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The Lesson of Afghanistan is a Simple One, But Probably Not What You Think
Flopping Aces ^ | 08-20-21 | Vince

Posted on 08/21/2021 7:47:03 AM PDT by Starman417

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1 posted on 08/21/2021 7:47:03 AM PDT by Starman417
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he’s actually getting roasted by a media whose only job appears to be to prop up the Biden regime

They're letting him off easy. Imagine what they'd do to him if he didn't give them a heads up to get their people out of there.

2 posted on 08/21/2021 7:49:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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“Nation-building in Afghanistan was always likely to be a failure”

Nation building in any muzzie country will be a failure. Hey, let’s try somalia again, or maybe yemen./s


3 posted on 08/21/2021 7:51:14 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Starman417

Didn’t The greatest democrat president of all time, barrack insane obama, tell us the tolly bun was totally defeated? Hmmmmm.


4 posted on 08/21/2021 7:55:24 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: dynachrome

All these writers have a deadline to say something relevant.

This is obvious fodder for the non-Freeper.

It’s a curse being so informed sometimes.


5 posted on 08/21/2021 7:56:04 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules)
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To: Starman417

Nations hostile to US➡️Soros➡️Clintons➡️Democrat Party➡️Press

Nations hostile to The United States are actually running the Democrat Party and our press.


6 posted on 08/21/2021 7:57:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Starman417

Economic backwater.…..

Hardly. They’re now making meth. They already supply a substantial amount of the worlds heroin.

Soon, with their Chinese partners, they’ll be shipping that stuff by the shipload, to Mexico where it will walk across our border

They could become one of the biggest narco states the world has ever know.

You may not like how the money is being made but they’ll be making tons of it.


7 posted on 08/21/2021 7:57:31 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: dynachrome

Our Army is even worse then the mgmt. by stats 2nd Inf Div in 73-74. That unit did not even know squad tactics. Now DADT, plus more has trashed it.


8 posted on 08/21/2021 7:58:32 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: Eddie01

“It’s a curse being so informed sometimes.’

Yes it is. Often people ask me did you see the news story today about XXXX or did you know that XXXX. I have to be careful not to offend them and say “Yes I knew that days (or weeks ago).”


9 posted on 08/21/2021 8:01:17 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Starman417

The lesson of Afghanistan is the same lesson too many people haven’t learned despite witnessing one disaster after another. Never let a bunch of corrupt draft dodgers send someone else’s kids to fight their stupid wars.


10 posted on 08/21/2021 8:02:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Texas Eagle

The Biden regime is just that a regime. Joe Biden is not making any decisions for himself. His regime is where the blame should be focused. For starters actually putting him on the ballot to start with was a plan that should never have been enacted.
Now we have a bunch of faceless nameless unaccountable people making decisions. The only clear thing is that the motive is the destruction of our country.


11 posted on 08/21/2021 8:02:49 AM PDT by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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To: Starman417

The lesson is an old one but unlearned by half the voting population: Democrats will betray everyone and everything. Their sugary words are lies, their thoughts are selfishly evil, and their hands are always in someone else’s cookie jar.


12 posted on 08/21/2021 8:03:49 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Starman417

I guess, the humane war. Just days after the victory 2001, there were reports of Taliban being abused and killed.
To win the war, you have to kill some people, sometimes in gruesome way.


13 posted on 08/21/2021 8:05:02 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: Eternally-Optimistic

You are correct, sir. Somebody is running the show with Joe al-Scranton serving as the front man. Interesting that that person or those persons do not want their identies known.


14 posted on 08/21/2021 8:07:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I said that to a group of my liberal friends when Senile Joe “won” the presidency: “who will really be running the government?” They were astonished I would think such a thing. But it is evident there is someone or several someones running things bc it ain’t Joe and it ain’t Kamala.


15 posted on 08/21/2021 8:09:14 AM PDT by laconic
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To: exnavy

They were defeated.

But then he and the Democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.


16 posted on 08/21/2021 8:09:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: qaz123
Hardly. They’re now making meth. They already supply a substantial amount of the worlds heroin.

*************

First thing we should have done was salt bomb the opium fields.

17 posted on 08/21/2021 8:10:11 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: laconic

Nope. They’ll find out the hard way.


18 posted on 08/21/2021 8:11:41 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Starman417

Bkmk


19 posted on 08/21/2021 8:11:48 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: Starman417

Were we really there to “fight terrorism” or were we there to impose feminism and tranny stuff on a backward population? Did it start out as one, then turn into the other at about the time Obama took over? The only clear goals ever stated were “get bin Laden” and nation-building. One of those was no longer an Afghanistan thing after about 2005, we lost the other one.

One big lesson is to never let the neocons run our foreign policy again. Most of them are pretty quiet. What do Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, David Frum, David Brooks, Bill Kristol, and the rest of the old gang have to say? Trump’s fault or something like that, I’m sure.


20 posted on 08/21/2021 8:15:15 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden and pray for his downfall.)
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