Temporary Afghanistan Cease-Fire

| December 30, 2019

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment provide security near their armored vehicle in Afghanistan on Sept. 21, 2018, nearly 17 years after the conflict began. (Spc. Christopher Bouchard/Army)

The Taliban council appears to be in agreement with a temporary cease-fire. This should facilitate the signing of a peace agreement with the United States. If everything goes as President Trump hopes, US troops could be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Then, this could return to an Afghanistan challenge addressed by Afghanis.

As of the article, the Taliban chief hasn’t signed on to a cease-fire yeat. However, the agreement is there and their chief is expected to approve it. One of the goals that the U.S. side wanted involves negotiations taking place between Afghanis involved in the conflict.

From the Military Times:

Those intra-Afghan negotiations are expected to be held within two weeks of the signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal. They will likely decide what a post-war Afghanistan will look like, and what role the Taliban will play. The negotiations would cover a wide range of subjects, such as the rights of women, free speech and the fate of the the tens of thousands of Taliban fighters, as well as the heavily armed militias belonging to Afghanistan’s warlords who have amassed wealth and power since the Taliban’s ouster.

The temporary cease-fire had been proposed by U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad during the last round of talks.

The full Military Times article is here.

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Comm Center Rat

Give that hell hole to Iran and China and let’s GTFO.

Use special ops units, the CIA, mercenaries, contractors, and drone warfare if and when limited involvement is absolutely necessary.

Slow Joe

Mercenaries?

Like in Private Military Companies?

Nah. Ain’t gonna happen.
Remember what happened with Executive Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone, where the UN and our gruberment, under Democrat control, forced those countries to cancel their contracts and return to civil war, with the empty promises of an UN peacekeeping force.

ChipNASA

Annnnnnnnd Happy Monday you fucking fucks.

Nice to be back and awwwaaayyyyy weeeee goooooooo

aGrimm

To the numb nuts that got us into that sh*thole in the first place: may the devil impose crotch rot for eternity upon your sorry asses.

A Proud Infidel®™

Time for us to go and let the Chinese have that biblically huge tar baby, it’s not called “The Graveyard of Empires” for nothing, just ask the Brits, French or the Russians!

SFC D

Napalm the entire country. Then salt the scorched earth. Ghengis Kahn (AKA “Jingus” as it was seared, seared into some memories) was the only one that ever controlled the place, and his methods are generally frowned upon today.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

Too bad those methods are “frowned upon” today.
A hot, glowing (day and night) glass parking lot would be a vast improvement from what’s there now.

Fjardeson

Amen. Don’t we have some old W-80’s in Pantex that are approaching their expiration date?

5th/77th FA

GTFO and STFO. The Graveyard of Empires indeed. Believe it even goes back way yonder past a Kid named Alexander. Even he didn’t do so great there.

Anybody here believe that promise that A’stan will not be used as a base for terrorism? Anybody? Bueller?

We have wasted way yonder too much American Blood and Treasure there. Leave them to continue to kill one another as they have for centuries.

A Proud Infidel®™

“Leave them to continue to kill one another as they have for centuries.”

Amen, cordon that shithole off until they’ve all done each other in!

docduracoat

Alexander did o.k. in Afghanistan.
His successors ruled the Greco-Bactrian kingdom for 125 years.
That is a pretty good run in that part of the world

Jus Bill

When the last troop leaves we should convert the entire country into radioactive glass.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

See my comment above (under SFC D)

Ex-PH2

Good reason to keep Trump in office.

He gets us out and we stay out, right?

Right? Right?

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

Yep.

timactual

As soon as he stops listening to the “experts”.

ninja

This is all I have to say:

(With Apologies to The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”)

Roh-Dog

I used to play this in Iraq, got called a ‘hippie’ more than once. Guess I should’ve known to stick to; Drowning Pool, Rage Against the Machine, Nickleback, Staind, etc.
The sentiment still stands.
Thanks for the memories!

ninja

Roh-Dog:

Great minds think alike. Even us “Hippies”.

