Posted on 08/24/2021 9:23:48 AM PDT by Trueblackman
As my old salty NAVY Chief use to tell all of us Jr. NCO's "If I walk thru a pasture with 20 or so Cows, then step into something soft and moist; I don't need to look down to figure out what I just stepped in!"
While the Biden Administration and the MSM that willing helped install this incompetent fool continue to refer to the Americans that Biden has abandon in Afghanistan as "stranded" the correct terminology is "hostage!"
When you are unable to move about freely, must dodge check points manned by armed militants, hide from your former friends because you fear they may hand you over to save themselves or to leave a situation then you are a "hostage" plain and simple.
No, there are aren’t any “Americans” left there. Its all propaganda. Are you saying there are trapped NGO heads, diplomats, CEOs and tourists on holiday who were just stuck there, surprised by the Taliban takeover in lovely, peaceful, Afghanistan? LOL!
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Finally, a voice of sanity.
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land and sea.
The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in the following years. Authorized by the Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1929, it is the oldest official song in the United States Armed Forces.
Why the Corps were on the shores of Tripoli
United States relations with what is now Libya have a complex history going back to America’s first decades. Although two other North African states, Morocco and Tunisia, were among the first countries in the world to recognize the USA diplomatically, the new nation soon fought the Barbary Wars in the Mediterranean over attacks on its ships by pirates from Tripoli—the origin of the “shores of Tripoli” reference in the Marines’ Hymn.
President Thomas Jefferson became the first US president to bypass Congress and take the nation to war in 1801. It was the First Barbary War of 1801-1805. It was also a war of many firsts: the first foreign war fought by the US after the American Revolution, the first time an American soldier shed blood on foreign soil, the first time the US Marines saw battle, and the first time the Stars and Stripes were raised over foreign soil after a military victory.
The Tallyban can simply name their price, by butchering a few each day on public TV, and keep upping the cost!
I’ve been calling them hostages from day one.
If I was the taliban I would absolutely hold them as hostages and extract tens of billions of dollars and whatever else I wanted from President Sock Puppet.
What would I have to fear from his incompetent, cowardly administration?
stranded hostages.
I think we know that we have trash for senior officers. On Fox an SF man stated he had trained Afghan SF who were good to start. Then the MGMT. by stats made him graduate punk officers who fell asleep in combat. The Afghans never did much as they let the US fight. In Vietnam and Cambodia my Rhade yards would charge machine guns. Our Gens. suck.
<>I had a debate with a POS Liberal this morning on this very subject.<>
No doubt. How about some details? Was it on local radio?
No not local radio at my local eatery. They had the TV on and this little punk had the nerve to get mad because even the local media was questioning Biden’s Mindset.
Him: Biden is doing everything he can to get Americans and our Allies out of Afghanistan. This is Trump’s Fault.
Me: According to the Biden Voters he was suppose to be better than Trump and he was just saying the buck stops with him.
Him: He is better than Trump, he has been leading and not tweeting.
Me: How is he better as he isn’t leading, he is simply coming out making statements and then member of his own administration have to come out and correct his lies. Then there is the hostages in the country.
Him:(He loses it at this point) There are no damn hostages in Afghanistan and Biden is going to get them out because he is a leader unlike Trump!
Me: I see you live in a State of Denial, so I assume you consider them “unwilling guest correct?”
Him: I’m proud I voted for Biden and he is a leader(others around me. “Please shut up”)
I had a great time watching him walk out without his order LOL.
Okay. Just wondering.
A few years ago when Bammy was in the midst of his “deal” with Iran to allow extension of their nuke program and give them billions in hard cash, I had a Tampa FL Leftie radio host spittin’ nails.
I got him so bad that after a commercial interruption when I wasn’t on the phone, he came after me when I couldn’t respond.
LOL. When confronted Leftists are defenseless.
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