Well, the (now former) President Ashraf Ghani fled the country earlier today.
“Today I came across a tough choice,” starts the post, written in Pashto and translated using Google. “I have to face the armed Taliban who want to enter the palace or leave the country where I have dedicated my life to protecting and nurturing it for the last 20 years. If left unchecked, countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be devastated, resulting in a major humanitarian catastrophe in the six-million-strong city.”
As with most of the country, people chose to flee instead of fighting the taliban head on.
The president went on to assert that the U.S.-backed Afghan government has “300,000 well-equipped” troops. He said they were “as well-equipped as any army in the world.”
“Against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable,” Biden said.
But it HAS happened. The failed state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is by all accounts, DEAD!
The Taliban will declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul, a Taliban official announced on Sunday.
And the breeding grounds for international terrorism is much ALIVE!
…analysts predicted that history would view the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan as a failure.
“On Day One, we go in, and the Taliban is in charge. Twenty years later, the Taliban is back in charge,” said Jack Weinstein, a former Pentagon official and expert on international security.
“I don’t know how you couch that as a victory,” he said.
A victory for the taliban, and now also a victory for the CCP as…
Afghanistan has billions of dollars worth of copper, iron, talcum and lithium. In recent days, China has already made in-roads with the Taliban, developing ties that it hopes will bloom into economic cooperation, including in its Belt and Road initiative. Russia and Iran have also met with Taliban leaders to discuss future ties.
Definitely NOT a victory for biden foreign policy. (I thought he claimed to be a master foreign policy maker. Guess NOT.)
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban ruled the country … Only a handful of countries recognized the regime, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkmenistan.
Now we can see many more countries recognizing this regime, including Russia and the CCP.
“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,” Biden said in July during a news conference, adding that Afghan troops were “as well-equipped as any army in the world.”
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Biden’s decision to put “trust” in the Afghan military by leaving them on their own led to the complete Taliban takeover he previously said was “highly unlikely.”
No, it is a matter of FACT. The taliban HAS taken over. But without leadership, at the first sign of conflict, it will all fall down. Thanks for reassuring the public and your allies the inevitable was “highly unlikely”.
“I do not regret my decision,” Biden said last week. “Afghan leaders have to come together. We lost thousands—lost to death and injury—thousands of American personnel. They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation.”
Well, it is no longer their nation.
Afghans fearing that the Taliban would reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights rushed to leave the country, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings, the AP reported.
Which is what I expect will happen.
Taliban fighters tried to calm residents of the capital, insisting they wouldn’t enter people’s homes or interfere with businesses. They said they’d offer an “amnesty” to those who worked with the Afghan government or foreign forces.
“No one’s life, property and dignity will be harmed, and the lives of the citizens of Kabul will not be at risk,” the insurgents said in a statement, according to AP.
So long as they peacefully give over power to the taliban, no doubt.
During the five-year reign of the previous Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law nationwide. These included significant restrictions on women, who were not allowed to leave their homes without a male companion and were required to be fully covered from head to feet when in public.
So long as you do NOT give them a reason to come after you (and obey all their RULES), you are “no at risk”.
Disobey…. 💥☠
Under their harsh interpretation of religious jurisprudence, women and girls were pushed almost completely out of public life and forbidden from employment and schooling. The Taliban imposed sartorial injunctions on both sexes, and mandated such brutal punishment as hand-chopping and execution by stoning — for infractions of their brand of Islamic law. They also banned television and music.
Be prepared for that too.
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