Taliban violence in Afghanistan
surged in Biden's first months
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/30/2021 3:09:44 PM
Even as the United States begins its troop withdrawal, Afghanistan experienced a rising wave of violent attacks against security forces and civilians during President Biden‘s first three months in office. The attacks, blamed mainly on the Taliban insurgency, raise fresh questions about the country’s fate as President Biden sets a definitive end date for U.S. combat troops in the country. Power-sharing talks between the Taliban and the U.S.-backed government in Kabul have largely stalled even as the Pentagon and NATO countries begin the process of bringing their troops home. In a just-released report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, “enemy-initiated
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I cannot imagine their mindset
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Many of us recently saw an online video of a young teenage girl brandishing a knife, large enough to be a deadly weapon, attempting to stab another young girl. Just in the nick of time, a police officer shot the attacker, who died.
While this is the most extreme video I've seen, there are many other instances of similar behavior, mostly unrecorded by media. Somehow, we have become a nation in which literally thousands of young people are walking around, ready at a moment's notice to react with violence,
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Failed America refuses to control its own borders or stop domestic insurgents in our cities (apart from the agency pantomime at the US Capitol, that was terrible), so what the H are we doing in Afghanistan, apart from protecting the opium poppy crop and wasting money and US lives?