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2021-04-29 Afghanistan

ANDSF Showcases Air Force as Country Braces for US Pullout

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 There are around 350,000 soliders serving in the ranks of the Afghan cops.

Will bet the house payment that north of 25% of them are ghosts, and another 50% will run for the hills and burn their ID cards when the Taliban come back.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-04-29 08:48|| 2021-04-29 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ^You forgot 25% who are Taliban.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-29 08:49|| 2021-04-29 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Kipling and his “hustle the east “ comment :

Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
Solo from Libretto of Naulahka

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-04-29 11:40|| 2021-04-29 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The North Vietnamese ended up with several squadrons of F-5s after they overran Saigon.

Posted by Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-04-29 15:30|| 2021-04-29 15:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Firstly, I don't see any plans for a pull out. If there is , they will still take your money. Because the Afghans have by now become leeches like the Pakistanis. They won't let go of that sweet 'military aid to fight terror'... like ever.

If the people in DC would just forget Afghanistan exists for a year, the Afghans would have to switch sugar daddies and invite China.

And that's when the real fun would begin.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-29 17:17|| 2021-04-29 17:17|| Front Page Top

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