General News Chat

[Aldo1983]

You need to hand it to the Taliban and their fleet of Toyotas. Indestructible.

[57vintage]

In Woody’s wise words

“As through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen”

The dodgy handshaking and bed-sharing of contemporary neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism summed up in 1939. Dangerous commie *******.

Dollars or bullets?

[Basingstokered]

They now have a Air Force got some Black Hawks to add to their Russian collection. Might be in Bit of trouble if they ever gets Navy.

[donsdaft]

They being the English or the Yanks?
I remember the Russians going in ( circa 1980) the consensus of opinion was that they were off their heads.
An opinion that was clearly correct.

Then the Yanks had to see if they could pile in, the English of course had to join in, their only chance of empire being to be the ****ey little mate of the big bully.
The Scots of course, just do what the English tell us because they know better than us.

If you’re my age and an Afghani, they you have spent your entire adult life putting up with an invading army in your home.

Goes back much farther than that of course, Carry on up the Khyber.

[57vintage]

In the window of the Malacca Bar (latterly The Station Bar) on Keptie Street Arbroath, there appeared a warning sign from the locals to the military hard men of the Condor commando camp who used to swagger around town when not abroad on duty:

”YOU TOOK THE FALKLANDS BUT YOU’LL NEVER TAKE THE MALACCA”

The Afghanis should put similar signs on every road and mountain pass in and out of their territory. It would save further centuries of eternal unwinnable conflict.

[Donanddusted]

The thing is though: whose country is it?
The people who want live quietly going about their everyday lives or those who wish to subjugate the population to their medieval beliefs taken from a story someone wrote a few centuries back?

I take your point entirely about telling foreign powers to keep their armies out of it but what are normal Afghans to do?

[Basingstokered]

Invert if they know what’s good for them

[donsdaft]

The thing is though: whose country is it?
The people who want live quietly going about their everyday lives or those who wish to subjugate the population to their medieval beliefs taken from a story someone wrote a few centuries back?

I take your point entirely about telling foreign powers to keep their armies out of it but what are normal Afghans to do?

Same in every country in the world.


Religious nutters are great fun though, but enough about the USA

[DonUnder]

The thing is though: whose country is it?
The people who want live quietly going about their everyday lives or those who wish to subjugate the population to their medieval beliefs taken from a story someone wrote a few centuries back?

I take your point entirely about telling foreign powers to keep their armies out of it but what are normal Afghans to do?

Medieval religeous throwbacks.

Could never happen here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland...-west-58203584

[57vintage]

Nothing to do with my “here”.