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2020-01-01 Afghanistan

Strategic Folly and The Consequences of America's Unending War in AFG

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-01 09:28|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 gains on issues like civil liberties and women’s rights

The what on what?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-01 09:40|| 2020-01-01 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2
The article begins with a whopper, that "a US/NATO military withdrawal must be managed responsibly to conserve the hard-earned gains on issues like civil liberties and women’s rights made over the past eighteen years."

"Hard-earned gains"? WHAT hard-earned gains??? As far as I can tell, we've accomplished precisely nothing in the 18+ years we've been there. Same with Iraq, other than getting rid of Saddam.

These wars tested the hypothesis that Islam can be de-toxified by injecting it with democracy.

The hypothesis is disproved.

Posted by Dave D. 2020-01-01 10:38|| 2020-01-01 10:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The hypothesis is disproved.

*happy sigh* I love when you think aloud, Dave. Your logic is remorseless, even when I dislike your conclusion.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-01 19:00|| 2020-01-01 19:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Women's rights in Afghanistan.

Just ponder the absurdity of that phrase. Not the objective of women's rights, not strategy for attaining same, not Afghanistan per se.

No: just try to wrap your head around the combination, in a single English sentence, of women's rights + Afghanistan.

For sheer lunacy, this combination belongs in the same category as
Miss Parson's Finishing School for Feral Youth
The Mogadishu Conservatory for Baroque Keyboard Studies
Meth-Heads Can Code!

We are ruled by morons

Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 19:53|| 2020-01-01 19:53|| Front Page Top

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