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Taliban celebrate seizure of US weapons from Afghan troops
NY Post ^ | July 6, 2021 | Mark Moore

Posted on 07/07/2021 7:05:47 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: SJackson

Another Vietnam in the making.

It’s obvious we no longer know how to win wars. We simply don’t have the stomach for it anymore.


21 posted on 07/07/2021 7:20:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

Another Cambodia in the making.


22 posted on 07/07/2021 7:21:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SJackson

Absolute sickening disgrace. So if there is no more true security and a airfield, what happens when the inevitable embassy sieges begin? We know the answer in Benghazi and Hanoi. Who knew 9/11 would truly be forgotten and fade away and we would lose to the Taliban? I hate to use the “ashamed” moniker, but I am so deeply saddened.


23 posted on 07/07/2021 7:21:37 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SJackson

I hope we had the foresight to booby-trap them.

Our guys learned some wonderful tricks in Vietnam.


24 posted on 07/07/2021 7:21:44 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: SJackson

This could have been over in 2001-2002. Stupid, stupid people.
When Vietnam fell, there were about a million people killed plus the communist re-education camps cowed the South.

When the Taliban retakes Afghanistan how many will have their heads chopped and re-educated to the ways of the veil and jihad?

Another loss for America snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?


25 posted on 07/07/2021 7:22:47 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: SJackson
A worse loss than Vietnam.

But of course the forever war continues in other theaters of war.

26 posted on 07/07/2021 7:23:54 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: aquila48

> It’s obvious we no longer know how to win wars. <

There is a saying: Democracies should go to war reluctantly, and fiercely.

Since the end of WW II we’ve done pretty much the opposite. We go to war almost at the drop of a hat. And then we conduct that war half-heartedly.


27 posted on 07/07/2021 7:26:18 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Karliner

for a very few days, WOMEN in Afghanistan wore their
hair out, and had power.
Clinton, Soros and UN could not allow that, so the
headdresses went on and power went away.

as i pointed out then, the penalty should have
been the handing of ALL power to the FREED women.


28 posted on 07/07/2021 7:26:23 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: SJackson

No worries. The US military is working overtime to be fully LGBTQ/CRT/BLM/Woke compliant. That’s something America can really take pride in. /sarc

Rest assured in the next military confilict of any significance the US will proudly accept the “also participated trophy.” Maybe they should consider replacing the white flag of surrender with the gay pride flag.

If I’m not mistaken there is a very poigant statement about those nations that take second place in wars.


29 posted on 07/07/2021 7:38:20 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Statists, Communists, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: SJackson

The Badakshan corridor blocks India’s only land route to Europe or the Caspian Basin oil and gas; that does not go through Pakistan or China.

A Geostrategic loss.


30 posted on 07/07/2021 7:46:16 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: RetiredScientist
I could be wrong, but I remember reading that the Army Command in Vietnam ordered the weapons destroyed.

Perhaps some weapons but we left most all of our aircraft on the ground for the S. Vietnamese, making them the 3rd largest air force in the world.

I was a civiilian contractor at Tan Son Nhut AFB in the summer-fall of '74 in an effort to teach the S. Vietnamese army how to maintain our aircraft.

You could tell from their attitudes that they were all done with war, and as history shows, S. Vietnam fell the following Spring.

31 posted on 07/07/2021 7:51:02 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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already starting. See article.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-s-shuts-down-bagram-air-base-as-afghanistan-pullout-speeds-up-11625221544


32 posted on 07/07/2021 8:13:39 AM PDT by Levy78
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That’s not a US tank. Looks like a T-55 left behind by the Soviets.


33 posted on 07/07/2021 8:15:46 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: SJackson
The Media would be Mitting its (Marxist) collective panties if this had happened under President Trump.

Under Puppetdent Biden and his puppetmasters - **crickets**...

34 posted on 07/07/2021 8:28:59 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SJackson

Why would we leave anything of value behind?


35 posted on 07/07/2021 8:29:48 AM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: aquila48

“It’s obvious we no longer know how to win wars. We simply don’t have the stomach for it anymore”

After ww2 every conflict has been a UN controlled debacle. Winning is not in the lexicon. Pacification is the plan. “Winning hearts and minds” you know the drill.

Wiping out the enemy and their ability to wage war is a concept lost on the body politic.


36 posted on 07/07/2021 8:31:47 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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Yeah making the world safe for faggotry and Islamic extremism is really going to win hearts and minds, because that’s all we’ve done in the last 40 years.


37 posted on 07/07/2021 8:32:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RetiredScientist

Didn’t happen. The North Vietnamese captured airbases and bases with equipment fully intact. The US pulled out in 73, Saigon fell April 75.


38 posted on 07/07/2021 8:38:50 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Levy78

I remember a time when the idea that America could lose a war was unthinkable.


39 posted on 07/07/2021 8:47:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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I remember a time when the idea that America could lose a war was unthinkable. .................... You might say we dropped the balls after Nam. They were soldiers and marines back then, and their gene pool became diluted from then on. Looks like the new marines may change their slogan to “The Few. The Proud. The Morines” ??? Yeah move forward with the rainbow colors the enemy will surrender at the sight of it, due to laughter and inability to stand up while rolling on the ground.


40 posted on 07/07/2021 10:48:09 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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