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Trump Gives Conditional Go Ahead on Peace Deal With Taliban, Officials Say
NYT ^ | Feb. 11, 2020 | Mujib Mashal and Lara Jakes

Posted on 02/12/2020 3:40:14 PM PST by Farcesensitive

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To: Farcesensitive

“a test period of about seven day” -— Wow, that is some test.


21 posted on 02/12/2020 5:04:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

I think these two solders killed by someone who was supposed to be on OUR SIDE in an Afghanistan military uniform was the bottom line for Trump he wants OUT and I agree!!! The deep state has to many contractor friends there making millions AND they don’t give a damn about our troops!!! GET OUT NOW!!!!


22 posted on 02/12/2020 5:11:03 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Lurker; Sacajaweau

“How do you keep them from not regrouping....”

And besides, that’s a double-negative. How do I make them re-group, are you asking? Hell if I know!


23 posted on 02/12/2020 5:11:32 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Farcesensitive

Only if the Taliban stops all hostilities against Americans and allies.


24 posted on 02/12/2020 5:20:32 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Sacajaweau

Not out problem anymore unless they attack our interests again


25 posted on 02/12/2020 5:32:03 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: PghBaldy
"a test period of about seven day” -— Wow, that is some test.

We could be out of Afghanistan in 24 hours. What happens afterwards is not our problem.

The key objective is to prevent them from attacking our troops as we leave.

26 posted on 02/12/2020 5:53:53 PM PST by flamberge (The wheels keep turning)
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To: Farcesensitive

There goes opiate epidemic.


27 posted on 02/12/2020 6:03:53 PM PST by the_daug
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To: mythenjoseph

I prefer he use the Iran Qud strategy - eliminate each leader until no one want to be a leader. A leaderless Taliban would go off a cliff like a bunch of sheep.


28 posted on 02/12/2020 6:13:13 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Wuli
BINGO!! The ROE should be simple.
1 Kill people
2 Break stuff

NO NATION BUILDING! The comment "You broke it,you own it" is sheer idiocy.

29 posted on 02/12/2020 6:30:32 PM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: MRadtke

Afghanistan - on the Silk Road - was a very important place. Until Islam hit.


30 posted on 02/12/2020 6:34:29 PM PST by livius
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To: mythenjoseph

WTF were we doing for 18 years? That’s rhetorical. God bless those families who lost loved ones and those who were maimed and scarred.


31 posted on 02/12/2020 6:39:21 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

If we send our military anywhere for live fire....light everything up (I served as a combat medic 85-93.) I was blesssed to serve with the scouts and never had to be bogged down with battalion...Bush did not and sotoreo the muzzie treasonist made situations unreal with his ROE (rules of engagement)....neocon inc. with it’s contractors cashing in on the manufacturing and then hiring locals to work within the wire...F__K that noise. Get out and contain the muzzie animals on their Godforsaken soil...Who was the asshole Harmed Kharzi....Afghanistan is beyond reach. My prayers and empathy to all Americans who fell in this black hole .


32 posted on 02/12/2020 7:02:00 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: Sacajaweau

Cut off their funding. The Taliban would be nothing more than an ineffectual primitive death cult operating in an ancient backward country, if it wasn’t for outsiders who have an interest in supporting them.


33 posted on 02/12/2020 10:34:46 PM PST by mbrfl ( KAGA - Keep America Great Always)
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To: MRadtke

They ain’t...


34 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:27 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Sacajaweau

You don’t - Russia learned that the hard way over a long period and we proved their failure wasn’t a fluke...flattening all the mountains and the caves they hold might work - but the world would be uninhabitable afterwards from a LOT of nukes.


35 posted on 02/13/2020 4:10:04 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: mythenjoseph

its always a good idea to be courteous and respectful to people who live in a different culture n within tribes who have a religious tenant to kill everyone who is not them n, a tenant to lie about everything to enemies.

once as we’re gone the revenge planning will begin n, then in a 5-6 years under the Dem open boarder plan, a bunch will carry out one or more of those revenge plans n thousands or millions will die here.

A real stroke of genius that we pulled out when we did, or the attacks would have been much worse!! Imagine if they would have gotten more than 1 nuclear device from friends! a past res of the wh told us we could absorb one or two hits without the need to hit back he knows best,eh?


36 posted on 02/13/2020 7:15:01 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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