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Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: UK
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Is it too much to hope that all of the military kit left behind when we exited Afghanistan can all be detonated remotely when the Taliban goat-  are riding about, lording it over the subjugated population?
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 31st Aug 2021 10:13 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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Most of the kit is stuff bought by the Yanks for the Afghan army. When they folded, they gave the stuff to the Taliban.
The kit the Yanks left behind themselves, is said to have been rendered unusable. There's a picture of a C130 sat with a very definite lean to one side on the BBC. Presumably this was damaged prior to the Yanks leaving. Quite why it wasn't flown out - presumably a lack of suitable pilots.
I wonder how the other aircraft were broken. Emptying lubricant and then running the engines to seizure would certainly go someway to making them glorified ornaments. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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| 31st Aug 2021 11:50 pm |
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Moo
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Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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20 years and too many lives lost we end up where we began.
As far as my sadly cynical mind goes, the only ones that benefitted were the arms and private security companies. 
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| 31st Aug 2021 11:58 pm |
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galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
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stopping the girls going to school now...after suggesting they would allow....clearly not to be trusted....
what a mess
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| 21st Sep 2021 11:12 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13609
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Pakistan is putting pressure on the Taliban to allow girls to go to school. They state, quite correctly, that there is nothing in Islam that says girls shouldn't go to school.
But of course, religion is just a mean of control and attainment of power, and this is the Taliban's version of that. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 22nd Sep 2021 6:51 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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Medieval Age, here we come.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58675153
Quote:The Taliban's notorious former head of religious police has said extreme punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in Afghanistan.
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, now in charge of prisons, told AP News amputations were "necessary for security".
He said these punishments may not be meted out in public, as they were under previous Taliban rule in the 1990s.
But he dismissed outrage over their past public executions: "No-one will tell us what our laws should be."
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Quote:Days before the Taliban took control of Kabul, a Taliban judge in Balkh, Haji Badruddin, told the BBC's Secunder Kermani that he supported the group's harsh and literal interpretation of Islamic religious law.
"In our Sharia it's clear, for those who have sex and are unmarried, whether it's a girl or a boy, the punishment is 100 lashes in public," Badruddin said. "But for anyone who's married, they have to be stoned to death... For those who steal: if it's proved, then his hand should be cut off."
These hardline views are in tune with some ultra-conservative Afghans.
Still, we can always send them back if they arrive in a boat... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 24th Sep 2021 3:39 pm |
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galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525
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this was a war situation..working against some crazy people....how would you have done it..??
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| 23rd May 2022 11:43 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
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I don't have a staff of 7000 civil servants and a monthly payroll budget of £43m available to me (FCDO staff report, as at Feb '22).
But then if you bothered to read the summary you'd realise that's not necessarily a disadvantage, given FCDO get slammed every bit as much as the government.
Also a bit rich coming from Captain Outrage.. You upset I got there before you could link the Daily Mail's interpretation? I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 24th May 2022 12:04 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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A litany of failures by senior politicians and civil servants.
The argument "this was a war situation" is no argument. Plans should have been in place and regularly reviewed to ensure the end of the occupation could be carried out in a suitable manner.
It's worth noting that the report praises those on the ground doing the actual work. Ire is reserved solely for Government - it is Government's responsibility to be ready for these situations. That it wasn't is because senior people in Government didn't do their jobs. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 24th May 2022 6:46 am |
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