They have already quit
The Afghan Army is already starting to surrender to the Taliban. We have been gone one day and they quit.
We should have used neutron bombs on all of them. I never trusted them and when I had to work with them I kept my eye on them, in fact I had 2 guys detailed to stay behind them and make sure they didn't shoot me in the back. I think they knew it too and didn't mess with me and my guys.
Well I hope they are happy. I figure it will only be a matter of time before ISIS moves in and they start purging all the women and girls who went to school and all the men who supported the Freedom.
After spending about 2.5 years there fighting and loosing a bunch of old friends I got 2 words for them; F*^k them.
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jimdeere: 31150057491739/comments/31150104771227
Love him or hate him, he killed a lot of terrorists
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Name one.
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From the article, "We are one, why are you killing your brothers" All over the earth of recent, people are rioting and killing. Often on my trips to Virginia when crossing the Mason Dixon Line on I81 it reminds me "Brother against Brother" We never learn.---------Ray
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Butchdog2: 31150057491739/comments/31150125408795
WWII was a declared war not a police action. Force showed the enemies what was what.
And yes it was a terible thing to nuke the 2 Japanese cities.
My dad served in the European theater in WWII. Never talked about what he had to do nor what he saw but a few months before he passed at the age of 95, today would have been his 98th birthday, with tears in his eyes said "we blew the hell out everything in sight from England to Italy". Adds to the saying war is hell.
Dad was a Medic. He passed away in 2011. On July 2, he would have been 98. I am sure you miss him terribly like I miss my Dad. The old Vets will soon be all gone-------------Ray
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Name one, Mr P? Muhammed. There was also an Achmed. Actually, make that 945 Muhammeds and 649 Achmeds, more or less.
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mac10: 31150057491739/comments/31150084985371
its on creepy joes sholders now
Not hardly.
It was an ill-conceived and rushed invasion with politically connected groups being flown out of the danger zone (Bin Laden's family? Perhaps Bin Laden himself?)
It ignored the lessons of history, and eliminated any possibility of working with the Taliban to rid them of terrorists in their midst. This may not have been possible, but all overtures from the then government of Afghanistan were ignored in our blood lust to bring Al Qaeda 'To Justice'.
There was one politician who suggested an old archaic method of getting Bin Laden. In our Constitution, it is stated as 'Letters of Marque'. We now call it putting a bounty on his head. We got Bin Laden because we put a large bounty on his head.
Now we have almost 1/4 million dead, at least 70,000 of which were Afghan civilians. We have the Taliban coming back into power, something that was inevitable because we refused to confront Pakistan, and for political reasons.
This ending was predictable (and was predicted) almost 20 years ago when Bush the lessor half-assed the US into this historical quagmire.
This is not on Biden's shoulders at all. He did the right thing. He did what Trump promised, and was working towards. This is on the shoulders of GW Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and every military flag officer who agreed to this while knowing that it was the wrong thing to do.
Biden does very little that is correct and good for America. Getting us the hell out of Afghanistan is correct and is good for America. We now need to do everything we can to protect those that assisted us, and get them out of the country and re-located here in the US as soon as is possible.
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A few well placed CIA spooks very often save many GI lives.
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I would love to know why you disagree, whoever you may be. We are all adults here. I can take criticism and (for that 1 in a 1000 event), even correction.
Don
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Rocky Raab: 31150057491739/comments/31150119638427
Name one, Mr P? Muhammed. There was also an Achmed. Actually, make that 945 Muhammeds and 649 Achmeds, more or less.
And GWB put hand to throat? Pulled a trigger? I think not. He hadn't the balls.
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All I have to say is that Afghanistan will never be a democracy..........they don't wan't it.........they are a THEOCRACY..........and religious zealots cannot be defeated totally. They martyr themselves and their children replace them. They are indoctrinated into jihad. Those moderates that exist in small numbers.............have no way to stop the Taliban or Al Quaeda or Daesh........whatever you want to call them.
The opinions stated above is why there will never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians..........once religion is injected into the fight it is un-winnable.
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jimdeere: 31150057491739/comments/31150104771227
Love him or hate him, he killed a lot of terrorists
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While precise numbers are not fully agreed upon, it is estimated that there have been upwards of 400,000 civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan since the two invasions by the US.
It is a fact that US forces were not the direct cause of the vast majority of these deaths, but the disruption of those two governments unleashed killings, both targeted and collateral, that resulted in these numbers.
Yes, a lot of terrorists were killed. These two invasions, however, destabilized the region to the point that the Taliban became resistance fighters which killed many, and ISIS was able to wreak havoc in multiple countries, doing unspeakable things to any who did not fit their mold.
In truth, it is difficult to access how many terrorists were actually killed by the Bush administration. Difficult to consider the resistance in Iraq as terrorists, though they adopted terrorist tactics by necessity in the this asymmetrical conflict. The most significant terrorist death counts, however, were achieved against ISIS in the last months of the Obama administration and the first years of the Trump administration where ISIS fighters were slaughtered (rightfully) in the 10s of thousands.
The Taliban, who terrorized their own citizenry and harbored terrorists in country are more easily identified as terrorists, and yes, many were killed during the Bush administration. The political decision, however, to allow them safe harbor in Pakistan was made during the Bush administration, a decision perhaps necessary, but one that allowed for the continuation of the war for 2 decades and 100,000+ civilian deaths.
Bush implemented actions that created many more terrorists than were killed during his administration. Subsequent administrations were forced to attempt to clean up the mess, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice created.
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Too Bad Gen Miller had to be the guy to oversee that. I have worked for him several times and he is a good soldier and officer.
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In that case, no President has ever done anything militarily. You can't even say that Washington defeated the British under your requirement that he personally slit throats in order to get credit. You know perfectly well that your comment there was a non sequitor. My "Muhammed and Achmed" post was humorous to show that. We'll let it pass.
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