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Posted on 08/12/2021 2:46:55 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars training the Afghan Army for 20 years
It collapsed in 1 month
Not one general or politician will face consequences for this.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1425923773199495176
Oh yeah, all cultures are equal. /sarc
That’s okay. The truly important thing is that our military is actively antiracist and supportive of sexual minorities.
Gen. Mark Milley says so.
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The ARVN (S. Vietnamese Army) lasted much longer than that after we left.
We see the same thing time and again. We train an army, provide it with state of the art equipment and the fight quite well - as long as there are U.S. troops fighting along side them. Then, when the U.S. decides they’re able to stand on their own two and we leave they crumble and fall apart. And it becomes a race to the rear. Happens over and over. But, we keep doing it and they keep doing it 🙄….
looks like the taxpayers got rolled once again by another element of the corporate-industrial complex
Not a great sign for when our guys are in a fight.
Now The Pentagon is sending in 3,000 troops.
In the DC Swamp that’s a great deal. It means we should have stayed there another 20 years and pissed away another $150 billion there.
to be fair, Rumsfeld wanted out of Afghanistan... he just wanted to exit through Iran and make a big mess along the way. Didn’t have a good plan on how to make it happen other than going to war with any non-friendly territory touching Iran’s borders and hope that baited Iran into starting something, but that was what he wanted to do.
There is no moderation in Islam, they are just going back to their roots “little boys and goats and kill all infidels”
There is speculation that the Taliban will control the capital before 9/11.
Today China sent airplanes into Taiwan airspace. Could China strike at about the same time?
How much of that $88 Billion ended up lining the pockets of connected U.S. contractors and people like James Biden.
It didn’t help that they evacuated (migrated) every Afghani that worked with us, leaving an even more helpless population behind.
you need to ask?!
Well it seems some of the afghan trainees learned to shoot a little. It seems we had many stories we were losing American forces at an alarming rate to the afghans shooting their American battle buddies and training cadre quite often.
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