AndyS
US reaches deal with Taliban--Big F#$king deal.
That's like saying the US made a deal with the Hell's Angels that says the Banditos won't attend Sturgis.
When is it going to be clear that THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND NEVER WAS OR WILL BE.
Afghanistan consists of a bunch of tribal warlords bound together by terrain and hostile neighboring countries. Left to their own they have constantly fought little territorial skirmishes with each other. When a foreign power invades they bind together under the concept of the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Once they defeat the invader--and they always do--they go back to infighting and back biting.
The difference now is that we leave behind an air force, heavy artillery and state of the art crew served weaponry for them to fight over.
If we are lucky they'll be so involved with which warlord gets all those goodies and oppresses the citizenry they won't have time to **** up the rest of the region.
maxsolomon
1. Another binary opinion about a complex situation.
"THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND NEVER WAS OR WILL BE".
There have been governments all along; they just don't measure up to your standards.
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy
2. I suspect AndyS meant a central government. They've never had anything like that. n/t
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215746072Here's a picture from Afghanistan before the nation Bernie Sanders spent his honeymoon in destroyed the central government leaving it to be overrun by jihadists:
