Testifying at the House Armed Services Committee, CENTCOM Chief Gen. Frank McKenzie praised the Taliban as having conducted a “very effective” anti-ISIS military operation in Nangarhar Province.
McKenzie revealed this campaign was carried out over the last several months, saying the Taliban paid a very steep price in their own fighters, and that the US military had been providing limited support.
While the Afghan peace deal called on the Taliban to conduct anti-ISIS operations, this reveals they’d already been doing so for months before the deal’s signing. Moreover, the US has been supporting Taliban operations on the ground without telling anyone until now.
Though ISIS has been reported to have been defeated in Nangarhar several times only to return as strong as ever, the Taliban has shown itself unusually effective at fighting ISIS head on, whereas the Afghan military tends to just shell areas and assume the militants were wiped out.
ISIS should have been captured and jailed in both Iraq and Syria . They should not have been allowed to escape and fight in Afghanistan or return to their home countries . China is right about this Once they leave and go on Jihad as terrorist they can’t come back home ..
Escape? They were flown out by the US military.
Mik, you sure?????
Either US choppers or their flying carpets. They didn’t walk to Northern Afghanistan.
Just who are we to be interfering in the ME region and telling countries what to do–when we can barely take care of our own house. But no fears, old Joe will fix things. LOL!
It’s different folks making up ISIS in Afghanistan than in Syria or Iraq.
weve come full circle. lol
That must have been disappointing. Those ISIS fighters were supposed to be heading into Russia, weren’t they?
It’s not surprising, but we were providing support… To those we were at war with. Sure we have been doing so with AQ for a long time… But not admitting it. We don’t even have an actually declared war against ISIS. How did the Pentagon believe their actions were anything other than treason(not technically as defined in the law).
War crimes and treason are defined by those with the most power, or the winners. That is the way it has ALWAYS been.
Nah, it was really the Russians that crushed ISIS.
We need a scorecard.
The American people couldn’t handle a TRUTHFUL scorecard….especially if it detailed where the financial and military support for each group was HONESTLY coming from.
The softening of the Taliban has begun. Those that we called “terrorists” for 19 years will slowly be presented in a different light. The propaganda machine did such a damn good job of vilifying the Taliban for so long that it will now take some time to make signing any “peace” deal with them acceptable.
Edit: I meant the Taliban’s image.
Well aren’t they more like a government in exile (internal) was knocking them out of power actually legitimate? Other than in the might makes right sense.
U.S. needs Taliban to fight bad guys. Thus, Taliban are now the good guys.
Unless you count all the support we were giving ISIS in the first place. Gotta love the Empire.