Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "The Taliban’s Message to President Biden | VICE on SHOWTIME" video.

The Taliban (which incidentally the word Taliban means "students" from what I understand in Arabic) understood that to defeat America in warfare you didn't have to BEAT the Americans so much as you simply had to not lose against them. Their strategy from the very beginning was one of attrition and patience.
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@EnigmaEnginseer Yes in a lot of ways they used the good-will of Americans against them. They hid behind public buildings like hospitals and schools, and of course even children were utilized as weapons with regards to IED's and things of that nature. Bombing the soldiers who were trying to win their favor by giving them candy, etc. And as sure as the war in theory began with them bombing the world trade center, their greatest victory is they put a huge dent in the economy of the United States itself. The war lasted over 20 years and it was outrageously expensive for something that was ultimately doomed to be a failure.
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@pooroldman5089 No, not every leader they had was hunted down and killed. Some were, yeah, but others popped up in their place. I am not denying they were murderers or that they hid behind women, children and innocents, but they did win the war at least. Besides, from their standpoint, we're murderers too.
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