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Taliban took it all..in days.

PhilFish said:
Afghanistani govt has fallen.

Twenty years. Pah.

Trillion dollars.... Meh.


Gone. Every effort and fallen hero. Wasted


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August 15, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

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We should've been out of there a long time ago.
 
PhilFish said:
Afghanistani govt has fallen.

Twenty years. Pah.

Trillion dollars.... Meh.


Gone. Every effort and fallen hero. Wasted


www.cnn.com

August 15, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

The Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul after the country's president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Follow here for the latest news.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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If after all of those years we could not stand up an Afghan army that could last a week against a smaller and lessor equipped force.

Then it was all a scam and somebody owes us a few trillion dollars.
 
Someone had to do it. We have no national security interest there and all we did for many years is prop up the Afghan government. Bush, Obama and Trump did not and apparently could not make themselves rip the band-aid off. Biden did.
 
Spamature said:
If after all of those years we could not stand up an Afghan army that could last a week against a smaller and lessor equipped force.

Then it was all a scam and somebody owes us a few trillion dollars.
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Agree. Feels like a scam
 
PhilFish said:
Agree. Feels like a scam
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They keep saying how Afghanistan has $1 trillion worth of minerals.

BIG DEAL !

Because somewhere in that country they must have $2 trillion in US cash.

We can see it sure didn't go toward building a competent military or a stable environment.
 
Spamature said:
They keep saying how Afghanistan has $1 trillion worth of minerals.

BIG DEAL !

Because somewhere in that country they must have $2 trillion in US cash.

We can see it sure didn't go toward building a competent military or a stable environment.
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The USA military didn't realize they were dying to train leftist that would drop $83 Billion of weapons and RUN
 
PhilFish said:
Afghanistani govt has fallen.

Twenty years. Pah.

Trillion dollars.... Meh.


Gone. Every effort and fallen hero. Wasted


www.cnn.com

August 15, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

The Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul after the country's president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Follow here for the latest news.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
Click to expand...
Granted, I am very Christian-biased… but if there is anything that this life teaches, it is that none can convince another of the best choice no matter how obvious. If God almighty Himself is rejected despite His revelation just about everywhere, then how do we think folks living among boulders and cliffs will choose “Democracy”? So it goes with vaccinations, births, and the like.
Mankind is both stupid and shortsighted…and the cocksure among us - who inevitably hammer away at the “right” answer - are usually the least sighted of us all.
 
Dawg said:
The USA military didn't realize they were dying to train leftist that would drop $83 Billion of weapons and RUN
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After 20 years ?

The US military has been there so long some of those afghan soldiers must have retired from the Afghan military by now.

Somebody had to know.

And don't give me that liberal bs.

That part of the world is made up of religious conservatives, just like the American Jihadist.
 
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Spamature said:
They keep saying how Afghanistan has $1 trillion worth of minerals.

BIG DEAL !

Because somewhere in that country they must have $2 trillion in US cash.

We can see it sure didn't go toward building a competent military or a stable environment.
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Two trillion....could have simply bought some minerals
 
RickWA said:
Granted, I am very Christian-biased… but if there is anything that this life teaches, it is that none can convince another of the best choice no matter how obvious. If God almighty Himself is rejected despite His revelation just about everywhere, then how do we think folks living among boulders and cliffs will choose “Democracy”? So it goes with vaccinations, births, and the like.
Mankind is both stupid and shortsighted…and the cocksure among us - who inevitably hammer away at the “right” answer - are usually the least sighted of us all.
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Yeah..they were best left alone. Now we know. Hope we do
 
PhilFish said:
Afghanistani govt has fallen.

Twenty years. Pah.

Trillion dollars.... Meh.


Gone. Every effort and fallen hero. Wasted


www.cnn.com

August 15, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

The Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul after the country's president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Follow here for the latest news.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
Click to expand...


"The Right War".

President-elect Barack Obama says that Afghanistan is "the right war." "It's time to heed the call from General [David] McKiernan and others for more troops," Obama said in late October, referring to the US commander in Afghanistan. "That's why I'd send at least two or three additional combat brigades to Afghanistan."

