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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by smhost on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:17AM (#28187850)
U.S. could have not cynically installed the most pliant pro-American corrupt thugs to be in charge and told the people to obey, after having destroyed their homeland and treated them like idiot children for an entire generation.
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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by yellowcake0 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:22AM (#28188167)
> U.S. could have not cynically installed the most pliant pro-American corrupt thugs to be in charge and told the people to obey

Which of course has been the post-WW2 standard operating procedure for the U.S. in more countries than I care to count. And it always comes back to haunt us, god knows what the long-term ramifications of this latest fiasco will be.

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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by chewz on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:49AM (#28188363)
There are 6 million people in Kabul plus some elite Afgan Army. That is enough to make a no passaran moment to Taliban. Theoretically.

But it seems like all Western-minded urban Afgans want to get evacuated to US, Europe, Canada rather then put up a good fight. So why the West shall fight for their freedoms?

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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by smhost on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:57AM (#28188418)
How many more dead bodies do you want to add to your tally for your Hollywood movie moment? They don't want a civil war. How is that not obvious to you?
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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by chewz on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:07AM (#28188483)
They do not want to fight for their freedoms so why shall we Westerners feel obliged to do the fighting for them? They can go back to Middle Ages.
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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by Johnjonjoan on Sunday August 15, 2021 @10:55AM (#28189241)
We started the fight
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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by emilsedgh on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:00PM (#28191997)
Not only that, US initially empowered Taliban to fight the cold war.
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