Posted on 08/21/2017 12:11:09 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Set aside our casualties....and God bless them...but the war has honed our military to a fine edge. We need to kill many more and then come home
“Mike Allen, the co-founder of both Politico and Axios media”
Ditto that.
I don’t know.
Here is what I do know.
Ben Shapiro says Bannon is a ‘Deeply Vengeful Guy’
I absolutely believe he is going to gun for:
Mcmaster, Gary Cohn, Javanka, Dina Powell...and maybe Kelly.
Breitbart is linking to that Vanity Fair article.
It’s a warning, IMO .
You move left and I will help impeach you.
Vietnam got better on its own. After all the killing and other communist ideas didn’t work.
Definitely what it looks like to me as well.
Interesting thoughts.
Seems like you need a combination
We will never be that brutal. We aren’t even allowed to have statues of Christopher Columbus anymore.
The Middle East is where great nations go to die. Check your history.
Exactly.
Supplant the uniformed troops with Blackwater, and ask no more questions but one:
“Do they exist yet?”
Pax Carthage!!
Erik Prince got knocked out of the discussion after Bannon quit/got the axe.
There’s the key question
Is Trump smart enough to narrow down the mission to an attainable goal?
If our troops are a forward deployed force to detect and neutralize terrorists that may pose a threat to the US , then that is the mission at which they should succeed
If the mission is trying to prop up some centralized Afghan government and build some new western-style democratic nation in that shithole culture, then we can never succeed
Mora comes to his conclusion without seeing the plan.
You forgot to mention that we were also there to get Al Qaeda.
`War is Peace’? War without end.
Disappointing.
Stated, who knows.
Actual, to run operations in Pakistan which is really the head of the snake IMO.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/21/us-troops-afghanistan-donald-trump
What is the military situation in Afghanistan now?
The defence secretary, James Mattis, has admitted the US and its allies are “not winning” the war in Afghanistan. The Kabul government had control over just over half the districts in the country by the end of last year, which was 15% down on the year before. The Taliban are pressing government forces across the country and the local Isis affiliate, the Islamic State in Khorasan, is on the rise.
Officially, there are 8,400 US troops in the country – although Mattis has suggested the real number may be higher – most of them serving as trainers and advisers to the Afghan national army, with 2,000 special forces and support troops tasked with a specific counterterrorism operations against Isis and other militants.
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