AFGHANISTAN TALIBAN TAKEOVER

Teri Fedler
August 21, 2021
What has been the Taliban strategy?” “How have they conquered this territory so quickly?” Bill Roggio, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained on PBS News Hour 8/11/21. “The Taliban’s objectives is to seize control of Afghanistan to re-establish its Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name of its government prior to the U.S. invasion. It will do this by force or diplomacy, meaning the Taliban will accept the Afghan government surrender.” “The Afghan government isn’t surrendering so the Taliban are taking it by force” & “the Taliban go straight after the government’s strength” so they have attacked capitals in the north & west where “many Afghan power brokers” are based. The Taliban is seeking to surround Kabul – strangle it & either force the surrender or militarily take the capital.” “The Taliban leveraged its alliance with Al-Qaeda in order to gain control of areas.” “What the Taliban did since the U.S. handed over security to the Afghan forces in 2014 is they focused on taking control of rural areas. US generals & commanders dismissed this & said we’re going to focus on the population centers.” “So the Taliban worked on the rural areas & “stage from there & expand our control outward.” “This Taliban strategy is over a decade in the making.” “They explained it in English even, so it was all out there to see but unfortunately bad US & Afghan & NATO strategy combined with solid Taliban strategy – & stockpiling weapons in every area they took control, they gained more war material & this is how we’ve seen this spread.” “I think this is one of the greatest intelligence failures in decades; certainly in US history.” “Everyone was caught off guard.” “The Taliban Al-Qaeda alliance is as strong as it ever has been.” “The Taliban claim with that Doha deal [Agreement], which was really a deal to get the US to withdraw from Afghanistan, that they won’t allow Afghanistan to be used as a base of operations for foreign terror groups, but the Taliban made the same promise pre 9/11 & we all saw what happened then.” “The Taliban couldn’t be trusted then – they can’t be trusted today.. read more...
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