We went there because the Taleban government of Afghanistan allowed their country to be used as home base for the people who executed 9/11. I am surprised, that village idiot John Kerry wants to talk peace with the Talibs. Especially more surprised, that we are still talking peace when hours after our nonsensical announcement that we are trying to bring back to power the very people who did 9/11, they attacked Bagram air base and killed 4 US Servicemen, and CLAIMED FULL RESPONSIBILITY. Heck, just leaving and allowing Karzai to deal with this would be better than installing our own enemies back to power after spending ten years getting rid of them.
Amen to every bit of that.
This, then is what we have to contend with.
In addition to all of that, now these damnable fools are talking about either leaving behind or destroying 12,000 of those very expensive heavy trucks and vehicles we developed to protect our people against IEDs because they say it is too expensive to ship them back.
What? Is it more expensive to ship them back home than buy completely new ones when we next need them? For crying out loud, we developed them sepcifically to fight this type of enemy and now we are going to leave them behind or destroy them ourselvess?
I know personally that we could ship them back if wanted to. It would just take time and Obama and his admin are so anxious to get the hell out of dodge (even to the point of negotiating with the Taliban as they kill our troops and personally take credit for it) that they will dwarf the waste we have seen in other conflicts on a per capita/soldier basis
These folks are absolutley hair brained...and seem bent on supporting the very enemies we fight who themselves are hell bent on killing us.
Obama and his abettors, appointees, and other knuckle draggers are a worse enemy than the people we fight. Those enemeis could not have destroyed these vehicles, and would have counted it a great victory to even destroy ten of them at one time. And yet, now our “leaders” will have us destroy them by the thousands, to the tune of billions of dollars ourselves!
1. John Kerry is a MORON, totally useless--a deadly combination.
2. I say let the Afghanis have their country back, 100%, ONLY after every single American and European soldier is home safe! We are FOOLS to try to change ANYTHING in the proverbial THIRD WORLD SEWERS. Those people have the tools to change their own destiny. WE can't give them the will.
3. We keep trying, though. We tried in Vietnam. I wish we had learned out lesson. Communism does itself in; always will. People can't be forced in "democracy." Democracy or, rather, a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC, like we have, requires a FIRST WORLD mentality, economy and philosophy--read that last part as Christian. IMHO.
I HATE to see us try to change the proverbial sow's ear into a silk purse. CANNOT happen.