US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

The U.S foreign policy doesn't seem to care about human rights; it even became a landmark of its foreign policy. The U.S protected and sponsored some of the worst governments on earth -literally-. And still does BTW -cough cough; MBS-

Instead of focusing on far history to understand the terrible -and disastrous- American interventions worldwide, let's look at a very close event like the emerging of the Taliban themselves:






The above are America's allies. So didn't the U.S "know" how bad they were? or you want to convince me that the CIA is "poor and ignorant"? I mean America can snuff Qasim Sulaimani with drones, arrest Saddam from underground, but poor them Americans don't know who the Taliban are?

A nuclear superpower vs flip-flops..

America is a mighty force, that's what I know. If the Taliban turned from allies into enemies then allies allover again, then I smell bullshit.

And if an enthusiast with the American army tells me that somebody is bad, I smell more bullshit.

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And don't get me started on morals; I mean the U.S is the first force in the world to burn children in a massive nuclear holocaust.

What you seem to be missing is that is it perfectly acceptable to paint the Taliban as bad guys without painting the US as good guys (although, gun to my head, I'd sooner live in the US than Afghanistan).

Boru