Posted on 08/20/2021 9:33:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A couple of months of daily B-52 raids until the rubble was bouncing was the only commitment we should have made in that forsaken land.
No one has ever tamed Afghanistan.
We should not have even tried.
We fought in Afghanistan because GW Bush was stupid enough to believe he could supplant a committed death cult with a Jeffersonian republic.
And everyone around him was similarly stupid.
BOOM
Mariner for the win.
Nobody doubted who attacked us. Almost immediately, ordinary people were talking about Osama bin Laden and his war against the West.
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It’s Mohammed’s war on the rest of humanity and it has been going on since 622 AD.
It will not end until there is no more Islam.
DAMN SICKENING.
Amen
Exactly.
“ Butcher and Bolt”
Democrats Lost Sight of Why We Went to War in Afghanistan: Until another 9-11 happens.
Sometime around 2019 we had the first group of U.S. military personnel sent to Afghanistan who weren't even alive on 9/11.
That just goes to show how ludicrous the whole thing was.
By the time that retarded baboon George W. Bush left office, the military campaign in Afghanistan had already lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in World Wars I and II combined.
The whole damned middle east isn’t worth 20 dead SEALs. Or even one.
We fought the taleban back within about 8 weeks. We won that war, but once again lost the peace. All this nation-building bullshiite wasn’t worth a penny from us nor a minute of our time.
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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RE: We won that war, but once again lost the peace.
OK, the solution then is to bomb their place to hell and just leave, right?
But they, we did not get Osama Bin Ladin then ( which was out stated goal ). It took another 10 years to kill him and it was not even done in Afghanistan.
I think we lost sight of the mission.
We went into Afghanistan because the Taliban gave safe haven to Bin Laden. And they had terrorist training camps in that country.
Somehow the mission evolved and changed and that’s where we all wonder why we were there for 20 years.
OK, the solution then is to bomb their place to hell and just leave, right?
***NO. Did you even READ that simple blurb from my homepage?
But they, we did not get Osama Bin Ladin then ( which was out stated goal ).
***We routed the taleban. That was our stated goal. Bin Laden went into hiding rather than openly arranging the murders of Americans. More of a win than a loss.
It took another 10 years to kill him and it was not even done in Afghanistan.
***Yeah huh, irrelevant.
It was fortuitous that we had that base to project power, maintain air superiority, gather intelligence, and rapidly deploy forces when needed. Afghanistan had become peaceful and it was stupid to give up such an important base, given the geopolitical changes since 9/11 (including the Russian takeover of Crimea and Chinese industrial dominance).
We instantly went from projecting unequaled power to hostage because a dementia-ridden old man was installed into office, who was on a mission to undo everything his predecessor did for the misguided goal of restoring Obama's legacy.
-PJ
“believe he could supplant a committed death cult with a Jeffersonian republic.”
Nope
We went there in 2001, not 2015.
You’re describing Operation Freedom Sentinel (2015 -) , not OEF (2001 - 2014). Two separate missions, two separate objectives.
OEF was Bush. OFS is Deep State.
Guess you need to read the BlogPimp’s blog. Or at least the Wikipedia on OEF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom
Educate yourself man!
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