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Rand Paul: Bring the troops home from Afghanistan!
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Posted on 01/15/2019 7:50:09 PM PST by RandFan

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I agree with @realDonaldTrump! It’s time to declare victory in Afghanistan and bring our troops home. We spend $46 BILLION a year in Afghanistan! How about we take that money and build roads and bridges and strengthen border security here in America? #AmericaFirst


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1 posted on 01/15/2019 7:50:10 PM PST by RandFan
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Get out of the Middle east!! Nuke up and close the damned borders. Get women out of the military combat positions NOW. Make America Great again. Not fricken Afghanistan!! DON’T CARE!!


2 posted on 01/15/2019 7:56:08 PM PST by Mikemurphy
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To: RandFan

Ted Cruz or Pence


3 posted on 01/15/2019 7:56:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RandFan

If they don’t reopen the gov soon they will have no choice. We aren’t going to strand tens of thousands of us troops in a war zone with no way to get home and no support.


4 posted on 01/15/2019 7:56:18 PM PST by Brilliant
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Well, works for me. Troops home that is.


5 posted on 01/15/2019 7:56:54 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: RandFan

BTW I’m now able to post without review! woohoo! thanks guys, i will not abuse this privilege.


6 posted on 01/15/2019 7:58:31 PM PST by RandFan
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Afghanistan is our Western Front or launching ground for China. In case we go to war. That way they will have 2 fronts. The other side being Japan and South Korea.


7 posted on 01/15/2019 7:58:35 PM PST by Enlightened1
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We need a base of operation in the middle east, not only to combat terrorism that threatens national security but also if there ends up being a bigger war at some point.

Rand's foreign policy in indistinguishable from Obama's and that is one reason he'll never be the GOP nominee.

8 posted on 01/15/2019 8:01:57 PM PST by Kazan
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9 posted on 01/15/2019 8:04:32 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Kazan

I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think Rand would make an outstanding commander-in-chief!

Obama took us into Syria and Rand was against that.. so was President Trump!


10 posted on 01/15/2019 8:05:13 PM PST by RandFan (..)
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Put them on our border. Armed.


11 posted on 01/15/2019 8:08:03 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz is DOA for too many reasons to list, Pence not inspiring.


12 posted on 01/15/2019 8:09:05 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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Cruz has a much better chance than any Democrat you can name me.


13 posted on 01/15/2019 8:14:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Enlightened1

We couldn’t sustain a front there with certain opposition from Russia, Iran, and Pakistan in addition to China.


14 posted on 01/15/2019 8:14:18 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don jr. for veep.


15 posted on 01/15/2019 8:15:23 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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I've been saying for years the fight in Afghanistan is foolish. Its Constitution is explicitly Islamic. That is not something you want to fight for, it's something you should fight against .

Rather than invade their countries , kill their leadership and convert them to Christianity the easy strategy is to get them fighting and feuding against each other. They will happily engage in such insanity since heaven requires you die in battle so they kill the nearest Moslem who they consider not Islamic enough!

16 posted on 01/15/2019 8:16:28 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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I work for afgans
It’s a complicated part of the world
Know that Pakistan needs to be kept in check (isi )
Turkmenistan is another
The taliban are entrenched
In short we have a giant base there now
Not so sure we need patrols outside Kabul. The only real City


17 posted on 01/15/2019 8:20:13 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: thoughtomator

Maybe?


18 posted on 01/15/2019 8:20:55 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Kazan

We can deploy anywhere around the world from america in a few hours. We have orbital weapons and other tech to handle the rest. Having troops on the ground in the me is a long dead idea. We are going bankrupt, things need cutting. SA, China and the rest can stand up now.


19 posted on 01/15/2019 8:23:20 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, I haven’t seen Pence be much of an “attack dog” on behalf of Trump. As far as I can tell, Pence is to Trump, as Bush was to Reagan.

Think Pence would pull us out of the middle east? Fight for a wall? Hold NATO’s feet to the fire? Raise tariffs against China?
I just don’t see it. His main appeal I can see is those poor souls who want the President to be the nation’s spiritual leader, or the women who swoon because he won’t cheat on his wife.


20 posted on 01/15/2019 8:24:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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