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The US has some very technically advanced adversaries who’d happily share their data with the Taliban
by peteretep 5y ago
The US has some very technically advanced adversaries who’d happily share their data with the Taliban
- paganel 5y ago> who’d happily share their data with the Taliban Not the Taliban, but ISIS was very quick in adopting Google Earth/Google Maps early in their war in Syria, you could see some map screens in the videos where they used to prepare a targeted suicide bombing and such (not sure if those videos are on YT or Twitter anymore).
- vkou 5y agoNo, they currently don't, but this is a convenient boogieman to trot out whenever you need to drum up patriotism, or to accuse your political opponents of a lack of patriotism, or demand a higher defense budget or a justification for another extension of the forever-war in the Middle East. This isn't the Soviet-Afghan war, where the US was happily and openly supporting the same mujahedeen that eventually became the Taliban. Russia and China both have significant 'problematic' Muslim minorities, and have little taste for seriously sponsoring Islamic extremism. (The US and Saudi Wahhabism, on the other hand, continue to be odd bedfellows, because, you know, we still can't get over Iran.)