Taliban fighters hug Afghan police as both sides declare a truce for Eid
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https://i.imgur.com/URJb1PB.jpg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44507090
And they've now extended it beyond Eid. Could peace actually happen?
But despite this potentially historic moment, ISIS gonna ISIS:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/isis-claims-deadly-suicide-bombing-as-afghans-celebrate-taliban-ceasefire
ISIS: making the Taliban look like nice dudes.
Actually makes me curious if we'll see short term or localized cooperation between Taliban and Afghan forces against ISIS via "The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" sort of policy.
I imagine it would be more like seeing one of the three let the other two kill one another.
It's easily forgotten in the wake of american propaganda for the war effort, that the taliban, as backwards and cruel as they may seem, was the lesser of evils in the face of what post-soviet invasion afghanistan was like. Thats how they came to be in the first place, and very few people were objecting to some form of stability and order as opposed to the chaotic free reign of marauding warlords going around raping and robbing.
The Taliban and ISIS hate each other. What a lot of people fail to understand is that violent religious extremism among groups like ISIS is extremely specific. Their "holy wars" are not restricted to non-Muslims -- everybody who fails to recognize the ultimate authority of their extremist perspectives is either an apostate (for Muslims) or an infidel (for non-Muslims). The punishment for either is brutal execution. This is why >99% of ISIS's victims are other Muslims.
The Taliban are not chill dudes by any means, either. Though they have never had the kind of power that ISIS achieved at its peak, they are still responsible for some horrific things, and just because they'd kill each other in a heartbeat doesn't mean they wouldn't both do the same to you.
Even with this in mind, the Taliban still control roughly half of Afghanistan, and a large amount of territory at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Taliban groups have been willing to goto the tables and discuss an end to hostilities, but considering everything going on with them and ISIS-K, as well as those Turkmen groups... I'm not really sure what to think.
Maybe I'll live too see Afghanistan become peaceful enough, that I can go and visit their gorgeous mountains, and purchase my own Jezail rifle.
The Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan at their height and would have taken over the Northern Alliance without help from other countries.
We'll see. I don't have my hopes and expectations very high. I'm expecting the rounds to start flying soon.
You can't trust terrorists, I was expecting them to pull a Tet instead, but this is also not a surprise.
The Taliban have a much larger political component to them, considering they've been in power before so they're better at PR than ISIS who're essentially just religious thugs.
Not that that Taliban are nice, far from it they're pretty disgusting, but they're a little bit easier to reason with than the psychos that make up ISIS, even if it's not by much.
are you a cartoon?
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