Who the fuck is this retired colonel on Rachel talking about how we MUST...

[TreasonousBastard]

go after Isis, and how tough it's gonna be?

Ferchrissakes, after 20 years of going after... somebody, who the fuck is Isis that we have to keep the war going?

Truth is, when we are gone, good chance Talilban will kill them off and we can just mind our own business again.

Military doctrine is that we need at least one war every generation to keep the troops in shape. They get lazy just waiting. Scary thought, isn't it...

[dalton99a]

1. He didn't get the memo

[orleans]

2. what is this isis K i've been hearing about? seriously-- is that a new & improved isis?

anyone know what that K is about?

[maxsolomon]

5. Kabul

I guess

[orleans]

6. lol. thanks--i guess the answer was in front of me all along--never thought of it. nt

[tblue37]

19. It's ISIS-Khorasan, which refers to the region it operates in, in Afghanistan & Pakistan.

[orleans]

30. thank you nt

[maxsolomon]

26. I was wrong

as the 1st reply showed - I saw that "Khorasan" late last night

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Here

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58333533

[orleans]

15. thanks. and what a bunch of monsters. (monsters with mommy issues) nt

[BigmanPigman]

16. That pretty much sums it up in a nutshell.

[Disaffected]

10. It's sorta like

Special K (don't ask me how).

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Khorasan (or variants) was the name for the region around there from the 7th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Khorasan

So, in keeping with their desire to return to the days of Mohammed, that's what they called their operations there.

[Treefrog]

28. Khorasan.

Or Khorasun, not sure of spelling.

[Wounded Bear]

3. There realy isn't a military answer for terrorism...

[Calista241]

25. Apparently there is.

We haven't had a significant attack in the last 20 years, and both parties have told us that fighting over there prevents fighting over here.

[maxsolomon]

27. In Afghanistan, it hasn't.

This is another in a 20 year line of Terror Attacks.

[JI7]

4. Going after them doesn't have to mean keep the war going. We can do things in the way they got Bin

Laden.Which is how it should have been from the beginning .

[arthritisR_US]

14. Excellent point!

[Native]

21. And that's exactly what Biden said - we don't need a military presence to do that.

[global1]

7. My Tinfoil Hat Must Be On Too Tight.....

Now that we are ending our role in the Afghan War - the MIC needs a new war and is it just me or has this ISIS-K popped up just at the right time for the MIC.

Almost like this is being choreographed.

[dflprincess]

11. My tinfoil as well

When I heard about the bombing today I wondered if defense contractors had anything to do with it.

[Native]

22. Suicide bombers are nothing new. There's no conspiracy.

If you get a chance, listen to Biden's speech from yesterday, late afternoon.

[orleans]

17. kinda thought the same thing. nt

[underpants]

20. They've been around since about 2014

They are the last and most seasoned and hard core of ISIS. They’ve always been on their own though. There are maybe 2,000 of them in Afghanistan. From what I heard yesterday everyone from Iran to UAE to Saudi’s are weary of them.

[Cha]

9. Drone them to hell

[BannonsLiver]

12. That's the most likely outcome.

The zombie neocons hoping for another sortie over the money trough are going to be disappointed. We’re not going to send 250,000 troops somewhere to do it.

[Cha]

13. I read that suggestion earlier

on DU and it sounded reasonable to me.

[Deuce]

24. Yes, I think this action was on the table always after we left...

[snowybirdie]

23. Think about it

If your job and livelihood depended on waging wars, wouldn't you want them to continue? That's all the generals know what to do. And the enlisted personnel do the dying.

[maxsolomon]

29. I thought about it.

It was a suicide bombing.

CTs are BS.

[Sogo]

31. ISIS-K was constituted

from the 5000 Taliban that Trump released last year.

[Celerity]

32. no, they were around long before that, and are the enemies of the Taliban

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215786377

What is the Islamic State affiliate?

The Islamic State Khorasan formed in late 2014 and operates as an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Khorasan is a historical term for a region that includes present-day Afghanistan and parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. The group is also known as ISIS-K or IS-K. The founding members included militants who left both the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban. "ISIS had sent representatives to both Pakistan and Afghanistan. They were essentially able to co-opt some disaffected Pakistani Taliban and a few Afghan Taliban [members] to join their cause," Seth Jones, an Afghanistan specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said on NPR's All Things Considered. In a 2015 video, the group's leader at the time, Hafiz Saeed Khan, and other top commanders pledged their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, then the Islamic State's leader, and declared themselves administrators of a new ISIS territory in Afghanistan. The regional affiliate governed with a strict interpretation of Islamic law and used violent enforcement tactics, such as carrying out public executions, killing tribal elders and closing schools, according to the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Khan was killed in 2016 during a U.S. drone attack. Baghdadi died in 2019 after he set off an explosive vest during a raid by U.S. forces.