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LIVE THREAD & STREAM: President Trump Addresses the Nation on Afghanistan 8/21/17-9 PM EST
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Posted on 08/21/2017 5:41:24 PM PDT by HokieMom

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To: DoughtyOne

You’re welcome and deserved the “BRAVO”. :-)


481 posted on 08/21/2017 9:12:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Art in Idaho

Thanks Art in Idaho.


482 posted on 08/21/2017 9:13:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: nopardons

“:^)


483 posted on 08/21/2017 9:14:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: QuigleyDU

Look, the troll pivots: “Hello, fellow FReepers.”


484 posted on 08/21/2017 9:14:54 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: lodi90
POTUS is inviting India into Afghanistan. I’m sure the Chicoms will love that. LOL.

Good...it will shut the Chicoms out of the strategic raw materials they covet.

And put Pokistan on notice.

485 posted on 08/21/2017 9:15:03 PM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: nopardons

Yes it can be confusing.
My DIL is from Kyrgyzstan which is north of Afghanistan separated only by little Tajikistan. These are considered Central Asia along with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
And maybe Turkey and some others.


486 posted on 08/21/2017 9:15:10 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: map

More like channeling W.


487 posted on 08/21/2017 9:16:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DoughtyOne

I always hand out accolades, when a poster has put up a reply that deserves it; just as I trash ones that deserve, for one reason or another, to be corrected, smashed, trashed, and turned to ashes. ;^)


488 posted on 08/21/2017 9:18:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: weston
Exactly so! :-)

At least WE know what we're talking about and hopefully, our factually correct posts help others.

489 posted on 08/21/2017 9:20:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: DoughtyOne
Yes, with all the hits Trump gets every day, you think people would cut him a little slack. Geez people. He's on Our side and he's Our President. Remember?

Ninety percent of what he's accomplished is way beyond my expectations. . and in such a short time. He has just begun to fight.

The swamp is the swamp. . It's going to take a while and another landslide in Nov. 18 with a 60+ senate and many more representatives. Then see what happens!

490 posted on 08/21/2017 9:20:51 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: nopardons

LOL, hey I appreciate it NoPardons.

Perhaps I shouldn’t dredge this up, but I’m glad you are able to go beyond our disagreements so we can appreciate each other. Very nice of you...

Take care.


491 posted on 08/21/2017 9:23:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: bobsunshine

“He is forcing India to stop Pakistan from hiding terrorist”

That is misinterpretation of Trump’s speech as it relates to India-Pakistan relations.

First he cannot and is not “forcing” India to “stop Pakistan” from hiding terrorists. 1. He cannot and is not “forcing” India in any fashion. 2. India CANNOT by her own actions “stop” Pakistan from doing anything.

What he is doing is offering to partner with India on the “nation building” support that Afghanistan needs. That’s it. How much of that partnership does Afghanistan want? Will it be pressure for a more peaceful cooperative Pakistan with India, or anger Pakistan and be seen by them as an attempt to supplant their influence in Afghanistan with their rival’s, India; and push Pakistan to simply ally closer with China?

Trump may TRY to encourage, he cannot “force” India or Pakistan to alter their courses and India, short of war, cannot “stop” Pakistan in any regard as to terrorists in Pakistan. Again, India can TRY to encourage and hope Pakistan changes course, but it has no ability to “stop” one course in Pakistan and MAKE Pakistan take another.


492 posted on 08/21/2017 9:25:34 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Art in Idaho

You nailed it there.

It really amazes me how unhappy some Conservatives can get when they’re interests are being served so well.

Human nature or something, but it makes me wonder if I’m human, if that’s what passes for it for them.


493 posted on 08/21/2017 9:25:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Parley Baer

Alrighty, then.

Whats the goal? How many have to be killed to call it a day and leave?

Understand the entire region pretty much has an unlimited amount of terrorists that can filter into Afghanistan.
I guess we stay forever.


494 posted on 08/21/2017 9:28:08 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: JME_FAN

I DON’T want our troops there ANY LONGER!!! These BASTARDS have been imbedded with our troops and TO MANY of our young men have been murdered by these supposedly FRIENDLY Afghans being trained by our troops to fight for their own country!!! These BASTARDS are not to be trusted NONE of them are to be trusted this culture WILL NEVER change and I don’t want ONE MORE life lost or changed forever do to limbs being lost !!! AMERICA and AMERICANS FIRST!!!! If you can’t just NUKE the damned place into oblivion then GET THE HELL OUT!!!!!


495 posted on 08/21/2017 9:28:46 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: QuigleyDU

“Europe is now full of terrorists” BECAUSE EUROPEAN LEADERS INVITED THEM IN!

Intellectually honesty is not your strongest suit, eh?


496 posted on 08/21/2017 9:31:57 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: Enlightened1

“We originally went into Afghanistan to get Osama Bin Laden for September 11th, 2001. That has been accomplished.”

When was that accomplished?

Why did that one thing alone take so long, why was Bin Laden there in the first place, why did we have to go to war to get at Bin Laden, and who would easily let another Bin Laden act as he did from Afghanistan? One thing answers all three of those questions - the Taliban. They were integral to why Afghanistan and Bin Laden were related, and they remain as such a potential today. They were inseparable then and they are still.

I find your rationale too simplistic for the real world.


497 posted on 08/21/2017 9:32:33 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: lightman; QuigleyDU

Should change his name to QuislingDU


498 posted on 08/21/2017 9:34:11 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: DoughtyOne
As my great grandmother was wont to say: "I MAY FORGIVE, BUT I'LL NEVER FORGET!" and I'm the same way.

OTOH...as I said, I do give "props" when they're well deserved. I am very evenhanded....that way. And no, you shouldn't have pried open the almost healed "wound".

I hope that you, too, can be appreciative of posts of mine, that strike you as being well written and worthy of an accolade. :-)

FR-regards.

499 posted on 08/21/2017 9:35:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Art in Idaho

You know Art I would buy what you are saying if we hadn’t said the same DAMNED thing through the last 4 elections, NOW we are expected to believe that IF WE ONLY HAD 60 seats in the senate, 60 seats will make NO DIFFERENCE because the seats we have NOW are not on Trumps side or OUR side they are BIG government SWAMP creatures and I have come to believe that the deep state is in control, and there is NOT one DAMNED THING we can do about it!!!! WE can vote all we want to NOTHING will change!!!! The country BELONGS to lobbyists!!! I am VERY SAD but the DAMNED COUNTRY is lost to us we the people!!!


500 posted on 08/21/2017 9:41:03 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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