3 ms·

Nobody's talking or doing anything about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. The T wouldn't be anywhere without it and for years the U.S. and ROW have chose

by vmh1928 5y ago

Nobody's talking or doing anything about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. The T wouldn't be anywhere without it and for years the U.S. and ROW have chosen to ignore it.

nerbert 5y ago
Pakistan is also burning itself with these crazies.
deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
fhood 5y ago
The US couldn't do much about it from what I understand. But yeah, Pakistan's support for the Taliban was as much a factor as anything in how badly the US failed here, or at least that seems to be the opinion of many of the ranking related military personel.
jhallenworld 5y ago
Or, supposedly, Saudi support. Imran Khan's response to the Pak money allegation is to ask where did the 1T$ of USA money go? He does have a point, but still not sure why they want to support Taliban.
- baybal2 5y ago
  > He does have a point, but still not sure why they want to support Taliban. If they don't support Taliban, the Afghan government will... Whaaat? — I already hear it, but yes. This is this much fucked up. Please google this.
  - baybal2 5y ago
    More context: Afghan government also has Taliban backers internally. These desire more for Taliban to attack Pakistan instead, and they indeed fund, and facilitate them to do so.
2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
When I was there that's where many would go. I was on a screen-line with 2nd LAR mere miles from the border with Pakistan but we were not allowed to go any closer. It was explained that we have to leave a buffer so that Pakistan can be certain that the US is respecting their territory. One morning some British commandos rolled up, said hello, and left in the direction of the border. I guess they don't have the same buffer rules that we did because I heard gunfire not long after they parted. We would spend all day searching vehicles and find nothing. The Afghans who submitted to search were very friendly but every so often, for whatever reason, groups of vehicles would turn around rather than be searched. It was open desert down there so I assume they just go wide around the screen-line and on to their destination.

Nobody's talking or doing anything about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. The T wouldn't be anywhere without it and for years the U.S. and ROW have chosen to ignore it.

nerbert 5y ago

Pakistan is also burning itself with these crazies.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

fhood 5y ago

The US couldn't do much about it from what I understand. But yeah, Pakistan's support for the Taliban was as much a factor as anything in how badly the US failed here, or at least that seems to be the opinion of many of the ranking related military personel.

jhallenworld 5y ago

Or, supposedly, Saudi support. Imran Khan's response to the Pak money allegation is to ask where did the 1T$ of USA money go? He does have a point, but still not sure why they want to support Taliban.

baybal2 5y ago
> He does have a point, but still not sure why they want to support Taliban. If they don't support Taliban, the Afghan government will... Whaaat? — I already hear it, but yes. This is this much fucked up. Please google this.
- baybal2 5y ago
  More context: Afghan government also has Taliban backers internally. These desire more for Taliban to attack Pakistan instead, and they indeed fund, and facilitate them to do so.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago

When I was there that's where many would go. I was on a screen-line with 2nd LAR mere miles from the border with Pakistan but we were not allowed to go any closer. It was explained that we have to leave a buffer so that Pakistan can be certain that the US is respecting their territory. One morning some British commandos rolled up, said hello, and left in the direction of the border. I guess they don't have the same buffer rules that we did because I heard gunfire not long after they parted. We would spend all day searching vehicles and find nothing. The Afghans who submitted to search were very friendly but every so often, for whatever reason, groups of vehicles would turn around rather than be searched. It was open desert down there so I assume they just go wide around the screen-line and on to their destination.