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2021-02-14 Afghanistan

Taliban Controls 52% of Territory in Afghanistan: Survey

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 I would argue that over 50% of Afghanistan isn't controlled by anybody.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-14 08:20|| 2021-02-14 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ ...and it never has been throughout history.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-14 08:21|| 2021-02-14 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Any way you slice that, seem like a huge waste of blood and treasure that the GOPe-Den uniparty has put us through.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-14 10:57|| 2021-02-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Should have been a punitive expedition, give Dostum his part of the mess to run and exited after killing Osama.

On a side note, with all the military capability we committed to the place, what gives the ruling caste any idea that they can control America if a good part of those 72 million inhabitants decide they don't and won't.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-14 14:56|| 2021-02-14 14:56|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Should have been a punitive expedition, give Dostum his part of the mess to run and exited after killing Osama.

Yep

Posted by Frank G 2021-02-14 15:22|| 2021-02-14 15:22|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ "Butcher and Bolt" a tradition of the Victorian British Army where every generation they had to mount a Punitive Expedition over the frontier, often into Afghanistan, to suppress the native's casual sport of banditry.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-14 16:37|| 2021-02-14 16:37|| Front Page Top

#7 52%? That beats Biden, doesn't it?

Posted by Clem 2021-02-14 16:38|| 2021-02-14 16:38|| Front Page Top

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