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2021-08-11 Home Front: Politix
‘It was preordained': State Department blames Trump for US withdrawal from Afghanistan
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-11 08:41|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 The gaffs don't want us, just our money. The ultimate advance in warfare will be to make sure the warred upon don't see a dime from the events going on around them.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-11 09:56||   2021-08-11 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 

Seem to remember the Socialcrats having a fit as Trump held to his campaign promise and started drawing down troop, while still holding the Islamic Radicals there in check.


Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-11 10:06||   2021-08-11 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 This was pre-ordained from the moment we put boots on the ground in Afghanistan.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-11 10:39||   2021-08-11 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Sec. DOD Austin. "We just couldn't make those n*gger haters understand..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-11 10:57||   2021-08-11 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny that the 4 years of Trump were probably the most stable Middle East in 40 years and it is his fault. I guess it is if the goal is more instability.
Posted by Airandee 2021-08-11 11:06||   2021-08-11 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 To bad Trump couldn't have pulled us out earlier so it was irreversible by the time someone else took office.
Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-11 19:13||   2021-08-11 19:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The Right is the only threat the Left can ever think about.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-11 21:37||   2021-08-11 21:37|| Front Page Top

#8 President Trump tried, ruprecht. The generals slow-walked it, giggling among themselves about how much smarter they were than OrangeManBad...only to finally get hit with a direct order with a hard deadline, followed by a new president who gave the same order with a slightly delayed deadline.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-11 21:59||   2021-08-11 21:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Trailing… Why did the generals care?
Posted by Big Feet 2021-08-11 22:04||   2021-08-11 22:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Three words Eisenhower warned us about: Military Industrial Complex.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-11 22:27||   2021-08-11 22:27|| Front Page Top

#11  Why did the generals care?

I don’t understand the question, Big Feet.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-11 23:23||   2021-08-11 23:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Why did the generals care?

Trump was the ultimate outsider. Not a member of The Club. And in doing what needed to be done, he was blundering about, breaking rice bowls, and interfering with long-running... let's call them "enterprises". Lucrative enterprises.
Posted by SteveS 2021-08-11 23:37||   2021-08-11 23:37|| Front Page Top

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