Originally Posted by
Stephanie
Everybody seems to be forgetting about 9/11 .
: the Taliban hosted several dozen terrorist training camps in Afghanistan .
They provided safe haven to Bin Laden and his organization : the sole aim of which
organization was to attack and damage the US and the West .
: anybody remember the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Tower ? : We ‘let it go’
without full-on engagement . For them it was dress rehearsal and allowed them to
plan and carry out 9/11 .
That is why we Had to go in : to dismantle the training camps , to try to
eliminate the hostile ‘government’ of the Taliban so that the terrorist organization
would Not have a place to continue plotting and training and ultimately carrying out
further large scale attacks on US , on the West .
In That mission , the 20 year ‘occupation’ Did work .
As to withdrawing our forces : it was always the plan to train and equip the
local forces ; for Them to take over and defend and lead their own country .
: what’s happening Now , is a disgrace :: the seeds of which dt TFG had planted
by signing an unconditional peace treaty with the Taliban (!!) , without including
the Afghan government in the ‘deal’ . :: that’s when the Afghan forces lost heart and
the unraveling of 20 years’ hard won gains started to unravel at extraordinary speed .
: and now the headless evacuation ! A humanitarian crisis that didn’t need to be .
A shame . A stain on our nation .
And we hand back the country to the very same outfit that hosted Bin Laden .
Madness .
In meantime .
: the Taliban say they have changed ..
Yah . Now they issue death warrants before executing :
: they had issued a death warrant to the Brother of a former Interpreter ;
the warrant states : the man is to be executed for “having provided shelter
to his brother , who worked for the Americans .” ..
Bad days to come , and short of a full invasion there’s nothing anyone can do .
Even for the evacuation : Boris Johnson begging Biden to not leave yet .
Biden trying to shore up some other NATO nations to step in .
: situation : FUBAR