I am not sure what the strategy is here either. Accepting Taliban involvement in the future of Afghanistan doesn't seem right to me.
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I am not sure what the strategy is here either. Accepting Taliban involvement in the future of Afghanistan doesn't seem right to me.
There's also not a damned thing we can do about it without ethnic cleansing of an area the size of Indiana.
MobBoss
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Uhm...they are considered so by Russia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_organizations
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
The country that is supplying Iran with nukes is saying that Taliban is a terrorist organisation.
innonimatu
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Defeat, as usual with Afghanistan? Who'd have guessed?
When it came to stabilizing Northern Ireland, was forgiving and then including the IRA wrong?
There are differences between the Taliban and the IRA.
Do you think if we let the Taliban have involvement in the Afghanistan government that they would just be all fine and dandy and be peaceful and quit being oppressive, murdering, terrorist supporting, and ruthless?
Look at the IRA, the remnants of it at least. There is very rarly terrorist activities going on by the remnants of it. For the most part the IRA was disbanded. Do you think the Taliban would disband and integrate into society and quit being oppressive, murdering, terrorist supporting, and ruthless? I don't think they would.
The country that is supplying Iran with nukes is saying that Taliban is a terrorist organisation.
The Taliban is oppressive, murdering, terrorist supporting, and ruthless.
The Taliban is involved in terrorist activities.
I do not see how they are not considered a terrorist organization by the USA at least.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Does that mean you acknowledge Abkhazia and South Ossetia as sovereign nations, and that Kosovo is not?
amadeus
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The Sovietization of our war in Afghanistan continues. For as much as members of his party like to throw around rhetoric about another Vietnam, they sure aren't doing much to prevent it from becoming just that. You can't half-ass these kinds of things, period.
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I think people in this thread are confusing "Taliban" with "Mujahideen". The Taliban are a powerful organization with an oppressive rule; all but the most fundamentalist Muslims dislike or hate them. The Mujahideen are the warlords who we allied with and gave weapons to back in the cold war, then divided Afghanistan up into territories after the cold war. There are a lot of Mujahideen factions, while the Taliban operate as a single group. That's why the Taliban were able to take over so quickly after the cold war.
I don't get what you mean.
The United States is not allied with the Taliban. One of the major groups we are fighting is the Taliban.
Since when did the US arm and train the Taliban. We are fighting against them.
Ziggy Stardust
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Julian Delphiki
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Why is Kosovo on that list?
jessiecat
Divine Monarch
Do you realize that one of the former top commanders of the IRA is now the 2nd. highest elected government official in Northern Ireland? The strategy is obvious. You do the math.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Because I was very tired when I wrote that post. Good catch.
Do you realize that one of the former top commanders of the IRA is now the 2nd. highest elected government official in Northern Ireland? The strategy is obvious. You do the math.
It works, on the condition that the enemy have popular support (which the IRA did) - the Taliban don't
So basically y'all are advocating doing the exact same thing the Soviets thought would keep the DRA alive?
They have plenty of popular support.
Yes! That's why the nice men with the funny hats were on every other street in Belfast at one point
