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2021-08-18 Afghanistan
$1 TRILLION worth of US failures in Afghanistan: DOD report tears into ‘mind-boggling' mistakes from Bush to Biden, the US funneling money into corruption and advisors using 'American TV shows' for inspiration
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 05:09|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 The Afghanistan strategy was exposed as total lies in a report by the Washington Post in 2018. I guess everyone forgot.
Posted by Slomorong Thraiger7030 2021-08-18 05:47||   2021-08-18 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Over $7 trillion dollars (circa 2000) spent on the "War on Poverty". Same effect, so the authors of that now blame everyone and everything else for its lack of major success. They call it Critical Race Theory.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-18 06:23||   2021-08-18 06:23|| Front Page Top

#3 By most accounts, the effort was doomed from the start. DoD and OGA (Other Government Agency) and contractor budgets swelled to unheard of levels. Kicking the can down the road for 20 years simply postponed the inevitable.

"War is our business, and business is good."
~ Unk
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-18 07:38||   2021-08-18 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an offer from then-US secretary of state John Kerry to visit Afghanistan as a model for a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

“In 2013,” Netanyahu wrote, Kerry “invited me on a secret visit to Afghanistan to see, in his words, how the US established a local military force that can stand up to terror on its own.”

We'll go with the Myanmar solution.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 08:48||   2021-08-18 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Good. Only with more tanks and HEX.


But hear ye now the DOD schpiel,
written by some REMF insect.
They'd like to spend more dollars
now and loudly introspect.
Men who'd sell you the death o' yer
dreams, you ain't circumspect.
"Mr. Fancy Five Star! WTF was this?"
"Oh, we knew how it ends, in retrospect."
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 09:19||   2021-08-18 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 * HMX
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 09:20||   2021-08-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Octo
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 09:26||   2021-08-18 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by Phaque Anguish4404 2021-08-18 10:12||   2021-08-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, somebody got the money. A feature, not a bug.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 12:10||   2021-08-18 12:10|| Front Page Top

#10 No matter how badly you think the money was wasted, somebody always gets it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 12:11||   2021-08-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 a beloved media propaganda image has been smashed. Happy day...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 12:17||   2021-08-18 12:17|| Front Page Top

#12 The money all went somewhere. Afghanistan was just the funnel.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 13:36||   2021-08-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#13 More wealth extracted from the working American to be fed to the elites.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-18 14:05||   2021-08-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Our embassy was flying a pride flag. What else do you need to know?
Posted by Angstrom 2021-08-18 14:26||   2021-08-18 14:26|| Front Page Top

#15 ^In Afghanistan it's perfectly OK.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-08-18 15:14||   2021-08-18 15:14|| Front Page Top

#16 I wonder if anybody else has noted that the overwhelming majority of traditional Americans have f=been treated like nothing more than field hands on the Tax Farm Plantation that is America, an d that the Big House Masters and house "servants" are all far more well treated and privileged than s field hands. Had enough yet?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-18 18:14||   2021-08-18 18:14|| Front Page Top

#17 Ummm... yassuh and yassuh. Also...

Afghanistan, refuge of sheiks,
Of lofty Mohammedan piques,
Of men who find joys
In their... faith! And their boys?
Well, they probably welcomed the Greeks.
Posted by Spavise the Furry8602 2021-08-18 22:23||   2021-08-18 22:23|| Front Page Top

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