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Even if Biden isn’t to blame, why wasn’t the Taliban destroyed with 3 presidents spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan?


19 posted on 08/14/2021 7:13:38 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP

“Even if Biden isn’t to blame, why wasn’t the Taliban destroyed with 3 presidents spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan?”

The entire enterprise was doomed from the beginning. America can’t win a war decisively in a foreign country while making war under UN rules of engagement, etc.

We could easily win any war if we were ruthless. We have everything needed to do so. We don’t fight to win and haven’t for a long time.


46 posted on 08/14/2021 8:00:38 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Because there was no DIME pressure towards Pakistan to root out the Taliban.


58 posted on 08/14/2021 8:34:30 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: TakebackGOP

How do you destroy a guerrilla army that melts back into the population and is scattered in small bands across 200,000 square miles of some of the most remote mountains in the world without using radiation?


61 posted on 08/14/2021 8:38:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: TakebackGOP

Why weren’t the Taliban destroyed? Rules of engagement.


69 posted on 08/14/2021 8:59:13 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: TakebackGOP

uh.....good question, BUT BIDEN IS TO BLAME FOR THIS!!


89 posted on 08/15/2021 2:55:49 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TakebackGOP

“Even if Biden isn’t to blame, why wasn’t the Taliban destroyed with 3 presidents spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan?”

That would have required a US invasion of Pakistan.


91 posted on 08/15/2021 3:19:58 AM PDT by DAC21
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