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Northern Alliance told NOT to push onward to Kabul by US! Here comes a UN "settlement"!
Bet on it!
DaMan
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You havent explained why Kabul is vital for the Taliban, especally since their headquarters are in Kandahar.
And as someone else mentioned, control of Kabul didnt do the Russians much good, and they held it from the very first day of the war to almost the very end.
The British took Kabul 2 or 3 times, never conquered the whole country.
Its got a nice airfield- but taking it doesnt require taking the city.
So what is the point of taking the city, especally when the last time the NA factions controlled Kabul they killed 50,000 of its inhabitants. So they arent going to be welcome there. And whoever tries to take it runs the risk of heavy street fighting, with the possiblity of some serious casualties to their forces in order to achieve...??
UN settlement of what? Negotiate a Taliban surrender? Isnt that what we are bombing them to get them to do?? Not that there is a snowballs chance in hell of any such thing happening.