60 killed in bombing outside Kabul airport; ISIS blamed for attack

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So does this mean ISIS and the Taliban are at odds, given the Taliban want people out of Kabul post-haste?

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Fucking psychopaths.

Sure, everyone’s got some blood on their hands in this one. But who gives up their lives to murder people who are on their way out? The Taliban won, so what’s the point?

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It looks like internecine fighting among Islamicist groups. ISIS either wants to hack out its own part of Afghanistan or supplant the Taliban.

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So uh we sending troops into Afghanistan or what

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12 US troops were killed I believe. I hope they are the last US troops to die there

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Yes. ISIS and the Taliban don’t get along. Many in the west want to lump them all together, but so many of the various factions do not like each other.

I know when I was trying to figure out who to root for in the Syrian civil war, I never came away with a clear faction to support. :confused:

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Almost as if there are no good guys and bad guys in the world.

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Bad guys and badder guys. 'Twas ever thus.

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ISK are apparently wannabes, rather than actually part of ISIS. I think that the video below does a fair job of giving an overview of the situation.

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They will shortly become the only deaths the right wing care about. Look for hours upon hours of bloviating and looking for Clinton’s emails.

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Benghazi! Benghazi!

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Better than Jakarta! Jakarta!

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“Jakarta?”
“No, she walked there of her own accord.”

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Propagation of fundie religion is not the main concern of these types. There’s a saying attributed to Bedouin culture that applies throughout the Middle East (and really everywhere in the world where power-hungry macho arseholes make the rules):

I, against my brothers.I and my brothers against my cousins.I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.

This is just working that formula the other way. At the end, I suppose the last remaining dickhead hates himself so much he kills himself.

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I, against my brothers.I and my brothers against my cousins.I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.

Jesus Christ, that’s a chilling sentiment.

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That’s an understatement. Leadership in each of the organizations is full of people who left the other in disgust, so on top of any ideological differences there is a ton of personal animosity.

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I’m personally rooting for the Syrian Democratic Forces / AANES. I will admit to having a soft spot for the Kurds, and a distrust of the increasingly authoritarian government of Turkey.

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ISIS and the Taliban hate each other. They would love to destabilize the Taliban before they can even set up something like a government. Uglier and uglier.

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I went with the Kurds.

Their motivation at least made sense:

  1. trying to create their own state
  2. getting as far away from the conflict as possible
  3. not being genocided.
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