Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise

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Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise​

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.​

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.

nationalinterest.org

By Jason Criss Howk

In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts the following question: “How should the Biden administration approach Afghanistan and the Taliban government?” The following article is one of their responses:
The recent killing of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Taliban-Haqqani safehouse in Kabul should give American leaders and allies of the Afghan people a reason to reassess their current policy. If the clear links between the Taliban-Haqqani leadership and Al Qaeda are not enough, policymakers should quickly scan the reports about the deadly and misogynistic system that has been installed by the terror regime in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to change their thinking based on current diplomatic approaches, as this statement from Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani at the beginning of August made clear.
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Independent research has assessed that Afghanistan is unsafe for anyone that does not subscribe to the extremist ideology of the regime. Every day, Afghans whom the regime defines as their opposition are murdered without trial, often after enduring brutal torture. Women, girls, former members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and religious or ancestral minorities are at extreme risk. Women and girls are simply objects to the terror regime, stolen and sold or gifted into arranged marriages. The majority are now denied education and economic opportunities.


Commentary:
Afghanistan is more or less the same as it was before the United States and its allies got there. Many people have pointed out at the time and since then, as soon as the US left it would go back to being the same. We were already there for 20 years.
Was Joe Biden's orders to slink away from Bagram AFB in the middle of the night the right choice?
One of the few things Obama ever said that was true:
“Never under-estimate Bidens ability to FUBAR things”.

 

[surada]

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise​

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.​

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.

nationalinterest.org

By Jason Criss Howk

In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts the following question: “How should the Biden administration approach Afghanistan and the Taliban government?” The following article is one of their responses:
The recent killing of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Taliban-Haqqani safehouse in Kabul should give American leaders and allies of the Afghan people a reason to reassess their current policy. If the clear links between the Taliban-Haqqani leadership and Al Qaeda are not enough, policymakers should quickly scan the reports about the deadly and misogynistic system that has been installed by the terror regime in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to change their thinking based on current diplomatic approaches, as this statement from Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani at the beginning of August made clear.
~Snip~
Independent research has assessed that Afghanistan is unsafe for anyone that does not subscribe to the extremist ideology of the regime. Every day, Afghans whom the regime defines as their opposition are murdered without trial, often after enduring brutal torture. Women, girls, former members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and religious or ancestral minorities are at extreme risk. Women and girls are simply objects to the terror regime, stolen and sold or gifted into arranged marriages. The majority are now denied education and economic opportunities.


Commentary:
Afghanistan is more or less the same as it was before the United States and its allies got there. Many people have pointed out at the time and since then, as soon as the US left it would go back to being the same. We were already there for 20 years.
Was Joe Biden's orders to slink away from Bagram AFB in the middle of the night the right choice?
One of the few things Obama ever said that was true:
“Never under-estimate Bidens ability to FUBAR things”.

Afghanistan has been a nightmare since 1974 when the Afghani communists overthrew the monarchy.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise​

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.​

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.

nationalinterest.org

By Jason Criss Howk

In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts the following question: “How should the Biden administration approach Afghanistan and the Taliban government?” The following article is one of their responses:
The recent killing of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Taliban-Haqqani safehouse in Kabul should give American leaders and allies of the Afghan people a reason to reassess their current policy. If the clear links between the Taliban-Haqqani leadership and Al Qaeda are not enough, policymakers should quickly scan the reports about the deadly and misogynistic system that has been installed by the terror regime in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to change their thinking based on current diplomatic approaches, as this statement from Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani at the beginning of August made clear.
~Snip~
Independent research has assessed that Afghanistan is unsafe for anyone that does not subscribe to the extremist ideology of the regime. Every day, Afghans whom the regime defines as their opposition are murdered without trial, often after enduring brutal torture. Women, girls, former members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and religious or ancestral minorities are at extreme risk. Women and girls are simply objects to the terror regime, stolen and sold or gifted into arranged marriages. The majority are now denied education and economic opportunities.


Commentary:
Afghanistan is more or less the same as it was before the United States and its allies got there. Many people have pointed out at the time and since then, as soon as the US left it would go back to being the same. We were already there for 20 years.
Was Joe Biden's orders to slink away from Bagram AFB in the middle of the night the right choice?
One of the few things Obama ever said that was true:
“Never under-estimate Bidens ability to FUBAR things”.

Afghanistan is known as the Graveyard of Empires for a good reason.
Ask the USSR what they think of it.
Oh, can't do that, the entire empire crumbled less than a decade after leaving in shame.
The Mongols & British also played that game & lost.
That backward-ass pile of landlocked rocks & violence was always going to revert back to factory settings

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Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise​

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.​

Afghanistan Has Become a Terrorist Paradise

There is a national interest in stopping the meltdown in South Asia using all of the tools in our national security toolbox.

nationalinterest.org

By Jason Criss Howk

In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts the following question: “How should the Biden administration approach Afghanistan and the Taliban government?” The following article is one of their responses:
The recent killing of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Taliban-Haqqani safehouse in Kabul should give American leaders and allies of the Afghan people a reason to reassess their current policy. If the clear links between the Taliban-Haqqani leadership and Al Qaeda are not enough, policymakers should quickly scan the reports about the deadly and misogynistic system that has been installed by the terror regime in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to change their thinking based on current diplomatic approaches, as this statement from Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani at the beginning of August made clear.
~Snip~
Independent research has assessed that Afghanistan is unsafe for anyone that does not subscribe to the extremist ideology of the regime. Every day, Afghans whom the regime defines as their opposition are murdered without trial, often after enduring brutal torture. Women, girls, former members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and religious or ancestral minorities are at extreme risk. Women and girls are simply objects to the terror regime, stolen and sold or gifted into arranged marriages. The majority are now denied education and economic opportunities.


