Posted on 12/06/2025 3:13:56 PM PST by Twotone
Many of you haven't heard what Afghanistan is like, and it shows.
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InfantryDort, one of the largest veteran accounts on X, decided to use the moment to share, in detail, what things American troops saw when they were in Afghanistan to help Americans understand, perhaps once and for all, that not all cultures, practices, and beliefs are equal.
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
It’s like any organization run from the top-down. They don’t listen to what’s going down on the floor. They’ll say they do it but it’s all lip service.
Nearly two decades of willful ignorance in Congress and the State Department.
Our own elected leaders selling us out at the first opportunity for personal gains.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Choose wisely....
Aren’t we supposed to believe that all cultures are equal? / sarc
Zackly.
I read a bunch of that ... it tracks with what I’ve heard from the Afg/Irq veterans I work with.
So sad. So terrible for our troops who had to witness these things and were under orders that they couldn’t do anything to stop them
At the start of these reports, I have said it is impossible to truly vet Afghan refugees and our troops’ time spent in Afghanistan has all the proof anyone needs to realize that.
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Sheesh! That was depressing. We certainly aren’t the first to find them ungovernable or uncivilized.
It took US Special Forces six weeks to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda at the end of 2001. That’s when we should have left that place to its own devices with the warning that next time we’d just nuke them. As for Iraq, we should’ve just bought Saddam off with the warning that if he didn’t stay bought, we’d nuke Baghdad. Instead, we spent a quarter century, a ton of money and the lives of our best people in a totally vain effort to turn those crapholes into Switzerland. It achieved nothing except making a bunch of corrupt a-holes here and there rich and importing hordes of medieval savages to this country thanks to GW Bush and the rest of them.
Smedley Butler was right, war is a racket.
We should have hung out with the Northern Alliance at the end of 2001.
At that point, Afghanistan would have been divided into fiefdoms. Pashtuns would have remained in their homelands near the Pakistan border. Instead we turned it over to Hamid Karzai, who was corrupt.
The top-dog people get mad at Trump because he wants to hear from the “little people” who actually know what’s going on for real.
I’ve patrolled with Afghans. I’ve fought alongside Afghans. I’ve lived among Afghans. I’ve killed a lot of Afghans (apparently, not enough).
Afghans, as a whole, have no business being in the United States. There may be a handful capable of living in a society like ours, but it would be rare. Everything from property, to law and order, to hygiene, to decency...they are different. Most cannot read nor write and think violence is a plausible solution to most matters.
For what it’s worth.
Were the old CIA weirdos trying to destabilize OUR country?
Someone I know fairly well carried a 240 through some of the finer neighborhoods there. Used it, of course.
I do not think he would disagree with you.
Here's a personal story illustrating that:
On one one of my Afghanistan gigs, one of my daily duties was to run an armed escort, twice a day, to get the minibuses carrying workers on and off the base I was stationed at.
One morning my boss called and asked me if I wouldn't mind showing a few Afghan Army guys how to do it. I said, "Sure," and at around 6am I drove up to the staging area to pick them up. As they walked towards my truck I noticed that one of them looked really weird - he was wearing eyeliner and had a stupid grin on his face. They got into the truck and Mr. Eyeliner took the front passenger seat.
As I started running the routine down to the one Afghani who spoke some English, I noticed that Mr. Eyeliner was smiling at me, and glancing down at my crotch. I thought, WTF is this? Here I was, trying to focus on not getting blown up out there in "Indian Country," and Mr. Eyeliner, oblivious to that real possibility, was simply focused on getting some homo action. At 6AM. OK!
Right then I realized that we had no business trying to teach Afghanis anything.
About a week later, on another base, an Afghan Army member turned his rifle on Americans and killed several of them. When we got word we instantly geared up, went to the AA barracks and stripped all these clowns of their weapons.
There's nothing "upstairs" with these people. They can't possibly do well in a civilized nation.
Do they have some rationale where they can disconnect their homosexuality from the Koran’s dictates? Or are the Afghans Muslim like the “Christians” here who never crack a Bible but watch Joel Osteen’s show.
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