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So for a retrospective on the war with the Taliban I've come up with the following list. Core Material: No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal An Enemy We Created by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn The Taliban at War by Antonio Giustozzi Elective Material: Taliban Reader by Various Talibs but assembled by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Poetry of the Taliban by Various Talibs but assembled by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Literally anything by Antonio Giustozzi but Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop and Policing Afghanistan: The Politics of the Lame Leviathan are really good for the nitty gritty stuff. Antonio Giustozzi is a researcher who was basically hounded out of "serious" security and intelligence academic circles for being right about everything. Still employed and all but the think tank set hate him. anyone got anything else to add?
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Al Jazeera is reporting that Taliban is sending in their special forces to Bagram Airbase because the ISIS prisoners are attacking them lmao.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:05
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Chuka Umana posted:Al Jazeera is reporting that Taliban is sending in their special forces to Bagram Airbase because the ISIS prisoners are attacking them lmao. islamic state 2 electric boogaloo
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Aug 15, 2021 11:09
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https://twitter.com/Thoirdealbhaigh/status/1426847232490278914 https://mobile.twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1426837632542285826
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Aug 15, 2021 11:13
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Aug 15, 2021 11:14
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This is fake btw. SA is just facebook for tankies now.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:16
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Chuka Umana posted:This is fake btw. SA is just facebook for tankies now. It’s not Shouldn’t you go back to being a pedant in the UK thread?
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Aug 15, 2021 11:17
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Chuka Umana posted:Not confirming Ghani has resigned though. cnn was calling it imminent earlier on saturday seems likely to me but wtf do i know
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Aug 15, 2021 11:18
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is Chuka a pissflaps alt? He feels like a pissflaps alt.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:18
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Zedhe Khoja posted:is Chuka a pissflaps alt? He feels like a pissflaps alt. He is absolutely Pissflaps in terms of being a pedant and annoying.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:19
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https://twitter.com/UmairJamal15/status/1426843864787214336?s=19 Wow. Abdul Ghani Baradar was Omar's deputy and a co-founder of the Taliban.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:21
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Pissflaps was a stronger poster, for good and bad.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:21
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Chuka Umana posted:This is fake btw. SA is just facebook for tankies now. Rocky III? yeah it was a movie
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Aug 15, 2021 11:21
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Chuka Umana posted:This is fake btw. SA is just facebook for tankies now. Lol you loving moron.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:27
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cspam for fucks sake stop getting trolled so easily also lol lmao what a day
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Aug 15, 2021 11:30
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Another giant prison break from Kabuls main prison, I noticed a few literal children in the crowd of former prisoners https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1426852487324180481?s=21
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Aug 15, 2021 11:33
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MILITARY AGED MALES
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Aug 15, 2021 11:35
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Chuka Umana posted:This is fake btw. SA is just facebook for tankies now.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:36
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https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/1426833884654706689?s=19 The Russian Embassy is just chilling.
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Aug 15, 2021 11:38
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https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1426850675015798784
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Aug 15, 2021 11:41
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Al-Saqr posted:Boo what? They pulled off one of the greatest feats of diplomatic/military takeovers in history, they won, let the embassies flee. Not to mention either buying out or negotiating power sharing with many of the traditional competing ethnic groups to Pashtuns (Tajiks, Uzbeks, etc...) A majority of the central capitals ended up conditionally surrendering with minimal fighting as a result.
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rush hour https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1426853413241954307?s=20
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Aug 15, 2021 11:50
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Pook Good Mook posted:Uh, apparently loving not. One of the big successes for the Taliban was how they incorporated and adapted to the area over time such as incorporating parts of pashtunwali. Let's compare this approach to a bunch of white foreigners showing up mainly from US Bible Belt states and some of these people also proudly put Christian crusader symbols on their equipment. etalian has issued a correction as of 11:56 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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Aug 15, 2021 11:53
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Maybe the past 20 years was all just a psy-op to get the Taliban to be the best darn leaders they can be and make them look sympathetic by winning a david and Goliath scenario.
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Aug 15, 2021 12:01
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lmao at the Chad Taliban accomplishments : -destroyed a lavishly equipped central government military that was supposedly 300k+ on paper in little under two weeks -Convinced ethnic rivals to switch over to their side -rapid and more effective civil administration rebuilding efforts in areas they captured -Classic use of roman style divide and conquer tactics, most hardcore opponents ended up fleeing when they saw the hopeless military calculus -Clever use of image building such as emphasizing how people who surrendered / switched sides would not be mistreated and would be given positions of power in the new government -Captured and turned over multiple provinces which covered massive distances, big logistics and strategic accomplishment considering the size and challenging terrain in Afghanistan
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Aug 15, 2021 12:09
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i read this entire thread as soon as I saw it trend on twitter and the absolute hilarity of seeing everyone's predictions go from afghanistan falling going from months to weeks to days to hours is a true lol
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Aug 15, 2021 12:25
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Desperate Character posted:i read this entire thread as soon as I saw it trend on twitter and the absolute hilarity of seeing everyone's predictions go from afghanistan falling going from months to weeks to days to hours is a true lol lmao yeah
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Aug 15, 2021 12:37
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Pretty wild what the US could have instead done with all that money the past twenty years. What a waste of resources and lives.
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Aug 15, 2021 12:47
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We piss money away on pretty much everything except actually making the country better in any meaningful sense, look at COVID.
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Aug 15, 2021 12:54
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Brrrmph posted:Pretty wild what the US could have instead done with all that money the past twenty years. What a waste of resources and lives. think of all the bank executives we could have given bailouts too.
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Aug 15, 2021 12:58
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Brrrmph posted:Pretty wild what the US could have instead done with all that money the past twenty years. What a waste of resources and lives. worth every penny, captured osama and ended terrorism permanently.
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keep punching joe posted:worth every penny, captured osama and ended terrorism permanently. Ayman Al Zawahiri is still alive and out there lol
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British Caro in Afghanistan https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426838284915798016 https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426849721235034113 https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426855269028401159 https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426865465486307330 https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426869035292000261
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some lib right now: "We're only retreating so we can bomb the gently caress out of them!!"
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overmind2000 posted:British Caro in Afghanistan I willing to bet the Taliban will just force him to take a plane out given how annoying he seems. Also apparetly America might have paid the Taliban to let everyone evacuate:- https://twitter.com/macaesbruno/status/1426876247443914755?s=21
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Aug 15, 2021 13:11
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lmao hopefully the Taliban don't use a Google Search to see through his full proof plot 
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Brrrmph posted:Pretty wild what the US could have instead done with all that money the past twenty years. What a waste of resources and lives. This is a good article on the real cost of the war https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/afghan the Coalition "Good Guys" forces relaxed the of rules of engagement in 2017 which led to a big jump in civilians deaths quote:
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