The Afghan Taliban have announced their new leader. This was due to last week’s death of their former leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in a US RPA strike.
That new leader is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, formerly one of Mansour’s deputies.
Akhundzada is considered a “hawk” and a fundamentalist. His selection is probably a signal that the Taliban has no intent of reconciliation with the existing Afghan central government.
But cheer up: we have things well in hand in Afghanistan today. I guess the current gang of fools running US foreign policy Administration were 100% correct to limit the 2009 Afghan surge to half the forces requested by the Pentagon.
Yeah, right. And I’m the rightful heir to Persia’s Peacock Throne, too.
Shouldn’t the headline read “Afghan Taliban Appoints New Primary Target”??
Beat me to that one!
Score!
That’s a designation that appears to be short-lived at best….
Promotions within the Afghan Taliban come swiftly, it seems.
I know for a fact you aren’t the heir Hondo, because I AM. Bow down before my peacockness!
The taliban will reconcile with the Central government when they get control of the central government.
They are easy to buy off on simple things, but when it comes to the primary mission, they want Afghanistan back under their control. They could be offered Talibanistan, a territory of their own, and that wouldn’t be good enough unless it was the size of Afghanistan.
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The dang blog engine stripped out my “not equal to” symbology.
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At some point, we need to call off Drone Whack-a-Mole and just nuke the shithole from orbit.
Cheaper just to infect the goats with aids and let them kill themselves.
That’s like being named the oldest person in the country. It typically doesn’t last long.
The things some people are willing to do for 72 raisins….
“Akhundzada is considered a “hawk” and a fundamentalist.”
I think an argument could be made that all the Taliwackers can be considered hawks and fundamentalists, with a strong preference for young boys and goats.
Well, at least we can kill this bastard. Meanwhile, the flag-burning, Anti-American crowd in Albuquerque gets handled with kid gloves.