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Taliban warns Trump
 [PUNCHNG] The Taliban has warned President Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to reverse US policy on Afghanistan or face a "historically shameful defeat", a US-based monitoring group reported Sunday. An article, which the SITE Intelligence Group said appeared on the Taliban’s website and social media, described the freshly inaugurated leader of the free world as "an enigma both to the Americans and the billions of people around the world". The article said that Afghans hoped Trump and his cabinet would not follow in the footsteps of previous White House administrations. Afghanistan, which the US invaded on October 7, 2001 in a bid to topple al-Qaeda hosts the Taliban, has become Washington’s longest military intervention since Vietnam. It has also been the most costly, with more than $100 billion (93 billion euros) spent. But the country remains wracked by insecurity as the resurgent Taliban dealt Afghan forces serious blows in 2015, the first year they led security operations in Afghanistan, taking over from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... Posted by: Fred 2017-01-23 |
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