Sorry, FRiend. I just couldn't let that one pass by. Too good of an opportunity! (from the guy, me, who makes lots of typos and unfortunately, thanks to my mouse software, double-posts!) - ;)
Posted on 02/13/2021 9:32:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Biden administration is just weeks away from having to make a decision whether to end the nearly 20-year military deployment in Afghanistan that has claimed nearly 2,400 American lives, as experts and US officials told CNN there are no good options available and the best hope is to avert "catastrophe."
With the May deadline for a withdrawal looming and NATO allies eager to learn what the US will do, the National Security Council (NSC) convened a meeting of senior officials Friday to discuss the way forward on Afghanistan, according to two administration officials familiar with the meeting. The administration has coalesced around two broad goals, an official familiar with the discussions told CNN. First, it aims to achieve a "responsible conclusion" to the conflict, which would see the end of ongoing violence and a stable Afghan government. Second, the administration wants to safeguard national interests and prevent the country from becoming an ISIS-style caliphate or the base from which a large attack is launched against the US.
"The violence is too high in Afghanistan. That's the bottom line," said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby Friday.
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Biden needs to ask Trump what to do.
Yeah, I’m thinking we’ll stay. Shocking, I know. They’ll have us in at least one more war before years end too.
Seeding the narrative for the next two months, "we'll have to stay and increased activity will be required."
Alexander the Great thought there was too much violence in Afghanistan too.
I am fully expecting 50,000 troops in Syria by the end of Harris-Biden’s term.
As soon as we are gone those who helped us will be killed and probably tortured first.
All of the school girls will be out of school, maybe killed and their teachers killed.
It will return to being a tribal country, and who knows what more.
We should never have gone there on the ground in the first place.
No outside force ever "wins" there in the long run.
All Presidents should read Kipling.
Those loyal ones who helped us, should be offered asylum as long as in the process the renounce Islam, eat pork to prove it, etc.
We should have left after we had overthrown the Taliban. Leave the aftermath to the Northern Alliance and allow them to deal with the mess.
Nothing would surprise me. I refuse to allow anything to upset me as well. It is what it is.
LOL, they’ll stay. This is just a Kibuki dance. Biden is SO tortured. You see, he really wants to bring them home. But with Mattis style tears in his eyes, he’ll grimly make that tough presidential decision. He’ll strike dramatic thoughtful poses for the White House photographer to photoshop into black and whites.
This is all a big joke.
Biden has no good options about anything.
He’s not all there.
The people sending him orders have never actually run anything
but their mouths.
Good luck Joe. I give you a few more weeks before Kamala
jerks your chain.
Where is the deadline coming from? Afghanistan? Congress?
The Russians, Turks and Iranians would not permit US troops in Syria.
There’s a new sheriff in town. Afghanistan won’t mess with Joe, ‘cause they know Joe don’t take no crap. Joe ain’t no pushover like Trump, Obama, or Bush. FINALLY, we have a President who will bring victory, peace, and democracy to this wonderful nation.
The Democrat Party will come up with a plan custom tailored to burt America.
Pulling out of Afghanistan would be a total disaster.
Russian Chinese Iranian ISIS forces are all itching to pour in to fill the vacuum while the Taliban and Al Qaeda will dig in their revolve too become more powerful than ever before while setting up America for deadlier 9/11 style attacks China sold Pakistan large elements of the Covid strains do not think for a second that the Islamic fascist terrorists will hesitate in launching a full scale bio attack upon America with the covid strains combined with other mutated diseases that they will mix in.
They’ll do it in a heart beat without batting an eye and with Biden’s lifting of the Muslim ban it now opens the flood gates for hell too be unleashed upon this great nation of ours no but must not abounded the war against Islamic fascist terrorists and Islamist expansionism.
I would agree with you. Somewhere out there....is another McCain-wannabe...trying to hype up some arms-dealers, rich Saudis, and get another round of jihad going in Iraq or Syria. Then another 10k to 20k US soldiers will fly into the middle of this fake-war business.
One of main reasons for the Jewish nation of Israel upped its stealth attacks against Iran this summer was to due to a u.s. potential pullout from Afghanistan that would allow for a new weapons pipeline too Iranian nuclear networks via Afghanistan in a secret deal reached between Iran, the Taliban and Communist Neo Soviet Russia two years ago.
This fall and summer Communist Russia trained with Pakistani forces including training right on and near the Afghan border of Afghanistan prior to that three years ago joint Russian, Chinese, Pakistani Iranian forces, were together inside Afghanistan conducting so called military operations against so called ISIS militants and targets when in actual reality they were doing other things including under minding U.S. operations establishing their own networks etc. etc.
Biden is a surrender monkey. Harris is a “Red Diaper Baby”. Surrender is the only thing they know how to do, well!
Turd Fergusen for President!
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