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2021-07-19 Afghanistan

David Petraeus: Afghanistan falling apart after 20 years of US war

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top
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#1 Petraeus also said, "What I see now, sadly, is the onset of what is going to be quite a brutal civil war."

Ok, thanks General. Now move along please. No one is interested in your assessment.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-19 00:18|| 2021-07-19 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Is that his way of saying 'I had nothing to do with it'?

Posted by Kim Jong Raj 2021-07-19 00:24|| 2021-07-19 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Whoopsie!

Posted by Raj 2021-07-19 00:24|| 2021-07-19 00:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "I fear we will look back and regret the decision to withdraw," Petraeus said

The only regret is the one that we didn't make the sponsor and sanctuary for the Taliban, ie Pakistan, into a parking lot.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-19 06:04|| 2021-07-19 06:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, it's obvious that's the plan now. Sabotage Afghanistan as good as they can, and then declare they *must* come back. Another 50 years of war! The military-industrial complex's profits are saved.

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-07-19 06:18|| 2021-07-19 06:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Falling apart? When was it together?

OK, maybe before the Soviet invasion, but since?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-07-19 06:24|| 2021-07-19 06:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Been falling apart for 2,000 years at least. We didn't fix it, just kept applying bondo on it. Now that we are not, it falls apart like it naturally did before.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-19 08:36|| 2021-07-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Hekmatyar, Dostum, Taliban, Pansher, ISI: 1989 revisited.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-07-19 09:01|| 2021-07-19 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Like a Rolling Stone.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-19 10:23|| 2021-07-19 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Make a list of all the "game changers" who cycled through the US command in Afghanistan.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-19 10:55|| 2021-07-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#11 George Bush and his foolish commitment to "fix" a 3rd world sh*thole began a 20 year waste of lives and treasure. I despite Bidet and the corrupt, illegal cabla that serves the Kalorma Kompund and the seat of true evil there, but getting out of Dodge is long overdue. If we don't/won't deal honestly with the viper that is Pakistan, the region is just a mire, a miasma that will never dry out. Get out and close the Embassy, its lunacy to imagine it serves any real purpose ...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-19 13:04|| 2021-07-19 13:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Amen and amen to the last line in #11. If you can't draw a winning in 20 years it might be time to leave the table, cash in, and hit the road.

Posted by Black Bart Hatrack1972 2021-07-19 13:43|| 2021-07-19 13:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, Boosh was bent on "exporting Democracy™" Never mind that the USA is not a democracy and the republic it actually is seems fleeting at the moment. Imagine that Boosh had set out to export opera to the same places.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-19 14:45|| 2021-07-19 14:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Imagine that Boosh had set out to export opera to the same places.

They'll have to settle for Chinese opera.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-19 14:47|| 2021-07-19 14:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Id imagine a Fukanese aria would be right up there with Vogon poetry...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-19 15:07|| 2021-07-19 15:07|| Front Page Top

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