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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    So wiki is an islamist and fringe left entity?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia And you cite this source to support your views?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    So news that is favourable to a country is acceptable, news that is not is not?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Who decides what is fake?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    You may not have come across this idea but the BBC is obliged to present news in a balanced way. That means where there is a dispute between two parties, both their views are aired. The notion that the BBC is infested with supporters of Pakistan is ridiculous.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Because in the deal Trump did with the Taliban, the Taliban agreed not to target US servicemen up to May 1.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Biden has just started speaking. The gist so far: "Didn't we do well!"
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    So now it's time to fight between themselves? PS Last time round (mid nineties) did they manage to govern so that the country did not fall to pieces - economy, infrastructure, utilities etc maintained in working order?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Aided and abetted by Trump then by Biden and by the Afghan government, the Americans lost. The ANA lost. All the other allied countries supporting the US inevitably lost, too.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    My bad. I was thinking of threats from outside India, not internally.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    I don't think he said that. He said you can't win a war against them. That is the position India is in on its western flank, isn't it? However many insurgents are neutralised, more come. Unless there is an idealogical change in the opposition, they will keep coming, barring their own government...
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Slogans? Democracy, human rights and freedom are the values of much of the west and treasured by many people in Europe, US, Canada and elsewhere, not least because they have provided for peaceful (no war) co-existence between different countries.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    1. They elected Trump as President. 2. They elected Biden as President. 3. They chose wrong partners for fight against terrorism - Pakistan China became factory of the world. Not a lot US could do about that.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Sounds right - straightforward propaganda. Doubtless it will be accepted internally.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    I'm curious. On what basis does he claim that the Afghanistan debacle cost Pakistan 80,000 lives? Economic losses? Laughable claim to me.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Thanks for the info. Churchill? If that is the person you refer to, he was revered as a person who was a very good leader in a do-or-die war situation. Did not approach the stature of Hitler in Nazi Germany, though. The Nazi propaganda machine promoted him to the level of a god.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Can't work due to virus restrictions (can't go abroad where I have things to do) so I spend a lot of time on the computer.
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    I was not aware I had retired!
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    Why was asianobserve banned (if that is the case)? If that is the case, was it for not toeing the line?
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    Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

    What the reporter said: 'Many of those we meet say their families weren't killed by the blast but by firing in the confusion afterwards, they believe, by foreign soldiers.' Sole eye witness account: 'Somehow I saw American soldier... and beside this there were Turkish soldiers... so the fire...
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