If you’re partnered with the Taliban, it’s not terrorism anymore, it’s military action ¯_ (ツ) _/¯
I was gonna say they’re a government now. Which escalates them to a different scope of suffering infliction.
I remember when Rambo 3 was about Rambo teaming up with basically the Taliban.
And the film was shot in contested territory in Israel
It’s funny cause they legit have a terrorism problem with the once US funded IS. If you people had ever cared to see what has happened to Afghanistan after the Talibans took over you’d know that the terrorists are constantly bombing public spaces, public infrastructure etc.
The Talibans may be extremists and fundamentalists but terrorists? That’s a CIA talking point - any violence against us, the west, is terrorism.
The US abandoned Afghanistan in ruins after 30 years of war, bombing people and infrastructure and now they have to rebuild their country on their own, forgotten by the world. They are starving, they are extremely poor and because they are so vulnerable, the IS was able to establish itself there and terrorise the people. So I don’t get the irony here, you people are just hypocrites and don’t remember who caused all this in the first place.
The US built a shitload of schools and infrastructure in Afghanistan but none of it has been maintained.
30 years of war? Are you including their initial war with the USSR in that statement? Otherwise that sounds like a 50% rounding error.
As far as I’m concerned, the 92-01 war had the support of the US along with Russia. But that’s way besides the point I’m making.
I didn’t mean that it’s 30 years strictly against the US, I am only saying that these people have been tortured by war for 30 years and all people care about is to call the Talibans terrorists, not the people’s suffering by the world powers’ interventions.
Instead of playing with numbers, we could just focus on the issue of portraying every enemy of the US as a terrorist and mocking anything these people go through just because someone the west doesn’t like prevailed. Of course they are religious fundamentalists and oppressing, especially to women, but they are a legitimate government as much as you don’t like it and the people have the right to sort their society morals on their own just like the west did - it feels stupid to articulate such obvious statements, but people don’t get it.
…but they are a legitimate government as much as you don’t like it and the people have the right to sort their…
I’m Indifferent, though I see your point. I thought your numbers undercut your argument before you elaborated. Thanks for the follow-up.
I’m sorry I assumed that, people’s goal when making comments on semantics is usually to obfuscate the point
This is something the US considered doing too. Talibans have a big conflict against the Islamic State in Khorasan. (source)
They were originally funded by the us to fight against Russia in the 80s iirc
Maybe it’s like math, one terrorist cancels the other out?
It’s funny because the Taliban too is also fighting a form of terrorism
everything i don’t like is terrorism!
This Engine is Terrorism!
“We spent sooo much money on getting this thing to be employee-owned and these motherfuckers are out here GIVING IT AWAY FOR FREE!”
If this confuses you then you are extremely misinformed and operating on the ignorant notion that “radical Islamist” = “terrorist”. The Taliban never embraced terrorism as a tactic. Unless you’re so brainwashed that you think IEDs are terrorism. Islamic terrorism has almost exclusively been the domain of Wahhabists like Al-Queada and Islamic State
The Taliban is currently fighting Islamic State Khorasan Province, which is largely constituted of former collaborators of the coalition government. Everyone in the region would much rather have the Taliban as a neighbor than those genocidal freaks.
I’m operating on the not so ignorant notion than the Taliban supported Al-Qaeda and its ways for decades, becoming a safe haven for Bin Laden and other terrorists.
They had no issues with terrorism and supported the use of terrorism against the infidels.
Being also targeted by other islamist terrorists doesn’t clean their history with support of international terrorism.
