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Afghanistan (where the war is over)

#1 Post by John Hill » Sun Aug 08, 2021 10:25 pm

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/08/asia ... index.html

Twenty years of foreign invasion is coming to an end in Afghanistan. :-s
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#2 Post by Dushan » Sun Aug 08, 2021 10:50 pm

It should have been turned into a glass parking lot a long time ago.
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#3 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:57 am

Dushan it would make solve a lot of problems

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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:09 am

Dushan wrote:
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It should have been turned into a glass parking lot a long time ago.
Another brittle, but unsurprisingly apocalyptic, proposal from our resident right wing political sage! /:)
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#5 Post by John Hill » Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:24 am

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/americ ... IBCQQ7XHA/

US citizens told to get out of Afghanistan and to not rely on help from their government.

Meanwhile in Kunduz..
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#6 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:34 am

Not a woman in sight and every man fit and of fighting age. They are supposed to be a warrior race.

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#7 Post by Undried Plum » Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:22 am

Every one of them appears to be unarmed. So much for a "warrior race".

Anyway, what do you expect them to do to protect themselves from the B-52s which Biden has sent against them?

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#8 Post by John Hill » Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:49 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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Not a woman in sight and every man fit and of fighting age. They are supposed to be a warrior race.
Did you consider that the one's with weapons are not running away?
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#9 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:53 am

No, I considered they were all running away from a bomb. Doubtful if there were any armed ones running into the smoke.

My point is they should form militia and fight for their homeland and not flee to ours.

How many has NZ welcomed?

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#10 Post by John Hill » Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:42 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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My point is they should form militia and fight for their homeland and not flee to ours.
Which planet have you been on?
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#11 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:09 am

The other half of yours and why should they not fight for their country? They fight us for ours.

Anyway answer my question.

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#12 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:22 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:09 am
The other half of yours and why should they not fight for their country? They fight us for ours.

Anyway answer my question.
A bit of a simplistic analysis of the the history of the events in Afghanistan in the last 5 decades, methinks PN! [-X
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#13 Post by John Hill » Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:46 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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They fight us for ours.

Anyway answer my question.
I do not know which country you call yours.
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#14 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:31 pm

In which case you are not paying attention. And as is your want you still dont answer even the simplest question.

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#15 Post by John Hill » Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:52 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:31 pm
.........you still dont answer even the simplest question.
Oh no, not this sh*t again? :p
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Helmand province, one place where all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men were.

#16 Post by John Hill » Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:35 am

Afghan government forces continue to battle Taliban fighters in and around several cities as the armed group presses on with its offensive that US intelligence believes could see it take over capital Kabul within 90 days.

Fighting is raging in Lashkar Gah, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in the Taliban heartland of Helmand province, where surrounded government forces hope to hold onto the capital after the Taliban’s weeklong blitz has seen it already seize nine others around the country.
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Who controls what today.

#17 Post by John Hill » Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:41 am

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Kandahar and Herat fallen.

#18 Post by John Hill » Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:32 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities, the country’s second- and third-largest after Kabul, and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just weeks before the end of the American military mission in Afghanistan.

The seizure of Kandahar and Herat marks the biggest prizes yet for the Taliban, who have taken 12 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals as part of a weeklong blitz.
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#19 Post by Dushan » Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:16 am

So I guess the plan is to pull everyone out, let the towelheads take over all of the 34 major cities and THEN turn it into a glass parking lot? That may work.
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#20 Post by John Hill » Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:15 am

No, the plan is to go home and have victory celebrations.
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