😉

That was the theme song for those of us who were already in the Sandbox at the beginning of OEF & OIF and had to do Back-To-Back Deployments in the Stans and Iraq.

Yep, we need to get outta that place. 18 years is waaaayyy toooo looonngg.

We also have been carrying the weight of the Korean Conflict waaay tooo looongg.

Time To Take Care Of Our Own Country. For Starters, impeach Adam, Nancy,Jerry, Maxine, Chuck….

😎

Roh-Dog

Did we just become best friends?!
https://youtu.be/3-ZUDtaGf3I

ninja

😆😄😅😃🤣😂!!!

timactual

Ah, memories. We had almost unanimous participation when they got to the chorus. That song, “Eve of Destruction” (Barry McGuire), and “Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding) were favourites in my AO. I once listened to “California Dreaming” (Mommas and Poppas) over and over all night one time because nobody felt like getting up and turning off the machine.

I have read that smell is the most powerful memory stimulant, but music does it for me.

David

amen

AW1Ed

The Taliban want no part of a democratic rule in A-Stan. They are the most despised sect in the country and would stand about zero chance in anything resembling a fair election.
They’ll play nice until the US leaves, and then it’s back to their bad old ways.

5th/77th FA

Well said and spot on Bro. As are all of the other comments. And ninja’s flashed me back to singing along to that tune when we were deeply involved in another other world Tar Baby. Anybody else remember the other “Peace with Honor” accords? And how that worked out for us and our “allies”? We have to remember who actually controls the pocketbook for this country and any “deal” that daTrumpster makes could be negated by congress critters bound and determined to do whatever it takes to make him look bad.

Pack up everything moveable and move it the hell out. The rest of it… Nuke it from orbit.

Sparks

I don’t believe it has been the graveyard of empires for some time. It is a graveyard for those who choose to fight with one hand tied behind them and not by the same rules of engagement they use. ROE which say, “anything goes, civilian shields…meh so what, hiding in ‘unholy places’…sure whatever draws them in for the kill.”

Fuck them. Graveyard of Empires, kiss my ass! If we brought even the playbook from WWII to the table, firebombing everything that didn’t move and extra bombs for what did move, we would only have been there a few months.

You cannot, ever, fight a POLITE war! You cannot keep things pretty for the press and the worthless UN and the liberal ass hats that believe it’s a video game and win.

I want us out without one more loss of life.

David

Pretty sure if you checked with the Brits and Russia they did not worry too much about our type of ROE, and the end result was the same. Too much effort for too little return.

ninja

Sparks commented:

“…the worthless UN”…

AMEN!!!!

👏👏👏👍👍👍

A Proud Infidel®™

You mean the United Nothing?

UpNorth

Useless Nothing!!

A Proud Infidel®™

That too, good call!

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

This peace agreement and hopeful withdrawal will most likely piss off certain big brass and the arms industry. Just saying.

Sapper3307

The fighting mostly stop’s for ISIS block leave until spring time.

GDContractor

There’s a “Taliban Chief”? Who knew?
Democracy? Women’s rights? Someone needs to put down the bong. Can’t wait to see how the duffle blog reports this “peace in our time”.
Color me skeptical.

This goes out to Ninja, RohDog, & 577th:

https://YouTube.com/deW7_D5qems

GDContractor
Roh-Dog

I always forget The Who was there, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, wait -fact checks-, it was just Janis at that point.
That woman threw it all away for a needle.
Mr. Young’s Needle and the Damage Done https://youtu.be/k0t0EW6z8a0
Interesting story about he and Woodstock, apparently you don’t wanna piss of cameramen…
http://www.noise11.com/news/neil-young-explains-why-he-was-edited-out-of-woodstock-movie-20190815

GDContractor

👊 Awesome. YUGE Neil Young fan here. I was unaware of that story. Thanks!

Roh-Dog

You’re welcome.
Happy New Year!

Frank

“Taliban Chief”?
Yeah, same tribe as Elizabeth Warren…

TopGoz

Cease fire? The last time I was in Afghanistan (2008-2009), we called it “winter.”

Slow Joe

Well, we tried.

Now let’s cut our losses and get the hell out.