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2019-01-06 Home Front: WoT

Survey Reveals US Forces’ Thoughts On Current Military Policies

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Time to pull back.

18 YEARS.

If the job has not been completed in 18 years, then the job will never be completed.

So declare victory and start pulling out. God knows we have massive unmet needs at home.

Posted by Lex 2019-01-06 01:39|| 2019-01-06 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Churchill wrote these words in 1897:

To Churchill’s mind, these Talibs were, together with other local priestly figures such as the mullahs and fakirs, primarily responsible for the wretched condition of the local Afghan tribesfolk and their violent indisposition to foreign rule. Churchill viewed them “as degraded a race as any on the fringe of humanity: fierce as a tiger, but less cleanly; as dangerous, not so graceful”. He blamed the Talibs for the Afghans’ lamentable absence of civilised development, keeping them in the “grip of miserable superstition”. Churchill was particularly repelled by the Talibs’ loose moral conduct. They lived free at the expense of the people and, “more than this, they enjoy a sort of “droit du seigneur,” and no man’s wife or daughter is safe from them. Of some of their manners and morals it is impossible to write.”

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-06 02:59|| 2019-01-06 02:59|| Front Page Top

#3 As satisfying as the "glass parking lot" scenario is to contemplate, it's impossible to kill an idea. Better them that get too big for their britches get mad an example of early. From a great distance. Thinking TLAM or such...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-06 07:15|| 2019-01-06 07:15|| Front Page Top

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