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To: nickcarraway

Very few people here of mentioned September 11th or Bin Laden.

Remember that we got into Afghanistan because of September 11th and because the Taliban were giving safe-haven to Bin Laden.

If people want to say we took our eyes off the ball at some point being in Afghanistan so long , let’s have that discussion. But when we first went into Afghanistan the Congressional resolution for that was action was virtually unanimous.

Did any of you oppose going into Afghanistan right after September 11th?,,


37 posted on 04/18/2021 6:56:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The defeatism on display here is an illustration of why communists have taken over the USA.

These cuckservatives won’t fight. They abandoned cities for suburbs fifty years ago, now they flee entire states. Pretty soon there won’t be anywhere to flee to.

As for the Taliban, previous generations of Americans were “indian fighters” and would have won handily in Afghanistan. The modern “kinder, gentler, methods of waging war does not work.


39 posted on 04/18/2021 7:23:29 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The problem, those guys who didn't want to go into Afghanistan were probably purged or canceled. That is the right of the owner, here on FR.

9/11 was also planned and developed in Florida and Germany, that is the nature of terrorism.

47 posted on 04/18/2021 8:33:39 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You make good points.

The goal was to get OBL and QA, and the Taliban was in the way. We pushed them out of the way and got them. At that point we won. We got them, and brought free elections to Afghanistan.

Where we lost was in staying on afterwards.

50 posted on 04/18/2021 8:46:22 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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