Current Affairs Afghanistan

[tsubaki]

If you're a independence advocate in Taiwan how would you be feeling watching the US hightailing it out of Afghanistan?

it is difficult to say - yes, it’s a retreat and yes it’s possible that the CCP might think it can have a go now, but Taiwan is vastly more useful to the US than Afghanistan ever was

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Italian C-17 shot at whilst taking off.

Time to go

 

[dublinbluenose]

Oh no worst fears coming to pass

 

[john jako]

Reports of 3 US soldiers injured in the blast.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Extremely sad for the people out there. Do ISIS have very different goals to the Taliban? I assumed (wrongly) that they both had similar goals.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Extremely sad for the people out there. Do ISIS have very different goals to the Taliban? I assumed (wrongly) that they both had similar goals.

They’re both extreme Sunni Islamist groups however ISIS are deffo more extreme in their interpretation of Sharia law.

For example ISIS consider all Shia Muslims as animals and legitimate targets. The Taliban do not hold these beliefs.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Figures going up unfortunately from this Kabul blast, thirteen confirmed dead so far.

EDIT: apparently from a Taliban spokesman, according to Reuters.

 

[LostLegend]

13 dead so far including some kids according to Reuters

 

[RomanReigns]

 

[tsubaki]

They’re both extreme Sunni Islamist groups however ISIS are deffo more extreme in their interpretation of Sharia law.

For example ISIS consider all Shia Muslims as animals and legitimate targets. The Taliban do not hold these beliefs.

TBF ISIS’s belief structure always seemed more heavily influenced by America (especially right wing US Christian fundamentalists) than it was a standard, back to real Islam movement of the kind that seems to emerge every second generation - as in that it had to be spectacular, the world had to shake and achievements presented to the masses rather than prizing modesty and simplicity of belief.

They wanted people to go over there and presented the idea of riches, slaves, and glorious victory. They were finally going to rid the world of traitors, heretics etc unlike every other regime in history, their country was going to be the the best and so on. I am not sure it was ever going to be that much about Sharia as it would have been about supremacy.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

TBF ISIS’s belief structure always seemed more heavily influenced by America (especially right wing US Christian fundamentalists) than it was a standard, back to real Islam movement of the kind that seems to emerge every second generation - as in that it had to be spectacular, the world had to shake and achievements presented to the masses rather than prizing modesty and simplicity of belief.

They wanted people to go over there and presented the idea of riches, slaves, and glorious victory. They were finally going to rid the world of traitors, heretics etc unlike every other regime in history, their country was going to be the the best and so on. I am not sure it was ever going to be that much about Sharia as it would have been about supremacy.

Yeah it’s a twisted ideology based loosely on their own interpretation of Sharia.

Taliban hate them as well

 

[PhilM]

If this is true alongside US soldiers killed in the initial blast, there may be a marked change in direction as a response.

 

[tsubaki]

If this is true alongside US soldiers killed in the initial blast, there may be a marked change in direction as a response.

TBF that might have been the aim of it, to get them to stick around

 

[wainy]

Sleepy Jo with blood on his hands now. And for what, coz he didn’t want to leave a few thousand troops in country, keep the stalemate with the taliban that ultimately meant peace. I would love a swift, aggressive retort to these attacks but I fear the allies will just pack up what they can and get out of there. A disgrace of a situation, all completely avoidable.