Taliban

[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

[Kirkland Laing]

They're going to wait until we fuck off and then take over Afghanistan again. There's nothing we can do about it. It's the height of arrogance to think we're going to have any effect on a country like that.

[greynotsoold]

They're going to wait until we fuck off and then take over Afghanistan again. There's nothing we can do about it. It's the height of arrogance to think we're going to have any effect on a country like that.

That is exactly right.

[Spicoli]

Welp, shat. Seems to have fallen apart as fast as it was glued together which is very unfortunate. But they cannot be trusted and we knew this. The shoot down they claimed last month didn't even make news really. Reminds of the George Aiken line 'just declare victory and leave' . Of course that's not realistic either so yeh, we're knee deep still and it sucks.