Detournement Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 26 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: The West has abandoned the people to absolute nut cases. Back to making opium and being told Mohammed was the ultimate shagger for the Afghans. Opioum production increased massively during the occupation. The CIA love drug trafficking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 These Taliban look quite genial coves.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Here is Greta Thunberg's 0.02 grams of carbon worth Spoiler the carbon footprint of a tweet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 hours ago, ICTChris said: The population of Afghanistan has doubled since 2001. The majority of people there never lived under the previous Taliban regime. Do you think they might like it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/16/afghanistan-history-taliban-collapse-504977 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 24 minutes ago, Detournement said: A deal has definitely been done. The Taliban lads get to make sure no one is heavy petting who shouldn't be and mineral mining and gas exploration get to work without worrying about IEDs. Is that the boy that Trump released from jail? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Detournement Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: Is that the boy that Trump released from jail? No. The interim leader isn't part of the Taliban. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: the gatekeeper is Priti Patel who, one imagines, would rather see them left behind than helped. That utter cuntress would quite happily feed the ammo to the machine gunner wearing her home office "uniform" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 7 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Do you think they might like it? It’s kinda like the wee free but with AK-47s instead of hymns. So maybe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: Is that the boy that Trump released from jail? Nope, that was Abdul Ghani Baradar, soon to be Mr President to you. (according to rumours) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Going to need a hell of a lot more planes if they are planning on clearing the airport. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: Here is Greta Thunberg's 0.02 grams of carbon worth Reveal hidden contents the carbon footprint of a tweet. How many grams of carbon in a P&B post you reckon? A pic? A gif? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: How many grams of carbon in a P&B post you reckon? A pic? A gif? Even at 0.02g per post, you've contributed the best part of a kilo through P&B posts alone, you monster. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 There's some really crass and poorly-informed stuff on this thread. I won't be getting drawn in, and will be making only this post on this thread for two reasons. 1) I know a lot of people directly involved in this and it's genuinely upsetting 2) Giving away too much would make me quite identifiable, which I don't really want to do. Two people I have worked with for years have died in Kabul (confirmed by their parents/friends) in the last 36 hours. Both executed by the Taliban/Taliban sympathisers/ it's the same thing in the period when the Taliban were apparently 'not entering the city'. Two women I have known for several years are missing. The brother of one of them told me she has been 'taken as a wife'. There's nothing that can be done to fix this or stop this. Her life is over. The other is completely unaccounted for, but a similar fate can be assumed. All four of these people worked at a university in Kabul. That's it. That was their crime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 19 minutes ago, 101 said: Going to need a hell of a lot more planes if they are planning on clearing the airport. More to the point maybe how easy will it be to get the last NATO troops out of there if they don't. In Saigon, South Vietnam was still somewhat functional at least in the immediate surroundings when the last choppers and planes were leaving. Unlike the NVA, the Taliban haven't waited on the outskirts to allow the Americans to leave first and it's difficult to understand how Biden & co didn't see that scenario coming as rapidly as it did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 3 hours ago, NotThePars said: The extent of our involvement should be facilitating asylum applications and making it as easy as possible for anyone who wants to seek asylum elsewhere to do so and those of us who intervened in Afghanistan should be willing to take as substantial a bulk of those refugees as we can. In that vein it’s probably Good that we currently have a very public discussion going on atm where influential people are doing their best to narrow the parameters of who deserves asylum as much as possible. We don't want to be doing that; there was a bunch of red, angry face emojis on Facebook when STV reported I think three (?) families of Afghan refugees were being re-homed in Ayrshire a few weeks back and I saw another load today after Sturgeon announced that more Afghan refugees would be welcomed. Wee need too put oor peepil furst ffs!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: More to the point maybe how easy will it be to get the last NATO troops out of there if they don't. In Saigon, South Vietnam was still somewhat functional at least in the immediate surroundings when the last choppers and planes were leaving. Unlike the NVA, the Taliban haven't waited on the outskirts to allow the Americans to leave first and it's difficult to understand how Biden & co didn't see that scenario coming as rapidly as it did. The Taliban obviously want them to f**k off. Blowing up a plane or killing US troops would guarantee a military response. There are obviously backroom channels and this will drop out the news cycle well before the 9/11 anniversary. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 24 minutes ago, TheJTS98 said: There's some really crass and poorly-informed stuff on this thread. Are you new around here? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, Detournement said: The Taliban obviously want them to f**k off... More than likely but as they start to get most of the troops out the numbers balance on who is still left inside the airport perimeter starts to tip so it isn't just the Taliban they need to worry about given they are already having major issues on how to keep the runways clear. Don't forget also that the Americans have told their citizens to remain in place at this time and not attempt to travel to the airport. Why didn't they have a secret signal sorted like "White Christmas" being played on AFRN? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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