Obama's Afghan Dilemma - CBS News

"Surge"

In his Afghan "surge"speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new "way forward in Afghanistan." He spoke of the "additional 30,000 U.S. troops"he was sending into that country over the next six months. He brought up the "roughly $30 billion"it would cost us to get them there and support them for a year. And finally, he spoke of beginning to bring them home by July 2011. Those were striking enough numbers, even if larger and, in terms of time, longer than many in the Democratic Party would have cared for. Nonetheless, they don't faintly cover just how fully the president has committed us to an expanding war and just how wide it is likely to become.

The Nine Surges of Obama's War - CBS News

"A Milestone"

President Barack Obama had promised to end the war, so on Dec. 28, 2014, U.S. and NATO officials held a ceremony at their headquarters in Kabul to mark the occasion. A multinational color guard paraded around. Music played. A four-star general gave a speech and solemnly furled the green flag of the U.S.-led international force that had flown since the beginning of the conflict.

In a statement, Obama called the day “a milestone for our country” and said the United States was safer and more secure after 13 years of war….


President Obama and Afghanistan…. (politicaldog101.com)

"Legacy"

THE LONG WAR
Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan

How the President took a bad situation in Afghanistan and made it even worse.

Last year Foreign Affairs ran a special section on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy. The section included essays on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, terrorism, Europe, Asia, and a pair of dueling assessments of the Administration’s overall performance. Curiously, the entire section was almost entirely silent about Obama’s single largest, longest, and costliest foreign policy initiative: the war in Afghanistan.

Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan - The American Interest (the-american-interest.com)


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Zam-Zam said:
"The Right War".

President-elect Barack Obama says that Afghanistan is "the right war." "It's time to heed the call from General [David] McKiernan and others for more troops," Obama said in late October, referring to the US commander in Afghanistan. "That's why I'd send at least two or three additional combat brigades to Afghanistan."

Obama's Afghan Dilemma - CBS News

"Surge"

In his Afghan "surge"speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new "way forward in Afghanistan." He spoke of the "additional 30,000 U.S. troops"he was sending into that country over the next six months. He brought up the "roughly $30 billion"it would cost us to get them there and support them for a year. And finally, he spoke of beginning to bring them home by July 2011. Those were striking enough numbers, even if larger and, in terms of time, longer than many in the Democratic Party would have cared for. Nonetheless, they don't faintly cover just how fully the president has committed us to an expanding war and just how wide it is likely to become.

The Nine Surges of Obama's War - CBS News

"A Milestone"

President Barack Obama had promised to end the war, so on Dec. 28, 2014, U.S. and NATO officials held a ceremony at their headquarters in Kabul to mark the occasion. A multinational color guard paraded around. Music played. A four-star general gave a speech and solemnly furled the green flag of the U.S.-led international force that had flown since the beginning of the conflict.

In a statement, Obama called the day “a milestone for our country” and said the United States was safer and more secure after 13 years of war….


President Obama and Afghanistan…. (politicaldog101.com)

"Legacy"

THE LONG WAR
Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan

How the President took a bad situation in Afghanistan and made it even worse.

Last year Foreign Affairs ran a special section on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy. The section included essays on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, terrorism, Europe, Asia, and a pair of dueling assessments of the Administration’s overall performance. Curiously, the entire section was almost entirely silent about Obama’s single largest, longest, and costliest foreign policy initiative: the war in Afghanistan.

Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan - The American Interest (the-american-interest.com)


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Yes. Though..today ..the Taliban triumphs
 
PhilFish said:
Afghanistani govt has fallen.

Twenty years. Pah.

Trillion dollars.... Meh.


Gone. Every effort and fallen hero. Wasted


www.cnn.com

August 15, 2021, Afghanistan-Taliban news

The Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul after the country's president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Follow here for the latest news.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
Click to expand...
Remind me again what Obama was trying to achieve with his post-inauguration "surge"?
 
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