A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Wasn’t Cromwell asked what he would do if he knew that 7 out of eight men in England stood against his ideas. “Put a gun into the hand of every eighth man”…
Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished
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Wasn’t Cromwell asked what he would do if he knew that 7 out of eight men in England stood against his ideas. “Put a gun into the hand of every eighth man”…
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
I definitely remember stuff about the Taliban having jets in the old days. Got them from Pakistan, presumably (and the eerie silence out of, and about, Islamabad, tells its own story).
It's not inherently implausible, a non-state actor having air capability. It does appear to be true that the USSR gave ZIPRA (Joshua Nkomo's faction) a Mig with which to fight the Rhodesians, but the Lancaster House agreement was signed before it could be deployed. And there's the Tamil Tigers adapting trainers to bomb oil refineries.
E2A: Of course the Taliban weren't non-state actors after 1996. Wikipedia says that they had five migs and ten sukhois.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Silly post fixed.
The basket case corruption of the recent regeme wasn't exactly going to inspire a fearsom robust defence though.
maomao
普費斯
Yes, obviously just fear and nothing to do with the widespread corruption, random violence and (almost certainly undercounted) 47,000 civilian deaths under the occupying forces.
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Plastic Paddy
Yep. Cos everything's better now.
maomao
普費斯
No. But maybe if we all just condemn religious extremists on the internet we can make it all better.
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Plastic Paddy
No, don't be daft; side with them against the evil US and UK instead. Far better mileage to be had that way.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Anyway….Biden seems to be taking a battering, has anyone got a suggestion as to how he could end this endless war without the current situation taking place?
maomao
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But that's not what happening. It's you and a couple of others screaming 'Wibewal!' at anyone with anything more complicated to say than 'Taliban are bad'.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I wonder how he'll react to this. The Taliban are bad, and so is everyone else.
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Plastic Paddy
No it's not. You have said anything remotely complicated and neither have your sidekicks. Have to admit, that bellend Ska got close with the suggestion that British soldiers should face war crimes trials in The Hague for taking part in the invasion though.
maomao
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I haven't bothered because of the witchhunt on this thread. And you're the only poster on the boards with a genuine sidekick.
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Plastic Paddy
And have you seen anyone supportive of that position here?
maomao
普費斯
Yes.
maomao
普費斯
The Americans who abandoned the Geneva convention should be.
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Plastic Paddy
He didn't say that though. Do you agree with him that British soldiers should be tried for war crimes just for taking part in the invasion?
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Plastic Paddy
Where?
maomao
普費斯
I think the army should be disbanded and all commissioned officers disposed of regardless of what conflicts they've taken part in.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
maomao
普費斯
Or just locked up/castrated/sedated. Some of the special forces lot might need long term psychiatric care too.
I’m not convinced, to be honest. I’m sure there are indeed a lot of people very frightened of the Taliban. However, to control a country through fear on an ongoing basis requires a widescale infiltration of personal networks. Does the Taliban have people in every family that will shop their family members if they say subversive things?
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Plastic Paddy
I don't know if they do now, if they plan to, or plan not to bother but I'm not sure I agree with your premise anyway. Does every despotic regime require people in every family who will shop family members for subversion, to take and remain in power? Every family? Every such regime in history? Do you believe that even the Nazis had such people in every family? How about the Stasi and the KGB? In fact, I'd ask that you give just one example of a regime that had people prepared to grass subversives in every family.
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ska invita
back on the other side
Whatever else could've been done differently the press will move on and totally ignore Afghanistan in a couple of weeks or so. Full blown civil war wouldn't change that
If they’re fascist and you know it
But don’t really want to show it
If they’re fascist but they’re brown clap your hands
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
And who’s going to do the ‘disposal’ you talk about? Just out of interest as a kind of thought experiment?
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