Wait, Didn’t This War End? Taliban Fighters Capture Afghan City

Posted by | September 29, 2015 08:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics War & Peace


Taliban fighters have taken control of large parts of the strategic city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, after hundreds of armed men launched an assault on the city. The group hoisted its white banner over the main square after the early-morning raids on Monday, according to a witness and two security officials quoted by the Reuters…

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

10 responses to Wait, Didn’t This War End? Taliban Fighters Capture Afghan City

  1. rg9rts September 29th, 2015 at 10:55

    Our war ended…now it is up to them..

    • Robert M. Snyder September 29th, 2015 at 16:19

      Where would South Korea be today if Harry Truman had said that at the end of the Korean War, which ended 62 years ago in 1953? From what I gather, we currently have 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea. Maybe the lesson is that we shouldn’t intervene unless we’re prepared to stay the course.

      • StoneyCurtisll September 29th, 2015 at 17:58

        Robert M. Snyder.
        Feel free to go to Afghanistan..
        And support the current government..
        What is holding you back?

        • Robert M. Snyder September 29th, 2015 at 18:20

          What price have we paid to station 30,000 troops in South Korea for 62 years? Was it worth the price? I think reasonable people can disagree. But some goals cannot be achieved with a quick, decisive battle. Some goals require a sustained presence over many decades. You clearly don’t think that Afghanistan is worth that kind of commitment. Do you feel differently about South Korea? Why or why not?

          • bpollen September 30th, 2015 at 06:14

            Goals? Communism is gone? Stopping Communism was our goal in Korea. 62 years in, and the goal has YET to be achieved. If Korea is our yardstick to determine the efficacy of staying in Afghanistan for more than half a century, then it only makes sense if failure is an acceptable outcome going in. I’ll give you this – Korea wasn’t quite the abysmal failure at stopping Communism that Vietnam and Laos were.

      • rg9rts September 30th, 2015 at 03:37

        Where is your DD214

    • StoneyCurtisll September 29th, 2015 at 17:56

      Say it again~!

  2. StoneyCurtisll September 29th, 2015 at 17:51

    They seem to love to fight in Afghanistan…
    It has been in a state of near constant conflict since the days of (and before) Alexander the Great..(300+ years BC)
    The USA is just a recent entrant into the conflict of what was once known as ‘The Silk Road’..
    We jumped in a short 14 years ago…
    The Brits have been fighting there since the early 1800’s.
    The Soviet Union in the 80’s, (their own Vietnam)..
    Let em, (taliban) have the country, cause it is little more than a pile of rocks.
    There is nothing there for us worth dying for.

  3. robert September 29th, 2015 at 23:35

    it doesn’t help when our military trains freedom fighters who give up their weapons as soon as terrorists or ISIL show up.

    The next time the gop says ” we need boots on the ground ” ask them who’s feet are going to be in those boots ? another response could be ” been there done that “

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