XPost: aus.politics, sci.military.naval, talk.politics.misc   
   From: f2r2a3@loonynutters.com   
      
   On 16/08/2021 1:55 pm, Delimited wrote:   
   > On 08/15/2021 08:49 PM, James Last plays in Miami wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:29:55 -0400, Delimited posted:-   
   >>   
   >>> INITIALLY, it was about squashing the al-Qaeda apparatus.   
   >>> The Taliban were protecting them, so we had to go clean   
   >>> out the nest ourselves.   
   >>>   
   >>> But the USA can rarely STICK to a simple plan. In a   
   >>> month we're into "nation building" and all the complex   
   >>> shit that involves. It really doesn't work, triply   
   >>> so in a hard-ass place like Afghanistan. The hearts   
   >>> and minds there hate EVERYBODY, FOREVER.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, from now on, the only "soc.culture.afghanistan" is   
   >>> what the Taliban COMMAND it to be. Complain - off with   
   >>> your head, for real.   
   >>   
   >> As the Australian says today (Greg Sheriden):-   
   >>   
   >> "A total debacle: 20 years of blood and treasure all lost for nothing   
   >   
   >   
   >    Could have been 50 years ... same result.   
   >   
   >    The Taliban put up with a dozen years of Russian   
   >    occupation, a very brief respite, and then the   
   >    USA/EU. Didn't dishearten them in the least.   
   >    These people are HARD-ASSES in the old medieval   
   >    sense of the word. Doesn't matter who or how long,   
   >    they will keep at it, year after decade, until   
   >    they wear down the invader and re-assert super   
   >    fundy Islam again. Allah demands it - and you   
   >    don't blow off Allah.   
      
   The Taliban is now many orders of magnitude more numerous in 2021 than   
   it was in 2001 thanks to the meddling of the western powers.   
      
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