US conducts first air strike against Taliban after they violated the “peace” deal

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Did the religious barbarian Taliban think they were dealing with Obama? The more our enemies attacked us, the more peace Obama rewarded them with. The more insider attacks, the more forgiveness. Those days are over.

US military targets Taliban forces in ‘defensive’ airstrike, first strike since historic peace deal

By Brie Stimson, Lucia I. Suarez Sang | Fox News March 4, 2020:

The U.S. military conducted a “defensive” airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan, less than a week after signing a historic peace deal with the militant group.

U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett said in a tweet that the airstrike Wednesday was conducted against four Taliban fighters in Nahr-e Saraj, in the Helmand province, who he said were “actively attacking” an Afghan National Defense and Security Force (ANDSF) checkpoint.

“This was a defensive strike to disrupt the attack,” he added. “This was our 1st strike against the Taliban in 11 days.”

Leggett, who called on the militant group to uphold their commitments to the peace deal signed on Feb. 29, added that Taliban forces had conducted 43 attacks on Afghan troops on Tuesday in the same province.

“To be clear – we are committed to peace, however, we have the responsibility to defend our ANDSF partners,” Leggett continued. “Afghans & US have complied (with) our agreements; however, Talibs appear intent on squandering this (opportunity) and ignoring the will of the people for peace.”

Afghanistan’s interior ministry said four civilians and 11 troops were killed Wednesday in a wave of attacks attributed to the Taliban across the country in the past 24 hours. Afghan forces killed at least 17 Taliban members during those clashes.

The Taliban have not claimed responsibility for any of the attacks so far and have not commented on the U.S. airstrike.

Afghanistan’s president rejects the agreement’s pledge to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners in the coming days; Greg Palkot has the latest from Kabul.

President Trump said Tuesday he spoke on the phone to a Taliban leader, making him the first U.S. president believed to have spoken directly to the militant group responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. troops in nearly 19 years of fighting in Afghanistan.

“I spoke to the leader of the Taliban today,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. “We had a very good talk.”

He didn’t provide any more details, but Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid confirmed Trump spoke with Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

Fox News national security and foreign policy analyst Walid Phares says President Trump could either leave troops in the Middle East, or withdraw and let other regional forces take over the area.

Taliban leaders and U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad signed the historic peace deal in Doha, Qatar. It lays out a conditions-based path to the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who witnessed the signing of the agreement, told Fox News’ Bret Baier on Monday that the Trump administration was able to accomplish something the Obama administration could not.

“They never got the Taliban to break with Al Qaeda and they never got a commitment that says, ‘If I execute the following conditions based — that is if the violence levels come down. That is, if the security posture for the United States of America is reduced, then and only then will we deliver a commensurate footprint inside your country,” he said.

Additional peace negotiations between the warring Afghan sides are supposed to begin on March 10. However, Afghanistan’s leaders have already rejected releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners ahead of launching the talks – a precondition which the militants say was part of the U.S. agreement.

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gfmucci .
gfmucci .
4 years ago

What is the prevailing thought about Trump speaking directly with Taliban leader?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

It does not hurt to talk, the key thing is what you talk about. When you will disarm, where you will put your weapons, assurances that the USA is serious about the agreement, etc. Obama seemed to just focus on pleading.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Trump plays chess not checkers. He did it knowing they would do this.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Yes, probably, the Taliban won’t go down without a fight. And Trump knows that, and he already has a ‘win-win’ deal in mind.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The Taliban only exposed themselves. Checkmate..

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Constant drones ?

That would get my vote.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Boots on the ground with NO rules of engagement. What you see before you is the enemy. The enemy is to be killed. Each and every single one of them.
That is how a war is won.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

True!
That should include anyone there …..

