Marcus, the Taliban were the biggest recipients of American largesse during the war, along with the major defense contractors (military stocks outperformed the stock market by 58%). We put so much money into Afghanistan over 20 years (at least $1trillion) the country couldn't absorb it all, and so it migrated into the hands of a corrupt Afghan government, the warlords, and also the Taliban. The Taliban had a LOT of resources thanks to us. Craig Whitlock's book, "The Afghanistan Papers" is just out explaining all this.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 6:42 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Robotics seem inevitable for keeping the pressure on for this sort of > situation. > > https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M > > > On Aug 20, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why have the Taliban been able to conquer Afghanistan so quickly, although > they were hopelessly outgunned for almost 20 years as the article in the > Atlantic describes ("Brother... it's too cold to jihad") ? It seems as if > Afghanistan exists only in two stable modes: tribalism where the country is > divided among clans and tribes, and radical Islamism in form of Taliban > rulership. Both are among the oldest forms of political order forms > according to Francis Fukuyama (who wrote two books about the development of > political order which I am currently reading) > > https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-i-learned-while-eavesdropping-on-the-taliban/619807/ > > -J. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @merle110
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