re: #325 Dangerman

Taliban: no extensions!

Ok no $9b and drone bombing for a year

Taliban: will two weeks be enough?

I think you’re overestimating the leverage of some funds outside the Taliban government’s control compared to what they can make out of the local opium crop, free and clear every year and no money laundering controls or busybodies looking over their shoulders and telling them the money has to be spent on “infrastructure”.

Drone bombing? They’ve been worked over by experts like the Soviet Union, the hard bastards that took down the Nazis at a slow walk. The current score is: two millenia of itinerant invaders 0, local Afghan peoples 1. Unless you’re willing to talk Timurlane or the Great Khans and their approach to the development of conquered territories, GTFO.