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

So can you understand the Japanese parts of the Styx song Mr. Roboto?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

What’s styx?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Whoa, you’ve never heard of Styx? They’re from the Midwest!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

I just looked them up. Supposedly, they’re from Chitcongo. That “city” is east of the Mississippi River. The center of the nation is right around the Missouri River. How in the hayull could Chitcongo be considered “Midwest”?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

It might have been the middle of the West — back in 1850.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848 and Kaliphornia became part of the U.S. Hayull, it even became a full-blown state in 1850. For Chitcongo to be the “middle of he West”, you probably need to go back a little further than that.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Mother of all bombs [MOAB]. Trump has already used them on the Taliban.

Richard Canary
Richard Canary
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Yes. Drones. Thousands of them. No more soldiers on the ground. Kill them from the sky, and stop worrying about civilians in muslim lands. They are all people who will kill their own kids for not observing Islam properly. To hell with them all.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

So did you support Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid? Just kidding!

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago

Of course, its high time we put in a Native American

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

LOL. I found it sad more Native Americans weren’t more angry about Elizabeth Warren’s dishonesty.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago

Tee hee

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

It’s too bad you’re not descended from of the rich Native American tribes — they live like indolent Saudi sheikhs!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I hope I didn’t offend you. I always respect what you write.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago

Not at all!

andrewo
andrewo
4 years ago

Americans rely on fake news flashed in thier faces from mcdonalds to the doctors office to the schools to the hotels on the tvs and usa yesterday papers

Richard Canary
Richard Canary
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

“Obama seemed to just focus on pleading.”– DemocracyRules.

That’s only because he was and still is, one of them. Never, ever, trust a muslim, especially Obama.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

To get out of Afghanistan and eventually the middle east.
It was also a campaign promise.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

He knew they would do this. So, he “Trumped” them?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Under “moderate” Karzai’s government a man who converted to Christianity was sentenced to death. After intense pressure the man was found to be insane and that is the ONLY reason he was not executed for the “crime” of apostasy in “moderate” Afghanistain.

http://www.standupamericaus.org/sua/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cartoon_moderate_taliban.jpg

IronMaidenLastRide
IronMaidenLastRide
4 years ago

America and the West is really stupid, do you expect the Taliban to honor any so called peace deal and keep it?

Come on folks, give me a break, the Taliban is animals and a bunch of liars, murderers and rapists, just like the so called prophet mohammed

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

The Taliban should have read “The Art of the Deal” before entering into a peace negotiation.

Trump’s dad must have had the same talk with his dad that I had with mine; don’t go around saying sh*t you don’t mean.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

Extermination – the only viable choice

IronMaidenLastRide
IronMaidenLastRide
4 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Damn right, the taliban is like a rodent infestation, bloody roaches

IronMaidenLastRide
IronMaidenLastRide
4 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Damn right, the taliban is like a rodent infestation, bloody roaches

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

I’m uncomfortable with this but I am willing to go along with it to get out of Afghanistan and eventually the middle east. Muslims have been fighting eachother for centuries. To have gotten involved with their wars was stupid. Let the Muslims go back to fighting with one another rather than unitied them against the infidel. How many lives and trillions more are we willing to sacrafice? I’d rather move on and cut our losses. Let Afghanistan defend themselves.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yeah!! Let them fight each other! I totally agree for like 8 years I agree.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

None of these Muslims are worth it.

@MadJewessWoman
@MadJewessWoman
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Youre right

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

So grateful for the kind support felix, she reported in today. A nasty virus resulted in the flu, severe dehydration, uncontrolable functions {in both of us} and no food intake for five days plus vomiting for two days. She’s now on rehydrate drips, oxygen and gently stewed dog biscuits. {Alright, I made that bit up}.

Up most of tuesday night washing bedding, if corona is worse than this count me over and out, I’ve had nine doses of pneumonia, that virus kills lung cells we’re told. I can’t spare my few and she’s only got 50% kidney function after the stem cell transplant. She caught the flu virus in the local quacks, having a blood test for white cell count last tuesday week. Happily I think we’re over the worse now, feeling better.

