Posted on 08/16/2021 3:03:53 PM PDT by RandFan
Trump deserves enormous credit for ending the war in Afghanistan something Barack “surge” Obama couldn’t do as he was a useful puppet to the Military Industrial Complex.
President Trump had the courage to negotiate with the Taliban and agreed a deal to get all troops out by the end of 2020 only for the neocons like Liz Cheney teaming up with Democrats in the House to stop it and punt it until well into 2021 (i.e now).
To the tough guy neocons on both sides: Accept this. To the generals who don’t have a clue and think every country wants a Western style democracy (or Republic?) Wake up and stop doing the bidding of the Military Industrial Complex. Your treachery and lies will be revealed in good time.
This is a great day and victory for taxpayers. Tens of billions of dollars will no longer be shipped to that sh*thole every year.
With this war ended a vast gravy train has also ended and no more blood and treasure will be spilt in this godforsaken land (of ours at least).
Every cloud ….
Your fantasies have no bearing at all on reality: protecting our country requires sacrifices and those young men and women who fought and sacrificed for us in Afghanistan and the other armpits of the world knew what had to be done - and they did it.
I have no idea where people like you spring up but please go back to your room and let the courageous young do what they do best.
Just pay your damn taxes and stay home.
Here is the simple rule I think even Rand Paul fans can understand
If a nation attacks us or helps with an attack on us such as 911, we will militarily invade and replace the government.
2. We will ALWAYS have a military base in your nation after we leave at a time of our choosing. That’s why we have based in Korea, Japan and Germany.
There is NO reason to ever give up Bagram. It’s ours we built it and we can kill as many taliban as we want whenever we want.
That is peace.
It’s peace in South Korea , Japan and Europe.
Collapsing Afghanistan so rand Paul can say I told you so ensures future massive terror attacks and the swallowing up of Ukraine and Taiwan.
The mythic go and hide America of rand Paul is a complete fiction that never existed even in the 1790s.
Brother James Biden received a $1 billion no-bid contract in Iraq. It was for building. He has zero experience building.
Rand wrote:
“We were attacked, so we struck back. This is the reason we have and need a strong military: Actual national defense.
But our military is not meant for nation building. Not for policing the world. Not for imposing democracy in places that have never known it.
Not only are these bad ideas, but they aren’t the point of our military and they do nothing for our national defense.”
As for bases in Europe. Not needed and expensive. Trump tried to close them.. Biden has cancelled it on behalf of the Military industrial complex.
One other little bit of fallout here too - All of the US hardware and tech that we gave the Afghan security forces will be handed over to Chinese “Advisors” now…and reverse engineered.
Afghanistan is a medieval dump hole. Nothing good can come from sending America’s best to die there.
Yup. And into the vacuum created by dear Joe, the ever-present Chinese will sweep right in.
Well the ChiComs seem pretty effective at suppressing Muslims so let them take a few swings at the ball.
One thing about the ChiComs is that they don’t demand your country accept Sodomites, like our government does.
Thus spake our local “expert” on our world strategy. Or was that selling fast food?
Your fantasies have no bearing at all on reality: protecting our country requires sacrifices and those young men and women who fought and sacrificed for us in Afghanistan and the other armpits of the world knew what had to be done - and they did it.
Protecting the FBI and CIA so they can spy on Trump? A government that jails without trial for 7 months Trump supporters?
America’s best deserve a better fate than bleeding d and dying in a third world dump hole for that “nation”. I wish it was different but that is where we are now.
I’ll write slowly, so you’ll better able to understand: they’re not there to fight them. - they’re there to use them as part of their regional power expansion.
You know, their “Belts and Roads Initiative”, right?
Us leaving let’s them incorporate the Taliban into their network. Or didn’t you think that would be a problem?
This unreal… unf@@@ing real…
Our troops were protecting us, not the “CIA or the FBI”
Get back to you day job -I’ll take fries with that.
Trump would have left a small force..if tbe Taliban blinked he would have kept air support and intelligence..like s korea..germany..japan..etc
Best post ever..so succinct and covers everything.
That is concerning.
There were not the brave fighters for freedom that uniparty globalists portrayed them as being in Afghanistan.
They would not be anything positive here.
Indeed, many of them would be domestic terrorists if brought here.
Bringing them here, as Biden is already planning to do, would be dangerous and would guarantee another 9/11.
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Sending Americans to the latrine of the Middle East was always a bad idea.
They got our money.
They got our stuff.
We got nothing.
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