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Sami Yousafzai, Daily Beast: Taliban: ‘We Could Keep Fighting Forever'
It’s going to be a long, long war.
ISLAMABAD — The snows are melting in Afghanistan, flowers (including opium poppies) will soon be blooming, and, in what has become an annual ritual, the Taliban have announced their plan for a spring offensive. They have given this one the name “Mullah Omar,” after the leader whose death they admitted only last year.
The Interior Ministry of he U.S.-backed government in Kabul responded by saying “there is nothing new in the Taliban offensive.” But, in fact, this is not the same-old-same-old seasonal war. It is a test of the new leadership under Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansoor whose authority has been contested by some factions. Leaders and fighters who have pledged allegiance to the self-declared caliphate of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in faraway Syria and Iraq also have eroded the Taliban ranks.
So, as one senior member of the Taliban explained, this year they will not only have to push into new territory, they will have to work to hold on to what they’ve recently taken.
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WNU Editor: And with their safe havens in Pakistan .... this is going to be a war that I will not be surprised if it lasts for decades.
6 comments:
Time to retreat and let them have their country back.
One of the stupid dumbest War we got ourselves involved in waste of taxpayer money that fight will go on for hundreds of years
"And with their safe havens in Pakistan .... this is going to be a war that I will not be surprised if it lasts for decades."
Pakistan will not last that long.
Why do you say that Aizino?
Afghanistan is one of the places in the world you just don't mess with, war is what these guys do it's all they do, look at the History, they wear down all comers.
Too bad people can't read the writing on the wall. The Afghans are surely related to the Kurds.
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