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2018-10-21 Afghanistan
Taliban are nearing victory in Afghanistan
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Posted by lord garth 2018-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 (2)Pakistan continues to harbor the Taliban’s senior leadership. The Trump administration has withheld military aid to Pakistan in an attempt to get tough on the putative ally’s duplicity. For years, Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment has harbored the Taliban’s senior leaders, including members of the so-called Haqqani Network.

Herein lies the problem.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-21 00:40||   2018-10-21 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 The original 9/11 war has been lost.

Keeping in mind that the US' territory is a war theater and that the enemy doesn't observe any limits or red lines this is a non-limited war that US could not and cannot afford to not win decisively.

Adversaries of the US, especially the rational ones, will learn lessons. And this will have dire consequences for the US & allies.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-10-21 09:54||   2018-10-21 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Some things are simply beyond restoration. Afghanistan appears to be one of those things.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-21 11:36||   2018-10-21 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe, and maybe not. But the article has the tone and feel of the kind of crap being written after Tet.
Posted by Iblis 2018-10-21 12:07||   2018-10-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 You don't have to destroy the Taliban. Just weaken them enough that some other SOB makes their lives miserable. However, you do have to destroy their enablers - see Pakistan
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-21 12:37||   2018-10-21 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Should have just smacked the crap out of them and left with the comment "If it happens again we will do it again."
Posted by gorb 2018-10-21 13:55||   2018-10-21 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Still time for that Gorb.
See Bolton and Putin next week.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-21 14:42||   2018-10-21 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll take #6.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-21 19:12||   2018-10-21 19:12|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 - I'm good with that: "Don't make me come back here"
Posted by Frank G 2018-10-21 21:29||   2018-10-21 21:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Regarding the 911 war, after 17 years of war are the Taliban leaders likely to provoke the USA again?
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-10-21 22:29||   2018-10-21 22:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Calling Mr. R. Kipling...calling Mr. Kipling....
Posted by DooDahMan 2018-10-21 23:16||   2018-10-21 23:16|| Front Page Top

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