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2021-08-13 Afghanistan

'Weakness begets war': Mike Pompeo says Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan puts US at greater risk of terror attacks and said Donald Trump warned Taliban he'd come at them 'hard and fast' if they went on the offensive

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-13 06:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Barack Obama's 2014 announcement that the war in Afghanistan had been won was an 'egregious deception and lie', according to a new book

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-13 06:33|| 2021-08-13 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, they're trying so hard to get their war back. They're just outraged someone took their toy away. Reacting like a three year old throwing a fit.

Posted by Slomorong Thraiger7030 2021-08-13 07:27|| 2021-08-13 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3

I never have felt it should have been a Nam style war. A simple number of A & B team surgical strikes of leadership would have crippled it quicker. With a lot less wounded, killed and screwed up for the rest of their lives.

I felt and still feel this basically was a Pentagon Career building and Military Supplier promoted war.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-13 09:48|| 2021-08-13 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 War is their business, and up until recently, business has been good.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-13 10:04|| 2021-08-13 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ I'm quite sure they'll find another sales opportunity, maybe sooner than they want.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-13 11:23|| 2021-08-13 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Surgical strikes at the leadership would have to occur in PakiLand, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-13 11:32|| 2021-08-13 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ No need to bomb the Paks or the Taliban either. Just cut the flow of US dollars. Can't imagine why we never did.

Gotta wonder how much of that money went through the ISI and then onto the Taliban.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-13 12:50|| 2021-08-13 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Love the gigantic dropoff when Trump became president.

Posted by Slomorong Thraiger7030 2021-08-13 13:35|| 2021-08-13 13:35|| Front Page Top

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