Re:Who Funds the Taliban?
by tablespoon on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:42PM
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>> That would be like the US, in 1944, negotiating a peace to end to WWII that left Hitler in power.
> Like Japan?
Sorry, I meant more like late 1944/1945, after D-day and past the point where a negotiated peace offered any clear benefit.
> Some context: I haven’t been following this at all for most of the last decade, but, some things don’t change. Kabul and the Northern Alliance areas have always been hard to win and hard to hold for the Taliban.
IIRC, provincial capitals in Northern Alliance areas are falling to them now.
> Now, [the Taliban] have seized six cities in recent days, five of which are in northern parts of the country. And experts fear that if government forces are unable to stop their advances in the north, Afghanistan’s capital is more vulnerable than ever.
> Like Japan?
Sorry, I meant more like late 1944/1945, after D-day and past the point where a negotiated peace offered any clear benefit.
> Some context: I haven’t been following this at all for most of the last decade, but, some things don’t change. Kabul and the Northern Alliance areas have always been hard to win and hard to hold for the Taliban.
IIRC, provincial capitals in Northern Alliance areas are falling to them now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/world/asia/the-insurgents...:
> Now, [the Taliban] have seized six cities in recent days, five of which are in northern parts of the country. And experts fear that if government forces are unable to stop their advances in the north, Afghanistan’s capital is more vulnerable than ever.