He's not. He's not in Kabul. He's a former correspondent, not an active one. His current tweets are essentially this:
Funny that the ex Royal Marine I was talking about earlier, manage to get stopped at every Taliban check-point, funny that the British were having to hide their passports, to avoid the same guns being pointed in their faces, and being delayed for hour(s) with the same threats, of having their heads blown off from one trigger happy Taliban soldier. Yet a suicide bomber managed to quietly find his way into the sewage canal. Would I trust the Taliban, not one little bit.
I don't think it's a matter of trust because I don't think you have to. It's more a case of every fact largely supporting the notion that both are sworn enemies. Plus the fact that blowing up U.S. soldiers does the Taliban no favours at all. Not sure if you remember, but I posted last week that most of the other factions who are enemies of the Taliban will wait and watch as they take over Afghanistan and offer no resistance. Then they'll regroup, re-arm, attack and eventually a civil war will break out. Groups like ISIS will be a part of that and this is just the beginning of it all.
Sounds to me you want to be defensive of the Taliban scum that are controlling the region. You forget 1,000's of people are trying to escape being massacred by these animals. Like I say I'm not in Kabul either, but no matter how much I think the Americans are dicks, the Taliban are pure scum. As described by Stuart Ramsey, he know's first hand how evil certain one's can be and have been.
I don't trust the Pentagon but suggesting they ordered US Marines to allow ISIS to detonate a suicide-vest is too tinfoil hat for me.
I might not think highly of the Americans, I might slate Biden over certain aspects, but people coming here to defend the Taliban is laughable. I don't really care about the history of all the quarters....I'm more interested in the people that are trying to run for their lives from these murdering animals.
I reckon we should never of went in, the same copy and paste opinion that everyone seems to have. But when you commit to the decision to go in, change lives and the way of life going forward, I think you have to make a commitment to see it through. Biden, in a haphazard old ass pensioner way, wanted to ride his popularity wave and have a big "see, i get things done moment" and has completely ****ed it up. What's staggering about Joe is that he is absolutely no different from Trump in any tangible way, they even talk the same. Except, Trump made peace with more people and avoided seeing a country completely collapse. Think its about time the US elected someone who's mind isn't turning to mush.
I'm guessing setting up checkpoints and cooperating with US forces at Kabul Airport is all part of their evil genius plan to wipe them all out.
I'm certainly not defending the Taliban, but accuracy and facts are important. There is no reason why the Taliban would be complicit in this act and the evidence points in the opposite direction. That doesn't mean I like or trust the Taliban btw, it's just what it is. If that journo can give one credible reason why the Taliban and ISIS would be collaborating it would be worth considering, but atm it's just inflaming the situation. What Biden and the Americans are doing or have done doesn't come into this, but fwiw the Pentagon shared intel with the Taliban about the terrorist attack before it happened so they themselves assess the situation between both in the same way.
I agree, the NATO forces maintaining stability in the cities is absolutely the preferred outcome than allowing the Taliban to take control of the country. What has essentially happened from where I'm looking, is that all the under educated country bumfucks who reside in the middle of nowhere have gotten haughty and offended by the ideals that naturally develop in cities and have decided they want to set it back to about 1932. Now, you can paint it in any way you want, go back to cold war politics, but the pure essence of the issue is the above. They're stupid, they're angry, they have guns, they don't like dem wemanz gettin' jobs. That's the Taliban to me. End of the day though, the decision has been made and we're leaving it for probably Pakistan to deal with. A country who has it's own host of problems and didn't need even more laid on them. As it stands, I doubt ISIS and the Taliban would collab, they're too similar, ISIS would prefer taking the Afghan gov for themselves.
That whether you like them or trust them is irrelevant. I don't like or trust them either but the suggestion that they're in cohorts with ISIS and allowed the attack is illogical and moronic.
I know all this. Still don't take away from the fact, the Taliban are murdering scum, who have been hunting out people that have helped the West. The ex Royal Marine gave a clear and concise low down of the Taliban today, trigger happy nutters.
Well I'm not arguing with any of that. But the idea they're in cahoots with ISIS K is a no, and that journo sat in 'merica making those remarks only inflames an already difficult situation and spreads more fear and anger. It's irresponsible. And to add to that, had we had less of that in the past 20 years, trying to write off the Taliban, as a non-entity in the future of Afghanistan, then maybe we could've used that time to actually shift their ideology and their position.
The ex-Para I know in Kabul said they force people to watch the American version of The Inbetweeners as a form of torture. Scum.
