11 US Troops dead in Afghan 'green on blue' killings in 2 weeks
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Afghan is a Bush intervention..certainly Obama dithered around with his escalation/de-escalation
But we are long past that..It's the nationbuilding that is at fault here
evince
Truthmatters
tell your god Putin
That's odd. The guy you voted for, worship, and defend every day of the year is expanding all of Obama's wars - an reversing the Obama decision to draw down in Afghanistan.
GazzaQueen
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Tell putin's cock!
GazzaQueen
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Obama's decision to drawdown in Afghanistan resulted in more American casualties.
id expect more. Since democrats will not allow peace with Russia we will drive them from the ME instead.
anyways..Is it surprising "da Russians" are making nice w/the Taliban -essentially cleaning up yet another one of our international intervention messes?
In February 1980, mujahedin listen to the radio as they rest in the rocky, mountainous area of Afghanistan's Kunar province, near the Pakistani border.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-russia-taliban-2017-story.html
Why Russia might be working with its Cold War enemy, the Taliban
Reports have swirled for months across northern Afghanistan that Russia is increasing its support for the Taliban, providing weapons and financing to the militant group that has battled U.S. and international forces since 2001.
If true, it would be a sharp reversal of Moscow’s troubled Cold War adventures in Afghanistan, where leaders of what became the Taliban helped drive out Soviet soldiers who invaded in 1979 to prop up a communist government in Kabul. Back then, it was the U.S. under President Reagan that backed the Afghan mujahedin, or “freedom fighters,” against the Soviets.
Russia’s return to Afghanistan, according to analysts and Western diplomats in Kabul, is intended to counter the spread of Islamic State-affiliated militants in Central Asia and further challenge the United States at a time when the Trump administration has failed to articulate a plan for ending the Afghan war.
The Afghan official said Russian intelligence agents have held meetings with Taliban representatives in Tajikistan and Moscow, and occasionally enter Afghan territory in border provinces like Kunduz. He added that Russians were serving as “creative minds and strategists for the Taliban” at a kind of academy in Iran.
Northern Afghanistan, particularly Kunduz, is of particular interest to Russia because Kabul’s control in the area is limited and the province borders Tajikistan, a Russian ally that has helped mediate contacts with the Taliban.
In northern Afghanistan, Russian activity “is well known to everybody,” said Haroun Mir, a political analyst who regularly travels to the area.
Mir said Russia has increased contacts with the Taliban over the last year, coinciding with the spread of Islamic State militants. Afghan and Western officials believe that many of the militants fled an army crackdown in Pakistan’s tribal belt and are of Central Asian origin, raising fears in Moscow that they could strike Russian interests.
Waheed Muzhda, a former official in the Taliban government that ruled Kabul until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, said Russian outreach to the Taliban began a decade ago, when it twice invited insurgent representatives to Moscow to express concern over Uzbek militants fighting alongside them.
In February 1980, mujahedin listen to the radio as they rest in the rocky, mountainous area of Afghanistan's Kunar province, near the Pakistani border.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-russia-taliban-2017-story.html
Why Russia might be working with its Cold War enemy, the Taliban
Reports have swirled for months across northern Afghanistan that Russia is increasing its support for the Taliban, providing weapons and financing to the militant group that has battled U.S. and international forces since 2001.
If true, it would be a sharp reversal of Moscow’s troubled Cold War adventures in Afghanistan, where leaders of what became the Taliban helped drive out Soviet soldiers who invaded in 1979 to prop up a communist government in Kabul. Back then, it was the U.S. under President Reagan that backed the Afghan mujahedin, or “freedom fighters,” against the Soviets.
Russia’s return to Afghanistan, according to analysts and Western diplomats in Kabul, is intended to counter the spread of Islamic State-affiliated militants in Central Asia and further challenge the United States at a time when the Trump administration has failed to articulate a plan for ending the Afghan war.
The Afghan official said Russian intelligence agents have held meetings with Taliban representatives in Tajikistan and Moscow, and occasionally enter Afghan territory in border provinces like Kunduz. He added that Russians were serving as “creative minds and strategists for the Taliban” at a kind of academy in Iran.
Northern Afghanistan, particularly Kunduz, is of particular interest to Russia because Kabul’s control in the area is limited and the province borders Tajikistan, a Russian ally that has helped mediate contacts with the Taliban.
In northern Afghanistan, Russian activity “is well known to everybody,” said Haroun Mir, a political analyst who regularly travels to the area.
Mir said Russia has increased contacts with the Taliban over the last year, coinciding with the spread of Islamic State militants. Afghan and Western officials believe that many of the militants fled an army crackdown in Pakistan’s tribal belt and are of Central Asian origin, raising fears in Moscow that they could strike Russian interests.
Waheed Muzhda, a former official in the Taliban government that ruled Kabul until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, said Russian outreach to the Taliban began a decade ago, when it twice invited insurgent representatives to Moscow to express concern over Uzbek militants fighting alongside them.
your simplistic mind is noted once again. Do you see Trump doing any REGIME CHANGE like Bush and Obama?
Afghanistan is a cluster. It can be said we used the ANA as a counter-terrorism force; at least killing bad guys as they organically grew or came over from Pakistan.
The problem is there is no winning solution there - as Bush/Obama, and now Trump all found out.
So blaming Trump is fine,as long as you blame Obama, and Biden who came up with the policy of continued nationbuilding that Bush started.
Iraq? give me a break.. we are AHEAD of the time-table of killing ISIS, so extra troops there are worthwhile.
Noteworthy is Trump is not screwing around in Libya, which your heroine Hillary was key in destroying
with her insane interpretation of "responsibility to protect" - i.e. "humanitarian war"
evince
Truthmatters
so you talk to it while you yank it off
evince
Truthmatters
yeah Ronny rayguns created this mess so he could fight Russia
now you dick heads suck Russian cock and fight Americans
what happened to you assholes
Reagan funded the mujahideen you moronic freak..
The Taliban are those children, but they were radicalized ( leadership) by the madrassas in Pakistan..