Should the TALIBAN be paid off

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By henderson0683

Dollars for surrender...?

There has been much discussion lately about how the world should deal with the nasty regime the Taliban in war torn Afghanistan and  on the border regions of Pakistan. Well the latest talk is of paying these brutal war criminals off. In sense there is countless arguments which go both ways depending on which way you look at them but first who are the Taliban. The Taliban are a Sunni islamist political movement. They first emerged in the 1980s and when the soviets invaded the CIA (central intelligence agency) in America and Pakistan funded and gave arms to the Taliban although there is no evidence for this. Once the soviets left Afghanistan they took over the country and installed there brutal ideology which derives from the sharia containing pashtun tribal codes. The laws of this ideology banned the practice of kite flying, watching television, eating pork products or anything with pork oil in, also women had to be covered at all times, your not allowed to be human basically. Women were commonly brutalised and executed for not abiding by there laws. Not many people in the west new or even heard about the Taliban before the September 11 attacks. America decided to bomb parts off  afghanistan mainly the mountain regions where the terrorist group AL-QUIADA were apparently hiding the group that got blamed for the atrocities of that terrible day. Troops were drafted in and then it went out of the limelight when America occupied Iraq and people started calling it the forgotten war. America and the UK recently upped the stakes and sending in more troops to fight the Taliban. There has been countless lives lost on both sides of the war including many civilians. When the obama administration came into power 1000's more troops were shipped to Afghanistan to help the effort in ridding the world of the Taliban. Pakistan has been repeatedly blamed for not doing enough on their side and have joined America's fight in this war on the Taliban. Could this war be won by fighting on and on well not really as the Taliban fight for their religious belief's. Would the Taliban accept payment to give them selves up and stop fighting I cant see it apart from the odd few. Taliban will fight all the way to the death as its their ideology that keeps them fighting. The repercussions for the few that did give up the fighting would be almost instant death as the government and the Taliban are almost intertwined and there is mass corruption. Only time will tell but if you ask me I think America and the rest of the world are clutching at straws now and want to end this dirty war. Even getting rid of the Taliban with fierce fighting wont make the world any safer from terrorism. The sad thing is that the Afghan people have had years and years of war that the shock and aftermath will be felt for decades to come. A country never entirely gets over a war of this kind and magnitude. It is a lose, lose situation because if they were to pull out foreign troops the Taliban will almost certainly come back to power because of corruption. Maybe the Afghan people will have the tools and resources one day to be able to defend them selves. The first thing they need to do is get rid of corruption and feed the poor and win hearts and minds and earn trust in their own people and then they may start getting somewhere. Until then America and any other countries are not going to make the same mistake America made with Vietnam and let it all be in vain.

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Mr. Happy profile image

Mr. Happy Level 7 Commenter 2 years ago

Paying the taliban off is just putting more money in their pockets for weapons and training ... it`s a donkeyish idea ...

Right Black profile image

Right Black Level 2 Commenter 21 months ago

I think a better idea is to sell them drinking water. Yep, drinking water. Lace with a slow acting poison so that by the time they figured out what was up, it would be to late. Of course, we would never give this to the women and children. That would be left to the purchasers to do. Just think we might even get some of our money back. We would surely save American lives. Just kidding. Interesting hub but the taxpayers have given these murders enough money.

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