General So that didn't take long.... AFGHANISTAN

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This guy gets it.
I've always hated "we did it for oil"; it's lazy thinking. Of course one could say that, and how can it be proven? Doesn't have to be, it's just a thing to say if you want to seem smart.

9/11 and why it happened will be slowly rewritten by American people unwittingly sympathetic to UBL and carrying the AQ excuses along. The Taliban and AQ both said it was for the oil.

Then, when Bin Laden was killed, people floated all sorts of ridiculous ideas as to why Obama pulled the trigger on him.
Ffs.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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I've always hated "we did it for oil"; it's lazy thinking. Of course one could say that, and how can it be proven? Doesn't have to be, it's just a thing to say if you want to seem smart.

9/11 and why it happened will be slowly rewritten by American people unwittingly sympathetic to UBL and carrying the AQ excuses along. The Taliban and AQ both said it was for the oil.

Then, when Bin Laden was killed, people floated all sorts of ridiculous ideas as to why Obama pulled the trigger on him.
Ffs.
When I asked it was to demonstrate that this whole idea of "America should stay or Afghanistan will be over run by the Taliban" is stupid.
 

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When I asked it was to demonstrate that this whole idea of "America should stay or Afghanistan will be over run by the Taliban" is stupid.
Iirc my earlier post ITT is "this is a mistake" and I wondered how long it would be before we were picking up after some preventable disaster asking how, how could this have happened??
 

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Oi. Mongatards. Stop shitting up my inventive news thread with your tin hat conspiracy theories or I'll stab you. That's not a conspiracy. I will just do it.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Iirc my earlier post ITT is "this is a mistake" and I wondered how long it would be before we were picking up after some preventable disaster asking how, how could this have happened??
Sorry, but I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying America should be staying?
 

Wintermute

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They're talking to China and Russia about integrating into the greater Eurasia project. The whole region is about to undergo rapid, intensive economic development and the Taliban are salivating over Chinese development funds and talking about reforming their ways and establishing an inclusive government. . I have no doubt there will be reprisals against collaborators, there always are, but I get the feeling that people who are expecting a descent into chaos they should prepare to be disappointed.
? Afghanistan is rich in mineral deposits, and China's strategy of collateralizing nations' natural resources in exchange for investment will come into play here. Really the question is, what's going to happen when the Taliban can't pay for that Chinese investment and China comes for those resources... And the opium.
 

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Sorry, but I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying America should be staying?
I'm saying it was gifting the country back to the Taliban.
It would be nice if more nations were willing to keep that shithole under the boot, because it's proven necessary.
AQ hasn't given up its dream. It hasn't stopped hating us. It would love to carry out attacks on US soil again.
I would wonder why they haven't been able to, but the reason is obvious.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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I'm saying it was gifting the country back to the Taliban.
It would be nice if more nations were willing to keep that shithole under the boot, because it's proven necessary.
AQ hasn't given up its dream. It hasn't stopped hating us. It would love to carry out attacks on US soil again.
I would wonder why they haven't been able to, but the reason is obvious.
They went for Osama, and Osama got got. They didn't go to "nation build" and they've been failing at that for 20 years. Time to go.
 

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They went for Osama, and Osama got got. They didn't go to "nation build" and they've been failing at that for 20 years. Time to go.
Failing without help. Fine, time to go.
We've seen what happens when afghanistan is left to its religious extremists.
So far it's been like predicting the sunrise.
 

Speaker to Animals

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Not really, no.
It's possible they couldn't turn him over, because they couldn't force it. But they didn't want to, and were certainly giving him aid and comfort.


George Bush rejected as "non-negotiable" an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.

"There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty". In Jalalabad, deputy prime minister Haji Abdul Kabir - the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime - told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, but added: "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country".
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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It's possible they couldn't turn him over, because they couldn't force it. But they didn't want to, and were certainly giving him aid and comfort.


George Bush rejected as "non-negotiable" an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.

"There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty". In Jalalabad, deputy prime minister Haji Abdul Kabir - the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime - told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, but added: "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country".
Bush: Give us Osama.
Taliban: No
Bush: Then we're going to bomb you
Taliban: Okay, you can have him just stop bombing us.
Bush: Lol. No.