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LAID TO WASTE Taliban seizes a THIRD of Afghanistan in blitz offensive after US wastes nearly $1TRILLION in ‘pointless’ 20-year war
The Daily Sun (US) ^ | Olivia Burke

Posted on 06/28/2021 5:46:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

THE Taliban have seized control of a THIRD of Afghanistan as they continue to accelerate their blitz offensive while the US continues to withdraw their forces.

The US has wasted nearly $1trillion on the "pointless" 20-year battle trying to stave off the terror group who are fighting to gain ultimate control over the war-torn country.

The Taliban have been on tenterhooks to forge ahead with their scheme since President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of troops back in April and have since continued at "lightning speed".

Jihadist forces have now advanced across rural areas, putting them in reaching distance of major cities such as Herat and Kabul.

A recent US intelligence report warned they could take the capital, Kabul, within six months.

(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; islamofascism; obamaswar; taliban; unitedkingdom; war; waronterror; waste
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Bush, Cheney, and the rest of them ought to hang their heads in shame. What a horrible waste of our good people and so much money. My heart breaks for those who lost loved ones or came back maimed. I don't know if the warmongers really thought they could remake the world, or if they just profit from war.
1 posted on 06/28/2021 5:46:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

April 30, 1975 (flashback)


2 posted on 06/28/2021 5:48:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Did we at least firebomb the poppy fields … oh, who am I kidding?

Hunter Biden probably is an investor….


3 posted on 06/28/2021 5:49:15 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Somebody got filthy rich at the cost of a few thousand GI lives.


4 posted on 06/28/2021 5:49:51 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Nuke the place and be done with it


5 posted on 06/28/2021 5:49:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Pining_4_TX

Remember there are still Bush League Republican Senators that want us to stay and waste more lives.

Never should have set one boot on the ground in that God forsaken land.


6 posted on 06/28/2021 5:51:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pining_4_TX

When I see our wounded warriors I think of what the neocons did to them and our country.


7 posted on 06/28/2021 5:52:00 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This kind of crap is why I vowed never to be in the military.


8 posted on 06/28/2021 5:52:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

And the ChiComs appear to have seized control of all of the U.S.


9 posted on 06/28/2021 5:53:39 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Bonemaker

America soldiers are cannon fodder for NeoCons/NeoLibs.


10 posted on 06/28/2021 5:54:05 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Pining_4_TX

Take all the women who want to leave and bring them to the country of their choice . . . then offer the men who don’t want to stay and give them passage to India or Pakistan. Remove the troops and make it clear to the Taliban that the next time they try to aid terrorism they face nuclear ruin. Let them practice their crap without any women to serve them.


11 posted on 06/28/2021 5:54:54 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: Pining_4_TX

Profit. Always profit.


12 posted on 06/28/2021 5:55:02 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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the trillions were not wasted....it enriched beyond comprehension the cabal players in this world.....war means money for them....it means blood and loss to we rabble.


13 posted on 06/28/2021 5:55:38 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Pining_4_TX

Makes me sick - the entire middle east save Israel is not worth one drop of American blood, never has been. I despise these warmongering neocon bastards with every fiber of my being.


14 posted on 06/28/2021 5:55:47 PM PDT by dainbramaged ( Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Buried a relative at Arlington who was there and in Iraq.

Bush, Cheney, Powell….Biden, Clinton… the lot.

http://icasualties.org/App/AfghanFatalities?country-death-contains=Afghanistan&rows=10


15 posted on 06/28/2021 5:56:03 PM PDT by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! )
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There is a saying about Africa: Africa wins again. The same can be said about Afghanistan: Afghanistan wins again. The graveyard of empires. Sooner or later, Afghanistan always wins.

Going in to pound Al Qaeda and Osama was one thing, staying to try to build Afghanistan into a modern nation state was madness and a waste of good American lives.

It’s not our circus, not our monkeys.


16 posted on 06/28/2021 5:56:58 PM PDT by hanamizu
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The sad thing is that we won decisive victories in both Afghanistan and Iraq only to have the victories squandered and thrown down the toilet by feckless politicians and generals.

Obama left Iraq to hand it over to ISIS and Iran and kept us bound and hobbled in Afghanistan so as to demoralize and help the Taliban our troops wear down our weapons and maim and demoralize our soldiers. We never should have left Iraq and we should have left Afghanistan 15 years ago.

17 posted on 06/28/2021 5:57:05 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Pining_4_TX

We haven’t won a war since world war 2. I’m not counting the Gulf war since Iraq never really stood a chance against the United States as his troops were not trained in the Western way of warfare.

Though we will never win a war when our tactics are being guided and second guessed by lawyers.

The Taliban were animals and they should have been eliminated without a second thought.

We can’t blame our troops. We have to place the blame where it belongs our politicians.


18 posted on 06/28/2021 5:58:05 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Neither syphilis nor moslems will ever be eradicated from this earth.
19 posted on 06/28/2021 5:58:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Secret Agent Man
This kind of crap is why I vowed never to be in the military.

Serving in the military was one of the best decisions I ever made (45+ years ago) - but the older I get, the more I feel played. But at the company level - best friends you’ll ever have.

20 posted on 06/28/2021 5:59:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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