Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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6. I like to ask those types a question: Why, then, hasn't the Taliban been eliminated?

Wed Jul 26, 2017, 04:30 PM

Jul 2017

After all, the US+NATO+various other allies, all having advanced arms and unquestioned air superiority
have had over a decade to do the job, and have also supplied billions in military aid to the Afghani government.

And yet...

This, from *yesterday*:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/soliders-killed-taliban-storms-kandahar-base-170726080235545.html

Soldiers killed as Taliban storms Kandahar base
Attack on military base in Kandahar also injures 13 troops, defence ministry says, as armed group extends offensive.

The Taliban has carried out increasingly complex attacks against security forces so far in 2017.

In April, more than 140 soldiers were believed to have been killed on a base outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of the deadliest ever Taliban attacks on a military installation...

...According to US watchdog SIGAR, casualties among Afghan security forces soared by 35 percent in 2016, with 6,800 soldiers and police killed.

Over the weekend, the Taliban overran two district centres - Taywara and Kohistan - in northern and central Afghanistan.

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Given what it takes to get a concealed gun permit hack89 Jul 2017 #2

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You don't seem to understand discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #5

I like to ask those types a question: Why, then, hasn't the Taliban been eliminated? friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #6

But isn't that really just an indictment... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #7

"I changed the subject and moved the goal posts both at the same time." That you did friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #8

I was eavesdropping when a little goose explained it to a gander discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #12

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