Article

2020-11-18 Home Front: Politix

Republicans Slam Trump’s Plan to Reduce Troops in Afghanistan

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 This should be the epitaph of the GOP. Old? Without a doubt, but Grand no longer.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-11-18 00:39|| 2020-11-18 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Quick show of hands: how many of you would send your own son or grandson to fight and die in that heroin-seller's 7th century shithole?

For the one or two who raised your hands: To what end? Can you state that end - any goal or objective - with any clarity or coherence?

Can you justify spending another trillion and another two decades there (as opposed to pounding the sh#t out of them from offshore whenever they need & deserve to be pounded)?

Posted by Thrique Wittlesbach5573 2020-11-18 00:44|| 2020-11-18 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 'Endless Wars' appears to have a republican following.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 05:03|| 2020-11-18 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "We’re playing a limited, limited but important role in defending American national security and American interests against terrorists,"

Have another mint julep, Mitch. This blather is as bad as the Dem "Russian collusion" claptrap, only much older and moldy.

Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 06:18|| 2020-11-18 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 "We’re playing a limited, limited but important role in defending American national security and American interests against terrorists,"

ah, Charlie is already in the wire - Portland, Seattle, et al

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-18 06:39|| 2020-11-18 06:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Send hundreds of 000s of our troops to battle non-existent threats abroad while refusing to allow the Guard to suppress a violent insurrection at home. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense

Posted by Snatch Schwarzeneggar6173 2020-11-18 06:47|| 2020-11-18 06:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Mixed feelings. One huge concern of course are the fundamentalist mooslims there. The Afghans I met there in 1988 dismissed them, found them annoying at best.

But second is China moving in for the rare minerals. Monies for which would go to funding ChiComs and islamic jihad.

Come to think about it, don't like this.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-11-18 07:18|| 2020-11-18 07:18|| Front Page Top

#8 I haven't seen a single poll on what the US public's current appetite for these involvements is.

Gee, I wonder why...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-18 07:18|| 2020-11-18 07:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Blue (American) cities cops resign in droves. USA withdraws from it's role of "International Policeman". I wonder if there's a connection?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-11-18 07:36|| 2020-11-18 07:36|| Front Page Top

#10

Not just the Republicans.
The Socialists-Democrats also have deep Military Industrial complex ties and make $$ millions in income from our semi-wars also.

Why do we keep maiming and killing our US Soldiers using them as the Worlds Peace keeping Police?
When the Immigrants from those countries, we were protecting then come to the USA to set up a mini-version of their Old FAILED culture and situation?
Then bring the Threat here... and even run and hold Federal level political offices.

My position is simple.
If it is not an attack on America, and a declared war, with the clear goal of eliminating the Enemy.
Then with what we pay the UN each year, let them vote to use UN Peace Keepers to handle it or not.

Said in memory of Gary, Randy and Tim (Giz) some SF friends, that I worked with, that died Oct. 3 & 4th 1993.

Posted by NN2N1 2020-11-18 08:49|| 2020-11-18 08:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Defend CONUS
Develop / enhance Prompt Global Strike
Continue improving Ballistic Missile Defense
Pledge to evaluate / sunset defense treaties

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-18 09:11|| 2020-11-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ Said in memory of Gary, Randy and Tim (Giz) some SF friends, that I worked with, that died Oct. 3 & 4th 1993.
Posted by: NN2N1

Yes, Mogadishu, such a better place today. Unless they attack Ormond Beach, Stay the fok out of Africa and the ME. They need no assistance in slaughtering themselves. Send in a small reconnaissance & surveillance team in 250 years or so to check progress.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 09:11|| 2020-11-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#13 The point of the endless war without victory in Afghanistan is to keep troops there. It's an outpost in a global empire. The Taliban - pah! A sideshow. US troops are near Pakistan's nuclear weapons and can invade if necessary. CIA can recruit Uighurs to cause trouble for China. And Afghanistan is near China's belt & road project, which US forces can invade and sever if necessary.

It's hugely expensive being a global empire, but the US government less Trump is totally in favor of it. Their sons won't die in these wars, so why do they care? It's not their money, either.

Posted by Jaiger Sleath7993 2020-11-18 11:14|| 2020-11-18 11:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Somewhere in the dusty archives at Foggy Bottom is the file marked Monroe Doctrine. Consider that for a while and recognise we are broke and broken domestically and need to step back from being the “superpower” piñata.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-11-18 13:13|| 2020-11-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Send hundreds of 000s of our troops to battle non-existent threats abroad

What utter and total nonsense. Yes, the threat embedded itself here at home decades ago, when the Muslim Brotherhood first arrived and settled. CAIR, ISNA, the Holy Land Foundation, agents of Iran’s Mad Mullahs... we all here know the list. But the threat came from out there, continues to be very active out there, and connects with the embedded threat here at home whenever possible. Somali lads and Al Shabaab, Yemeni lads and Al Qaeda in Arabia, everywhere else lads and ISIS, Lebanese/Iranians and Hezbollah, Palestinians and Hamas, Pakistanis and pretty much everyone — they connect by family, by phone and internet. So we cannot fix the problems here at home without doing something about the problem out there.

For twenty years we’ve been out there, killing tens of thousands of bad guys connected to the bad guys here at home, tracing the connections, learning which tribes and clans and families make up the various organizations and how the organizations interconnect with each other. We may be withdrawing the troops, but we won’t be able to turn our back on the world completely. It’ll just be spies and Special Forces raids, and lots of people spending long hours monitoring the internet and interpreting satellite photos instead.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-18 22:38|| 2020-11-18 22:38|| Front Page Top

#16 phuquein Ay, you said (once again), bring em home , keep em safe, let fight on the home front or in our hemisphere if they must. defense contractors can go get Phuqued, their evil, we have one here.... Northrup Grummond, little guy, looks like Dr. Evil's # 2. He owns Aspen of all places...just sayin'

Posted by 746 2020-11-18 23:13|| 2020-11-18 23:13|| Front Page Top

23:15 746
23:13 746
23:09 746
22:38 trailing wife
22:25 Silentbrick
22:24 Fester Omerenter6429
21:40 trailing wife
20:47 swksvolFF
20:38 magpie
19:11 Anomalous Sources
18:34 One Eyed Greremp3153
18:17 jpal
18:14 Woozle Slererong1197
18:10 Angeater Omick2705
17:48 Gerthudion Thrusoling2935
17:22 DarthVader
16:56 Angeater Omick2705
16:49 Clem
16:45 rjschwarz
16:16 Lord Garth
15:49 Angeater Omick2705
15:33 Besoeker
15:30 Rob Crawford
15:26 rjschwarz