Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai (R), head of the Taliban’s political council in Qatar, during talks in Russia. November 9, 2018. © Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
NBC: Taliban greets Pentagon's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan with cries of victory
"The 17-year long struggle and sacrifices of thousands of our people finally yielded fruit," said a senior commander in Helmand.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — News that the White House had ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan provoked widespread criticism that the move would kneecap efforts to broker a peace deal to end America's longest war.
But there was one group on Friday celebrating the reports — the Taliban.
Senior members told NBC News the news was a clear indication they were on the verge of victory.
“The 17-year-long struggle and sacrifices of thousands of our people finally yielded fruit," said a senior Taliban commander from Afghanistan’s Helmand province. "We proved it to the entire world that we defeated the self-proclaimed world’s lone super power."
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WNU Editor: The Taliban have been boasting of victory for 17 years. They are still a long way from winning this war. As for the Afghan military .... they are seeing this as a major blow .... A blow to morale: Afghan generals worry about US withdrawal (AP).
5 comments:
I seriously doubt we went to the other side of the planet to fight a bunch of AK-47 wielding cavemen. There was another purpose just don’t know what exactly. Alien Technology, resource mapping..... something.
To piss off Russians.
Because our thinking apparently is:Russia=communism=bad. .you know. .1980s thinking. Very modern thinking.
Meanwhile the biggest winner of a Russia /western rivalry is China. Russia gets used by them and then eaten up. They have 0 chance with a shrinking population to defend the biggest landmass on earth against a superior power nearing 2bn people when Russia will likely have 90million sound 2035-40
Nukes won't help Russia.
I actually started writing to piss of Russia as a third point but backtracked. Funny you said that.
Cave dwellers only describes the brighter ones.
Austalopethines were harboring terrorists with world wide reach. Otherwise, we could not have bother those gorillas with their harems.
Why worrying for what other's are thinking? We have to see the balance between good and bad for us, that's it. Leaving Afghanistan is a victory of the common sense.
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