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Journal by DeathMonkey
The United States has conducted an airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump boasted he secured peace with the group.
Military officials confirmed on Wednesday the airstrike was to interrupt a planned attack on a checkpoint run by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF).
The strike was from a drone, according to military officials.
US launches airstrike against Taliban hours after Trump claimed he'd secured peace
Well that was quick! U.S. attacks Taliban in Afghanistan
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(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 04 2020, @07:20PM
Trump Made Drones Great Again!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2020, @08:00PM (5 children)
You can't build a nation without changing the culture, and we weren't going to do that. Squeamish voters don't like the body count, penny pinching voters don't want to spend the money, and traitor voters don't even accept the superiority of our own civilization. We would probably need to run the place like North Korea for 70 years in order to wipe out the Islam and tribal languages.
We got our revenge. We're done. We still have bombs though, and we like using them.
The "peace deal" is just a way to show our own voters and the rest of the world that we gave a good-faith effort. We knew they wouldn't comply. It is literally in their religion to make dishonest peace deals with non-Muslims. Muslims are supposed to make peace deals in order to buy time for preparing for battle. With that, no genuine lasting peace will ever be possible unless they are all dead.
The fight between Islam and the entire rest of the world will go on until one side is dead. Probably that will be the west, due to infiltration and attack from within. Unfortunately it is normal for Muslims to declare each other to be non-Muslim over some minor disagreement, so the violence would continue. The only hope, rather slim at this point, is that somebody with balls wins a total war against Islam. Killing over a billion people is no small task, even with automated killer drones.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 04 2020, @08:27PM (3 children)
You generally blame the first person to start blowing shit up again for the end of a peace deal. That would be us.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 04 2020, @08:48PM
What "peace" deal? "people are enjoying the reduction in violence" [france24.com]. I guess, in comparative terms, that could be seen as "peace". Relativism at work?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 05 2020, @01:58AM
Well, 25 dead ANDSF troops suggests that maybe - just maybe - the Taliban launched their attacks first? I wasn't there to see it, but TFA suggests the drone was launched in response to Taliban attacks on ANDSF checkpoints. So, who was first?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 05 2020, @02:08AM
And, this article indicates that the Taliban are actually targeting Afghan government officials - https://zeenews.india.com/world/us-launches-first-airstrike-on-taliban-since-doha-deal-targets-fighters-in-afghanistans-helmand-2267741.html [india.com]
Basically, Taliban can't reach these officials in the cities, so they target them when they travel? That's what it sounds like to me.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @04:05AM
The only option left is to kill all men.
Liberate all women oppressed by the Yahweh religions.
The demon-haunted world will be vanquished.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 04 2020, @09:48PM
Okay, it makes for a funny headline. The sad fact of the matter though is that fighting pretty much always continues after peace is declared. Not everyone visits https://amiatwarwith.org/?faction1=foo&faction2=bar [amiatwarwith.org] right before running a planned attack. Sure, it's quick nowadays but it could take months back when they had to send someone back and forth to headquarters with hand-written TCP packets.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:49AM
The original ceasefire was between the U.S. and Taliban for 1 week. It allowed the U.S. and the Taliban to negotiate the terms of peace talks later. They reached an agreement for those talks. The problem is that the U.S. made concessions they couldn't keep without the cooperation of the current Afghanistan government, and then tried to force them to comply. The current Afghanistan government said "no" because they got no benefit and all the downside. So a few days later the ceasefire ended. It's not really a surprise for hostilities to start up when there isn't any ceasefire or prospect of peace talks until the Afghanistan election is sorted out.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday March 05 2020, @07:43AM
Supposedly the US and the Taliban agreed, but the puppet government refused. And so the Taliban hit them, and the US dropped a few million dollars of TNT. On something. Somewhere nearby.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday March 05 2020, @12:09PM (1 child)
What kind of moron would sign any kind of deal or treaty with Trump?
Is there actually any international agreement that he HASN'T shat all over? The US has zero credibility with him in charge.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:27PM
This is the second-most damaging aspect of having him as president, yes (the first being, the fundie whackjobs actually care more about stuffing the judiciary than the executive, and have used him to do that). It's going to take at least 50 years to rebuild the world's trust in the US, and that's assuming we get our shit together right now in November 2020.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...