So no more rolling in blind drunk at three in the morning for either of us {the chance would be a fine thing}.

Keep kicking felix.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Thank you so much for the update.

That is exhausting. You need to take good care of yourself too. Having pneumonia so often shows a compromised immune system. Be extra careful right now. Living in a “sanctuary state” we tend to stay away from people we don’t know and shop off hours for what need. The less chance of contact with the wild life savages, the better.

She is so lucky to have such good care and especially from you. I hope she recovers quickly and you stay healthy. As we go through life, we have to look out for one another. Both of you will remain in our thoughts and prayers.

Please pass along our best wishes to your wife too. Hang in there. Keep that great sense of humor too! Somehow that helps.

We do relate…. no more wild parties for us either…. those were the days……We’d like to be 21 again not a multiple of it.

http://img.vcomments.com/en/get-well-soon/110.gif

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Thanks so much felix, I’ve texted the ball and chain asking her to find this article and enjoy your wonderful words and that card, it will do her good.

One aside, if I was stuck in some trench or ruin and surrounded, it’s the hard core like you, Ziggy AM, Santa, ed ari Thistle and others too I would wish to have with me for I feel we are comrades, that special , unbreakable band of brothers. God Bless.

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Best wishes for good health to you and your wife, Poppey….may she get well soon. The same for you felix, as well as everyone !! And as a side note….we are all still young at heart !!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

The feeling is mutual.
Many blessings to you and yours.

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

As of 1715 gmt Barbie saw by skype your card, our youngest daughter came over by train and taxi.
She loved it and was read all the messages, thanks sent to all you wonderful fighters, agreed, we are young at heart and thirsting for justice. Well done felix and you all.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

We send our love and best wishes to all of your family. Many blessings to all of you! Don’t forget to keep us posted too!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Let Afghanistan defend themselves? Against whom? Afghanistain is a 100% muslum state! There are literally no kafir left to slaughter/persecute/enslave/rape and no evidence they ever existed.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Well when they only have themselves to fight, it becomse Muslim sect against Muslim sect. When it is just one Muslim sect then it becomes a piety contest. Those not making those lofty standards get to suffer through lashings, stonings and beheadings.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

True enough, even Timur (aka. Tamerlane, aka Timurlane) took time out from slaughtering/enslaving Hindus to go to war w/other muslum states who he felt were too addicted to sweet, sweet jizya and not doing enough to forcibly convert the kufar to islam.
For the kufar the only difference is the extent of their persecution under “moderate” muslums.

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

“Well when they only have themselves to fight, it become Muslim sect against Muslim sect.”
I don’t see this as a problem but as a plus for all Civilized Societies.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago
Reply to  Public_Citizen

The last person stands and yells.
….I WON….

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

And as a reward, we present them with their own personal Hellfire Missile, fully loaded and fully armed, delivered by a Brown and Old Gold painted Cruise Missile with the letters UPS* and a horizontal stripe.

*Usa Parasite Suppression

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

hit the dope fields and see how fast they pull up

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Yep, they should be given the Napalm or any other effective pest control treatment.

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago

Erm, one question Mr Pompeo, was the ink dry on that deal or did someone get smudged reaching for their gun ?

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
4 years ago

It is not possible to make a deal with Muslims.

Islam = deception!!!

Worthless taqiya-spewing con artists!

Nate333
Nate333
4 years ago

We don’t have an adequate missile defense system against ICBMs from China and Russia, other than MAD (mutual assured destruction), which is not a defense. Do you think our military priorities are a little off?

