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2021-08-12 Afghanistan

Taliban have completely besieged the provincial capital of Badghis and are advancing towards the city center ...

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Posted by Fred 2021-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 Taliban capture ANOTHER Afghan city bringing total to ten as they close in on capital Kabul with two more major centres on the verge of falling

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-12 09:21|| 2021-08-12 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Please let me know why the USA should care. Please!!!

Posted by Papa Punts 2021-08-12 12:07|| 2021-08-12 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 RANTBURG is about the war on terror, Papa Punts. Therefore we have stories like this. If this does not interest you, why are you here?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-12 12:53|| 2021-08-12 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This is history in the making, Papa Puntz. Again. Mayhap someone in future generations will learn from it.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-12 13:02|| 2021-08-12 13:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Mayhap someone in future generations will learn from it.

Not if they are leftists.

Posted by badanov 2021-08-12 13:17|| 2021-08-12 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 The question was "why the USA should care" not "why this should be published on Rantburg."

Unsurprisingly, there's no answer. Because there isn't one.

Posted by Slomorong Thraiger7030 2021-08-12 14:40|| 2021-08-12 14:40|| Front Page Top

#7 A question that is about forty years too late, mon Ami.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2021-08-12 17:50|| 2021-08-12 17:50|| Front Page Top

"Dignified Transition" ceremony in the Stans. Little "dignified" about how this conflict evolved and ultimately culminated. The entire country wasn't worth the life of one American.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-12 18:20|| 2021-08-12 18:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Reports the US Embassy is going di di mau.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-12 18:24|| 2021-08-12 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 The last time the U.S. didn’t bother to care the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were attacked. The Capitol building was reportedly supposed to be hit, too, but some very brave men on the third airplane said, “Lets roll!” and ended up crashed into a field instead.

The question is how to care more effectively than has been done for most of the past two decades.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-12 21:31|| 2021-08-12 21:31|| Front Page Top

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