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taliban peace deal....

stevew

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surprised no one butt chugged a bomb in and blew shit up.
 

stoney

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We’ve been paying them all along.
Right. And how much more do you think we had to pay them, to get them to agree to stop fighting us for the amount they were already being paid?
 

dan-o

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Right. And how much more do you think we had to pay them, to get them to agree to stop fighting us for the amount they were already being paid?
They need help fighting off isis. This deal let’s us keep killing who we want to kill while ending the nation building folly. Win-win. The taliban just want to be left the fuck alone ultimately and value that more than money.
 

dan-o

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That makes perfect sense as we’ve been fighting non-Afghans for years there and they care fuck-all for what Afghans want.

More than anything this deal sounds like a way to reduce troop risk while having a pass to rain missles/spec-op raids as needed against isis.

If it fails we’re just back to where we’ve been.
nothing but upside imo.
 

dan-o

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Of course, feeding the military industrial complex.
Theres plenty of islamists in Africa that people want to give attention to, so I’m confident we can keep the 3rd shift running regardless. We’re experts at kicking the hornets nests.