Posted on 08/27/2021 5:26:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
1. Hunt down the Islamic elements in Afghanistan that were involved in the 9/11 attacks and destroy them.
2. Impose an immediate trade embargo on that country — and then extend it to any other country that conducted business with them.
3. Withdraw U.S. recognition of Afghanistan as a nation — permanently. Establish a protocol where individual parts of the country could apply for recognition independently — under very specific conditions we establish. Each “nation” we recognize could be as large as a former Afghan province or as small as a village.
Item #3 is important because it has to include a harsh set of blunt expectations on our part. The goal would be to divide Afghanistan into a large number of independent, but highly dysfunctional, states. And our expectations have to be made clear up front: Each state has to be small enough that it can be destroyed beyond repair in a 48-hour military strike, if necessary.
If your military personnel are getting blown up at the gate of the airport while your last military aircraft are taking off with pajama-clad refugees hanging off the landing gear, you’ve lost the war — no matter how much you don’t want to admit it.
Sorry — that’s THREE, not two!
Sounds more like your describing Dien Bien Phu to me, there wasn’t any high ground around the Alamo.
Here in Kabul we have an airport surrounded by ridges and hills at least 1800 t0 2000 meters, mortars, artillery, snipers etcetera can look right down their throats.
Now our soldiers and Marines have a feel for how the French felt on May 7th 1954!
Noem;, SERIOUSLY?
The Governor who basically said “I only lied to my constituents to please my CORPORATE MASTERS”!
At least you have an alternative in mind. On the other hand, assuming the US could have overcome huge international pushback, there’d be no guarantee that we wouldn’t have been involved for twenty years under your scenario.
The smaller states you describe would have been easy for the Taliban to grab one by one. And the only way to have prevented it would’ve been through continued American military intervention.
It’s easy to criticize, and there’s a lot that deserves critique, but I’m afraid that once 9/11 happened you were either going to sit back and do nothing or get involved in some sort of invasion that might have long-term negative consequences.
Not really. One of the preconditions for recognition would be that the “state” would have to demonstrate that it had a military force capable of protecting itself with nothing more than U.S. equipment.
And that would magically be achieved how?
If none of them achieved it, then who cares?
3 small simple questions I have been asking for some time now
1. What Do You Want?
2. How Do You Get It?
(most importantly)
3. Then What Happens?
What happens when Afghanistan becomes Disneyland for Islamic Terror groups? Because as we speak 2 things are happening. 1. Sites are being scouted for training camps, using lessons learned from the last time. 2. Islamic Terror groups world wide are sending or getting ready to send people there for training.
I keep pointing this out because apparently some people think, since we’ve left the war is over.
“Our military priority needs to be to defend the US border from foreign invaders.
As long as we fail to do that, all foreign policy is a sick joke.”
Yes?
Islamic terrorism is the least of our worries.
We’re about to lose our republic.
If they want to come here and go all jihadi, I encourage them.
We’ll just shoot the few that make it.
ISIS-K is just a splinter faction of the Taliban.
Has Pat Buchanan gone over to the dark side or has he always been there?
“We’re about to lose our republic.”
We Are? Yes we are going through a (really) rough patch, one of the roughest in our history. Thing is our form of government is self-correcting. You can see it starting to happen now.
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