Posted on 11/16/2020 9:50:36 AM PST by Kaslin
No, just endless occupation. Many troops however have left Germany already in the 1990s. Some of the posts were given to the German military
Pull out of places that have no value, i.e. Afghanistan.
Those places that have a strategic value to us, stay.
Don’t lump all together.
Afghanistan is a pile of rocks where the only thing of interest to us are the bad-guys that are there. There never was a need to build huge bases and have a massive footprint there since your orientation is on the enemy, not terrain, and nation building was and remains out of scope.
The way you deal with a place like that is by occasionally giving that place a visit with some MH helo’s, killing a lot of bad guys, and then leaving, or to shoot a Tomahawk on someone you don’t like, or visiting the place with some 500 lbs’ers as carry on baggage.
All you do by stationing a lot of people there is to create a lot of targets for the enemy. You end up wasting a lot of money pretending that American values and this idea of “democracy” is some universal idea everyone yearns for, bullshit.
If you are familiar with senior officer ranks, those slaps on the wrist effectively end a career. Unless a General said f-you Trump, a courts martial will not happen. You make them damaged goods with no promotion potential.
Psst, mixing meds is a bad idea, just sayin’... My
Good ideas.
Why don’t you go and have a look at the declaration that the President issued this past spring and if you don’t think that order has brought us down the very road of tyranny then I’m not only who shouldn’t be mixing meds with drinks.
Also if you don’t think for a second that the Russian-China axis alliance together with their proxy surrogates, along with the Islamist Jihadists are not after destroying the United states in order to gain global worldwide dominance/governance than your a bigger dumbass than what you already are.
Just sayin
I’ve come to the realization that it’s not left who brought down the country they’ve always been scumbags it’s conservatives like yourself who helped usher in the poison that tainted the tree of liberty and freedom at one time American conservatives stood for the greater good in everything then within a blink of an eye totally enabled everything that was stood against why? Some for greed some because they were afraid not to and others because deep down they really never were true conservatives too begin with.
Agree. The US has been in Afghanistan for longer than some of the soldiers involved have been alive. Enough is enough.
So bouncing the rubble for decades, wasting the lives of thousands of our best people and spending trillions of dollars; all to no discernible purpose is the test of ideological purity?
“....name it war!”
Can’t. War requires a country to deal with and recognize select people that represent or are the enemy. Know any? I don’t on record. I do off.
“This began with the Democrats at Mi Lai.”
Interesting enough, all the conflicts we have had over the last hundred years are based out of the Paris Peace Conference in 1920, and signed by Woodrow Wilson, a very liberal democrat. But, treaties is treaties. Unless the president decides to ignore them even without recognized direct combat like Iraq.
The killing of Bin Laden is a perfect example. Obama sent troops in to a sovereign country, Pakistan, and murdered an unarmed person which violates the Geneva Convention, our Rules of Combat, and the rules of the U.N. So was Mi Lai any different. It just depends on who needs to say anything derogatory about it, and doesn’t have the pelotas to do so.
rwood
Former GOP Rep Calls Crenshaw Immoral Criticizing Troop Draw-Down. Crenshaw Fires, ‘My Friends Risking Their Lives Understand A Basic Truth That You Refuse To: This Enemy Wants To Kill Us’
Hank Berrien
Nov 18, 2020
https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-gop-rep-calls-crenshaw-immoral-criticizing-troop-draw-down-crenshaw-fires-my-friends-risking-their-lives-understand-a-basic-truth-that-you-refuse-to-this-enemy-wants-to-kill-us
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“Get real. You resort to name calling and then falsely play the victim of name calling with a made-up quote. Perpetual war is immoral and dangerous. You should stop excusing it. https://t.co/srvB8EIqzo
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) November 18, 2020”
” Immoral? Based on? My friends risking their lives understand a basic truth that you refuse to: this enemy wants to kill us. Protecting America’s flank is indeed “moral,” a basic duty of govt, and yes, dangerous. Thankfully we have people willing to take that risk when you won’t. https://t.co/8F5bGLlpEm
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) November 18, 2020
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