BigC954
BigC954
4 years ago
Reply to  Nate333

Nope. It has worked since the 50s…

Nate333
Nate333
4 years ago
Reply to  BigC954

The ABM Treaty (anti-ballistic missile) in 1972 prevented us from deploying our missile defense system. We obeyed it, but the USSR didn’t. That’s why Reagan started SDI (strategic defense initiative) – if we had had a deployed missile defense system since the ’50s, the SDI would have been pointless. SDI was never deployed – instead we have NMD (national missile defense): “The NMD program is limited in scope and designed to counter a relatively small ICBM attack from a less sophisticated adversary. Unlike the earlier Strategic Defense Initiative program, it is not designed to be a robust shield against a large attack from a technically sophisticated adversary.” Wikipedia. It’s worse than that: President Clinton signed PDD-60 (presidential decision directive) which changed our nuclear policy from launch on warning to launch on attack, meaning we won’t begin to retaliate until a strike has already destroyed most of our nuclear forces. This has never been repealed.

BigC954
BigC954
4 years ago
Reply to  Nate333

Our Boomers underwater can destroy the planet 100x easily…
Trump is building missile defense and I imagine that is 2hat the space force will be doing…

Nate333
Nate333
4 years ago
Reply to  BigC954

Maybe you’re partially right… Too bad the Deep State doesn’t care about America’s national interests, only building a globalist New World Order, and if that means the US has to lose a nuclear war, oh, well, what’s a few million lives if that means you can rule the world? Do you really think Trump alone can drain the swamp? Look what happened to JFK when he tried it. Look at the Clinton body count. These people do not mess around. They nurtured Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and the Muslim Brotherhood behind the scenes and claimed they were fighting them. They don’t care any more about the American people than they did about the Russian, Chinese, Cambodian, German, Arab, Israeli, and so many other peoples who have suffered at their hands. It will take a public awakening the likes of which we have yet to see to even begin to resist the globalists’ clutches, and the globalists will fight back with all the tools at their disposal: sleeper terrorist cells, bioweapons, nukes, EMP attacks, martial law, bank closures, gun confiscations, forest fires, water supply poisonings, geoengineering, etc. Even with a massive public awakening the victory is far from certain, and the death toll will be tremendous. Until we truly restore the Republic, we are still slaves, though we delude ourselves that we’re still free.

BigC954
BigC954
4 years ago
Reply to  Nate333

I am surprised trump has not been killed yet. It will cause a civil war if he is and I believe that is the only reason he is breathing…

Nate333
Nate333
4 years ago
Reply to  BigC954

Besides, the Russians have nukes inside Yamantau mountain which are impregnable to our nuclear submarines. So even if we can destroy the world 100x over Russia can still destroy us because we have no missile defense. So you’re back to Mutual Assured Destruction, which is no defense at all.

BigC954
BigC954
4 years ago
Reply to  Nate333

We have no defense from illegal immigrants which have cost us trillions of dollars and millions of American lives.
We can never stop a nuclear war if one is set to begin period.
We can stop the illegal immigrants but the left refuses to. I would worry more about the illegal immigrants which negatively effect all our lives more than something we can not control. If a nuke is fired every country with nuclear weapons will fire their’s ending the world…

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago

The USA forgot one very important point.
Muslims.. CAN NOT AND WILL NOT LIVE IN PEACE WITH ANYONE ANYWHERE …EVER…
Second point they can not be trusted to keep their word.
You would think the USA understood both these points.

Emmett
Emmett
4 years ago

When dealing with murderous low- life moslems , you hire other moslems to do the DIRTY- WORK !

BigC954
BigC954
4 years ago
Reply to  Emmett

Nah.
You just kill them all or you will end up fighting the people you trained…

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

Never trust a Muslim unless it is dead.

ed
ed
4 years ago

even dead….I STILL don’t trust ’em…..

mtman2
mtman2
4 years ago

At this point Trumps –
“Now WE won’t be so nice”
will unfold = barbeque time for them.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

i like it!

durabo
durabo
4 years ago

Who in hos right mind could ever trust these sand bunnies?

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

What? Do you mean to tell me that the taliban went back on their word? Well, color me surprised!!!

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago

Locate the “enablers”. Send MOTHERS over there, ONE by ONE till these animals SCREAM for us to PLEEEAASSSEE STOP!!!!

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

Was the attack nuclear?

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