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Kabul just fell to the Taliban

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seether:
What now?

leonefamily:
I watched the news on YouTube this morning. Apparently some people had fled their homes in the countryside to get to the capital city, but now even that is under taliban rule, so they essentially lost everything, even their freedom. The current Afghan government said they wanted a "peaceful transfer of power" pretty much saying that they are giving up against the Talibans.

At least my own country's invasion has already happened, yet our assimilation has so far failed. So I'm hopeful for the Afghan resistance but still, we never know how long the talibans will hold on to power. Could be as short as a few months or as long as a century, but it's up to the Afghan civilians to resist their invaders just like my ancestors have resisted despite being under foreign rule for 250 years.

kamikazekeeg:
It's terrible, but seeing that very few were willing to fight, it was inevitable that the Taliban was going to take over.  A slip back into the dark ages there.

98dgreen:

--- Quote from: leonefamily on August 15, 2021, 02:26:32 pm ---I watched the news on YouTube this morning. Apparently some people had fled their homes in the countryside to get to the capital city, but now even that is under taliban rule, so they essentially lost everything, even their freedom. The current Afghan government said they wanted a "peaceful transfer of power" pretty much saying that they are giving up against the Talibans.

At least my own country's invasion has already happened, yet our assimilation has so far failed. So I'm hopeful for the Afghan resistance but still, we never know how long the talibans will hold on to power. Could be as short as a few months or as long as a century, but it's up to the Afghan civilians to resist their invaders just like my ancestors have resisted despite being under foreign rule for 250 years.

--- End quote ---
The Taliban outlasted the invaders.

bikingjahuty:
I'm friends with about half a dozen Iraq and Afghanistan war vets and they're all pissed, disillusioned or sad about it. And frankly I don't blame them. They watched their friends get killed or injured, they have PTSD and all kinds of other problems following their deployments, and every order and every moral booster to "free the people of Afghanistan" was for nothing. Some of them have been very vocal about this since yesterday and it makes me wonder what's going to happen from this backlash. Afghanistan is more or less in the same place it was in 2001, probably way worse if anything.

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