Posted on 08/07/2021 1:34:19 PM PDT by ransomnote
[H/T Oorang]
Full title at link: US sends in B-52s in desperate bid to stop the Taliban seizing key Afghan cities - where British troops fought and died - as fighters seize prison and set all the inmates free in latest town to fall
US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to target Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan who are advancing towards three key cities.
The Cold War-era strategic bomber first flew in the 1950s but is still used due to its 70,000lb payload and range of more than 8,000 miles.
They are being supported by the AC-130 Spectre gunships which are armed with a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm M102 cannon - which can provide pinpoint accurate fire from the air.
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Don’t forget the squad, bammy, oprah, lebrainless and all the other smart folks.
The Soviets were on their way to killing the opposition, until our Stinger missiles made their helicopter gunships “less effective”.
BOOM!
Joe? HAHAA..it’s the Cabal pulling his strings.
Hi.
Are the BUFFs carrying nuclear payloads?
I crack me up.
5.56mm
Send in BLM and Antifa. Them little bastards are real good at causing a ruckus.
Isn’t it about time where we make another WWII movie?
We haven’t had a new one in 3 years: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls059324807/?sort=release_date,desc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1
1. I think those are popular because that’s the last war where we definitively won.
2. It’s the last war where we had a just cause. Not an expeditionary campaign, or with false justifications etc.
3. Besides, no one complains if we kill thousands of Nazi’s (not even today’s Germans)...
If you make a movie today and kill black people, well that is racist: Zulu https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/ (You can’t make that today - even if it’s factually correct!)
If you make the Chinese as the bad guys as in Red Dawn II, the Chinese threaten to block it and we don’t want that: https://screenrant.com/red-dawn-villains-china-north-korea/
You don’t want to piss off the Vietnamese, Muslims, Saudi’s, Japanese, or even the Iranians...
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/37394
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1598886,00.html
So it’s best that we stick with the “Nazi’s” or “Russians.” Our eternal bad guys. That way we can have an action pact war movie where we win, feel good about ourselves, and not have to worry about the social/political/economic considerations.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Exactly, but try to imagine the press if Obama had ordered a withdrawal and then President Trump took over.
If this keeps up Afghanistan is going to become downright unstable. /s
We’re too chicken shit and PC to fight and win against our enemies today even in a movie!
If we do make a movie where we’re fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc... Even if it is historical in Israel and something like Christians vs. Muslims, we’ll have to make it conflicted where the good guy is bad and the bad guy is good, where you have good Muslims too, where we started it all because of the Crusades 1,000 years ago, where we did something questionable and it’s all actually our fault: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/ (just a bunch of historical inaccuracies and cliche’s).
Think about this, that movie came out 4 years after 9-11 and it probably took a year or two to make it.
If true:Full title at link: US sends in B-52s in desperate bid to stop the Taliban seizing key Afghan cities - where British troops fought and died - as fighters seize prison and set all the inmates free in latest town to fall
B-52 bombers and AC-130 Spectre gunships are attacking Taliban terrorists.
The Taliban have been advancing across Afghanistan as the US withdraws.
The Afghan army and Air Force have struggled against Taliban insurgents.
The UK government has advised all Britons to leave Afghanistan immediately.
US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to target Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan who are advancing towards three key cities.
The Cold War-era strategic bomber first flew in the 1950s but is still used due to its 70,000lb payload and range of more than 8,000 miles.
They are being supported by the AC-130 Spectre gunships which are armed with a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm M102 cannon - which can provide pinpoint accurate fire from the air.
Why are we just. now reading about this all out war from a Brit newspaper/source
The Middle East, where big nations go to die!
All true. Very well put.
You’re still not getting the job.
LOL?
Oops! Different interlocutor. Yeah, well, both you AND Governor Dinwiddie are “right out”! As they used to say on the Monte Python show.
Well, we already found that “bombing them back to the stone age” would not work. They never LEFT the stone age !
B-52 bombing just scatters the rocks around in Afghanistan.
Once they did what they did to Patton for slapping that shell-shocked GI in the infirmary, it was all downhill.
I’m so worried about my timeshare in Kabul./s
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