Posted on 08/22/2017 7:21:28 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released a statement on Monday opposing any plan to add additional troops to the ground mission in Afghanistan, hours before President Donald Trump addresses the nation about his plans for the region.
“The mission in Afghanistan has lost its purpose, and I think it is a terrible idea to send any more troops into that war,” Paul said in a statement.
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I knew she meant the Brits.
Then you should have corrected it before you posted it.
Repeating stupid stuff doesn’t help your reputation.
Remember that half the people you meet are below average in intelligence.
If you don’t talk about things you don’t understand, your place on that intelligence curve won’t be as obvious.
Nice dig. I’ll keep that in mind when dealing with you.
“We cannot kill everyone in the whole country because we don’t like how they organize themselves.”
Sure we can.
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No, we can’t.
First of all, we would never get internal political agreement to try it. Secondly, it is immoral and I doubt whether our military would carry out such an order. Thirdly, if we tried it the rest of the world would unite to stop us ... and rightly so.
When you have no factual argument your only alternative is insults. But thanks for playing. :-)
You are confusing the ability to do something with the will to do it.
If we as a nation decided to turn Afghanistan into a radioactive cloud we could do so before breakfast time tomorrow. And, let’s face it, the rest of the world couldn’t do jack squat about it.
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Afghanistan is rich in resources, into which China is exploiting, plus the rich narco-economy, and all the elite friends’ contracts supported by you and me.
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