You seem okay with the thought that 71,000 Afghan civilians have died. How will their families get justice?
Presumably, most of them had nothing to do with 9/11.
Kabul Fell Yesterday, Where Is The President
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You seem okay with the thought that 71,000 Afghan civilians have died. How will their families get justice?
Presumably, most of them had nothing to do with 9/11.
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We have bigger fish to fry, which is unfortunate for the people of Afghanistan. Pakistan was harboring the Taliban, wouldn't cooperate with us, and we couldn't afford to invade them just to stamp out the Taliban, not with Russia and China in the world.The sad thing is he doesn't seem to realize that we really did need to leave Afghanistan (Never should have been there near as long as we were actually)...
Almost like a re-play of 50 or so years ago...Only in the desert rather than the jungle
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gee - if only there was an organization of the world's nations that could manage stuff like thisAlmost like a re-play of 50 or so years ago...Only in the desert rather than the jungle
What a great idea!....I wonder why no-one has thought of that before?
ok doser
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The price we pay for being the global policeman
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... is because Afghan women and children are being raped and murdered by moosie savages.
Do you think innocent, peace-loving, honest Afghanis would rather have US troops enforcing freedom and security in Afghanistan or Muslim radicals enforcing the peace?
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Probably neither.
I pray for Christians in Afghanistan. I have no doubt they will be seriously oppressed or murdered by radical Muslim barbarians after the US has left.
Idolater
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President Trump wisely tried to get all our allies to pitch in so that the price might be lower.
Consider Taiwan. If China ever invaded, we'd have to drop everything and come to Taiwan's assistance. Could you imagine being a fly in the room where the president or joint chiefs or whoever is having to justify why we have valuable assets, troops, materiel, tied up in Afghanistan (or even Pakistan if we had really gone after the Taliban, Pakistan's sovereignty be damned), while we need to defend one of our true allies in Taiwan? And against China?Almost like a re-play of 50 or so years ago...Only in the desert rather than the jungle
Fact check: Sen. John Cornyn falsely claims there are '30,000' US troops in Taiwan
President Joe Biden's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has been widely criticized across the political spectrum, with a focus on the administration's miscalculation of the speed with which the Taliban would take over and its failure to act faster to extract US personnel and thousands of...
And this does not look like good news to me:
Chinese and Russian militaries link up, but analysts say both sides have differing objectives | CNN
Jets screamed across the sky and cannons boomed in northern China on Friday, as 10,000 People’s Liberation Army and Russian troops gave a live-fire finale to a week of military exercises touted by both countries as a new high in bilateral military relations.
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A weak leader invites agressionPresident Trump wisely tried to get all our allies to pitch in so that the price might be lower.
Consider Taiwan. If China ever invaded, we'd have to drop everything and come to Taiwan's assistance. Could you imagine being a fly in the room where the president or joint chiefs or whoever is having to justify why we have valuable assets, troops, materiel, tied up in Afghanistan (or even Pakistan if we had really gone after the Taliban, Pakistan's sovereignty be damned), while we need to defend one of our true allies in Taiwan? And against China?
Maybe we've already begun preparing.Fact check: Sen. John Cornyn falsely claims there are '30,000' US troops in Taiwan
President Joe Biden's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has been widely criticized across the political spectrum, with a focus on the administration's miscalculation of the speed with which the Taliban would take over and its failure to act faster to extract US personnel and thousands of...edition.cnn.com
And this does not look like good news to me:
Chinese and Russian militaries link up, but analysts say both sides have differing objectives | CNN
Jets screamed across the sky and cannons boomed in northern China on Friday, as 10,000 People’s Liberation Army and Russian troops gave a live-fire finale to a week of military exercises touted by both countries as a new high in bilateral military relations.edition.cnn.com
I kept comparing this to Vietnam but I'm wrong....This is way worse.
You really ought to try another gig.
"The drumbeat of warnings over the summer raise questions about why Biden administration officials, and military planners in Afghanistan, seemed ill-prepared to deal with the Taliban’s final push into Kabul, including a failure to ensure security at the main airport and rushing thousands more troops back to the country to protect the United States’ final exit."
Intelligence warned of Afghan military collapse, despite Biden’s assurances
Nope, I got this. The way this works is: Troops get pulled out and Kabul falls--no matter who is president. So there.
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Afghanistan war under Bush: 7 years, 3 months
Afghanistan war under Obama/Biden: 8 years, 7 months
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