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2021-08-13 Afghanistan

3,000 troops are heading to Afghanistan to join about 650 troops already there

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Posted by Fred 2021-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top
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#1 This is insanity. Is someone pulling together an official surrender ceremony. Are hostages being send over to be re-purchased? WTF ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-13 02:16|| 2021-08-13 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The US is considering relocating its Kabul embassy to the city's airport

That's laugh out loud funny! If you need to relocate your embassy to the airport, it's past time to go.

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-13 02:26|| 2021-08-13 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Gross decision. Afghan military may turn on the US troops just as dangerously as the Taliban because of them leaving Afghanistan forces to the wolves.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-13 02:29|| 2021-08-13 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 This is insanity. Is someone pulling together an official surrender ceremony. Are hostages being send over to be re-purchased? WTF ?

The principal lesson of Iran is that you do not leave your embassy open in the face of impending takeover by a hostile regime. Given that the Taliban facilitated the killing of 3,000 civilians on American soil, I think they qualify as hostile. Whether a takeover is impending - we'll see soon enough, when US troops have completely departed. I wish the folks deployed there and the embassy people the best, but it would not be out of character for the Taliban to attempt to inflict serious casualties on the outgoing US presence. For the same reason they helped al Qaeda with 9/11 - mindless aggressiveness amounting to sheer stupidity and megalomania. If they succeed, the midterms will be a landslide win for the GOP.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-08-13 13:34|| 2021-08-13 13:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Gross decision. Afghan military may turn on the US troops just as dangerously as the Taliban because of them leaving Afghanistan forces to the wolves.

If the embassy were taken hostage or massacred outright - not out of the question, given the Taliban's material support for 9/11 - I expect US troops would be right back in there. For decades.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-08-13 13:39|| 2021-08-13 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 “But why would the USA want to keep Afghanistan unstable?

Look at a map. Afghanistan is located in central Asia. It is an impoverished, underdeveloped country that is landlocked. It borders the three top opponents of US power on the global stage, Russia, China, and Iran. Since 2001, not only has Afghanistan been a mess of terrorism, drug trafficking, and societal chaos, but this chaos has spilled over into the three neighboring countries.”

Posted by Glating the Rasher of Bacon2870 2021-08-13 17:56|| 2021-08-13 17:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Is someone pulling together an official surrender ceremony.

In front of Green Beans.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-13 19:28|| 2021-08-13 19:28|| Front Page Top

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