Anyone who didn’t see this coming must be a highly paid foreign policy “expert” in Washington. And because of it, there will be new calls for U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely, which is the last thing they should do. It is long past time for a new strategy of containment of jihad activity […]
Afghanistan: Taliban coercing, beating locals to allege civilian deaths in Kunduz operations
“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268). The “Palestinians” are past masters at this sort of thing. And the Taliban is learning. “Taliban coercing, beating locals to allege civilian deaths in Kunduz operations,” Khaama Press, March 23, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A day after Afghan armed forces inflicted heavy casualties on Taliban […]
Taliban jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” vow to bring Sharia to captured city of Kunduz
Sharia is already the highest law of the land in the constitution of the U.S.-backed Afghan regime, so it is unclear exactly what difference the Taliban are proposing to make. And that’s part of the problem: there is no significant difference in outlook between those we support and those we’re fighting in Afghanistan. “Taliban vow […]
Taliban seizes major city, one of the linchpins of Afghanistan’s economy
Countless numbers of lives, billions of dollars wasted, and for what? A government that is going to fall as soon as the last U.S. troops are gone. All this outrageous and tragic waste could have been avoided, but that would have required Washington establishment analysts to drop their rosy comforting fictions about Islam and Sharia, […]