PaddyJames
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Do you have any idea what you're going on about? Have you been to Afghanistan? Do you know many that don't live in Kabul?
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spectateur
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I've met afghans, seeking asylum here in France. Not because of taliban but due to the regime in kabul.
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spectateur
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Material gain I would suspect. These were big city boys not country bumpkins. They often claim to have relatives already here.
PaddyJames
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Have you got any idea how silly that sounds?
spectateur
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Oh yes.
PaddyJames
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Glad we agree.
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Afghanistan pullout: Biden's biggest call yet - will it be his most calamitous?
Joe Biden won't be seeing the "war is over" headlines he hoped for when he decided to withdraw.
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grandjoeblue
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Taliban would have taken over the country even if USA/UK stayed for another decade. The whole war was a complete farce.
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think they were very weak back in 2015/2016
Barnfred 55
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I agree. But do you not think the UK has just done the same. Even if we're not a strong enough power to go it on our own, we should have stayed to help the Afghan regime we helped put in power to finish the job they started. At the same time we should have been putting pressure on the UN to replace some of the vacuum left by USA pulling out.
The USA were wrong, but so were we.
Barnfred 55
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Whether we should have gone in in the first place is a completely different conversation, and a hell of a complicated one too. But once we went in the last thing we should have done is pull out with the job half finished.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the wars against the Taliban and ISIS, the one thing that can't be denied is that the number and frequency of terrorist acts around the western world have diminished dramatically, as the would be jihadists flock to defend their countries. Terrorism within those countries however have continued abound, even though they probably don't get the media coverage they deserve in the west. There's no doubt if the Taliban get control of Afghanistan it will once more become the breeding ground for the export of terrorism around the world. Together with Climate Change that is probably the biggest threat to our way of life and the freedoms we currently enjoy. Think on that for a moment.
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I think someone uk-side tried to form a coalition once the US were known to be pulling out.
Barnfred 55
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Fair enough. I didn't know that. It really should be a job for the UN don't you think. Surely that's what it is there for.
Mind you, you could understand them saying you got yourselves in this mess and now you're trying to pass it on to us.
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