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Afghanistan Taliban: British military deployed to Helmand
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The majority of British troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014, as reports suggest the Taliban is close to overrunning Sangin town.
British military have been called to help, will they just be there to give advice or join in the battle? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Surely the responsible thing is to continue adopting a fluid policy that allows for the implementation of change if deemed appropriately necessary.....  "
That would be the logical thing to do but politics is not logical. Afghanistan has come such a long way be ashame to see it slip back to how it was |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Surely the responsible thing is to continue adopting a fluid policy that allows for the implementation of change if deemed appropriately necessary.....
That would be the logical thing to do but politics is not logical. Afghanistan has come such a long way be ashame to see it slip back to how it was "
Logic dictates the implementation of efficient homeland security depends on allocating available resources as and where imminent threat can be met effectively....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The problem is that the Taliban has a larger support than were being honest about!.
IMO the Afghan government should be the UN, until the point where the country is a viable prospect as in reality the country has been a failed state for far too long to be just left to get on with it! |
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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago
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As there is only 10 of them think we can assume they are there in a training and advisory role. I know the British army is good but the Taliban have better weapons than when we fought the Zulus |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The British have failed to tame Afghanistan twice in the 1800's then failed again in the early 1900's,,,, followed by Russian failure in the 1970's..... USA failed in the early 2000's followed by NATO's most recent failure......
There's a pattern emerging... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The basic problem is that what we did recently was only ever half-hearted. Never enough troops and never properly equipped. They only ever pushed the Taliban back a bit. Never actually defeated them. Same as Russians did with the Mujahadin...... They just regroup, bide their time then come back in. They allow the farmers to grow Opium so they welcome them mostly.
Do the job properly or don't bother.....sadly what we did was nothing more than token effect but a tragic waste of brave lives of our troops who never had the right backing.
The Afghan troops are just a joke. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You see this term... We pushed the Taliban back... Were pushing isis back...
Back to where!
The Taliban are Afghans, it's an ideology you don't push them back they just brake up and melt back into the existing population, exactly the same problem the Americans faced in Vietnam with the the Viet Cong or we faced with the ira in Ireland or the west faces with isis.
You can't shoot your way out of an ideological principle.
All you can do is guard against the crazy fuckers coming here and then set the debate on the indigenous population sorting out there own problems! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It's a mess, you will never beat an army you can't see, it's like trying to spot a swinger in everyday life, they don't wear uniforms, or fly flags, they just look like everyday people, and when they are killed they tell everyone that they weren't Taliban at all, and that grows the anger towards us and encourages terrorism and we're back to square one, when are the politicians going to learn that its aggressive forigen policy that is breeding terrorism |
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From the CIA Fact File:
AFGHANISTAN
"Allah's Cat Box"
Once the charred remains of a great civilisation, Afghanistan was home to towering columns of wreckage that dotted the smouldering landscape. However, the US-led invasion of 2001 left the nation nothing more than a shell of it's former shell.
* Terrain: Rocks and landmines (25%), inaccessible (75%)
* Rubble: Urban (36%), rural (64%)
* Radical Extremist Temperatures: -58 F to 127 F
* Cuisine: with very little that will grow locals must be very imaginative when pretending to eat
* Death Expectancy: Soon
* National Anthem: "This Wasteland Is your Wasteland"
* Semiprecious commodities: Poppies
* Aid: The international community have pumped over £124bn in to Afghanistan, revolutionising the opium and heroin trades
* Currency: The afghani or Afghan - both are worth close to nothing in Afghanistan
* Environmental Concerns: That big hole with smoke pouring out of it
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's a mess, you will never beat an army you can't see, it's like trying to spot a swinger in everyday life, they don't wear uniforms, or fly flags, they just look like everyday people, and when they are killed they tell everyone that they weren't Taliban at all, and that grows the anger towards us and encourages terrorism and we're back to square one, when are the politicians going to learn that its aggressive forigen policy that is breeding terrorism"
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I prefer to think as foreign policy being oxygen to fucked up thinking of Islamic ideology!
To imagine that foreign policy is responsible for adults throwing acid in children's faces or running into children's schools and shooting dead hundreds of children for the crime of reading books is ludicrous!
I mean the Taliban have killed and brutalised more Afghans than anyone in the west has!.
Western foreign policy in the end however fucked up or badly implemented is surely better than leaving them to it?
Or do we just pull up the drawbridge and leave most of the middle East, a third of Africa and a minority of Asia to it! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The problem is that the Taliban has a larger support than were being honest about!.
IMO the Afghan government should be the UN, until the point where the country is a viable prospect as in reality the country has been a failed state for far too long to be just left to get on with it!"
The UN! Sepp Blatter would be a better choice! |
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"I wonder who is supplying the talibans with weapons?"
Their overheads are low and Afghanistan is full of guns.
It was traditionally assumed that the Taliban made the bulk of their income from the drugs trade and 'taxes' but the suggestion now coming from Washington is that Iran helps fund the Taliban, at least in regards of Tehran's struggle against so-called Islamic State. |
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