The GOP Majority Leader compares POTUS to Obama and the Fall of Saigon?
If anybody was wondering which team McConnell plays for here is your answer. It certainly is not Team USA.
Spent 4 years there. It's a complicated situation. To simplify and generalize, nice people and screwed up tribal culture that was knocked back 500 years by the Russians in the 1970's.
After seeing how Trump has handled the Israel/Arabian peninsula situation recently. I would give what ever he has up his sleeve a try. Couldn't be much worse than what is going on right now.
I am not sure if they still do but the US Military War Colleges used to teach Baron Carl Von Clausewitz's Principles of War.
In every War since WWII we have ignored at least one if not all four of those principles. Let me think .... yep we haven't won a war since WWII.
We have not declared a war required in the Constitution since WWII as well.
Being a combat veteran of the Viet Nam fiasco I am curious what is the mission in Afganistan?
How can one win a war without defeating the enemy totally? Why do we still support and follow those who can't actually say “when such and such are accomplished we have achieved victory”?
All questions don't really need to be addressed as we don't seem to learn from our history any longer.
I am curious if any one can state the mission in Afghanistan.
Buy a freeking clue, senator. We don’t really have any “partners” in Afghanistan. You can argue that there might be a good reason to stay, but don’t peddle that garbage about there being partners.
Tell him sure Mitch and then after January reelection inauguration tell him to go f*ck himself
[The GOP Majority Leader compares POTUS to Obama and the Fall of Saigon? ]
We can withdraw from every other military base around the world. We cannot withdraw from Afghanistan until the Taliban is extinct. Ideally, we would slaughter them and every one of their civilian supporters. Since we can’t, we have this tiny presence there to show people that anyone who attacks us may be fighting their own countrymen backed by a small contingent of US troops for the next 100 years. Now that’s a deterrent.
Again, the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be physical extermination. Since we can’t, because of current-day restrictions, this is the next best thing. Alexander did conquest on the cheap when he wiped out the men in Persepolis, the Persian capital, and sold the women and children into slavery.
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/diodorus/alexander-sacks-persepolis/
After that, Greek nobles ruled Persia for as long as these United States have been a republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire
Yes because 20 years is not enough.
Get all of our military out of all hellholes.
Let them defend our border.
Let them defend our real allies in Eastern Europe from invasion by homicidal savages while dating beautiful Eastern European women.
Remember all the talk about "abandoning our Kurdish allies" in Syrian Kurdistan?
Mitch McConnell called it a “grave strategic mistake” that will “leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances.”
Trump was right, and the Kurds took care of their own business without us just fine.
Get back to approving Judges Mitch, and leave the real decisions to the President.
So what is this, KAAW? Keep America At War? Sure it is.
My grandson served in Afghanistan EIGHT YEARS AGO. He’s been out of the Marine Corps 5 years now. Had enough of a muslim CIC.
We have only the second good President we’ve had in my entire lifetime, maybe for only a short time more. Let him bring our people HOME.
Because $27,000,000,000,000 in debt isn’t enough.
In other words:
We Need the Opium and the military is the only entity capable of ensuring the free flow of Opium out of Afghanistan to our distributors.
Words for McConnell, “Shut your F’n mouth.”
Sounds like McConnell knew all along about the guy lying to Trump about how many troops were there.
Read my tagline. Mcconnell and the GOP leadership are quislings.