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bvar22

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7. "Following the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour".....
Mon May 23, 2016, 07:25 PM
May 2016

We've been in this stupid "war" for 15 years now.
How long will it take for the US to learn that there is already another "Taliban" leader that has stepped up?

The "Taliban" is NOT a monolithic organization with a regimented Chain of Command that is the structure we are taught in The West. The "Taliban" is a quasi-religious loose confederation of Tribal Warlords whose common ground is a fundamentalist interpretation of Sharia Law.
Taking out one "Leader" does NOTHING to stop or even slow them down. That would be like the Taliban killing Jerry Falwell and claiming to have taken out the "leader" of The Christians.

If taking out "The Leader of The Taliban" had ANY military value, this stupid "war" would have been over 14 years ago.

Didn't Obama promise to keep us out of "stupid" wars?
BTW: Pakistan has "The BOMB".

[font size=3]”Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
---President Dwight Eisenhower
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