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2021-06-11 Afghanistan

Pentagon Mulls Protecting Kabul With Airstrikes: Report

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Top Man 1: "A carpet bombing of the city is sure to guarantee no will want to be seen in it."

Top Man 2: "You're sure Kabul will be safe then?"

Top Man 1: "As safe as a burnt deli in Noo Yawk."

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-11 04:31|| 2021-06-11 04:31|| Front Page Top

#2 "Dammit, how do we keep spending on this war! I'll be damned if they'll take it away from us!"

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-11 05:38|| 2021-06-11 05:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The Country Team is hunkered down in Kabul. Of course they want to be protected from reality. Drawing the big bucks as long as possible, while awaiting orders for that posting to Vienna.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-11 07:24|| 2021-06-11 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Why worry about 'democracy' in Afghanland when you threw away 'democracy' at home? The upper ranks are nothing but Condottieri.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-11 07:40|| 2021-06-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Destroy the village to save it. An old idea.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-11 08:24|| 2021-06-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 And, I'm all in with the destroying part. It's the saving I don't care about...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-11 08:27|| 2021-06-11 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Senior officials
...notably anonymous, so really they could be anyone at all...

Or nobody, since the NYT likes to fabricate, lie, and spin

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-11 08:54|| 2021-06-11 08:54|| Front Page Top

#8 The Congress will surely support an Air Campaign to support ~~Afghanistan~~ South Vietnam, you can count on it! (Like the Hmongs...)

Posted by magpie 2021-06-11 10:08|| 2021-06-11 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Followed by the Hanoi Hilton Redux! Don’t these people read even recent history?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-06-11 11:46|| 2021-06-11 11:46|| Front Page Top

#10 ...if you haven't been paying attention, they just make it up.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-11 18:15|| 2021-06-11 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Pro Tip: if you bury Kabul, it can't fall to the Taliban.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-11 18:20|| 2021-06-11 18:20|| Front Page Top

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