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Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan Now
Townhall.com ^ | December 19, 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 12/19/2019 3:46:41 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/19/2019 3:46:41 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Or nuke it from orbit.

Either works for me.


2 posted on 12/19/2019 3:47:51 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Kaslin
But somehow that mission morphed into making Afghanistan a place that didn’t suck. That’s crazy. It’s always sucked and it always will suck and its suckiness is not our problem.

 AMEN !

3 posted on 12/19/2019 4:05:56 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Kaslin

Our nation is troubled. There were nearly 250,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S.A. in the four years from 2015 through 2018. Leftist, libertine, hippie trash people continue their war for foreign drug cartels and slavery against our people at home.


4 posted on 12/19/2019 4:06:57 AM PST by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Kaslin

Meanwhile...

Afghanistan Military Gets 3X the Taxpayer Funding as U.S. Border Wall

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/18/afghanistan-military-3x-funding-border-wall/

...
In total, American taxpayers are forced to subsidize nearly
$4.2 billion in costs that will go towards the “Afghanistan
Security Forces Fund” to fund the Afghan National Army, the
Afghan National Police, the Afghan Air Force, and the Afghan
Special Security Forces.

Compare that funding to the less than $1.4 billion that is
explicitly allocated to build barriers at the U.S.-Mexico
border to stop the massive annual inflow of illegal
immigration that drives up foreign labor market competition
against America’s working and middle class.
...


5 posted on 12/19/2019 4:17:40 AM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Kaslin

“Well, China will go in if we go out.”

After England, Russia, and the U.S., it must be China’s turn.


6 posted on 12/19/2019 4:20:05 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Kaslin

Agreed.

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7 posted on 12/19/2019 4:24:37 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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“Well, China will go in if we go out.”

Last I heard 25% of the population of Mexico is here, that should be our concern not this endless neocon war.

8 posted on 12/19/2019 4:25:44 AM PST by JonPreston
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China can have it, for all I care.


9 posted on 12/19/2019 4:27:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

The ChiComs deserve Afghanistan.


10 posted on 12/19/2019 4:28:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Kaslin

A good sensible read. We have nothing to gain by staying.
Trump is the president to achieve this, end it once and for all. This could be a bonus legacy he could and should create.


11 posted on 12/19/2019 4:41:43 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: mewzilla

The media won’t admit it but Bush wanted to get in and out at Bora Bora. It was British Intel that convinced him to start this ill fated “nation building” crap.


12 posted on 12/19/2019 4:56:17 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

My daughter is scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan next year.
I advocate that we completely withdraw. But on the way out salt the poppy fields and destroy our bases.

Scorched Earth policy worked for the Russians in WW2.
Then a policy of containment.Zero Afghans allowed in the US. Not one to a university, training program; NOTHING.


13 posted on 12/19/2019 4:58:41 AM PST by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: Kaslin

Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan Now

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It should have been done long ago. It’s not called “The Graveyard of Civilizations” for nothing.


14 posted on 12/19/2019 5:13:37 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Kaslin

My Army Son did three tours in Iraq / Kuwait - a lot of his friends went to Afghanistan - all of them said the same thing, we were always outnumbered and out gunned. One guy told me we were sending in companies to fight battalions.

Get out now.


15 posted on 12/19/2019 5:24:18 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: Kaslin

The Taliban rules the countryside. The drug warlords are laughing at us.

WRONG, WRONG and Wrong, We the United States Military RUN THE COUNTRY and the Drug Warlords, they work DIRECTLY For US, we OWN THEM and Distribute their Opium all around the World.

HEROIN USE HAS EXPLODED since we took over the Opium Production in Afghanistan

Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda
By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/

Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-

Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9

Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html

Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives home, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”

“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/

Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm

Obama’s America:

“The horrific toll of America’s heroin ‘epidemic”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
America’s Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014

The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks launder $BILLIONS in cartel
money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

Hedge Fund Manager, Banker, and the largest Individual donor to Obama’s coiffeurs, continues to pour $Millions into thenDrug Legalization Campaign, made to look like citizen activism. George Soros 2/2014
http://www.hightimes.com/read/how-one-percent-will-legalize-marijuana

As “medical marijuana” legalization spreads across the country, police and other industry warnings about the dangers of legalizing marijuana ignored by media
http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/florida-sheriffs-pass-resolution-to-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana

DEA has been caught laundering money as well, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;;

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS

Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners

The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html

Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/

Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205

BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay

Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432

EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed Jul 08, 2014
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982

The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014 by Arnold
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/


16 posted on 12/19/2019 5:44:55 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: mewzilla

So, one day I was at the Freedom Bridge, at the Afghan/Uzbek border. We had to drive our vehicles through water that went over the rocker panels to “wash their dirt off”. The Uzbeks explained that they didn’t want Afghani dirt in their country. One of them asked, as serious as a heart attack, why don’t you just nuke them?


17 posted on 12/19/2019 5:53:12 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Kaslin

When it comes to the Middle East, the next time our national security is threatened , we should not be bringing sandwiches for those we defeat, only bombs and destruction....and then leave them with their misery. After a while, they will get a clue


18 posted on 12/19/2019 6:15:43 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Kaslin

The time to get out of Afghanistan was before the war began. What does the author propose to do if (no, when) a worse-than-ever Taliban or ISIS begins to import nuclear missiles into Afghanistan and credibly threaten American cities? Those guys won’t care about retaliation, and the pacifists and isolationists in the USA will be pressing for us to cave. The cost in lives and money of dealing with a situation like that is going to exceed whatever cost has been expended so far. The world has changed. Our oceans are no longer enough to protect us, and our mad-dog enemies are not going to leave us alone just because we leave them alone.


19 posted on 12/19/2019 6:54:22 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Kaslin

Why are we borrowing money and paying interest on it to give to Afghanistan? It’s all part of the State Dept planned larceny using NGOs like foundations / charities to siphon money into the FBI, CIA, Clinton Foundation, where it is parceled out to globalist enterprise supporters, aka, insurrectionists of the U.S. government.


20 posted on 12/19/2019 7:39:19 AM PST by RideForever
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