"Taliban won't partner on counterinsurgency with repeat counterinsurgency failure"
"Taliban doesn't want to cooperate with America in dronestriking own citizens after 20 years of America dronestriking citizens in Afghanistan"
Clearly the best path to deradicalizing people susceptible to joining IS is by working hand in hand with the foreign invaders of the Great Satan itself.
Yeah... It's pretty obvious how IS suddenly became a force to be reckoned with in Afghanistan the moment it was clear the yanquis were being kicked out.
The best thing the US could do to eradicate Islamic State in Afghanistan would be to declare their support for them.
I honestly think they'll collapse now that there isn't a US presence to galvanize people against. The path of least resistance is the Taliban now and they have all that fancy hardware that the US left behind.
And yeah, if the Taliban suddenly decided to accept US support they'd immediately lose whatever popular support they have lmao.
The key part here is “work with the US” by which they mean let the US extrajudicially execute Afghan citizens with no oversight .
The US has problems with far right terror groups as well but strangely enough the Biden administration doesn’t seem to be inviting Taliban fighters into the US to contain the Proud Boys.
I wonder why?
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The US has problems with far right terror groups as well but strangely enough the Biden administration doesn’t seem to be inviting Taliban fighters into the US to contain the Proud Boys.
they should tbh
Now I cannot get the picture of this hypothetical Biden inviting Taliban fighters to put down the Proud Boys out of my head.
Nice framing in the headline, expected nothing better from the :cia: stenographers at AP.
It's because they know westerners are propagandized as hell and most will think that the Taliban support IS, despite that being laughable.
Cuz it worked so well last time America tried fighting an extremist force in Afghanistan. Just ask the Taliban, lol