Commentary:
Afghanistan is more or less the same as it was before the United States and its allies got there. Many people have pointed out at the time and since then, as soon as the US left it would go back to being the same. We were already there for 20 years.
Was Joe Biden's orders to slink away from Bagram AFB in the middle of the night the right choice?
One of the few things Obama ever said that was true:
“Never under-estimate Bidens ability to FUBAR things”.

Yep. Just as you said. It is the same now as 20 years ago, before we came in, to hung for Osama. Osama is dead. We have no national interest in Afghanistan.

 

[surada]

Yep. Just as you said. It is the same now as 20 years ago, before we came in, to hung for Osama. Osama is dead. We have no national interest in Afghanistan.

Bush went into Afghanistan because Enron desperately needed a gas pipeline across Afghanistan to their Dabhol power plant.

It's a vanity to think we can fix Afghanistan.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

essentially the war was over
the fighting was rare
more people were dying in Chicago than in Afghanistan
we still had a small force there to keep a lid on the Taliban
it was working
biden withdrew for pure political theater, but like everything else, it backfired on his dumb ass
that $80 billion worth of hardware that biden left behind is being used by the taliban terrorize the afghans
the big danger is that afganistan will be used to train terrorists

 

[JGalt]

Yep. Just as you said. It is the same now as 20 years ago, before we came in, to hung for Osama. Osama is dead. We have no national interest in Afghanistan.

That's what our intel agencies said back in the 90's.

You will have a national interest after a future terrorist attack is traced back to Afghanistan.

 

[surada]

That's what our intel agencies said back in the 90's.

You will have a national interest after a future terrorist attack is traced back to Afghanistan.

The Taliban have no history of terrorist attacks. All their activity has been confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan. But, enjoy your histrionics.

 

[AZrailwhale]

That's what our intel agencies said back in the 90's.

You will have a national interest after a future terrorist attack is traced back to Afghanistan.

Then we should fund and arm the opposition to overthrow the government, but keep American troops out of it.

 

[surada]

Then we should fund and arm the opposition to overthrow the government, but keep American troops out of it.

The Taliban has no history of terrorist attacks. They stay in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

[JGalt]

The Taliban have no history of terrorist attacks. All their activity has been confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan. But, enjoy your histrionics.

They don't have to carry out terrorist attacks when they let al Qaeda and ISIS use their country for training, much like they did for 9/11.

Now enjoy your next terrorist attack. I guarantee it won't be in my neighborhood.

 

[JGalt]

Then we should fund and arm the opposition to overthrow the government, but keep American troops out of it.

I'd be happier with just nuking the whole fucking Middle East and putting up a big wall around the US, at this point.

 

[JGalt]

House Foreign Affairs Republicans warn of 'reconstitution' of al Qaeda, ISIS-K in Afghanistan

 

[MarathonMike]

Bush went into Afghanistan because Enron desperately needed a gas pipeline across Afghanistan to their Dabhol power plant.

It's a vanity to think we can fix Afghanistan.

There is no question that 'W' screwed the pooch getting us into Afghanistan. But now with Biden's massive failure, that country will be the new mecca for Terrorism which will come back to bite us. Al Qaeda now has an incubator and a partner with which to grow. Here comes the new Caliphate courtesy of Biden's Bungling.

 

[surada]

There is no question that 'W' screwed the pooch getting us into Afghanistan. But now with Biden's massive failure, that country will be the new mecca for Terrorism which will come back to bite us. Al Qaeda now has an incubator and a partner with which to grow. Here comes the new Caliphate courtesy of Biden's Bungling.

Taliban and Al Qaeda don't see eye to eye. Most of AQ decamped to Yemen and Sudan. The Arabs don't want a new caliphate. The last one was a real dud. That new caliphate crap comes from westerners who don't know anything about the Middle East.

 

[MarathonMike]

Taliban and Al Qaeda don't see eye to eye. Most of AQ decamped to Yemen and Sudan. The Arabs don't want a new caliphate. The last one was a real dud. That new caliphate crap comes from westerners who don't know anything about the Middle East.

You Middle East "experts" were telling us Al Qaeda was dead too.

 

[surada]

You Middle East "experts" were telling us Al Qaeda was dead too.

I didn't. They went to Southern Yemen in 1998. Remember? They bombed the USS Cole. AQ is not a large group. Estimates are about 400 men. Some went to Somali.. some to Sudan.

 

[the other mike]

More than 1,000 Americans were left in Afghanistan by Biden exodus: GOP report

“One year after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, the Committee Minority has found the Biden administration still lacks a plan to help these at-risk Afghan allies who fought shoulder to …

nypost.com

 

[surada]

More than 1,000 Americans were left in Afghanistan by Biden exodus: GOP report

“One year after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, the Committee Minority has found the Biden administration still lacks a plan to help these at-risk Afghan allies who fought shoulder to …

nypost.com

The author is an ignoramus.

 

[the other mike]

The author is an ignoramus.

Dick Cheney is an ignoramus for creating our torture program....... the reason why the Taliban is torturing hundreds of Americans as we speak.