I am asking everyone on Coogfans to pray for everyone that is on the ground in Afghanistan. God help them.
This is a praying request.
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Edit: please ignore my previous comment.
This is so cringeworthy.
Iâll pray for both Afghanistan, and an end to the pandemic.
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Thank you.
This Thread too shall not last. Never ending.
I will pray to Odin for all the countries in the world suffering.
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Gang,
I canât imagine how these folks stand a chance, but I guess itâs better to go down fighting rather than to simply face a Taliban firing squad.
Afghan Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, an ethnic Tajik from Panjshir, and a former colleague of famed Soviet resistance fighter and Northern Alliance Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud has now announced that an official armed resistance to the Taliban will be mounted from inside of Panjshir Province, the only province in Afghanistan not currently under Taliban control.
Heâs been providing a play by play (not sure how much is truthful, and how much is bluster and trash talkâŠyou be the judge) on his Twitter account.
Follow his attempted resistance here:
The latest from the European Union: âthere is no recognition of the Taliban.â
My postâs intent is for all of us to take a moment to pray for all in dangerâŠ
To your point:
The European Union wonât recognize the taliban.
The following article explains why the ccp will recognize them.
There are indeed amoral governments out there!
By definition the ccp is a dictatorship.
Again all the ones left behind need our prayers. This is a lot worse than what is reported.
Chris, your purpose for this thread was pretty transparent. Thatâs why only you and uhlaw are posting on it. lol. Give it up.
If only we can go back to simpler times like the early 2000s when the same type of people were calling for Afghanistan to be nuked.
Too bad all the countries in Africa and Asia facing genocide, corrupt takeovers, and sex slavery get no love because there arenât political points to win.
Itâs not that simple. One has to consider what the security interests of the USA, and the security risks to the USA are in each and every country.
Do the problems existing in Africa and other parts of Asia create the same security risks and/or otherwise affect the security interests of the USA to the same extent as the problems existing in, letâs say, Afghanistan?
Based on what we learned on 9/11âŠarguably not. Or at least, thereâs little reason to believe that those countriesâ problems can affect Americaâs security interests as adversely.
To illustrate: has anything based in Africa or elsewhere in Asia affected the USAâs security as adversely over the last 20-25 years as, letâs say, something based in Afghanistan did on 9/11, or does currently?
If it has, then it probably isnât obvious or apparent. Very likely, the correct answer is, no, nothing else happening in those other countries has affected our security as adversely or puts our current security as at risk as much as what has happened/is happening in Afghanistan.
As a result, those other nations donât get as much attention, and justifiably so.
In other words, itâs not as simple as merely saying that one countryâs problems are worth more âpolitical pointsâ than anotherâs.
This thread is clearly about people suffering, not our national security. That is a separate thread to discuss. So yes, caring about people in Afghanistan who are suffering without mentioning any of the other countries in the world is clearly for political points or at best blind ignorance following current news.
A real discussion could be had if the US is safer with troops in Afghanistan or without. 9/11 was a massive national security failure. Hard to see that happening with how much we increased resources on counterterrorism and homeland security since. We arenât eliminating terrorism by being there and arguably have helped strengthen it in other places of the world (including some of those African countries where people are suffering). Feel free to start a thread on it, but it will quickly get destroyed with political talking points and blaming certain politicians for every issue.
Even if itâs about people suffering, there are a lot of Americans, and people that work for Americans that need to be evacuated QUICKLY from Afghanistan or theyâll face almost certain death.
If there were a comparable number of Americans or people that work for Americans facing a similar predicament in one of those African or other Asian nations, then Iâm sure that those nations would get just as much attention.
Obviously, thatâs not the case.
As always, itâs not about âpolitical points.â Itâs about the following: where are AMERICAN interests most adversely affected?
Hard to argue that they are affected more adversely in those other countries when it comes to AMERICANS, and people that worked directly for Americans, suffering.
And how does being in Afghanistan strengthen terrorism in some other country in Africa? It might have an effect on countries that border Afghanistan in Asia, but not elsewhere in Asia.
I donât see it.
The truth is, Afghanistan is about to become âterrorist centralâ precisely because, by becoming the first jihadist group to defeat the USA (something that every other jihadist group has aspired to, but failed to do), the Taliban in Afghanistan has risen from the âothers receiving votesâ category in the Global Jihadist Top 25, to the Consensus #1 ranked BCS champion, far outstripping al-Qaeda, ISIL, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.
Thatâll make Afghanistan an even BIGGER haven for jihadists, potentially, than it was prior to 9/11âŠwhich could be catastrophic for the West, potentially. STAY TUNED!!!
But that wonât directly affect either terrorism or jihadist terrorism in Africa or any parts of Asia not bordering Afghanistan, necessarily, except that it might draw jihadists/terrorists from those other countries to the new jihadist âgrand central stationâ in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. Jihadists tend to flock to the places where they are the most welcome and can find the most like-minded folks!
I never directed anything at you, but if you are saying that people are not using this to win political points, you are dead wrong. You may not be doing it for that, but plenty are though.
Hate towards America going into Iraq and Afghanistan led to many new terrorists all over the world. Is that disputed? Iâm not even making an argument against the last 20 years, just pointing out how many terrorists in the US and around the world have used the US troop occupation there as reason for becoming a terrorist or for attacks. The surviving Boston marathon bomber said that was the #1 reason for him and his brother.