh…..