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(BBC-US)   New government time. With feared, FBI-most-wanted, all-boys-club goodness   (bbc.com) divider line
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    More: Followup, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, interior minister, Mohammed Omar, Sarajuddin Haqqani, head of the militant group, Al-Qaeda, Haqqani network  
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Walker [TotalFark]
3 days ago  
Isn't saying a member of the Taliban is a hardliner the same as saying a member of the Republican party is a racist?

/duh? They all are
 
austerity101 [recently expired TotalFark]
3 days ago  
Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.
 
Generation_D
3 days ago  
The Taliban was said to be ~75,000 in a country of 32 million.

How the F can they do anything but prance around beating women for not dressing right.

In other words, if Afghanis want these asswits all gone, it seems like they should be able to do it.  But that's now their problem, not ours.

Good riddance to trying to play hero, we have more than enough trash people in America that need to be sorted.
 
Troy Aikman's Giant Thumbs
3 days ago  
What a government made up of repressive religious leaders might look like.

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pastramithemosterotic
3 days ago  

austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.


Pretty sure they're not getting any international aid, which is most of Afghanistan's funding
 
Fart_Machine
3 days ago  

pastramithemosterotic: austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.

Pretty sure they're not getting any international aid, which is most of Afghanistan's funding


Yup.  The previous government embezzled all the money we sent them.
 
We Ate the Necco Wafers
3 days ago  
Back when Colbert was running for President, several Afghanis donated to his SuperPAC. I hope they are okay.
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Fart_Machine
3 days ago  

We Ate the Necco Wafers: Back when Colbert was running for President, several Afghanis donated to his SuperPAC. I hope they are okay.
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cameroncrazy1984
3 days ago  

Fart_Machine: We Ate the Necco Wafers: Back when Colbert was running for President, several Afghanis donated to his SuperPAC. I hope they are okay.
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What is Horatio Sanz up to now anyways
 
Shaggy_C
3 days ago  

Generation_D: The Taliban was said to be ~75,000 in a country of 32 million.

How the F can they do anything but prance around beating women for not dressing right.

In other words, if Afghanis want these asswits all gone, it seems like they should be able to do it.  But that's now their problem, not ours.

Good riddance to trying to play hero, we have more than enough trash people in America that need to be sorted.


How long until we get to replace France with Afghanistan for the "surrenders" meme? What a pathetically sad country to give in to a force that small without even a whimper of resistance. The country that beat Napoleon, Russia, and Britain can't beat a couple thousand Pakistanis.
 
LordJiro [OhFark]
3 days ago  

austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.


The difficulty is that the 'legitimate' government A: was corrupt as shiat, and B: farked the hell off.

Oh, and we already effectively recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government when Trump negotiated the surrender with them at Camp David, rather than with the actual government.
 
monsatano [TotalFark] [OhFark]
3 days ago  

We Ate the Necco Wafers: Back when Colbert was running for President, several Afghanis donated to his SuperPAC. I hope they are okay.
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The last one is a picture of his MIL, and he had no idea the production team was going to use it for that bit.
 
palelizard
3 days ago  
How many were in prison a year ago?
 
austerity101 [recently expired TotalFark]
3 days ago  

LordJiro: austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.

The difficulty is that the 'legitimate' government A: was corrupt as shiat, and B: farked the hell off.

Oh, and we already effectively recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government when Trump negotiated the surrender with them at Camp David, rather than with the actual government.


We shouldn't recognize them just because we recognized another sh*tty government. That's just making it worse.

And whatever Trump did is irrelevant. We are under no obligation to follow suit. And we have a moral obligation not to.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
3 days ago  

Shaggy_C: Generation_D: The Taliban was said to be ~75,000 in a country of 32 million.

How the F can they do anything but prance around beating women for not dressing right.

In other words, if Afghanis want these asswits all gone, it seems like they should be able to do it.  But that's now their problem, not ours.

Good riddance to trying to play hero, we have more than enough trash people in America that need to be sorted.

How long until we get to replace France with Afghanistan for the "surrenders" meme? What a pathetically sad country to give in to a force that small without even a whimper of resistance. The country that beat Napoleon, Russia, and Britain can't beat a couple thousand Pakistanis.


Afghanistan isn't a single country, it is many small countries.  Let them redraw their own lines and in time they will defend themselves.
 
TheDarkSaintOfGin
3 days ago  
And not a single Homer among them.

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Roastbeast Sammich
3 days ago  
Do they all have long, scraggly beards, I wonder?
 
ColonelCathcart
3 days ago  

Generation_D: The Taliban was said to be ~75,000 in a country of 32 million.

How the F can they do anything but prance around beating women for not dressing right.

In other words, if Afghanis want these asswits all gone, it seems like they should be able to do it.  But that's now their problem, not ours.

Good riddance to trying to play hero, we have more than enough trash people in America that need to be sorted.


They don't want them gone.
 
ColonelCathcart
3 days ago  

austerity101: LordJiro: austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.

The difficulty is that the 'legitimate' government A: was corrupt as shiat, and B: farked the hell off.

Oh, and we already effectively recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government when Trump negotiated the surrender with them at Camp David, rather than with the actual government.

We shouldn't recognize them just because we recognized another sh*tty government. That's just making it worse.

And whatever Trump did is irrelevant. We are under no obligation to follow suit. And we have a moral obligation not to.


So Biden set the timetable and made the decision to withdraw and it is 100% his choice.

Got it. Glad we cleared that up.
 
thehobbes
3 days ago  

LordJiro: austerity101: Cool, now let's not recognize them. A terrorist coup does not a legitimate government make. That's pretty much the textbook definition of an illegitimate government.

The difficulty is that the 'legitimate' government A: was corrupt as shiat, and B: farked the hell off.

Oh, and we already effectively recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government when Trump negotiated the surrender with them at Camp David, rather than with the actual government.


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It's even dumber the way Trump handled it.

Unfortunately with Panjshir falling, there is no non-Iranian backed resistance anymore. Pakistan tipped the scales and used air power to cursh Panjshir on the Taliban's behalf.

palelizard: How many were in prison a year ago?


4 of the 5 were released for Bergdahl apparently. 

But like many Taliban at Gitmo, they weren't terrorists in the Al Qaeda sense. They were Taliban commanders who laid down their arms and agreed to not intervene in the US's push on AQ.

Then W, Cheney, and Rumsfeld declared them terrorists and blackbagged them to black sites and eventually Gitmo.
 
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