US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan

[Rev. Rye]

Is that what you find alarming about the taliban? Not the common drug cartel and extortion racket shit? Civilian casualties of roadside bombs not ringing any alarm bells?

Yeah, the US alternately funding rebel groups only to turn on them later is kinda Standard Operating Procedure for the US by this point. Also, all that cartel/extortion/car bombing shit does tend to be SOP for any sufficiently well-financed organised crime organization.





Even if Bill Hicks is confusing Jack Palance in Shane with Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven.

Honestly, I'd be more concerned about the blatant human rights violations under the Taliban, the kind that have even been going down even after we kicked the Taliban government out of Afghanistan (see Malala for more information.) There's a moral reason the US has tried to take them out, and also a depressingly simple reason that said efforts have been doomed to failure, and I talked about it a couple pages ago in this very thread.