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Taliban advancing

lundi 15 septembre 2014 à 14:00

The Taliban are advancing in parts of Afghanistan.

It's sad, but predictable. The Afghan government's army doesn't have the motivation needed to resist the Taliban. Afghans who oppose the Taliban aren't motivated to fight as much as the Taliban are motivated to fight.

We could continue to keep the Taliban out with permanent US intervention. We could do that for as long as the US has resources to do it, which won't be forever (in a few decades, global heating will be causing disaster in the US). But permanent victory against the Taliban depends on Afghans. We could continue war there until we go broke, but at the end the Taliban would come back unless Afghans opposed to the Taliban.