RE: One of the Co-founders of Taliban,Likely to be Afghanistan New President
August 21, 2021 at 7:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2021 at 7:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If there were any expectation that the afghan people would be the recipients of or benefit from reparations paid to the taliban, it wouldn't be an immediately unserious suggestion. As I mentioned before, we did pay for those gains the people saw in our occupation. We're obviously willing to dump a ton of money in the country.
Even cynically, if we were going to send cash to an oppressive totalitarian regime, that regime would have to serve our interests somehow.
Point is, I hope your boys aren't counting on that money, Winter. OTOH, there's plenty of american largess for them to loot from the citizenry - which appears to be the plan. At what point can we dispense with the fiction that the taliban gives a shit about afghan people? Additionally, are you too far down this rabbit hole to back yourself out?
Even cynically, if we were going to send cash to an oppressive totalitarian regime, that regime would have to serve our interests somehow.
Point is, I hope your boys aren't counting on that money, Winter. OTOH, there's plenty of american largess for them to loot from the citizenry - which appears to be the plan. At what point can we dispense with the fiction that the taliban gives a shit about afghan people? Additionally, are you too far down this rabbit hole to back yourself out?
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