It's quite incredible.
Similar ro Iraq where Blair and Bush were warned of the Sunni/Shia schism that would develop post Saddam and totally ignored it.
It's the political equvilant of Saturday when we went into a game of football without a nominated penalty taker. Absolute amateur hour.
Also using his logic America should never have reneged on.promises they made to the Kurds,(on more than one occasion).
He was also very disingenuous about the losses the Afghani people have incurred, you'd think it was only Americans that have suffered over there, not the locals and other...
Oh no. RIP Paul.
After reading the reports in the media the outlook sounded promising but I was speaking to someone who knows him Saturday and the said he was very poorly.
My heart goes out to his family.
But apparently less centralised than before so even if the noises they're making about being more progressive are true (and I doubt anyone's buying it) it doesn't mean local leaders adhere to it though I'm sure you know more about their structure than me.
Yeah, it seems like a complete waste of time, money, resources and most importantly lives.
I can't see any way this doesn't now become a safe haven for Al Qaeeda, which was what all this was supposed to prevent.
It was lined up to happen long before last week.
And how are the Taliban capable of defeating am army with 4 times the troops that the Yanks spent billions training?
I'd love to see a breakdown of what happened there.
The whole thing stinks.
It didn't take 9 days. Its been in the pipeline for far longer.
Scratch below the surface a bit and theres plenty of evidence of that.
But Biden didn't stop it because its was too late, he didn't stop it because he didn't want to.
They knew the Americans were going, all they had to do was be patient.
Trump set the wheels in motion and Biden never had any intention of reversing that course of action, in fact if Trump hadn't of started the process he would.
At least corporate America troused 2 trillion of taxpayer's money
Trump got Baradar released, Pompeo met with him in 2020.
The Taliban knew they just had to wait. This was happening whoever was in the Whitehouse, there are numerous statements from both men indicating so, what I dont understand is why.
Think we'll get at least a draw.
Both goals conceded this season have come down our left and I expect us to be much stronger down that side with Salter coming in.
To the tuneof Robin Hood riding through the Glen.
Simon Moore, Simon Moore, commanding his box,
Simon Moore,Simon Moore, in his Sky Blue socks,
He plucks them from the air,
And hes got lovely hair,
Simon Moore, Simon Moore, Simon Moore.
Despite the Talibans statement of no retribution ( which I'm fairly sure of no one believed), looks like they've already killed some interpreters.
Horrendous stuff.