Afghan Conflict: Russian Political Leader Meets With Massoud

[The Islands of Versilia]

The United States has failed nation building in Afghanistan, that is certain. That accursed state is destined to fall once more to the Taliban scum should US forces withdraw from the country. It is most unfortunate the Taliban haven’t been totally and completely annihilated, down to the last man.

Frankly, Pakistan needs to be forced to deal with its Imams like those who passed their doctrine onto the youths who would become the Taliban, as must Afghanistan and other Islamic-ruled countries, and the Afghani government must be supported in fighting those filth and cracking down on their sympathisers.

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The United States has failed nation building in Afghanistan, that is certain. That accursed state is destined to fall once more to the Taliban scum should US forces withdraw from the country. It is most unfortunate the Taliban haven’t been totally and completely annihilated, down to the last man.

Frankly, Pakistan needs to be forced to deal with its Imams like those who passed their doctrine onto the youths who would become the Taliban, as must Afghanistan and other Islamic-ruled countries, and the Afghani government must be supported in fighting those filth and cracking down on their sympathisers.

A good start would be the US not being best friends with the terror-supporting ISI.

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A question I'd like to pose: If we had a hyperintelligent AI that could predict the future and it told us that the Taliban can be defeated if we stay in Afghanistan another 20 years and spend a trillion dollars more, what would be the lesser evil, to do that, or to pull out now?

[Coicantrost Terbi]

A question I'd like to pose: If we had a hyperintelligent AI that could predict the future and it told us that the Taliban can be defeated if we stay in Afghanistan another 20 years and spend a trillion dollars more, what would be the lesser evil, to do that, or to pull out now?

Obviously, the first thing we should do is delete that AI. If it is so smart to the point of allegedly being able to see into the future, then there is a good chance that it might be self-aware and trying to manipulate us into causing more damage to ourselves so that the extragalactic robot bounty hunters will have an easier time enslaving us.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Afghanistan is a fucking tragedy.

[Engadine Mcdonalds 1997]

A question I'd like to pose: If we had a hyperintelligent AI that could predict the future and it told us that the Taliban can be defeated if we stay in Afghanistan another 20 years and spend a trillion dollars more, what would be the lesser evil, to do that, or to pull out now?

Obviously, the first thing we should do is delete that AI. If it is so smart to the point of allegedly being able to see into the future, then there is a good chance that it might be self-aware and trying to manipulate us into causing more damage to ourselves so that the extragalactic robot bounty hunters will have an easier time enslaving us.

Well that is certainly an answer to the question, very creative towards the end but a little sudden. Overall I rate this answer a solid 6/10, it's closer to a 5 than a 7, but it's still a 6

[Jutlop]

The Taliban could conquer Kabul today and even that shouldn't change the equation. The Afghanistan War costs trillions that can be used for health care, education, roads, trains, research, anything.

Lots of places are in the hands of bastards, but we're not fighting warlords in DR Congo, we're not fighting in Donbass. The world keeps turning.

It's the gambler's fallacy, sunk cost fallacy. We've invested 20 years and a trillion dollars and thousands of soldiers died, we can't stop now, it can't all be for nothing. Fallacy! What's gone is gone.

Counterpoint: Big bombs go BOOM and should be dropped. Healthcare? Education? Infrastructure? What are ya, a pinko communist shill for the Soviets? No we should instead bomb people into the stone age and cause the catalyst for one of the largest migration crises' in history, and then turn around and refuse to let these people in our blessed USA because they're brown they're Muslim they're potentially terrorists, ya big doofus

you summed it up perfectly

the us played with fire and got burned in hell

[Ethel mermania]

I used to be for this withdrawl but these attacks are opening me up to do a 180.

Yeah, that's the main problem looming over Afghanistan. While I want the US to withdraw and finally get out, these security threats with the Taliban are what's going to be the main obstacle to any long-term peace to the region.

Not at all, they will take back the country and it will be back to 2000, just hating Americans more.

If you were a secular afgani... well it was nice knowing you.

[Mercatus]

It’s great we’re withdrawing, get our boys out of this mess.

Then we’ll be back in 3 years just like Iraq, and I’ll be old enough to enlist then, along with many more American high schoolers.

[Suvadive Republic]

The Taliban could conquer Kabul today and even that shouldn't change the equation. The Afghanistan War costs trillions that can be used for health care, education, roads, trains, research, anything.

Lots of places are in the hands of bastards, but we're not fighting warlords in DR Congo, we're not fighting in Donbass. The world keeps turning.

