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    1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15

      Pinboard Retweeted Shashank Joshi

      So many read this as "the situation was hopeless", but it is in fact an indictment of the US, which has more money than the Taliban and could have run this playbook in reverse under competent leadership. Having corruptible soldiers should be good news for a wealthy occupier.https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1426976247003983882 …

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      Shashank JoshiVerified account @shashj
      Taliban paved way for surrenders "early last year". Deals "often described...as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and a U.S. official." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-military-collapse-taliban/ …
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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15

      The fact that local leaders in Afghanistan switch sides based on how the wind is blowing is something the United States could have made great use of in 2001. Instead they decided there could be no deals with the Taliban, and so here we are.

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    3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15

      The fact that the US poured so much money in to Afghanistan to be stolen instead of used to bribe the right people, and that the even this stolen money was stolen by locals rather than US generals, is our true national humiliation.

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    4. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt‏ @samth Aug 15
      Replying to @Pinboard

      Bribing leaders to surrender is a different matter than bribing them to fight.

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    5. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15
      Replying to @samth

      That is true! And so you bribe the ones they are fighting to surrender.

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    6. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt‏ @samth Aug 15
      Replying to @Pinboard

      But the problem is the Taliban turned out not to be bribable in that way.

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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15
      Replying to @samth

      They absolutely were, but it was a US policy choice to declare that off limits. It's also important to distinguish between local Taliban and the fanatics who came in from other countries.

      12:01 PM - 15 Aug 2021
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        2. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt‏ @samth Aug 15
          Replying to @Pinboard

          The US decided that the Taliban was not acceptable as rulers of territory, not as recipients of bribes.

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        3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Aug 15
          Replying to @samth

          They didn't allow the Taliban to switch sides during the initial US invasion, similar mistake to disbanding the Iraqi army.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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