Afghanistan - should we be concerned?

homesickblues

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Seems its all starting again, now that US/other forces have left. Such a shame for those who want to live their lives in peace. What was it all about, was it just the US looking after their own interests and what a price some families have paid.
Should we be concerned now that the Taliban are taking more control?
 
It is tragic, the whole situation. Lives lost - including hundreds from the UK. Taliban gaining control, girls/ women facing a terrible future. It really is bleak and my heart goes out to the general population who face being ruled eventually by a bunch little better than savages.
 
Absolutely shocking for all those who served and lost lives and limbs. The whole situation seems to be going back to how it was. I watched a documentary the other day where a ex para was saying they fought for months to defend a town and lost many comrades. He watched in horror a few weeks ago watching the same town now once again run by them. What was the point?

It must be heart breaking for 'normal civilians' having to live with taliban rule again after returning to some normality.

I hope and really don't expect us to return. It's a country that's never lost a war or conflict. That doesn't help the people who live in the middle of it. It's brutal to say 'it's not our problem'.

I imagine some things will continue that we ain't privy to. Special forces ops and bombing raids etc.
 
Nobody has ever defeated the Taliban. Even with drones, satelite guided missiles, tanks and many thousands of troops.
I'd say let them get on with it but we have a rsponsibilty to the women and children.
They should be protected.
 
Unfortunately it looks like Afghanistan is going to have to find its own way to develop into the modern world in its own time. Terribly sad for all those women, children and men who just want a peaceful and free life.
 
Such a toxic mixture of foreign powers shoring up their own interests and generations used to violent outrages. The way that their army have been left to it is reminiscent of the ARVN during the final stages of the Vietnam war.

I read The Looming Tower last year and Al Qaeda were not the Taliban's best mates. The place seems ungovernable and has a conveyor belt of foreign fighters coming in to use it like a real life computer game.

I only hope that those who managed to get an education during Nato times manage to either change it or get the hell out of there.
 
Seems like everyone has a go at sorting the place out.
Whats the answer?
The answer is too unpalatable for any politician. Unbridled savagery and wildly disproportionate retaliation to Taliban attacks, operations into Pakistan and threats against the other nations funding the Taliban, while continuing to build basic infrastructure using foreign taxpayers' money, but without the blossoming trade relationship which Japan and West Germany offered in the later 20th century.

Guaranteed electoral defeat for anyone who tried to sort it.

History just puts a big red Stop sign near that place.
 
Leave it alone? And allow the imposition of Sharia Law with the slavery and torture that comes with it?
Let it consolidate, prosper and be exported around the world?
 
The biggest mistake with Afghanistan was the ridiculous decision to invade Iraq. Once Iraq inevitably became a disaster all focus shifted there. The Taliban were never really defeated and just sat and played the long game.
 
I’m afraid there isn’t an answer, it’s just going to be very unpleasant for the people there and no doubt terrorists/ drug lords will exploit the situation and people.
 
Leave it alone? And allow the imposition of Sharia Law with the slavery and torture that comes with it?
Let it consolidate, prosper and be exported around the world?
What do you suggest? Ultimately they need to find their own way.

As much as we might want to we can’t solve everyone’s problems. It’d never end - would you propose a concurrent invasion of Syria, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan? Saudi Arabia are hardly treating their women folk well let’s have a pop at them too. We forgot North Korea too.
 
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