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| US May Add Troops to Afghanistan Ahead of Withdrawal: Pentagon |
| 2021-04-18 |
[ToloNews] The US will likely increase the presence of its troops in Afghanistan temporarily over the coming weeks and months to fulfill President Joe The Big GuyBiden  ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....’s order to safely withdraw all forces from the country by Sept. 11, the Pentagon said Friday. Pentagon chief front man John Kirby did not provide details on this but said military leaders are still working out the details are still being worked out. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 ...not to be confused with the Academic Technological Complex that Eisenhower warned about in the immediately following paragraph. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-04-18 17:45 |
| #7 ^Military-Industrial-Complex |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-18 16:07 |
| #6 I’m guessing that SLOC is sea lanes of communication rather than source lines of code or standby letter of credit. Is MIC made in China, Varmint the Infinitesmal5301? The Free Dictionary has 137 meanings for the acronym, including moron in charge, which strikes me as the other likely prospect... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-18 15:05 |
| #5 Marching out backwards.... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-04-18 14:47 |
| #4 A mild dissent: you want your income, or assets, or retirement portfolio to be sound? If those are in America and denominated in $, then you damn well want the US economy and US-based rules to dominate, with the $ as the reserve currency. And those things -- that global economic system - depends crucially on the USN and the USAF. If the SLOCs aren't open, and China's not restrained, then no more stability. No stability, and you can expect your $-denominated assets to halve in value in short order. So yeah, the MIC in this country is a small price to pay for some $50 trillion+ in Americans' personal wealth that's on the line. A good bargain for us. Probably for the world as well - definitely for all the Asian nations and for Mexico. So Praise the Lord, and pass the |
| Posted by: Varmint the Infinitesmal5301 2021-04-18 13:49 |
| #3 If you aren’t fighting evildoers somewhere everyday, a whole lot of defense contractors lose the cash flow and overhead needed to pay the bribes and cushy consultancy costs of the surreptitious DoD flag officer retirement plans. Status Quo across the Potomac has become another facet of the swamp. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-04-18 12:33 |
| #2 /\ Political narratives and Kabuki dancing be damned! The start, conduct, and finish of these conflicts is not decided in the oval office or the congress. Least of all the congress. BTW, mine is not an anecdotal comment or view of the minority. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-18 10:42 |
| #1 Yet again, the Pentagon refuses to follow the orders of a sitting President. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2021-04-18 09:53 |