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[Ronn]

 

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[icemaη]

The meme is already out in the wild. The clarification will not matter at this point.

 

[Ronn]

The meme is already out in the wild. The clarification will not matter at this point.

Agreed. But I’m not sure what the point of it even is. We already knew who Taliban are.

 

[DAiDEViL]

Agreed. But I’m not sure what the point of it even is. We already knew who Taliban are.

Same. What's the point of that meme. I don't get it.

 

[Ronn]

C130 being put to good use

 

[Cerval]

This right there is why it failed

 

[Bjerknes]

These guys must be Afghani special forces

 

[Dostoevsky]

It's like a cartoon.

 

[Bjerknes]

Kind of wild that what started with planes and bodies falling from the WTC onto the buildings below kinda ends with the same in Kabul.

Didn't the Afghanis learn anything from Todd and Timmy?

 

[Enron]

Rip

 

[IliveForJuve]

C130 being put to good use

Covid galore

 

[JuelzSantana]

Clown show. Considering he freed 5000 Taliban prisoners, including some of their top figures, and signed a full withdrawal for May that he was blaming Biden earlier this year for not following

Let’s be honest, policies aside we do miss Trump the entertainer. The guy was box office AF lmao.

Imagine being hospitilized with covid and throwing yourself a parade

 

[icemaη]

Agreed. But I’m not sure what the point of it even is. We already knew who Taliban are.

On Indian Twitter/Instagram, it's being used to attack liberals with quotes like "And you say burqa is a choice", "And you say RSS (an extreme right wing organisation) are the fundamentalists" etc.

 

[ALC]

Who said the taliban wouldn’t be fun?

 

[Alex-444]

 

[Allegri_is_God]

 

[Elvin]

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And America says they want American democracy in the whole world. Same circus, different clowns.

Did you just compare democracy with sharia?

 

[swag]

Clown show. Considering he freed 5000 Taliban prisoners, including some of their top figures, and signed a full withdrawal for May that he was blaming Biden earlier this year for not following

Now I completely think Trump is an egotistical incompetent clown. But a broken clock can still be right a couple times a day.

One was questioning the point of the G-7 anymore. Another of those areas was many of Trump's withdrawal plans from foreign wars and policing. Thing is, Trump was more right about Afghanistan than several presidents before him. But thanks to his big mouth and ego now, you'd never know it.

This right there is why it failed

The mission to clean out Tora Bora and terrorist training grounds -- at least until Pakistan harbored them -- was worthy and achievable. But nation building? Is there any successful nation building that wasn't helping with a few logistics after the destruction and then GTFO of the way of the locals?

Didn't the Afghanis learn anything from Todd and Timmy?

Never forget.

Who said the taliban wouldn’t be fun?

Oh, sure, you say that until a suicide bomber wires up one of those with C-4 in the trunk.

Did you just compare democracy with sharia?

In a way, yes. A social system of laws and institutions that's fit-for-purpose in the culture, land, and people. There's a lot to like about democracy, but you could argue the U.S. has its own Taliban (if not multiple) wanting to impose their own Sharia by any other name.

This isn't so much a moral relativistic judgement as much as acknowledgement that social systems that work are highly contextual ... and forcing one on a culture is not even just a bit arrogantly ethnocentric and egotistical, but it's also bound to require bubble gum and paper clips to externally hold together against its will.

Now these latest headlines do seem like something out of the Iraqi Minister of Disinformation:
https://news.sky.com/story/taliban-...n-and-urges-women-to-join-government-12383562
But I would not be surprised if there's a lot of popular support in Afghanistan that we do not know about (how else to explain the complete capitulation?). But the Western playbook will remain to pretend that it's still 2001.

 

[Allegri_is_God]

So funny

 

[swag]

So funny

Maybe they can get Gal Gadot to sing "Imagine"