Folly Of Paying Your Adversaries

I have to laugh at the naïveté of the American military paying Taliban to switch sides. I could see Taliban signing up by the thousands, taking the money to buy rockets to blow up Americans and acting as spies.

Only the must unscrupulous people cave to an occupying power. They may pretend to collaborate with the occupying force of course. Consider the Nazi occupation of France. Imagining the Taliban now love you after what you did to their children and their country just because you tossed them a few bucks is naïve to the nth degree.

The military must be mentally ill, with monumental conceit, to imagine the Taliban could ever forgive them, must less join them.

~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:68)