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Caroline Glick: Time to walk away from Afghanistan
Breitbart ^ | 2 March 2019 | Caroline Glick

Posted on 03/03/2019 12:23:30 PM PST by KC_Lion

The Associated Press

If nothing else comes of it, the latest round of Pakistani aggression against India served as yet another signal to the U.S. that the time has come to cut its losses and walk away from Afghanistan.

On February 14, a Pakistani terrorist from Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist organization, infiatrated the Indian side of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir province and murdered more than forty Indian paramilitary forces in a suicide bombing.

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Regarding China, however, even as this concern informed U.S. decisionmakers, Pakistan expanded its strategic and political ties with China. In 2016, 63 percent of Pakistan’s foreign military assistance was Chinese. That year, arms exports to Pakistan constituted 35 percent of China’s total arms exports. So continued U.S. support for Pakistan didn’t make Islamabad avoid expanding their ties with China.

President Donald Trump signaled an end to this policy of turning a blind eye to Pakistani aggression last January. He tweeted, “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan with little help. No more!”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; afghanistan; carolineglick; china; doves; india; jaishemohammad; jammu; kashmir; nomorewars; pakistan; peace; rop; sillydove; taliban; wars
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To: rktman

Ditch both Pakistan and Afghanistan and give US taxpayers a break!


21 posted on 03/03/2019 1:41:47 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: litehaus

“Spray the damn poppy crops fields first..10 year dose roundup ???”

Cover the entire region with 6 inches of salt right before a mild rain


22 posted on 03/03/2019 2:10:09 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: allendale

And now we are back to negotiating with the Taliban! Unreal.


23 posted on 03/03/2019 2:12:31 PM PST by Cecily
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To: litehaus

Mexico is the world’s third largest poppy grower.


24 posted on 03/03/2019 2:35:11 PM PST by SanchoP (Why does DC hate Americans so much ?)
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To: gaijin

Our invasion was never justified to begin with. Nearly 20 years of war against an innocent party.


25 posted on 03/03/2019 2:44:47 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Ouderkirk

I was in Afghanistan in 2007. I went there believing it was a worthwhile mission. I left believing it would take 100,000 troops, minimum, for 100 years to turn Afghanistan into a place fit for human habitation. It is the definition of why a neutron bomb is useful!


26 posted on 03/03/2019 2:57:36 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Ouderkirk

“these savages destroy themselves.”

What odds re Sunni vs Shia is Vegas giving ?


27 posted on 03/03/2019 3:06:53 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Psalm 73

You neocons never change, and will never get it.


28 posted on 03/03/2019 3:14:01 PM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus
"You neocons..."

Hardly. Just being practical. Maybe we should evacuate Okinawa, too?
Give Gauntanamo Bay back to the Cubans? Where does that end?

29 posted on 03/03/2019 3:27:21 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: KC_Lion; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks KC_Lion.
The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan with little help. No more! -- President Donald Trump

30 posted on 03/03/2019 4:20:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: allendale
In the words of a once famous infamous leader:

"Mission Accomplished"

31 posted on 03/03/2019 5:32:03 PM PST by ImpBill (A Party-less little "L" libertarian. Republicrats/Democans-A pox on both Party's!)
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To: Psalm 73

We can’t afford and don’t need an advanced base burrowing up Russia’s ass. We tried this in 1962, with almost disastrous results.


32 posted on 03/03/2019 7:01:32 PM PST by Romulus
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To: KC_Lion

Pakisran and Iran are the real issues in Afghanistan


33 posted on 03/03/2019 7:31:17 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Romulus

Excuse me but it is Russia which is burrowing their way back into Afghanistan supporting dialogue with Taleban terrorists... who were always working for them most apparently now


34 posted on 03/03/2019 7:33:30 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Russia has a regional interest in the state of things in Afghanistan. We don’t.


35 posted on 03/04/2019 12:06:54 AM PST by Romulus
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To: KC_Lion

Russia invaded AFG and left with their tail between their legs. We have been in this mess for almost 20 years. Hey! enough is enough!!!!


36 posted on 03/04/2019 12:59:58 AM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Romulus

We need a negociating leverge on Russia as the deep state communists are positioning bases in Cuba and Venezuela


37 posted on 03/04/2019 3:02:18 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Psalm 73
Re: “keep Bagram Airbase and a 40-mile no-go zone around it.”

The problem is, we can only fly into Bagram via Pakistan, Iran, China, Russia, or Turkey!

If you drew those “five cards” playing poker, they would go straight into the muck!

38 posted on 03/04/2019 3:12:15 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: Psalm 73
Re: “Where does that [evacuation] end?

As long as every country in the world knows that we will kill anybody who tries to disrupt our shipping lanes or our flight lines, it can end right at the border of the USA.

While were at it, let's liberate Puerto Rico and install Ocasio-Cortez as President-for-Life.

39 posted on 03/04/2019 3:25:02 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: KC_Lion

We’re in Afghanistan because someone with Zero knowledge (ahem) decided he was going to demonstrate his “foreign affairs creds” by declaring that we needed to be in Afghanistan during his Presidential campaign. He apparently, despite being a “Harvard educated lawyer” never heard the term “Graveyard of Empires”.


40 posted on 03/04/2019 3:27:00 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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