MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:35 pm
I'm not sure why you persist in telling us that a "majority" of Afghans support the Taliban's takeover (as opposed to the exit of foreigners), when it's pretty clear that simply isn't true. They are the best organized, most committed, military faction in Afghanistan; if they manage to maintain an iron grip on control (the Northern Alliance is already reforming) it will most likely be by brutal force, not any sort of democratic expression of the majority with basic rights for the minorities to ensure civic, non-violent acceptance.
I mean, seriously, that's like saying, if Jan 6 had been successful, because the US military and Cap police had lain down that Trumpism was actually favored by a majority (indeed that would actually be closer to the truth).
That said, the hope is that the Taliban will decide to institute reforms to how they govern versus how they did previously...time will tell.
In a country of 40 million people, in a system that was given $2 trillion of your tax dollars, in a system given nearly $100 billion in weapons and which was used to train hundreds of thousands of troops, in a system that existed for 20 years because it was propped up by foreign invaders and treasonous collaborators --- yet, a system that fell in only one week like a house of playing cards, how can you or anyone else suggest that the Taliban (both its political and military components) did not have majority support?
For years they have been safely harbored in the provinces, untouched, unchallenged, thriving, armed, motivated, and resolved to defeat the foreign enemy and their treasonous collaborators. In 20 years nobody lifted a finger to defeat them there. Nobody.
How then can you say they did not have majority support?
Instead of living in denial, show me some proof, any actual PROOF, that the treasonous puppet regime in Kabul had majority support. Stop denying. Start proving.