It's the gambler's fallacy, sunk cost fallacy. We've invested 20 years and a trillion dollars and thousands of soldiers died, we can't stop now, it can't all be for nothing. Fallacy! What's gone is gone.

Counterpoint: Big bombs go BOOM and should be dropped. Healthcare? Education? Infrastructure? What are ya, a pinko communist shill for the Soviets? No we should instead bomb people into the stone age and cause the catalyst for one of the largest migration crises' in history, and then turn around and refuse to let these people in our blessed USA because they're brown they're Muslim they're potentially terrorists, ya big doofus

I salute you brother. Now what do you say you and me go open a new front?
I mean we gotta kill these muslims terrorists right?

[Palcania]

141.

Let multiply that when the US leaves Afghanistan, shall we?

[Comerciante]

Isn't this something they always do when the US withdraws?

I believe someone once pointed out that the Taliban often launches attacks on US forces to make the appearance as though they were responsible in part for it regardless of their actual contributions.

We should already have known something like this was happening.

[Ethel mermania]

Isn't this something they always do when the US withdraws?

I believe someone once pointed out that the Taliban often launches attacks on US forces to make the appearance as though they were responsible in part for it regardless of their actual contributions.

We should already have known something like this was happening.

Especially when the moron in charge decides to leave on 9/11. The Taliban is going to claim victory on this historic date

[Jutlop]

Isn't this something they always do when the US withdraws?

I believe someone once pointed out that the Taliban often launches attacks on US forces to make the appearance as though they were responsible in part for it regardless of their actual contributions.

We should already have known something like this was happening.

Especially when the moron in charge decides to leave on 9/11. The Taliban is going to claim victory on this historic date

yeah what's up with the withdrawel date it seems like the taliban came up with it

[Just-An-Illusion]

Wait the US is withdrawing on 9/11? Something tells me the families who lost loved ones during the attack won't be happy about the withdrawal date.

[Jutlop]

Wait the US is withdrawing on 9/11? Something tells me the families who lost loved ones during the attack won't be happy about the withdrawal date.

yes the us is leaving on that date I wanna know why tho

[Orostan]

Wait the US is withdrawing on 9/11? Something tells me the families who lost loved ones during the attack won't be happy about the withdrawal date.

Why? The taliban is unrelated to 9/11.

[Just-An-Illusion]

Wait the US is withdrawing on 9/11? Something tells me the families who lost loved ones during the attack won't be happy about the withdrawal date.

Why? The taliban is unrelated to 9/11.

Unrelated? Last time I checked they were helping Al-Qaeda.

[Orostan]

Why? The taliban is unrelated to 9/11.

Unrelated? Last time I checked they were helping Al-Qaeda.

They didn't plan 9/11 and even offered to hand bin laden over to the USA. If you want to talk about a country with connections to Al-Qaeda, let's talk about Saudi Arabia.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was chosen deliberately to mark an end to the pointless loss of US lives in Afghanistan.

[Just-An-Illusion]

Unrelated? Last time I checked they were helping Al-Qaeda.

They didn't plan 9/11 and even offered to hand bin laden over to the USA. If you want to talk about a country with connections to Al-Qaeda, let's talk about Saudi Arabia.

I know that Saudi Arabia had connections to Al-Qaeda, so no need to discuss that. Do you mind showing me a source that said the Taliban were willing to hand over Bin Laden?

[Empire of Asgadr]

I see people have learned nothing in the last 42 years, nice

[Risottia]

Afghanistan faces an uncertain future...

There's nothing uncertain. In six months tops, the whole country will be back to 1997, with the Talibans firmly in charge and racking up the income of the opium market, enslavement of women aged 0-120, systematic rape of basically anything that breathes, destruction of cultural heritage, and pogroms against ethnic and religious minorities.
Afghanistan is fucked and it's not going to recover from the Dark Ages in any foreseeable future.

[Ethel mermania]

The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was chosen deliberately to mark an end to the pointless loss of US lives in Afghanistan.

I wouldn't argue that the American involvement in Afghanistan wasn't anything more than a giant cluster fuck, and the notion that Afghanistan is a strategic interest of the US is laughable.

The choice of date is a fucking disaster. The rest of the world is not going to see it as an American closing, but as a radical Islamist victory.

[Orostan]

They didn't plan 9/11 and even offered to hand bin laden over to the USA. If you want to talk about a country with connections to Al-Qaeda, let's talk about Saudi Arabia.

I know that Saudi Arabia had connections to Al-Qaeda, so no need to discuss that. Do you mind showing me a source that said the Taliban were willing to hand over Bin Laden?

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