Posted on 05/29/2021 11:56:09 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
I guess 17 years of training them wasn’t enough?
Just what did they expect? Equipped with the best the taxpayer can afford, trained with the best our military can provide, and left with all sort of resources, this bunch “thirsting for democracy” as GW Bush and Cheney claimed - now folds like a house of cards. Twenty years, thousands of lives, tens of thousands more maimed and trillions in taxpayer dollars and what did it create? Not much good.
Wouldn’t be surprised if most of the “US” interest in Afghanistan is by the CIA for drug smuggling.
This is a profit center for the Deep State.
Ears are won by logistics.
If the leaders are corrupt the foot soldiers are doomed.
It would have been cheaper to buy the poppies from the Taliban. I’m sorry, but I have always had a total war mentality. No one/nothing outside of the USA is worth ONE DROP of American blood. If you’re going to fight, you fight to win, you win and you go home. Let the failed diplomats clean up the mess. No, I am not a pacifist. Never was a flower-child hippies type, but I strongly diasagree with defense contractors getting rich off a prolonged ‘conflict’.
After bin Laden was found and killed, there was no rationale for the United States to remain engaged in Afghanistan. There was no way America was going to transform the culture and values of that medieval society by force of arms. Sadly the vast majority of the brave young soldiers ( three thousand dead, tens of thousands more physically and psychologically maimed) sacrificed needlessly with little to show, other than to each other and themselves. Also $1.5 trillion was squandered. Congressman Ron Paul, an American visionary and a Cassandra, proved to be absolutely prescient when he warned against this war.
The problem is Islam.
“Forget it Jake, it’s Afghanistan”.
Time for the Chinese to take a crack at them.
Afghan army rifles for sale - never been fired, and only dropped once.
Time for the Chinese to take a crack at them.
Capital idea!
From your keyboard to Xi’s listening posts.
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My suggestion on Sept 12, 2001 was for a total travel ban from Muslim nations of S. Asia, mid-east and North Africa - Cheap, effective, limited economic downside, and no need for porno scans or the surveillance state
I guess our betters chose open borders and endless wars instead.
WHAT? Shocking! NOT! 🙌😱🐫💨💩
Oh, one more thing.
There have been a number of armies die on the Afghan plains.
Xi, may you live in interesting times.
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Yeah, real surprising isn’t it? On the one hand for years we have been having a “War on Drugs”. And I believe Afghanistan is one of the leading producers of heroin. We have every square inch photographed and under real-time satellite surveillance. Kind of hard to believe that we don’t know where the poppy fields and there is no way to destroy them. Like always in government and recent wars...follow the money.
But, nothing to win there.
By definition, there’s nothing to win, be done, and then go home - the defining thing is perpetual war.
Presence there was to exert control, prop specific Afghan locals, and import their poppies for killing American locals here.
After Bin Laden was found and killed, NATO should have left the country but leaving one base in Kabul. Kabul would remain as a city state while the Taliban controls rest of the country. It would probably take decades or centuries to build up a force in Kabul that’s strong enough to conquer the Taliban. But you can look at the Spaniards with the Moors. Reconquista took centuries where Ferdinand and Isabella finally prevailed in 1492.
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