Meengla
Elite Member
The Taliban are demanding recognition from Pakistan as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Pakistan is refusing this for various reasons. The Taliban respond by turning a blind eye to the TTP/BLA terrorist groups and building relations with India.
And why would Pakistan recognize them without their behavior to be adjusted? They owed their back to power to Pakistan, then Pakistan allowed transit trade to India to help them, then Pakistan even upgraded their diplomatic presence in Pakistan and yet the rental thugs were always looking for some 'better deal' and India is offering them.
This Comment to my own Comment on the NY Times sums up well what the Afghans are: A rental 'nation' and it is best we stop complicating the situation and understand their true nature.
"It’s always been a way of life. The tribes there have been at war one way or another since before Alexander the Great invaded and founded Kandahar.When I was deployed there, the US Army found one of the easiest ways to prevent attacks on US positions was simply to pay the warlords not to attack. It’s kind of ironic, but, the tribal warlords over there are basically like US billionaires. They have no allegiances to flags, kings, presidents, or nations. They couldn’t really care less what the land they lord over is called on a map. What they care about is their own territory and their own power.So, to them, it didn’t matter if they were taking money from the Taliban, Putin, the US, or China. Sometimes they’d take money from *all* sides. And if the payments were late? They’d send a few mortars, rockets or IEDs into a mountain valley to remind the US why payments needed to be made on time.I do feel bad for the children of Afghanistan. Because that’s why the cycle of war hasn’t been broken for thousands of years. The only thing their fathers know is war. And they teach their sons war. Those boys grow up and teach their sons war and so on and so forth. And the cycle perpetuates on throughout the ages. For thousands of years."



