Posted on 07/10/2021 9:34:29 AM PDT by rktman
Days after The Washington Post, in an editorial about President Joe Biden's Afghanistan policy, editorialized that "tragedy appears to be unfolding more quickly than even many of the pessimists imagined," Taliban troops cemented their hold on the deteriorating nation.
The Taliban on Thursday seized an Afghan border crossing with Iran, according to The Associated Press, which cited reports it received from an Afghan official and Iranian media.
The seizure was the fifth border crossing to fall under Taliban control in the past week, Reuters reported. Borders with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China and Pakistan are now controlled by the Taliban.
According to Reuters, a battle for a sixth border crossing, with Uzbekistan, is underway.
The Taliban victories have led nations such as Turkey and Russia to pull out diplomats.
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This was inevitable and the Pentagon know this at least 15 years ago. What a colossal waste of blood and money.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
Yup. Wouldn’t matter if we stayed 100 years. The day we left everything would revert.
Yup. We should have been gone by 2005. Or earlier.
The Taliban will be rolling through Kabul inside of two weeks.
> Wouldn’t matter if we stayed 100 years. The day we left everything would revert. <
Anyone with knowledge of the region knew that. I wonder if the Bush II / Cheney / Rumsfeld triumvirate bothered to ask any experts before they started their adventure.
It’s ok. They’ll use the captured weapons against the Chicoms.
I can’t believe the ChiComs would be stupid enough to invade Afghanistan. After all, Afghanistan is not Tibet.
The smart move for China would be to leave the tanks at home, and get what they want by bribing the local warlords. No nation-building. No trying to change their culture. None of that stuff.
But … Bush had said he was going turn Afghanistan into a stable democracy in a few years and then we would be out of there.
And there’s the path for all the refugees to cross into Turkey and with it, eventually the rest of Europe and the US.
Democrats cannot be trusted with National Security
Yeah, I’m thinkin’ the results may be different with the ccp folks. Of course the soviets were pretty brutal when they wasted ten years there.
When will they close our embassy and let diplomats and last of our troops leave?
Or anything of importance or value.
and get what they want by bribing the local warlords.
Bush II / Cheney / Rumsfeld triumvirate bothered to ask any experts before they started their adventure.Don't insult them. Don't you know THEY were the experts?
Can Republicans?
absolutely -_-
Maybe they plan to celebrate 9-11 in the burned out husk of the embassy in Kabul...
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