Now the US wants peace with the Taliban

Isn't this what is needed?

Reply 42

Folderol

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Meus

Regardless of the implementation of my sentence structure, you now know what I meant don't you?

Considering your statement that "I don't think that you can call the Taliban a terrorist organisation", I actually thought you were denying the implementation of the policy.

Reply 43

Meus

So, in honest terms, it doesn't matter if they were good or bad. If you want them to fight your proxy war, then it especially doesn't matter. If you want to bomb them, then it matters. So their moral code is irrelevant.

Yeah, of course, tell me one war that HAS been justified.

Reply 44

Folderol

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Snookercraze

Isn't this what is needed?

Reply 45

Bateman

Yeah, of course, tell me one war that HAS been justified.

WW2.

Reply 46

Snookercraze

Isn't this what is needed?

It's what is needed for America; that is, to talk with the taliban, and get them to fight terrorists who attack american interests, but it isn't in the interest of the afghans, no.

Reply 47

Snookercraze

WW2.

So germany was justified to invade her neighbours?

Reply 48

Bateman

It's what is needed for America; that is, to talk with the taliban, and get them to fight terrorists who attack american interests, but it isn't in the interest of the afghans, no.

Whatever brings peace.

Reply 49

Folderol

Do you mean read the OP? I certainly did.

Reply 50

borismor

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Meus

So, in honest terms, it doesn't matter if they were good or bad. If you want them to fight your proxy war, then it especially doesn't matter. If you want to bomb them, then it matters. So their moral code is irrelevant.

You may say that US is doing it for the wrong reasons, but what ultimately matters here is that the Taliban got exactly what they deserved, so there's no point in opposing the war. The world will be a better place without them.

Reply 51

Bateman

So germany was justified to invade her neighbours?

That was a cause of WW2... without WW2, Hitler and the Nazis would have looked to capture more of Europe.

Reply 52

Folderol

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Snookercraze

Do you mean read the OP? I certainly did.

No, I mean read the thread - as the picture said. There has been a lengthy discussion in this thread and after 3 pages for you to say "Isn't that what is needed" is not prudent.

Reply 53

Folderol

No, I mean read the thread - as the picture said. There has been a lengthy discussion in this thread and after 3 pages for you to say "Isn't that what is needed" is not prudent.

I couldn't be bothered to do that.

Reply 54

mf2004

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borismor

Like I always say - US doesn't need an excuse to fight tyranny, it only needs motivation. Taliban were always bad, it just wasn't always in US's interest to do something about it.

It still doesn't change the fact that US has every right to eliminate the Taliban.

Why

I could say the Bush administration was doing bad stuff in IRAQ so now I'm allowed to kill every american soldier
Afghanistan would be a democratic country if it wasn't for the USA !! (URSS didn't help either)
I do not think war is the way forward in Afghanistan. There is no way of getting rid of all the Taliban without bombing the whole country and killing millions of civilians.
The way forward is getting people in Afghanistan to understand the Taliban aren't nice people

Bateman

If there is an Afghan supporting the war, which killed thousands of Afghans,(folderol) then we can't really say America should never have invaded. The Taliban were bad, they needed to be destroyed, although i think America should do this by showing the Afghans that the Taliban are bad etc. instead of just killing all talibs which would just help them recruit more fighters.

Reply 55

Don John

If I was the Taliban I'd stick my middle finger up at Mr. Obama

Reply 56

We can never say America has looked out for "world" interests, they always look out for their own interests (like all countries TBH), in 2001, it was in their interests to invade afghanistan, they justified this invasion by saying the Taliban mistreated the afghans, (they would have invaded if the Taliban were angles) now, 8 years later, after realising they can't beat the taliban, it's in their interests to talk with the taliban to get them to fight terrorists in their country.

Reply 57

borismor

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mf2004

Why

I could say the Bush administration was doing bad stuff in IRAQ so now I'm allowed to kill every american soldier

You can say whatever you want, but not everything you say is automatically correct.

Afghanistan would be a democratic country if it wasn't for the USA !! (URSS didn't help either)

Yeah, in your dreams.

Reply 58

borismor

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Don John

If I was the Taliban I'd stick my middle finger up at Mr. Obama

And if you were an Afghan women?

Reply 59