Middle East: Taliban Might Soon Realise How Difficult To Run A Government Without Coherent Policies

It is very necessary to ask it the Taliban will survive governing Afghanistan for the next ten years.

Remember on April 29, 1975 when the Vietcong captured Saigon. The Americans had to beat a hasty retreat and evacuate all their people immediately. Retreating is one of the tactics of any mean warrior.

Is it not ironic therefore that September 2 is actually Vietnam’s Independence Day when they celebrated freedom from the French in 1945. Fast-forward 76 years and Afghanistan has happened to be the new Vietnam

Though both the USSR and USA has apparently failed to subdue Afghanistan, just as both the French and Americans failed to subdue Vietnam but certainty, some impact have been made. Yet A natural fortress, Afghanistan simply cannot be colonised. It has to develop from within

Could we agree that In an audacious show of bravado and valour, 100,000 ill-equipped Taliban fighters overran 300,000 heavily-armed US-trained troops? It may appear so but the real situation is that, USA has drastically lost WILL to fight further. So the Afghan people deserve no sympathy for what awaits them as they have refused to stand up to the Taliban themselves long before now.

However, the Taliban will soon discover the very hard way that rhetoric and religious fervour can only help mobilise fighters but Islamic rhetoric will not grow any economy by 1%. Note. As we speak, the Taliban does not even have the expertise to run Kabul airport. I do not see flights resuming soon. The long term war has damaged a lot.

America left some bad, broken, disabled military equipments behind maybe because the service men were forced to leave and evacuate vulnerable individuals within a short period of time ordered by President Joe Biden. Though the presence of the western allies has made or brought some positive impact on most of the Afghan nationals to some extent.

Now let us talk about the working or manageable equipments. What about those seized from the Afghan troops?  Will the Taliban be able to successfully manage or run them in terms of maintenance and other expenses with the current financial situation in the country. I believe the equipment might end up in China or Russia in exchange for funds.

Gathering this news, Afghan banks still remain shut and will not open until there is a coherent government policy on matters like interest rates, usury, inter-bank lending, government loans, debt servicing, remittances, etc.

As a matter of fact, the Taliban has no policies on the economy, housing, transport, agriculture, education, healthcare, etc. It is delusional for them to actually think they can run a government without any form of guidelines available. They are definitely going to need the involvement of foreign affairs, diplomacy etc to survive. Yet, fighting is still going on as Afghan resistance forces still hold some areas.

For too long, Nigeria and majority of African nations have suffered from this malaise too. A politician without good foreign and domestic policies is just a criminal going into office to enrich himself or herself.

Sadly, the African people are complicit in this crime. A candidate with no policies should get zero votes! If you have voted for a candidate with no policies just because he or she gave you some money, you have no moral right to attack the poor Taliban.

Afghans just like Africans still have a lot of way to go to recovery.

Afghan Vet Joey Jones: 'We Should Have Killed Every One of Them ... Put a Bullet In Their Chest'

CnsnewsAug 19, 2021

Marine Veteran and Fox News contributor Johnny "Joey" Jones.

Fox News contributor Johnny "Joey" Jones, a Marine veteran of combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, said that when it comes to fighting the Taliban, "we should have killed every one of them," and added that, "if we’ve learned anything, it’s take no prisoners on the battlefield."

Jones, who lost both his legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan, made his remarks on The Faulkner Focus . Commenting on the brutality of the Taliban, host Harris Faulkner said "Biden should be so familiar with who he’s dealing with here.”

Jones replied, “Yes, we should have killed every one of them. If we’ve learned anything, it’s take no prisoners on the battlefield. If they have a gun in their hand, put a bullet in their chest. That’s what we’ve learned."

"If we’re not going to be allowed to gather human intelligence, because that process is considered torture now, so what’s the point of bringing any of them in?" he added.

Jones then criticized President Barack Obama's decision to exchange five Taliban members -- sitting in prison in Guantanamo Bay -- for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl was court-martialed in 2017 for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy; he pleaded guilty, was demoted in rank to private, and was dishonorably discharged.

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Deserter Bowe Bergdahl and the five Taliban soldiers who were exchanged for his release by President Barack Obama in 2014. One of those radical Islamists, Khairullah Khairkhwa, is now a leader in the takeover of Afghanistan. (Screenshot)

Concerning Taliban prisoners, Jones said, “All they’re going to do is get fat, become martyrs for everyone on the ground, and then we’re going to release them back so they can stir them up and take over Afghanistan. That’s exactly what’s happened."

"We traded five [Taliban] leaders, five people with tons of blood on their hands, for a traitor who [allegedly] got other Americans killed," said Jones. "And the Obama administration passed it off as a victory. They wanted us to celebrate it, they were surprised that we didn’t have a ticker-tape parade. They were completely befuddled that we didn’t celebrate it from one coast to the other."

President Barack Obama with the parents of deserter Bowe Bergdahl at the White House, May 31, 2014. (Getty Images)

“It’s a religious thing for them [Taliban], it’s all or nothing for them," said Jones. "These aren’t just people who we release – in their mind, God set them free. Their God came through for them in a righteous cause."

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"So the impact of these five [released Taliban] is much greater than us bringing home any POW, whether it be Marcus Luttrell or a traitor like Bo Bergdahl," said Jones. "And we sit here and we wonder why we can’t win this war. Because we’re not willing to. We haven’t been willing to in a long time."

Jones continued, “At some point we have to fight a war, which means kill the enemy, which means why did the Obama administration care more about the living conditions and the health of people living in Guantanamo Bay than maybe Vets sitting in an Arizona VA? I’d love to have an answer to that."

“This isn’t partisan for me," he added. "This is 330 million Americans against a ruling class in Washington, D.C., and a bunch of generals that care more about building their careers than in winning the war. And I’m tired of it, and we deserve better."

Afghan Women Asked To Act For Safety

The former Afghan women's soccer team captain Khalida Popal is telling female players to burn their uniforms and delete all evidence that they played sports.

She also advised them to delete their photos to protect themselves from the Taliban.

Popal herself was forced to seek asylum in Denmark in 2016, after she received death threats in her role as director of the country's football association.

The former captain of Afghanistan's women's national soccer team is urging female players to protect themselves by burning their uniforms and wiping their social media of traces that they ever played sports.

"Today I'm calling them and telling them, take down their names, remove their identities, take down their photos for their safety. Even I'm telling them to burn down or get rid of your national team uniform," Khalida Popal told Reuters in a video interview on August 18.

Popal added that she had always advocated for young women to stand strong and be visible.

But now, she wants female sports players to stay safe by erasing their online history and flying under the radar.

"That is painful for me, for someone as an activist who stood up and did everything possible to achieve and earn that identity as a women's national team player," Popal told Reuters.

"To earn that badge on the chest, to have the right to play and represent our country, how much we were proud," she added.

Watch and pray for the vulnerable Afghans male, female and children.