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Trump Orders Big Troop Reduction in Afghanistan (Total pullout in months)
The Wall Street Journal ^
| December 20, 2018
| Gordon Lubold and Jessica Donati
Posted on 12/20/2018 5:10:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
There will always be ‘tribes’....many violent...operating in Afganistan wanting to control the nations peoples. It was that all along regardless of what governance was in Kabul...and that’s not going to change.
Probably about the best that can be expected is preventing the terrorist training grounds from operating. And they can be blown up from above without troops being on the ground.
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:37:34 PM PST
by
caww
To: Windflier
Lindsey still has residuals of McCain's war-mongering etc. stuck on his skin.....he was schooled far too long by that traitor......
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:46:06 PM PST
by
caww
To: elpadre
We won’t know what is actually happening ......there’s a lot of dis-information these days and that with purpose. Could be a realignment of troops, could be some coming home and others being sent out....WE don’t know.
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:49:44 PM PST
by
caww
To: Windflier
BTW Putin announced this week, at his yearly pres conference about the US withdrawal, that he had not seen evidence yet of troops leaving Syria.
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:51:24 PM PST
by
caww
To: DoughtyOne
I remain very skeptical.
If is so important, why are we the only ones fighting and dying on a continent that has first world countries between us and them? Not to mention the geographical distance. 911 would never have happened if we were vetting the people coming into our country.
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posted on
12/20/2018 10:07:20 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: caww
BTW Putin announced this week, at his yearly pres conference about the US withdrawal, that he had not seen evidence yet of troops leaving Syria. Well, okay. If he says so.
I take nothing from that, due to the source.
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posted on
12/20/2018 10:23:52 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: caww
Lindsey still has residuals of McCain's war-mongering etc. stuck on his skin. Yep.
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posted on
12/20/2018 10:24:58 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: caww
The will of the people living there to return Aphganistan to the modern age just are not sufficient to do the work of rebuilding their nation. Very true. They're extraordinarily resistant to western influences. Theirs is a backwards, brutish culture, and they intend to keep it that way.
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posted on
12/20/2018 10:31:04 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Windflier
Well of course it's just Putin saying that....leaders tend to say what they want their audience to hear and he's no different than the rest as I see it. Some are just more deceptive than others.
Frankly there's not a lot being ‘said’ in the political climate today that should be taken as is....it's too volatile and too unsettled on the world stage.
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posted on
12/21/2018 1:03:44 AM PST
by
caww
To: Windflier
......”They’re extraordinarily resistant to western influences. Theirs is a backwards, brutish culture, and they intend to keep it that way”........
You know it’s almost impossible when the men see sex with a woman as dirty and prefer little boys. And their wifes are beaten and abused til they hate their husbands....it’s a terrible way to live.
I recall one of our female soldiers stationed there who said their ability to understand ‘life’ in general is so tainted by the demands of Islam and their clerics unyielding control of their minds that to show another way of viewing life IS impossible in their setting.
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posted on
12/21/2018 1:20:37 AM PST
by
caww
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/21/2018 2:16:07 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: CondorFlight
The Deep State gets a little shallower.
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posted on
12/21/2018 2:38:17 AM PST
by
Theophilus
(Make America Grateful Again)
To: laplata
Id say ~90% of those who oppose this pull out are Deep State in one way or another. Fabian health of the state types.
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posted on
12/21/2018 2:40:57 AM PST
by
Theophilus
(Make America Grateful Again)
To: Zhang Fei
Taliban has no incentive to negotiate any kind of deal.The only kind of "deal" you can ever make with that kind of evil is utter annihilation.
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posted on
12/21/2018 2:46:58 AM PST
by
Theophilus
(Make America Grateful Again)
To: Williams
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Watch Pakistan go to war with the Taliban as soon as the US leaves.
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posted on
12/21/2018 6:20:36 AM PST
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Candor7
Watch Pakistan go to war with the Taliban as soon as the US leaves.
Pakistan is the Taliban...
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posted on
12/21/2018 6:21:49 AM PST
by
AFret.
To: AFret.
That’s right. The Tali control northern Pakistan.
Like I said, Pakistan.gov will go to war with the Taliban to run them out.
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posted on
12/21/2018 6:24:20 AM PST
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Finally! Trump strikes again. Damn, how long we’ve been there? 17+ years?
To: Theophilus
That’s right. They’ve permeated everything.
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posted on
12/21/2018 7:45:56 AM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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