Rolling Afghanistan Thread

[Mr. Tea]

@148 I.Q. Magical Thinker How does this figure in your "Biden's fault" narrative?

Top Taliban leaders are among the 5,000 that Trump released last year over everyone's objections

One year ago, the Donald released 5,000 Taliban fighters in exchange for a cease-fire to help his flailing presidential campaign, despite strenuous objections from both the Pentagon and the Afghan government. President Ashraf Ghani warned that their...

www.dailykos.com

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[Mr. Tea]

Including Baradar, as it happens. Hoo, boy.

 

[sufi]

 

[william_kent]

I thought this looked like something from a drill video - obviously someone else had the same idea...

 

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In Afghanistan, Follow the White High-Tops and You’ll Find the Taliban

The sneakers have been worn by Afghan fighters over multiple generations, but they’ve become a gruesome marker of the Taliban’s violent insurgency.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Leo]

Did trump fuck it up this weekend?
Biden was duly elected at the time of Saigon too.
Taiwan next and it's a hat trick.

did trump's deal allow for an alternative ending? sounds more like 20+ years of fuck ups, capped off by trump leaving someone else holding the bag.

and so now a senator is the fall guy for Vietnam?

 

[Leo]

In Afghanistan, Follow the White High-Tops and You’ll Find the Taliban

The sneakers have been worn by Afghan fighters over multiple generations, but they’ve become a gruesome marker of the Taliban’s violent insurgency.

www.nytimes.com

I was just going to comment on the sneakers in your photo, all the same brand and worn the same way. solid branding.

 

[version]

there's absolutely no contest in the lavishly conditioned hair contest, looks like they have been fancying up ready for kabul
only for the lads of course

Dunno whether this is legit, but great hair.

 

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I thought this looked like something from a drill video - obviously someone else had the same idea...

 

[william_kent]

so many namechecks and tunes named after them that they'll never be able to listen to...

 

[luka]

neon screams has a long bit about the links between drill and taliban/isis aesthetics

 

[Clinamenic]

Having fun with these tags.

 

[hmg]

did trump's deal allow for an alternative ending? sounds more like 20+ years of fuck ups, capped off by trump leaving someone else holding the bag.

and so now a senator is the fall guy for Vietnam?

I suspect it wouldn't have gone quite like the humiliating and chaotic spectacle of losing Bagram on day 1.

 

[Clinamenic]

Having fun with these tags.

Props to whoever came up with ackbarz

 

[hmg]

did trump's deal allow for an alternative ending? sounds more like 20+ years of fuck ups, capped off by trump leaving someone else holding the bag.

and so now a senator is the fall guy for Vietnam?

"Two weeks before Saigon fell in April 1975, a 32-year-old Joe Biden was among the senators summoned to the White House for a top-secret briefing on the crisis in Vietnam.

Though just a freshman, Biden gave the president a clear message: The situation in Vietnam was hopeless, and the United States should leave as quickly as possible, according to a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak at the time that described Biden’s interactions with then-President Gerald Ford."
- Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...155518-fdd5-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

 

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[hmg]

¡adrenochrome intensifies!

 

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[Leo]

"Two weeks before Saigon fell in April 1975, a 32-year-old Joe Biden was among the senators summoned to the White House for a top-secret briefing on the crisis in Vietnam.

Though just a freshman, Biden gave the president a clear message: The situation in Vietnam was hopeless, and the United States should leave as quickly as possible, according to a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak at the time that described Biden’s interactions with then-President Gerald Ford."
- Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...155518-fdd5-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

mate (as you would say), learn a little about US civics before you start rambling. a freshman senator doesn't call the shots on anything. he was in the room and expressed an option that I assume you'd agree with.

 

[hmg]

mate (as you would say), learn a little about US civics before you start rambling. a freshman senator doesn't call the shots on anything. he was in the room and expressed an option that I assume you'd agree with.

Read the article and weep more.