Yemen Houthi Spokesman Yahya Saree has reiterated that the attacks on ships in the Red Sea will carry on until Palestinians in Gaza are no longer under Israeli shelling. Earlier, the Houthis were accu...
I hear this a lot, but what would beating the Taliban involve? While the US was there, the Taliban was at best in hiding, it was not holding territory. If you mean removing the very idea of the Taliban from the world? That is both hard to do and arguably also a genocide, at least a cultural one. The US has been good at that, but it’s also frowned on in the current world - see Gaza headlines.
This is also why I’d suggest it’s kind of impossible to both not be the worst of the colonialist systems and stop terrorism (and it’s kind of unclear that even the colonial cultural suppression / conversion / excesses / crimes actually would stop terrorism).
Are you under the impression that the US military and the Taliban were engaged in friendly competition for no reason whatsoever, just a bit of international banter?
Americans with boots on the ground for 20 years in Afghanistan and could not beat the Taliban. But sure, this time will be different.
As the Taliban say:
“The Americans have the clock, but we have the time”
I hear this a lot, but what would beating the Taliban involve? While the US was there, the Taliban was at best in hiding, it was not holding territory. If you mean removing the very idea of the Taliban from the world? That is both hard to do and arguably also a genocide, at least a cultural one. The US has been good at that, but it’s also frowned on in the current world - see Gaza headlines.
This is also why I’d suggest it’s kind of impossible to both not be the worst of the colonialist systems and stop terrorism (and it’s kind of unclear that even the colonial cultural suppression / conversion / excesses / crimes actually would stop terrorism).
What about taking more than 5 minutes to the Taliban to come back in power after the us left?
That seems a strange definition to me - so if a boxer gets back up after losing the match, well his opponent didn’t beat him in that fight?
Are you under the impression that the US military and the Taliban were engaged in friendly competition for no reason whatsoever, just a bit of international banter?
How long did you spend in Afghanistan in the last 24 years?
In this context, being “completely wiped off the face of the planet”.