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 ….
Afghanistan will never be peaceful while Islam rules it.
Very very well said.
Is that what you think you were doing in Vietnam...defending the United States?
That is an objectively false notion, and there is 50 years of post war history to confirm it.
“To the generals who don’t have a clue and think every country wants a Western style democracy”
The end result of the “tabula rasa” philosophy must be imperialism. It’s an extreme form of normalcy bias that posits that “everyone must want the same things I want because we are all the same.” It is insane. While there is a great deal of overlap in the human condition, different groups have different characteristics that end up with them forming very different cultures. Nature always bats last and always wins.
Once again, I'll write slowly for you, so you can catch up: Vietnam was the first ever employment of the Soviets' "National Liberation War" strategy, a form of "assisted suicide" where the Sovs and their best friends armed, supplied and trained the North so they could conquer the South. You may not be aware of it, but we were in a global struggle against the Soviets, the Warsaw Pact, and China back then and they chose Vietnam as the next push for expanded power. We who volunteered and fought in Vietnam were protecting our country and the South Vietnamese and in turn all of our allies in the area.
I suspect that we did that without your help.
The "histories" you cite were written by the same Leftists who campaigned for the NVA in the guise of "antiwar" activists.
Your "50 years of history" don't confirm anything. You weren't there.
Interestingly, for those 20 years, we weren't attacked here, were we? And for those 20 years, the Iranians were constrained from working with the Taliban and the former Soviet Sates - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, as they certainly want to be - but now the door is wide opoen for China and other hostile actors.
But you sort can't figure out all this stuff, can you? Makes your head hurt?
Are you Liz Cheney?
Are you a bot programmed to act like Liz Cheney?
Either way, you are an advocate of her warmongering globalist uniparty ideology, and that ideology is a danger to America’s future.
It won't be over until the body count is finalized and all Americans are accounted for. Hopefully Biden won't feel the need to go back in force to rescue the people who are still there, now that we are "sort of out of there."
Or are you one of the new generation of neoisolationists hoping the bad guys will just leave us alone and go away?
Go. Away. Fake patriot.
No. I’ll never look back on it kindly.
This is the most abysmal stupidest thing I have read in a long long long time.
Needless, to say as much as I like Senator Rand Paul on many issues as it pertains to economical issues and various issues of personal freedom liberty his whole national security/foreign policy positions are totally cringe as are the Libertarians the Paleo’s and the leftist Alt-right.
You speak of Barack Obama he’s currently running the show the entire Afghan pullout and the quickness of it was all his idea he stormed it with national security adviser/,Sec of State Susan Rice.
Granted Biden was told by Putin to do it but Zero was too getty in wanting it done.
Trump? He should have listen to then national security adviser General McMaster’s idea of an Afghan offensive that would have destroyed the entire Taliban regime forced their unconditional surrender then he could have pulled out with victory in a Ronald Reagan fashion.
Instead he listen to deep-state closet quasi homo Mattis, that utter moron Rich Higgins, Drunken buffoon Steve Bannon (Who’s a closet Leninist populist)
deep-state plant Tucker Carlson none of whom ever had his or this nation’s best interests in mind only theirs.
That’s one of the craziest things I’ve read on Free Republic. Clinton was an isolationist? He started more wars than any other president in U.S. history. He would start a war or bomb a factory just to get out of a press conference.
He got us into that stupid Kosovo War, that established a beachhead for Wahabbism in Europe.
Putting periods between individual words is really really gay.
I am an America First patriot.
You want to defeat the Chinese by imitating what destroyed the Soviet Union? Have you studied any history? Watching a reality show marathon doesn’t count.
You want to defeat the Chinese by imitating what destroyed the Soviet Union? Have you studied any history? Watching a reality show marathon doesn’t count.
Did you risk your skin for your country? Because most I know that didn’t do want service members to lose their lives for no good reason and no benefit to their country. We could keep sending solduers into Afghanistan for another 59 years and have nothibg to show for it.
Thank you.
Well, yeah, we were. Remember those Boston bombers? And that Muslim who shot up an Army base? I think there was also a Muslim attack in San Bernadino. And a few others I might have missed.
You’re for giving away our flanking position against the Iranians, too the SEATO alliance of the Red Chinese and the Russians you’re allowing for more new 9/11 style attacks on American soil via by Al Qaeda and ISIS in their rebuilt networks.
You fit right in there with Barack Obama/ Biden Putin and XI Jinping they salute you
Iran sends their warm regards too getting your 10% are you there big guy?
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