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I got sidetracked and was trying to compare Afghanistan to Syria.
Before the junior varsity team became the varsity team in 2014,
Obama’s stated reason for going into Syria was because Assad was a bad man.
73,295 died in Afghanistan, 2,420 Americans.
600,000 died in Syria, 10 American Servicemen.
6 million Syrians became refugees.
How many Afghan refugees will there be?
How many illegal aliens is Biden going to let into our country?
Now that we know White Christians are the terrorists, we know why the
Dems are trying to flood our country with non-White immigrants.
We know we are being silenced by social media while BLM are being promoted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)

Afghan security forces:
65,596+ killed
Northern Alliance:
200 killed
Coalition:
Dead: 3,562
• United States: 2,420
• United Kingdom: 456
• Canada: 159
• France: 89
• Germany: 57
• Italy: 53
• Others: 321
Wounded: 22,773
• United States: 19,950
• United Kingdom: 2,188
• Canada: 635
Contractors
Dead: 3,937
Wounded: 15,000+
Total killed: 73,295+

Taliban: 51,000+ killed (no official numbers, incomplete according to Brown, can be higher)[45]

al-Qaeda: 2,000+ killed

ISIL–KP: 2,400+ killed

Civilians killed: 47,245

Syria
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/syria
Events of 2018
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group based in the UK, estimated the death toll since the start of the war to be as high as 511,000 as of March 2018.

Years of relentless fighting left 6.6 million displaced internally and 5.6 million around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria#_ga=2.176393632.48290673.1629116333-745414408.1629116333

There are 5,633,857 registered Syrian refugees as of August 5, 2021.
3,696,919 in Turkey
855,172 in Lebanon
669,497 in Jordan
247,044 in Iraq
133,568 in Egypt
31,657 other

https://www.statista.com/chart/19581/syrian-civil-war-fatalities-documented-by-syrian-observatory-for-human-rights/
Tracking Syria Conflict’s Enormous Death Toll
by Niall McCarthy
Oct 8, 2019

Many international monitoring groups stopped counting the number of deaths in Syria’s civil war as the conflict grew in scope and complexity. The United Nations gave its last estimate in 2016, stating that 400,000 people had been killed. A new and possibly bloody chapter in the conflict’s history is now set to open on Syria’s northern border after President Trump ordered a shock withdrawal of U.S. troops, paving the way for a Turkish incursion.

The move has abandoned America’s Kurdish allies and left them at the mercy of the Turkish military. The most recent estimate of deaths in the war was carried out by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in December 2018. They estimate that 560,000 people were killed in the conflict up to that point, of which 111,330 were civilians, 65,048 were Syrian soldiers, 65,108 were members of radical groups and 63,561 were members of the opposition.

560,000 Deaths:
50,296 pro-Syrian militias
63,561 Opposition fighters
65,048 Syrian soldiers
65,108 Members of radical groups
111,330 Civilians
202,982 Unknown/Undocumented

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by opposition activist groups, vary between 494,438 and about 606,000 as of June 2021.
51 Americans were killed.
10 American Servicemen were killed.

Somethings wrong when social media can ban President Trump and help terrorists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16google.html
FEB. 15, 2011
BARCELONA, Spain — Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, said Tuesday that the company was “very proud” of Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who helped plan the protests that culminated in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

This will surprise you.
Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
Preston Byrne ^ | August 15, 2021 | Preston Byrne
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3985366/posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPJrt0
Biden on Syria:
One, the idea of identifying a moderate middle has been a chase America has been engaged in for a long time. We Americans think in every country in transition there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind sign humble to some rock or a James Madison. Beyond once and you, the fact of the matter is the ability to identify a moderate middle in in Syria was, there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers not soldiers. They’re made up of people who in fact have ordinary elements of the middle class of that country.

And what happened was, and their history will record this because I’m finding that former administration officials soon as they leave write books which I think is inappropriate, but anyway, no I’m serious, I do think it’s inappropriate at least, you know give the guy a chance to get out of office. Um and what what what my constant cry was, that our biggest problem is, our allies, our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria.

The Turks were great friends, and I have a great relationship with Erdogan which I’ve just spent a lot of time with the Saudis the Emiratis etc. What were they doing?

They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being, who were being supplied, were al-Nusra and al-Qaida. And the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.