The Taliban are a terrorist organization who are about to overthrow the democratically elected government of Afghanistan & replacing it with an Islamic theocracy that sees no place for women outside of the home. They are evil. @POTUS should order US mil to wipe them out. (Thread)
The Taliban are in the open on the battlefield in a way they have not been since 2001. We should seize the initiative & engage them everywhere. Only the US mil / NATO can do this. We could secure the safety of Afghans & give them a chance at a better future than what’s coming.
If we truly care about defending human rights, democracies, & keeping a promise to the 88000 Afghan wartime allies who are now in peril, then now is THE put up or shut up moment. This is a Never Again moment unfolding before us. We can stop it, but only if we decisively engage.
If we fail to do this now, while we can, we will come to regret it. In the 90s the Taliban took over an Afghanistan in ruins after years of civil war. Today, they’re inheriting a modern rebuilt Afghanistan with all the military might we left behind mostly intact.
What happens when Al-Qaeda gets its hands on some of the equipment now in Taliban hands? Do we really want to leave behind all we are about to cede to the Taliban & it’s inevitable Al-Qaeda & Daesh guests? How long is it before Terrorism is Afghanistan’s chief export once more?
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