Let's talk to the Taliban?

[Phone]

Chesters1,

 

Perhaps government but not all citizens.

 

Here's from Denver Colorado yesterday. """"People line up for half-mile to get free 30-round ammo magazines before Colorado ban""""

 

Phone

[Steve Walker]

I keep seeing this topic and thinking "grunt and squeak and squawk with the Taliban", Dr Doolittle style

[Dave H]

There are plenty of grunts out there for sure now!

[Amodoro]

'Osamas in pyjamas' is the best line I've ever read on here!

[Ken L]

'Osamas in pyjamas' is the best line I've ever read on here!

Google it.

[chesters1]

 

Google it.

Dammit i thought it was mine!

[Now there's a right un.]

When the Taliban was fighting the USSR the west was not only talking to them but giving them the means to fight.

I remember as a child the BBC glorifying the fact the Taliban had successfully engaged a Russian convoy or shot down a Russian jet. I remember one striking news piece when a soldier fired a rocket into an unarmed convoy hitting a soft target. Nobody in the west gave a toss about the rules of war, civilian rights or education for girls etc etc.

Back then the Taliban were the buffer against USSR expansion and our best buddies, a bit like Saddam or Osama. Seems like every friend of the west becomes tomorrows enemy. Pity the friends of the west today as their future may not be too bright.

Now the USSR is no more so the Taliban become the enemy. Seems like we must have our enemies lest we lose the justification for murder and mayhem. We must have our enemies to justify the production of our means to kill. A government will spend billions to kill and nothing by comparison to promote peace.

Afghanistan has been a major blight for a century or more and the west uses it and discards it as it sees fit. Nothing I see today is seemingly different from the time of USSR occupation just different political objectives.

Maybe Shell have identified potential Oil pockets ripe for plunder...who knows??

[Colin Brett]

When the Taliban was fighting the USSR the west was not only talking to them but giving them the means to fight.

I remember as a child the BBC glorifying the fact the Taliban had successfully engaged a Russian convoy or shot down a Russian jet. I remember one striking news piece when a soldier fired a rocket into an unarmed convoy hitting a soft target. Nobody in the west gave a toss about the rules of war, civilian rights or education for girls etc etc.

Back then the Taliban were the buffer against USSR expansion and our best buddies, a bit like Saddam or Osama. Seems like every friend of the west becomes tomorrows enemy. Pity the friends of the west today as their future may not be too bright.

Now the USSR is no more so the Taliban become the enemy. Seems like we must have our enemies lest we lose the justification for murder and mayhem. We must have our enemies to justify the production of our means to kill. A government will spend billions to kill and nothing by comparison to promote peace.

Afghanistan has been a major blight for a century or more and the west uses it and discards it as it sees fit. Nothing I see today is seemingly different from the time of USSR occupation just different political objectives.

Maybe Shell have identified potential Oil pockets ripe for plunder...who knows??

I think you will find it was the Mujahideen who waged war on the USSR. The Taliban followed by taking over Afghanistan in 1996 I think.

See the film Charlie Wilson's War.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Colin Brett

[Now there's a right un.]

My mistake.

 

Most of the Taliban who followed were Mujahideen fighters and yes the Taliban followed but they are one and the same....

 

Mrs Clinton describes it well on YouTube but for some reason I cannot paste the link.

[RUDD]

Its all poppycock - enough said.