Posted on 02/19/2021 4:39:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Read your history of this place.
The Brits lost.
The Rooskies lost.
Winning is not staying in AFG.
I have a former Marine buddy. (Present buddy. Former Marine.) He spent several tours there before being wounded. Without anger or rancor his opinion is that Afghanistan is a waste of time, blood and treasure. He said, We trained them and armed the (peasants) to defend themselves from the Jihadists who make them slaves to work the land and cannon fodder for the Jihad. He said he watched the men come out from their huts without their guns and literally bow to the Jihadists. They then resumed their role as slaves to work the land to feed the Jihadists and raise the drugs that the Jihadists sell to support their war.
I have no reason to disbelieve what he said. What then, do we gain by remaining in a place where we must enrich equally evil regimes so that we can equip our troops? Trump was right to pull us out. It was the Deep State and the financial interests who want this Endless War to continue.
Incidentally, has the Biden regime started droning people all over the world again? If they have, has anyone tried to explain it to the senile pedophile in the White House? Does he care? Can he remember his name?
Yeah, let’s get the heck out of there.
If we had gone in to totally devastate the Taliban and hunt Bin Laden like a mad dog the campaign would have been over in a month. But the military industrial complex got us stuck there. If the Afghan people don’t want the Taliban then let them fight for their own country. My son fought there in 2002 and I had visions of a Vietnam redux. Now here we are. It’s time to pull up stakes and leave. If it becomes a hotbed of terrorism then hit them with tactical nukes or get off the pot. And with these jabonies in charge,fuggetaboutit.
True! Unless someone lives off the government's military teat. Then it means having to learn how to code. Or build solar panels or wind farms.
Depends. Does “intentionally planning to lose” count as prepared to lose?
How does one win in Afghanistan?
It’s not really a country, but a tribal shithole.
Salt the poppy fields, and strip mine the mountains.
2 generations is more than should be there. Religious wars are dumb to get into, just turf stuff. Now if they were building nukes that is different.
pat buchanan is a moron.
we are not the worlds policeman
Did Pat Buchanan steal Joe’s dementia the way we are stealing Syria’s oil, and bragging about selling it?
Colin Powell and the state department idiots decided to do nation building in the worst place on the planet with a history of destroying armies. We wanted to get Bin Laden and did, we wanted to punish the Taliban and did and to destroy Al-quiada and did so. We then should have got out of that crap hole. If they want to live like 7th century throwbacks more power to them. Biden is so stupid he will overrule the peace deal and keep us there to bleed and never to win.
We could have just let the Mossad take care of Bin Ladin.
“He said he watched the men come out from their huts without their guns and literally bow to the Jihadists. They then resumed their role as slaves to work the land to feed the Jihadists and raise the drugs that the Jihadists sell to support their war.”
Pretty much the same thing I saw, also observe the same in other countries. A lot of people miss understand Jihad. Jihad has a broad meaning in Islam.
There are two types of Jihadist in Islam. The warrior and the supporters.
In Islam when a person is on a Jihad, it is the duty of others that are true Islam believers to support this person on a Jihad. When people (Islam believers) do not support the warrior Jihadist it is a sin against Islam.
Until the Islam leaders condemn the Jihad purpose you will not see an end to those wars. The Islam leaders use Jihad as a source of power.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
If we would have ignored Afghanistan and spent our resources taking out the Wahabbis and House of Saud in Saudi Arabia the world would be a better place today.
Afghanistan is actually is a beautiful country with great weather. Kabul reminds me of Denver. Some beautiful women there too with the mixing bowl aspect from being at a historical crossroad.
Funny thing, the Greeks settled in the southwest. I think it was around Helmand province. Now this area is a hot mess of taliban support. Rather ironic as Greece was the cradle of western civilization. Islam is like the Borgs. You cannot live with them, cannot convert them...
I’ve seen older pictures of Iran and Afghanistan.
Some pretty women if they aren’t wearing blankets.
As long as the poppy continues to thrive there no one is willing to stop the flow of that sweet, sweet money greasing so many palms.
“Consider. If the 2,500 American troops remaining in Afghanistan are pulled out, the entire 10,000-troop NATO contingent departs“
Why would that be? Because they do nothing of value and are just window dressing? A tacit admission.
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