Shiites and Sunnis are actually the largest rivaling factions on earth. Israel is a distraction. I have no clue where this is heading. Russia is supporting Iranian expansion as well as Taliban, while the US is allied with Saudi Arabia, other Gulf States and Turkey. A ceasefire seems distant.
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Afghanistan has turned into a black-hole for the USA, sucking up billion after billions of dollars.
The world must to be united and do something to finish this war, we are all humans and we have human rights. The people that they live in Afghanistan need a lot of help of us. The war is not the solution. The Nations can negotiate.
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This is the saddest news article that I have ever read in my life.
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ISIS is our baby. ISIS grew out of our effort to unseat Assad. Most likely this was an ISIS act since the primary targets were Shiites.
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I disagree. ISIS belongs to the Wahabists.
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Such unfathomable pain to lose child after child... Yes, we need to know, but the reporting of it feels intrusive and voyeuristic.
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We should have never got involved in trying to get rid of the Soviets over there till this day we are paying the price for being short sighted.
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Maybe 50 years from now, some successor to Ken Burns will do a 10 part series on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Burns's successor will proclaim that it's time to stop blaming the U.S. troops. As in Vietnam, the U.S. invaded and refused to concede defeat, but it was all done by good people with honorable intentions who sort of miscalculated. Yeah...
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Honorable intentions? Or simply greedy expansionist from USA empire?
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The account of a mother experiencing the loss of a child bleeds through the cracks that divide us. May she find peace for her remaining days here on Earth without the children she loved so dearly. I cannot even fathom the pain :(
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Years and years of the same old; you'd think it would getting boring for those perpetrators of evil instead why not imagine a world with a bit of love in it.
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The U.S. and England launched an illegal war against Iraq 15 years ago today. Why aren't the perpetrators serving like sentences in prison?
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Thery make it even worse. ISIS was no problem under the Taliban.
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We need to leave Afghanistan now. We are not helping. We are hurting.
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Indeed, the US should just go before some CIA operation goes horribly wrong, an ambassador dies, and commentators persistently wonder why Mr. Helluva-Lot-Worse-Than-Waterboarding and his Secretary of State didn't do anything to stop—
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...on second thought, we should stay firmly there, so long as "covfefe" is in the White House. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the orangutan.
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The never ending war and all the US did was take a messed up country and make it a thousand times worse for the folks who live there.
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