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Afghanistan 2021

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Ubiquitin, Jun 25, 2021.

  1. durvasa

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    Last I heard, no. Is the hold up that Americans and Afghan visa holders have others in their company who don't have legal papers and who they (understandably) don't want to leave behind?
     
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  2. Astrodome

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    Maybe. I did find a cool story where a tx family with young kids were able to flee via ground travel very recently.
     
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  3. basso

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    nope, i talk about it in this thread.
     
  4. Commodore

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    I mean, you can't capture and detain religious zealots and then release them with any expectation other then they will almost assuredly take up their previous activities again.

    I would imagine the recidivism rate would be quite high.

    No good solution there.
     
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    So what do you think happen to the 5000 that 45 released .
     
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  8. Astrodome

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    Screw the Taliban. Joe can go join his buddies for all we care.
     
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  9. Roc Paint

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    I say we give Afghanistan until the 20th anniversary of 911 which is about four or five days to evacuate the women and children. After that I say we dust that country
     
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  10. durvasa

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    Wow.
     
  11. Roc Paint

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    That’s what she said
     
  12. basso

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    unpossible.

     
  13. Roc Paint

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    Of course they did

    Damn good thing they’re not occupied in Minnesota as we speak
     
  14. Roc Paint

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    I feel so sorry for the people we gave false hope to
     
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  15. Amiga

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    and what if women don’t want to leave ?
     
  16. Amiga

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    The Other Afghan Women

    In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.


    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

    More than seventy per cent of Afghans do not live in cities. In rural areas, life under the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan allies became pure hazard; even drinking tea in a sunlit field, or driving to your sister’s wedding, was a potentially deadly gamble.
     
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  18. Roc Paint

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    Then she/they can be front and center for their so-called Civil War with a bomb strapped across her breasts
     
  19. durvasa

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    The vast, vast majority of people in Afghanistan want Sharia law, crazy as that might seem to us.

    https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/pew-research-survey-afghanistan-sharia-taliban/

    There was no chance they weren't going to institute Sharia. There are widely divergent views on what that actually entails.
     
  20. Roc Paint

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    [CHANT]: F*ck Sharia law
     

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