Posted on 08/14/2021 5:33:33 PM PDT by Fido969
NOT Saigon, a great deal more like the Germans’ defeat at Stalingrad.
You brought up the subject.
I’d wager you will be able to measure the “days” in double digit hours or less.
I have hopefully thought that taliban might hold back to allow an orderly retreat but forgot there is no order to the taliban. It is just an assembly of rogue factions each with a similar but not necessarily the same agenda. There is no controlling that kind of a well armed mob. The factions do what they want to do.
and now this to my point. More like minutes instead of hours.
the taliwhackers are entering Kabul now.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3985096/posts
I’d now say there is a competitive run for spoils. Had not thought of that before. Just can’t think like a taliwhacker.
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82nd is headed to Kabul. That’s no secret. I just have a sick sick feeling. America military leadership at the command level from CIC to the woke perfume princes are playing with fire. The intelligence agencies are a complete disgrace as well as the State Department. Don’t worry, Orange karen-Jenny spokes bint will spin it just right.
Containers of sweet syrupy foodstuff?
Look at the Navy. Can’t drive their ships without hitting something. Pray we don’t have a midair collusion over Kabul with two transport aircraft.
‘Twas a cliche.
Carry on.
The situation is returning to normal Afghanistan very quickly. We should have left 18 years ago.
Our contractors have big houses now. Prosperity for them.
We’d still have what we need in the country if we had employed my emBASEeee strategee. From my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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It is sad to say, but we are going to have to depend on Russian and Chinese media to find out what is really happening...
The training failed because they were never going to see themselves as anything other than a bunch of individuals from different tribes. They were never all Afghanis and never will be.
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