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| Why Are People Who Should Know Better Beginning to Agitate for a Return to Afghanistan? |
| 2022-08-08 |
| [Red State] I don’t think anyone can accuse me of being a simp for Joe Biden. That said, sometimes the right things are done, and we need to give him credit. One of those things is following through on President Trump’s decision to leave Afghanistan. Even though Biden’s execution of our withdrawal from Afghanistan was an utter dog’s breakfast of failure on every level and demonstrated that the Biden White House, his woke Defense Department, and the "white rage" cult commanding our military forces were not up to any task of any significance (Deputy Secretary of State Claims That the ’Process Worked’ for the Afghanistan Mission and Everything You Know Is Wrong), the decision was 20 years overdue. By the time we left Afghanistan, we had been at war there longer than some of the soldiers fighting the war had been alive. So why were we there in the first place? Because the plot to attack America on September 11, 2001, was hatched there by al Qaeda forces in training camps protected by the government. The mission of destroying those camps and removing the government that had protected them was articulated by President Bush in October 2001. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Rudyard Kipling wrote the outsider poetry of that hard part of the world: "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains. Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains. And go to your g-d like a soldier." |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2022-08-08 16:04 |
| #6 Massive devastation, no excuses, and the CREDIBLE promise to do it again and again if another attack is launched from your territory. And a note to Pakistan that we will include the ISI Headquarters and Senior ISI Leaders homes the next time. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-08-08 14:06 |
| #5 By the way: Anybody got a list of officers who were fired, demoted, or otherwise penalized as a consequence of that brilliant withdrawal? |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-08-08 14:03 |
| #4 It is necessary to drive out of your garage to get to work. Performing that activity with your garage door shut is not commendable. Joe and his minions are boneheads. There is no good case for occupying Afghanistan again. Returning to crack a few heads, to blow up a terrorist base or to repatriate some friends is rational. I would listen to the pitch skeptically, though, if the sell is coming from someone who was previously pimping pumping money and weapons into Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-08-08 12:52 |
| #3 No and 'Hell No'! Afghanistan is a Symptom of a deeper malady. If we 'Occupy Afghanistan' the contagion will just relocate to some other hellhole and fester there. Punitive Raids may be the only palliative action -- go in, break things and educate at least a generation that supporting evil is a Bad Ideaâ„¢. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-08 11:05 |
| #2 Hey DC SWAMP'ers, how about FIXING & PROTECTING AMERICA 1st, before spending another dime eleswhere? Or does that take $$$$$ out of the wrong pockets in DC? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-08 07:34 |
| #1 sometimes the right things are done, and we need to give him credit No. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-08 04:38 |