AFGHANISTAN - GOING, GOING ... GONE!

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Our media will handle this 100 percent different given it was Biden surrendering. They will not point out the Biden lies. They will not point out the cost of peace. They will pretend Biden was a huge success when he surrendered to the Taliban.
     
  2. Arkanis

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    So your solution would have been to reverse Trump's policy, send back 15,000 more troops and convince 73% of Americans who wanted a full withdrawal that $100-200 billion should be reinvested in Afghanistan.

    Easy.
     
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    I know that CNN carries no weight with the Pro-Trump/Anti-Vaxx/Obama Satan/Biden Bad RW.

    ^I get it. Everybody gets it.

    Instead of paying attention to CNN, they would rather put all of their "Intellectual Energy" toward concentrating on Alex Jones' proclamations on how Bigfoot Stole the Election.

    ^I get it. Everybody gets it.

    Still, this Opinion Piece from today makes some interesting points.
    And, I would highly recommend it:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/politics/afghanistan-joe-biden-donald-trump-kabul-politics/index.html
     
  4. The Mello Guy

    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    Better than their family being handed a nicely folded flag. Especially since we were never going to accomplish anything there.
     
  5. The Mello Guy

    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    I was very specific. We can do it now or in 20 years. Better now than waste another 20 years, billions of dollars and who knows how many American lives.
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    So instead they’ll go to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, etc etc
    We can’t occupy the entire world just in case.
     
  7. The Mello Guy

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    Should have been done 15 years ago.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I was speaking of the people that “liked” your post — those have absolutely switched positions. I did not specifically mention you as I do not know your prior position.

    Democrats actually added very similar language to the national defense authorization — Republicans at the time screamed he was being blocked.

    I don’t disagree with any of this

    Unfortunately it was all signed away by trump
     
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    Did the Taliban even have to fight anyone?
     
  10. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Biden has literally crapped all over things Trump did for this nation. And now has to smile as he blames Trump for the Biden defeat.
     
  11. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Since the Taliban became their rulers, it will be years to confirm what I believe.
    The Taliban infiltrated the forces of Afghanistan with key people commanding.
    Nothing else explains why the Army Biden promised could not lose in fact lost the war.
     
  12. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If Trump could have done what the Taliban did, Trump would have his military leaders in charge at all key positions and Trump could have done what the Taliban did, whip our own military.
    Our military will be blamed for losing this war. Biden had plans to blame others for his loss.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Biden was elected to delete trump

    Biden sucks also but he is largely doing what he was elected to do on most issues.

    I tried to warn that screaming f*** your feelings to over half the nation while parading around like a cult wasn’t a good strategy.
     
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    GOP Quietly Scrubs Webpage Detailing Trump's 'Historic Peace Agreement With the Taliban'

    In the wake of the Taliban’s recent capture of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, it looks like the Republican Party is quietly scrubbing traces of the former president’s deals with the militant Islamist group.

    The GOP has pulled a webpage praising Donald Trump over his administration’s “historic peace agreement with the Taliban.” The page, which has been archived here, was first instated in the midst of last year’s presidential election.

    “Trump has continued to take the lead in peace talks as he signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which would end America’s longest war,” the now-deleted page read. It also noted that while the now ex-president has “championed peace,” Joe Biden had pushed “endless wars.” Elsewhere on the page, the GOP noted that Trump had “taken action to defeat ISIS and eliminate dangerous leaders.”

    ... https://gizmodo.com/gop-quietly-scrubs-webpage-detailing-trumps-historic-pe-1847492947

    Down the memory hole goes this Trump "achievement" :D
     
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    The Biden idiots running things basically gave a giant "**** you" you to the Afghan refugees as the dropped from thousands of feet to their deaths.

    [​IMG]

    Way to go Democrats.
     
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    It was an amazing deal. It's too bad China Joe's team screwed it all up. The women of Afghanistan will forever curse Joe Biden and the Democrats.
     
  17. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    America surrenders nothing.

    You are ignorant of the country, very evidently. Let the Taliban have it. The country is the pits long since run by incompetents.

    The Taliban just walked through the country and the Afghan Army fought them NOWHERE because it was wholly inept ...
     
  18. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You obviously did not see the footage of the airplane on the ground as it was moving to the takeoff airstrip. There were at least 50 people who had climbed onto that part of the aircraft that housed the wheels.

    Evidently, some idiots actually thought they could fly "on the plane". What you see in the footage are the bodies falling to earth that were likely hanging on to the OUTSIDE of the aircraft ...
     
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  19. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I was against our going there in the first-place.

    We had no business whatsoever interfering in the internal politics of a country. None. Zero. Zip.

    Get it ... ?
     
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    Useless Replicant babble.

    Got your rocks-off in a debate-forum, did you ... ?
     
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    The Afghan Army was a Paper Tiger.
    They chose surrender and capitulation over death.

    Self-preservation is a hell of an instinct.
     
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    Biden promised the Afghani military would win. No way he said for the Taliban to win.

     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He had discussed Biden and you lashed out attacking him.

    Why did you do that to him?
     
  24. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Most Americans do NOT understand that subtle point.

    We are out of that godforsaken country where we NEVER EVER should have entered.

    What makes the Replicants think that it is Uncle Sam's right to police-the-world ... ?
     
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    Gosh you mean geniuses like that couldn’t get the country in order? I’m shocked!
     

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