RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 2, 2020 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2020 at 11:27 am by WinterHold.)
(March 1, 2020 at 1:15 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 1, 2020 at 1:01 am)SUNGULA Wrote: The same way you defeat any other kind of man.
And if war was a matter of one-on-one combat, that argument might actually mean something. The bigger problem is that the man has a whole shitton of people in line to take you on once the person behind you is taken out.
An army without faith would suffer defeat the more the war extends.
Taliban are Muslims, so they fight out of faith, Islam is a very strong faith; all Muslims (with all their sects; even me) believe that when pressure is at its max, it might be nothing but a heavenly test of faith from God. Add to that the rough nature that the warriors have since they are mostly nomads. Then you have the terrain that protects against airstrikes
In other words: the more you push, the more a Muslim pushes.
Imagine the result of this in a long guerilla war.
(March 2, 2020 at 10:06 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(February 29, 2020 at 7:24 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Afghanistan is full of minerals that the U.S needs. That what kept it there, and made withdrawing a very tough choice to make.
I think you vastly overestimate the value of Afghanistan's mineral wealth compared to the costs of occupying that particular country in order to extract it. Afghanistan was never worth the two trillion dollars we poured into taking and holding it. We were never going to get all that money back. Afghanistan was never going to be a profitable enterprise for the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_...an#Uranium
It seems like a very wealthy landscape.
The invasion of soviets followed by Americans must mean something..they needed that land any my bet is on the Uranium.
