Re: Taliban no more terrorists?
what explains all the gleeful comments about the US “losing” the war in afghanistan? the only unachieved aspect of the US definition of victory is stable democracy and permanent end to taliban rule. either you don’t support this goal or you think there is a better way to achieve a taliban-free afghanistan. perhaps in a post-US afghanistan, the ISI would play the hero and negotiate a grand political settlement with a representative democracy resulting in peace and stability? is that the assumption? surely i don’t need to explain why that is laughable.
do you think the taliban has a greater chance of regaining power if the US stays or leaves? and what do you think happens when they leave?
and it’s not that people in this thread are unhappy with this because they want to see the taliban defeated. they are simply gleeful over the ability to interpret this as a sign of US defeat…which again brings us back to the throwing-afghanistan-to-the-wolves desire mentioned earlier.
unless you think there is a superior alternative to achieve a taliban-free stable afghanistan, the only explanation for the glee is the power of schadenfreude. that of course is pretty damn evil given the likely outcome for the country.