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2018-02-23 Afghanistan

Taliban clarifies PEACEFUL MESSAGE to USA.

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Posted by 3dc 2018-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Return to what? Gangster thugs with bloodlust?
You are sick people in that taliban. Curse you.

Posted by newc 2018-02-23 01:31|| 2018-02-23 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Despite the posturing (by Kissinger et alii) and the Nobel "Peace" Prize that is basically what Vo Nguyen Giap wanted and got in Vietnam... So their negotiating stance has recent historical precedent.

Posted by magpie 2018-02-23 03:03|| 2018-02-23 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Despite the posturing (by Kissinger et alii) and the Nobel "Peace" Prize that is basically what Vo Nguyen Giap wanted and got in Vietnam... So their negotiating stance has recent historical precedent.

So what follows, a secession of bombing, a democratic cut-off of all funding, followed by a pull out ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-23 06:36|| 2018-02-23 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 The caravan passed. All was silent,
Afghanistan no longer violent.
"May your she-camels starve
As we Taliban carve
Up our peaceful Mohammedan island!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-23 14:09|| 2018-02-23 14:09|| Front Page Top

#5 You know, after a review of Afghanistan's history, you get the feeling that the Pashtuns are a very very difficult people.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-23 14:16|| 2018-02-23 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 very difficult people. They don't give up easily. Lady Sale, one of the very few British survivors of the First Afghan War, wrote this about the Afghan noble Jan Fishan Khan, who sided with the British:
"He had one wife with him in Cabul [i.e. Kabul] when the insurrection broke out, and urged her to fly to Paghman [his family estate outside the capital] for safety; the old chief told me, her reply was worth a lakh (150,000) of rupees,
'I will not leave you ; if you fall, we die together; and if you are victorious, we will rejoice together!'"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-23 17:28|| 2018-02-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Kill a few thousand more of them. Can’t hurt.

Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-02-23 18:24|| 2018-02-23 18:24|| Front Page Top

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