Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”
Sounds like they need a good union.
Phenomenal cosmic power! Itty bitty living space…
Everyone gets what they asked for.
I hope the afghan people raise up against their oppressors and fight back.
That’s like saying that we wanted Trump. He didn’t win the popular vote; we didn’t want him but he was there anyway.
What an absurd comparison.
Regardless, I didn’t see liberals speaking with their actions and fighting a guerilla war for twenty years against the US Army.
The largest military in the world occupied their country and gave them billions in equipment to keep it and they let the taliban retake everything in weeks. I don’t think there is going to be any better opportunity then that. It’s obvious that the fighting population already made their choice, and now everyone just has to enjoy it.
Of course there’s a better opportunity: figuring it out for themselves. Having some rich stranger give you a bunch of stuff is a recipe for failure. Building what you have slowly and steadily is a recipe for success.
Hopefully we can stay out of their way and stop trying to give them level 50 gear when they’ve level 1 noobs. Best way to guarantee someone stays a noob is to remove them their game and try to place them into your own.
I sure hope your right, but we did not just give them stuff and tell them to figure it out, we trained them for 20 years, with the most experienced soldiers in the world. It’s obviously a motivation and culture issue, so maybe after they realize how shit things have gone they may make a change, but I am not holding my breath.
Sure, blame the Afghan civilians after bombing their country back to the stone age and then trying to occupy it for 20 years with said largest military in the world only to pull THAT rug out from under them with a sudden bungled withdrawal.
It’s not like the West had anything to do with the Taliban taking power in the first place, right? Right?
Hahahahhaha OMG. Yeah once the whole pew pew part of the insurrection is over and you actually take over the government, the whole running the government part isn’t as fun now ain’t it?
What a bunch of idiots.
It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead. They seem to have only ever considered the present and now reality hit them in the face lol. Similar happened to Trump when he was elected and suddenly had to…you know…work.
It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead
The Independent sure didn’t!
I mean, isn’t this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.
The weird thing is that they used to be in power, before the 9/11 American “freedom spreading” spree in the region.
Nah, those guys were boomers/gen-xers and have probably either all died off or retired from this nonsense. The Taliban in charge now are millennials/zoomers who likely grew up getting told all about the glory days but not the drudgery.
And they were in power because the US helped them get there. This article praising Osama bin Ladenisn’t The Independent’s finest hour 😬
That’s not what happened,
The US sent Pakistan materials to supply to local Mujihideen to provide support to the US assisting the Northern Alliance, AKA the guys they were later supporting against the Taliban once the Taliban basically all but chartered the planes for Bin Laden.
You’d be amazed how many of america’s problems in the region trace in some way back to “Pakistan did it.”
Like it’s not unreasonable to guess that Kissinger croaked because his old heart couldn’t take how America’s foreign policy was becoming way more aligned with those “commies” in India after just a few terrorisms and genicides on Pakistan’s part.
Wow, maybe the taliban really will be defeated by capitalism
Which is deeply ironic considering how they founded themselves as a rebellion against the “false gods” of capitalism communism and democracy.
