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By ALICIA LEÓN and JOSEPH WILSON MADRID©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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stormcrow
AQ & ISIS now have a place they can call home there with their Taliban hosts.
As Richard Clarke ("Against All Enemies") recently said, "They (the Taliban) don't care about international standards. What they want is to have control of the country so they can bring it back to the 14th century. And they will! As soon as we get out of there and as soon as the press turns its attention elsewhere, they will bring it back to the 14th century. They will also allow AQ . . . there were 10,000 or so AQ in Afghanistan on 9/11, but there were only 19 hijackers. The infrastructure to do that is in the hundreds, not the thousands. . . . And the Taliban hasn't changed its stripes."
This thing is far from over.
Like in the Godfather: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Well, not having boots on the ground in Afghanistan anymore means everybody's going to have to be much more vigilant than before, especially considering AQ & ISIS. The EU is correct to distrust the Taliban.
Yrral
Hail Hail EU,do not validate their non existience ,Afghan has a President base on the line of succession Google VP Saleh
FizzBit
VP Saleh is a CIA stooge
Ahmad Massoud is the Brits stooge
like a bad attempt at a second Hollywood movie, Jaws 2 or Major League 2, you want to start another war in Afghanistan, Afghanistan 2, with these two. It is a little odd that Ahmad Massoud can get an op-Ed in the Washington Post and a few big European papers so quickly.
PTownsend
When have democracies from above worked out well for the country that has had democracy forced on it.
Japan might be an exception, after the US forced a variety of democracy on Japan, Japan has done quite well.
Alex
EU is so full of itself..
bass4funk
What a benign thing to say. There is nothing and I mean, absolutely nothing similar between the Taliban and their twisted ideology and conservative ideology in the US. No conservative supports or engages in beheadings, stoning, amputations, forcing men not to shave, enslavement of women, abusing them. I really don’t understand how or what even remotely pushed you to say something like that. Religious freedom, individual rights, small government, value of all life, less taxes are the fundamental conservative core beliefs by conservative in the US. The Taliban would kill a conservative quickly and equally as person or infidel that doesn’t prescribe to their twisted ideology.
I agree, I just think the Taliban can live anyway they want. I just worry about the innocent women and children that get caught and abused by these radicals. I just think they should be shunned from society, the Chinese think the can handle Afghanistan, let them try.
u_s__reamer
The Neo-Taliban are now woke enough so as not to let their medieval Muslim mindset interfere with their future economic welfare: money from infidels speaks a language even they can understand. And the EU is making their message blunt and business-like: best behavior or else...
Randy Johnson
The European Union’s top officials warned the Taliban on Saturday that the current conversations being held to secure the exit of as many Afghan evacuees as possible do not mean the bloc is prepared to recognize the new regime.
I'm quite sure that the taliban could care less about what any westerner says. But does the eu also recognize the feeble biden regime.
“We do have operational contacts with the Taliban in this moment of crisis, because we need to discuss in these difficult times how we can facilitate it for people in Kabul to come to the airport,” the EU leader said. “But this is completely distinct and separated from political talks. There are no political talks with the Taliban and there is no recognition of the Taliban.”
Blacklabel
EU is also warning about Biden.
"The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Thursday called the fall of Afghanistan’s capital and the resurgence of the Taliban “a catastrophe” and “nightmare” that laid bare a failure of intelligence and trans-Atlantic cooperation.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell further criticized U.S. President Joe Biden for underplaying the commitment to nation-building in Afghanistan. Borrell insisted that instilling the rule of law and achieving basic rights for women and minorities were goals of the Western military intervention in the country, along with the initial goal of stamping out terrorism emanating from the region.
“President Biden said the other day that it has never been the purpose, state building was not the purpose. Well, this is arguable,” Borrell told a European Parliament committee."
bass4funk
Rhetorical question?
Maybe in an Oliver Stone movie….
From the same people that tried to dispose of the last President in every conceivable fashion and that also just bungled recently in Afghanistan?? Yeah…ok.
Fard
Sick to compare Taliban ideology with religious conservatives in US.
Jimizo
Over the top, but religious conservatives in the US would take the US backwards.
Their views on science for one do not belong in this century.
It’s also worth remembering Bush 2’s idea about god telling him to undertake his catastrophic invasions. That energized religious crackpots of a different brand to fight in this holy war.
Blacklabel
After what he has done to them on Afghanistan, I am surprised the EU still recognizes the Biden “regime”.
RichardPearce
First off, an entity that recognizes the Israeli regime as legitimate doesn't have much moral high ground to stand on. And if it also 'recognizes' Guaido as the legitimate President of Venezuela, well, it doesn't even have credibility on its claims that it judges on the basis of any principle or yardstick other than doing whatever the American oligarchs demand.
Jimizo
I think Europeans in general, as with most around the world, have a more positive image of the US under Biden.
Peter14
The EU and its aid money is irrelevant to the Taliban. China and Russia recognize Taliban rule and will work with it to get access to the trillion dollars in minerals Afghanistan has. They will help build the infrastructure needed to extract them and will sell them whatever they wish to buy. In addition, Trumps deal must have included a recognition of their future government leaving the EU out on it's own. The Taliban see their future as rosy and it may be true if China and Russia offer protection against the west. Al Qaeda will rebuild and gain protection from the Taliban and by extension possibly China and Russia.
Nothing is certain for now as the cards are still to fall in place but they may well fall in the Taliban's favor.
Fard
The EU and other Western countries’ leaders are embarrassed by any support they had shown the Biden administration and certainly each one recognizes Trump would not have let this situation get chaotic. Unfortunately they did not have a vote in the recent election.
bass4funk
More and more look like they’re regretting it. They may have hated Trump, but they never thought he was week, not for a second. No one respects or fears a weak leader and men like Carter and Biden personify that image.
bass4funk
Not at all, another radical left wing myth. When we see particularly in the US what out of control liberalism does, you start to see flight from these States. Smaller government, individual freedom rights, respect for the 1st and 2nd amendment, less government intrusion are exactly what a lot of people and conservatives want and believe in.
There are many conservative scientists that have opposing viewpoints than many liberals and that’s ok. We should allow a variety of various viewpoints.
Sven Asai
No need to recognize the regime. They are in fact already a backbone for all kinds of terrorists or Islamists and djihadists. The cities are full of them and it’s also not any news as even some 911ers have received their pilot trainings and undisturbed terror planning resources there. If you want or need to see Afghans , visit the EU , and you are equally served with admitted still slightly higher chances to survive it.
bass4funk
To a point, but we are a compassionate nation and I do think we owe it the translators and everyone else that risked their life trying to help us. We should vet them and see who qualifies to enter the US.