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Correct. Reports that local police, armed forces and politicians welcoming the Taliban with open arms. Sounds like the country has spoken about who it wants to control it....

He is, because he's a thick cunt that doesn't understand how the region works.

Right on cue....

I think this sums up Soggy (and a fair few others on here who are always very quick to pull out the 'you're a thick cunt' card)... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58186519

By that definition, the 'terrorist' attacks by ISIS (Manchester arena bombing etc) are also not 'terrorist' attacks as they have no political aims. Religious motivation and 'revenge' for attacks on Muslims but no political motivations.

We got involved with Afghanistan because the Taliban were supporters of Al-Qaeda providing them a base for operations following 911, we leant our support to the US as part of NATO. Iraq was about oil, despite Blair's claims. Syria, frankly, was none of our business. If we're not prepared to push North Korea around (because they may have nukes) or China or Russia because they are too big to be touched, we also have no business pushing smaller countries around because we don't like the way they are being run. It's not the place of the US or UK to dictate how independent countries should be run! We don't interfere with Qatar, in fact we actively support them, despite their human rights atrocities! (Although I think we both broadly agree on the principle of letting countries Govern themselves!).

There are 35,000 US troops in Germany and over 9,000 US troops in the UK. The argument seems to be that US / UK / NATO troops should remain in Afghanistan because we don't like the current regime running the country / about to take control. Why is no-one arguing for US troops to invade North Korea or China using the same criteria?

The blokes he killed because he considered them to be "Chads" and therefore attractive to women. The event itself wasn't necessarily a premeditated political event, however, the Incel sub culture has very political motivations and goals. Look at the reaction from his contemporaries, very similar to those of terrorist attacks from other members of the organisation, where similarly innocent people were killed because of some warped idea.

Six fingers crossed that you make the play offs this season.

The violence is aimed at women who the Incel believe have been given far more freedoms than they should have due to their involvement in politics, i.e being given the vote has empowered them to be promiscuous. Maybe 'socio-political' is more pertinent, however, the fact that they see the violence as 'fighting back' against a politically correct landscape (one that they want to change but won't happen without politics being involved), links them inextricably to political aims. The fact that this fruit loop is currently being viewed as a 'martyr' by the other self proclaimed Incels also indicates the terrorist mindset of these nutjobs.

I don't think the definition of terrorist is being expanded. There is radicalisation based on a political agenda that occasionally culminates with extreme violence carried out against innocent civilians. That's pretty much the textbook definition of a terrorist.

Sorry, but I don't agree that this is a simple case of 'mental health' issues or someone being a bit sad and depressed. The guy held extremist views about women, what he would like to do to them and how he would like to kill them,. Put those same views in a religious context and he would be considered a terrorist in pretty much everyone's eyes.

Largely because you posted your nonsense post, which you already answered, all by yourself, on the Brexit thread, implying you thought there was a link between the cost of covid tests and Brexit. Sarcasm is the only way to deal with that level of fuckwittery.

He was a 22 year old virgin living in Plymouth where the world's oldest profession has plied it's trade for hundreds of years. "Fruit bat" sums him up if he couldn't figure out how to lose his cherry...

To be fair, if the forum clock is to be believed, there are about 40 minutes between you contacting the club and stating you hadn't received a reply!! Not sure why you think someone in (presumably) the marketing department is going to be answering emails after 7pm on a Friday evening!

Profiteering. But if you hadn't already worked it out for yourself, in not sure I can make you understand.

Not to mention the Russians!

Not sure you really understand what the word 'abruptly' means! The withdrawal has been over 10 years in the making with billions of dollars / pounds spent training the local security forces to give them the skills needed to fend for themelves. At some point we were always going to be leaving Afghanistan to look after itself. Maybe there is a wider question around whether or not we should have been meddling in how Afghanistan is run in the first place? Who knows, maybe the history books (probably in the next year or so!), will declare the 'occupation' of Afghanistan by predominantly white / Western countries as a Racist suppression and reparations will be demanded to compensate for the Western forces being there in the first place!

Nope. Although what that's got to do with your claim that it was abrupt, I have no idea.

There was no 'pulling out abruptly'. In 2010, NATO signed a declaration agreeing to hand over full responsitbility for security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014. It still took another six and a half years to achieve that goal, not sure how that can be considered 'abrupt'.

You're making an assumption with the hair cutting one though, not all Muslims are non white...

It's the NHS app, not the NHS Covid app, they are two seperate things. The NHS app does not track users and will not notify of contact with positive people....

Not really. All you need is the NHS app on your phone and some log in details - they don't even have to be yours Who knows, a lucrative black market selling log in details of double jabbers may even get off the ground

The other day you were piously telling us that "they should be respected for trying to do something about it". Today it looks like you're telling us that they don't give a shite. All. Over. The. Place.

And the one claiming that everyone else was talking about people 'being lectured' when it was only them that mentioned it, proper tit of himself that one made.