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2020-01-04 Afghanistan

Nearly 7,400 Afghan Civilians Killed, Wounded Last Year: MoI

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The entire war is founded on lies. The US government and military (cry) have been lying about this war for 18 years now. Time to get out. Stop the killing of *everyone*. Goat herder or not.

All of Afghanistan isn't worth a single American soldier's life.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-04 02:42|| 2020-01-04 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Not even poppy growers, Herb?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-04 03:24|| 2020-01-04 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 He's in a Macro, G. Cue the herb handwringing

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-04 04:43|| 2020-01-04 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 There was a big hole in NYC that sort of physically contradicted your charge of 'lies' Herb. The perps and the people who protected them were based in Afghanistan. The lie was 'nation building' instead of the classic search and destroy mission which should have included the Taliban's own sponsors in Pakistan.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-04 07:15|| 2020-01-04 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I partly agree with Herb Macro. The entire war was not founded on lies, but a lot of lying has gone on - it's what politicians do to improve/defend their position, and top military officers are also politicians. And indeed, all of Afghanistan isn't worth a single American soldier's life. But destroying threats to Americans is why soldiers exist, and some of those threats are in A'stan - gotta get 'em where you can.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-01-04 09:32|| 2020-01-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Iran is the major threat. Pakistan is a major nuisance. Afghanistan is not our concern.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-04 09:56|| 2020-01-04 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 If I read history correctly, most wars don't have clean resolutions like WWII. Generally nobody wins overwhelmingly, and another war starts up a generation or two later. Last time I checked, the USA not only isn't omnipotent, our military and civilian leaders tend to take their eyes off the ball a lot.

Afghanistan was never a good candidate for nation-building. It was going to be an "exterminate them all" or a "go back and do it all again 30 years later." I'm not going for option A. That leaves option B: my grandson may have to go to war there one day. I'm not looking forward to that, but that's life in a fallen world.

Posted by James 2020-01-04 13:20|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2020-01-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

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