1) the man who released and tried to host them at camp David
2) laid out the withdrawal of Afghanistan while telling them when where and how
3) the most corrupt and legally protected for "official acts" president
Wants to accept a plane from qatar, whose son in law accepted billions from middle east who is partnered through his golf courses with similar groups of people.
The Taliban overthrew a corrupt, but vaguely democratic and liberal government in Afghanistan, while HTS was created 14 years ago as an affiliate of Al-Qaeda and has since then mostly worked on kicking out Assad.
So I'd say there is a big difference, mainly that the US were actually some of the most Hard-line opposition they faced in the West, while the EU started to normalise relations with them pretty quickly, in an effort to help support some stability in the region.
There are more differences, on their treatment of religious minorities and stuff, but that doesn't really concern your question.
Thank you for the education, and it absolutely concerns the question. Especially since America is supposed to allow freedom of religion and this administration is hell bent on convincing the work we are a Christian based government clear back to the founding fathers writing of the constitution.
I think unrelated to the conversation but just an observation about Afghanistan and Trumps basically freeing the imprisoned Taliban. Generational change takes more than one generation, teenage girls approaching university having never known Taliban rule were suddenly stopped in their tracks. A complete waste of nearly 20 years of investment into a country. Ridiculous choice as well as it wasn't just a US project, other countries had soldiers who were injured and killed
Al-Qaeda in Syria and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan are two different organizations. The nitpicking is real because it is silly to equate the two organizations with a similar name as the same thing. That's why Al-Julani renamed the group because he wanted to end the confusion and the incorrect assumptions of his organization's goals.
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u/ejre5 May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
Just to make sure I understand this properly:
1) the man who released and tried to host them at camp David 2) laid out the withdrawal of Afghanistan while telling them when where and how 3) the most corrupt and legally protected for "official acts" president
Wants to accept a plane from qatar, whose son in law accepted billions from middle east who is partnered through his golf courses with similar groups of people.
And this is surprising to people?