Taliban

[walrus]

So I know there isn’t a lot of Americans here but the rest of you have opinions of course. What do you think of making a deal with the Taliban? It’s a very weird thought for me but I try to step back and remove the personal stuff. Of course I’d love to see this war end but as far as know the Taliban will negotiate with us but will not do so with the sitting Afghan government. With that in mind what do you do? Make Afghanistan a confederacy giving the Taliban their own portion? Would they stick do that or are they still intent on spreading “pure” Islam wanting everything to go back to the 1200’s? So I don’t know. We aren’t going to get rid of them without a massive bombing campaign and you can’t do that these days. I’d say it’s a catch 22

[Master]

You have not totally beaten them, don't think you ever will, best to make a deal with them and keep them in check that way.

[Mark TKO]

Couldn't imagine TVs being banned. Don't know what I would do with my time.

[TitoFan]

How does the U.S. intend to confirm that the Taliban is holding up its end of the deal? I see a lot of potential issues here, and it always boils down to the same thing..... verification. Hopefully it'll all work out though.

[walrus]

How does the U.S. intend to confirm that the Taliban is holding up its end of the deal? I see a lot of potential issues here, and it always boils down to the same thing..... verification. Hopefully it'll all work out though.

Definitely. How can you trust them? As far as we couldn’t beat them, we certainly could if we went balls to the wall carpet bombing etc. I’m not saying we should do that, I’d be against it, just saying

[walrus]

[X]

Of course we'd can't trust them. Of course they won't keep to any deal that is made. Of course they won't stop being our implacable enemies. Of course they won't stop plotting against us.

But after a decade+ of war, we could not defeat them ..... so we are essentially suing for "peace" just to get the hell out of their country