Posted on 10/13/2020 1:24:25 PM PDT by ransomnote
That must have been interesting. I spent a couple years inside t-walls. Sucked, but then IEDs were all all outside.
She was already making good $$$ as a contractor “supervisor” in Afghanistan. Throw the book at her.
And the reason we are there is to? Spread democracy and the American way of life and to protect us all from the horrors of terrorism.
With liberty and justice for all.
Have you seen the movie:
The Outpost
It is on Netflix. I watched it twice.
We should have left Afghanistan 10 years ago.
I have no doubt of that.
Our mission was over when we kicked the crap out of the Taliban the first time. Without eradicating them and their children we are just wasting our time.
Afghanistan is not called “The Graveyard of Empires” for nothing. The Brits got their butts handed to them more than once in Afghanistan, then the Russians and for all practical purposes, now US. We stay, but only for our pride and for certain people to make a hell of a lot of money from it.
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