re: The Taliban advance is intensifying

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The ones we left in charge arent innocent

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The people we elect to make these decisions may be worse than the taliban. At least the taliban doesn't hide their true ideas

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Tell me.
Which parts of the country have you visited?

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I have not been to Afghanistan. Is it not a desert? Do they have electricity and running water? Abundant Agriculture?

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Do they have electricity and running water? Abundant Agriculture?

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Yes.

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Not all.

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Terrain: mostly low plateau with deserts, rangelands and a fertile plain in the southeast

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Rainfall in Afghanistan is very scarce, and mainly only affects the northern highlands, arriving in March and April. Rainfall in the more arid lowlands is rare, and can be very unpredictable.[12] Marked characteristics are the great differences of summer and winter temperature and of day and night temperature, as well as the extent to which change of climate can be attained by slight change of place. The Afghan climate is a dry one. The sun shines for three-fourths of the year, and the nights are clearer than the days.

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They have the physical resources. But it’s too diverse, and too divided on cultural, ethnic, religious, and tribal lines. There’s no sense of national identity.

Geography is a problem. The mountains divide Afghanistan.

Racist joe beating the war drum I see...


time for the most powerful army in the world to spend another 20 years fighting cavemen.

Surrender and capitulation, particularly leaving an enemy in possession of the battlefield often looks like this.

So many new members of Congress. Leave, let the Taliban take over, start another war, and in the next few years, congress (men/women) will profit millions.

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DC is the most corrupt city on the planet

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I remember distinctly Jim Baker going to the White House to speak with Junior about his war plans in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He should have listened to the old man and never have let our wars ramp into nation building. 41 presumably sent Baker as they had sort of a family rule about 41 interfering in 45's business.

Bush and Rice were just wrong about both wars. I admire them for their management of the wars initial but their commitment to nation build was just wrong.

I thought we should have told the Taliban give us OBL or else. The "else" should have been nukes or the equivalent bombing with conventional bombs.

People seem to think the Taliban is not made up of Afghanis. Looks to me like they prefer the Taliban.