Pentagon officials are increasingly willing to discuss the growth of ISIS into Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, saying it is an expansion “of great concern” to US commanders there.
Spokesman Rear Admiral Kirby downplayed the significance of the current ISIS presence there, saying the movement is largely “aspirational,” and that some of them are just Taliban trying to rebrand themselves for the sake of more support.
Other Pentagon commanders are less sure about that, saying there is a serious danger that the Afghan-Pakistan border region could serve as another safe haven from which ISIS could recruit.
The reports we’ve seen of ISIS activity in Afghanistan so far center around Helmand Province, with a group of former Taliban commanders who have defected to the group, and have been fighting with both Afghan forces and the Taliban themselves to try to establish a significant foothold.
Whether ISIS will ultimately be successful remains to be seen, but the group does seem to be successful in recruiting defectors into their forces, and have set up shop in Libya and Egypt. Afghanistan may be next.
Why such a great concern? Look how successful we have been in defeating the Taliban this past
thirteen years Kind of makes you wonder if we had to fight Russia or China.
Now ask yourself this question: how is it possible that the most well armed technologically sophisticated military machine the world has ever seen has been fighting a bunch of guys for the past fourteen years whom even before 9/11were living in the seventh century. Fourteen years and we cannot conclusively defeat them? Fourteen years?
Ask yourself if that has the ring of truth to it?
Stop supporting a fascist democracy
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India all have a fascist democracy, a dictatorship established by allowing the educated upper half of society to use poverty as a tool to enslave the laboring-class lower half.
The perfect solution, give them zero economical support until they allow at least a forth of the wealth to trickle down to the lower half. Surely, for why should the upper half be allowed to hoard more then three-fourths of all the wealth?
the only way you can win against isis is to Nuke them. but then again you will kill them and yourself at the same time. Opps
David — “Only way you can win against ISIS is to Nuke them.”
To eliminate any problem, you have but to enlighten the people of the root cause and if they are willing, the solution becomes self-evident.
So, was ISIS created by a nuclear explosion? No, but by our Empire builders and their wars of plunder. And so, is our voting majority, the 51% most wealthy, are they willing to give up the excessive wealth they gain by such brutal imperialism? Of course not, so there can be no solution which begs the question: Is the only purpose for this world being to prove the irreversible harm in it?