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2021-06-26 Afghanistan
US to Keep 650 Troops in Afghanistan After Withdrawal
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Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 01:25|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 So it's not a 'withdrawal' withdrawal?
Posted by Raj 2021-06-26 01:39||   2021-06-26 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 just the usual bullshit. goddamn I'm tired of reading the same bullshit year after year on different subjects that have the same outcome. I bought an F-15 this morning,anyone got a nuke to go with it?
Posted by Chris 2021-06-26 01:41||   2021-06-26 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3  erent subjects that have the same outcome. I bought an F-15 this morning

What colour is yours, Chris? I was thinking of going old school, maybe turquoise or lime green.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 02:13||   2021-06-26 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Hunter green
Posted by Woozle Omeart1724 2021-06-26 02:40||   2021-06-26 02:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Protecting the least worthy are we? And when all are killed or captured as at Isandlwana, what then ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-26 03:53||   2021-06-26 03:53|| Front Page Top

#6 A very good practical test of the first rainbow integrated woke battalion for deployment.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-26 06:05||   2021-06-26 06:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Some kind of progressive sacrificial rite?
Posted by Mercutio 2021-06-26 07:57||   2021-06-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Defending muslims from other muslims.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-06-26 08:16||   2021-06-26 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ It takes trillions. Imagine investing that into cures for disease or getting to outer space or AI. Anything that payed even the modest dividend of learning something.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-26 09:36||   2021-06-26 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Hunter Green means an extra 10%.

This is business contacts with a security detail.

Probably includes that fig hole the other day complain about Rantburg's lack of patriotism in not supporting such things.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-26 11:16||   2021-06-26 11:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Hopes that they delay? Yeah, delay another 20 years.

They have all the F-15s they want and they still can't beat a bunch of civilians with rifles.
Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-26 11:42||   2021-06-26 11:42|| Front Page Top

#12 The individuals on the ground have been amazing. There was never really any imperative for leadership and lords to, to use a quaint olde world term, win.

It is amazing the amount of good will and enthusiasm absolutely fugged away in 20 years.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-26 12:26||   2021-06-26 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 The Baby Boomers missed the part where we bombed the f*ed out of the Germans and Japanese before engaging in 'nation building' as an afterthought. There was no sanctuary base of operations in any neighboring states.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-26 12:53||   2021-06-26 12:53|| Front Page Top

#14 the poetry ...
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains.
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains.
And go to your g-d like a soldier."
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-06-26 14:01||   2021-06-26 14:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Hostages
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-06-26 14:47||   2021-06-26 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Tw, I got it in candy apple read. I'm getting chrome rims on it as we speak. Curb feelers are next.
Posted by Chris 2021-06-26 15:41||   2021-06-26 15:41|| Front Page Top

#17 #13, don't blame us Baby Boomers. We were the cannon fodder. The O-5's on up and the politicians were WW2 and KW holdovers. It was on them. They forgot about winning and keeping or controlling the spoils.
Posted by illeagle  2021-06-26 17:50||   2021-06-26 17:50|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ Exactly. And the Dims are leaving 600 of our kids in a shit hole without a mission or a plan other than Biden getting his kicks of being over the military now and our young people are wondering what the hell are they doing there.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-06-26 18:38||   2021-06-26 18:38|| Front Page Top

#19 /\ Providing protection for the people responsible for the AFG failure.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-26 18:41||   2021-06-26 18:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Candy apple red, Chris? A classic! But you know that makes it look like it’s going faster at every speed — take care you don’t get pulled over. Curb feelers are new to me, car fancification not being an interest of mine, but it seems a thing Mr. Wife might have found useful for me, once upon a time.

And go to your g-d like a soldier."

Is there ever a time when Kipling is not appropriate, irish rage boy?
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 18:45||   2021-06-26 18:45|| Front Page Top

#21 And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it no more.

Came across a Real Dude who read the whole passage.

Didn't know who Kipling was. Is.

"You know his works, Jungle Book"

I guess the lesson is 'Don't Assume'.

Educated him that as soon as my kids were able, I learned also about Copybook Headings. Proverbs, Truisms, what is worth Remembering.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-26 19:07||   2021-06-26 19:07|| Front Page Top

#22 
I've been a bad boy today, after reading that Chris & Tw both were ordering F-15s, Isplurged a bit today and bought 3 in my favorite colors, red, yellow and orange; and the organge one came with a free load of ordnance ---wow how luck can a guy get.

Yeah, I'm showing off the buy, hope you are not jealous.



Posted by Clem Uleremp7218 2021-06-26 22:38||   2021-06-26 22:38|| Front Page Top

#23 
And oh, Chris....I got the chrome wheels on the yellow one...I think it makes the whole thing ---POP !
Posted by Clem Uleremp7218 2021-06-26 22:42||   2021-06-26 22:42|| Front Page Top

#24 Well, there's this F-15 news from Elon.

And this F-15 news from your neighbor.
Posted by Gerthudion Smiter of the Bunions1743 2021-06-26 23:02||   2021-06-26 23:02|| Front Page Top

#25 I fixed that second link, Gerthudion Smiter of the Bunions1743. You pasted the URL next to the placeholder http: instead of on top of it, so the internet couldn’t read it.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 23:48||   2021-06-26 23:48|| Front Page Top

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