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2021-06-14 Afghanistan

Afghanistan may collapse once again to the insurgents, despite government promises of peace, and new technology inventions at stake

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 I am focused on the real issues affecting political reality both in Afghanistan and elsewhere... I am based in Canada while writing this article

Yep, pretty much nailed it.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-14 09:13|| 2021-06-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Afghanistan ~~may~~ will collapse once again to the insurgents, despite government promises of peace, and new technology inventions at stake

...FTFY.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-06-14 10:57|| 2021-06-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 "...A clear plan for durable peace is needed right now..."

people still believe they can plan their way out of trouble

no plan will help if the Taliban wants to take over and if the Taliban have enough believers

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-06-14 10:58|| 2021-06-14 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes the plain wisdom of the past should be heeded and respected. The human experience and sophistication is not negated by the lack of modern technology. I blame Bush for his stupidity in deciding to not just slaughter Al-Qaida and leave a wasteland as a cautionary tale, but instead to moronically presume America could fix the graveyard of Empires. Twenty years and two trillion dollars later, we are leaving and pretending some illusions make it all ok.
Kipling said it best GW,
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
Solo from Libretto of Naulahka

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-06-14 12:45|| 2021-06-14 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Who cares, after 20 years they have zero desire to become a functional nation. Put a fence around it, crater the runways, and when they get crazy, bomb them back to the stone age where they are comfortable. Then go home and drink beer.

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-06-14 13:20|| 2021-06-14 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6
The 'government' are half educated pansies who want to ride that ever giving gravy train called constitutional democracy , but lack the wherewithal to enforce it on pashtuns. The taliban are trained and rugged fighters with no fear and unlimited hate for interlopers and well intentioned idiots. There was never any contest, it's only a matter of delaying the inevitable.

Most importantly, both sides are horribly, irretrievably radical sunni moslems, so no one can really do anything much for Afghanistan, unless giving well-equipped moslem militaries to the world is your thing.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-14 13:26|| 2021-06-14 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Meladul Haq Ahmadzai needs to have a meaningful discussion with the head of Taliban Systems.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-06-14 14:07|| 2021-06-14 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 people still believe they can plan their way out of trouble

The Texas bank robbers' credo: "Plan's just a list a things ain't gonna happen..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-14 15:22|| 2021-06-14 15:22|| Front Page Top

#9 no plan will help if the Taliban wants to take over and if the Taliban have enough believers....and an unchallenged base of operations from Pakistan.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-14 15:36|| 2021-06-14 15:36|| Front Page Top

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