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The US spent billions building roads in Afghanistan; now many of them are beyond repair
Stars and Stripes ^ | 30 October 2016 | Erin Cunningham

Posted on 10/31/2016 8:13:30 AM PDT by Lorianne

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To: butlerweave
"They spend so much time trying not to offend Islam that everything around them falls apart"

(The Deceptive Nature of Hillary...)

( 30-Year Muslim Plan to Control America has Six Years to Go)

21 posted on 10/31/2016 8:41:31 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for Trump is a vote for the U.S. Constitution)
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To: eyeamok

I didn’t get my cut I can assure you and I am a reluctant investor in all those roads.


22 posted on 10/31/2016 8:41:52 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: elteemike
The best approach is to leave them alone in their squalor until they decide they’ve had enough

Islam is the reason for their squalor, backwardness. Islam is a prison for all who adhere to that form of government coupled with tribal beliefs.

I agree we should just leave that part of the world to the Muslims....trade only.

23 posted on 10/31/2016 8:48:40 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for Trump is a vote for the U.S. Constitution)
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To: Lorianne

You can’t civilize savages unless you are willing to crush them and take over the raising of the children. Which we are not willing to do.

Regarding Afghanistan, everyone should read Churchill’s The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. ~120 years ago, and very little has changed. It should have been required reading post-9/11 for everyone in DoD, the State Department, CIA, NSA, and intelligence services. The weaponry has changed, the outlook and education levels of the people living there not so much.

“The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War was an 1898 book written by Winston Churchill; it was his first published work of non-fiction.

The book describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897. It is dedicated to General Bindon Blood.”

Free at Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9404


24 posted on 10/31/2016 8:48:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I’ve been saying for at least 5-6 years that we needed to have stopped at the punitive expedition phase in Afghanistan, said “don’t let people like that live amongst you again, or we’ll come back and really mess you up”, and gone home. And never started the so-called Nation Building / Meals on Wheels phase.


25 posted on 10/31/2016 8:51:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lorianne

What’s that they say about playing chess with a pigeon? All it does is knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it won.

Why waste any more American dollars building roads for these Afghani pigeons? Barbarians can’t be bribed out of barbarism. Let ‘em rot.


26 posted on 10/31/2016 8:55:33 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Lorianne

I think it’s ironic (and sad) that we build roads in a third-world hellhole, but can’t afford to build or repair infrastructure here at home.


27 posted on 10/31/2016 9:03:08 AM PDT by blackbetty59
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To: FreedomPoster

Oh, I thought that from the day it was announced we would be going into Afg in force. 15 years ago. In one sense, we acquired some experience “fighting that kind of enemy” I guess you could say but it wasn’t the Afghan people and likely not the Afghan government who allowed Al Queda to encamp there. IMO these are by and large primitive people who may not like us, which is their right. But we learned nothing new for the exercise. Everything we might have learned we could have learned from the Soviet experience in 1979-198x.


28 posted on 10/31/2016 9:03:47 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks!
I will add it to my reading list.


29 posted on 10/31/2016 9:05:43 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Read my post in #24. We could have learned all we really needed from the British experience in the last 1890s.


30 posted on 10/31/2016 9:10:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lorianne

It’s a quick read, it was developed from a series of dispatches Churchill made acting as a war correspondent. Also get The River War, about fighting The Mahdi in the Sudan. Also at Gutenberg.


31 posted on 10/31/2016 9:12:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lorianne

Leadership of corrupt losers. Get them the hell out!


32 posted on 10/31/2016 9:13:42 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lorianne

We were in Afghanistan for a primary purpose of setting ground sensors for detecting Iran’s nuclear tests. Fighting Al Qaida was a cover story. Everyone knows AQ is still in control of that country and always has been. The daily intel briefings even use “AQ”, and not some made up term used in the press. The press releases by the whitehut that AQ has been neutralized were bogus. They were meant to calm Americans from demanded we leave as Obama promised in his campaign.

The program is still in operation, but the Afghan government is tiring of it and will probably kick us out, and then the our presence will evaporate overnight. Most of the engineering staff have already left the country. Only ops are left.

The next President will have to contend with Iraq getting funding and materials to build a nuclear weapon that were aided by Obama. The Iranian program is in high gear. They have tested high explosive cores and are prepared to use nuclear triggers. Iranian nuclear capabilities are only months away.

Other host nations have cooperated with this program but they are too disorganized and corrupted to allow our presence in any meaningful manner so any attempts to setup ground sensors have failed. Iraq, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Pakistan are not capable of politically and peacefully handling the program. Turkey has geographical problems with sensors of this type, so although it is the most friendly nation, it doesn’t work out.

This is why we are in Afghanistan.


33 posted on 10/31/2016 9:13:58 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Lorianne

That’s right, the corrupt SOBs in D.C. are reaping the kickbacks and bribes to the tune of millions. Disgusting!


34 posted on 10/31/2016 9:19:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: FreedomPoster

late 1890s.


35 posted on 10/31/2016 9:22:12 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: elteemike

Amen!


36 posted on 10/31/2016 9:22:29 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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To: Lorianne

Exactly. All wars are created by the Oligarchs (Lucifereans) to create chaos so they can destroy cohesion and create such incredible debt so they can literally take over countries—all the infrastructure/institutions/banks/SKOOLS so they can eventually get a NWO with dumb, ignorant sheeple who are like drones-—working in their corporations-—little interchangeable worker bees who can’t understand Free Will and Indivdiualism (Natural Rights only from God—not the Oligarchs). No identities-—just its....little children will not be able to understand Reality (Truth) or even know if they are male or female in their “utopia” they will be so ignorant and dumb (programmed).

We need to replace our Rule of Man with our Constitution (Rule of Law/Higher Laws/God’s Laws). It is the ONLY system which gives INDIVIDUAL NATURAL RIGHTS (not “group” unnatural rights) which ONLY come from God and not the State. No IRS, No Federal Reserve....all pre-1913 “laws”-—no monopolies over education/publishing, “news”, etc. Local control of most everything. Subsidiarity!!!!!!!

Those roads were just a “scam” to make some relatives filthy rich-—and they used the bodies of our sons and daughters to make it possible......the Lucifereans are evil and will kill anyone for their totalitarian NWO.


37 posted on 10/31/2016 9:23:08 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: savagesusie

...and some wonder why we are $20,000,000,000,000 in debt? We have many criminals in our loser government. The federal government is public enemy #1.


38 posted on 10/31/2016 9:29:26 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Lorianne
"Nation building" at it's finest.

All it ever does is make rich political and connected donor buddies richer, promote graft and corruption at all levels, make us a laughing stock of our enemies and the world, and spend piles of money we continue to borrow from China.

We would be better off taking these huge pallets of cash and burning them in the nearest parking lot. At least the crooked and the welfare rats wouldn't get any of it.

39 posted on 10/31/2016 9:34:47 AM PDT by Gritty (This election is our last chance... We won't get another opportunity. It will be too late.-DJTrump)
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To: Lorianne
I expect some big league changes when it comes to dumping the American treasure into these foreign globalist adventure deals.

Most of which are 100% fueled by bribes and kickbacks. In fact, whoever the contractors were, they should be independently investigated along with those who were involved in developing and awarding the contracts.

40 posted on 10/31/2016 9:36:00 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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