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The Taliban is assassinating
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Posted By: FL_Absentee_Voter, 7/10/2021 6:36:13 PM

Reuters has a disturbing report out of Afghanistan this week showing how entrenched the Taliban is in that nation and the brutality they are willing to exhibit to retake control of the country. [snip] Trying to destroy the fighter jets and helicopters we gave to the Afghan Air Force is difficult and dangerous since they tend to be in heavily defended areas. Shooting them down while in flight is also nearly impossible unless you have your own fighter jets or sophisticated surface-to-air missile systems. But if they can manage to kill off all of the pilots, there won’t be an air force anymore.

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Trump's plan was to keep 5,000 in-country to receive and consolidate intel from Afghan troops on the ground as to the bad guys' whereabouts and activities and then respond with air strikes to chase them back under the rocks, a strategy which seemed to be working quite well. In stating that we achieved the mission to prevent another 9/11, Mumbles failed to acknowledge how it was being accomplished. Now, there's nothing left but a vacuum.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 7/10/2021 6:47:37 PM (No. 841638)
Everything Biden does turn to Sh---tuff.
20 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 7/10/2021 6:52:54 PM (No. 841641)
Biden has blood on his hands.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: snakeoil 7/10/2021 7:05:24 PM (No. 841651)
I've lost track of the number of US deaths of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's at least 6,000. If the Taliban take over their lives were wasted. In Vietnam it was 60k. I hate waste.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 7/10/2021 7:05:45 PM (No. 841652)
This is an assymetric war and it is being carried out mercilessly by religious fanatics. Take notes, similar actions will be used in other places, no doubt.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/10/2021 7:12:54 PM (No. 841655)
Give them credit, it's an efficient solution. Kipling told us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: virbots 7/10/2021 7:35:54 PM (No. 841673)
9/11 could have been prevented had we a) prevented formation of safe havens for planning purposes OR b) had better border security. For the future, a) is now gone with the withdrawal. But at least we still have... oh s*@t.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Faithfully 7/10/2021 8:23:33 PM (No. 841714)
Read up about the Persians.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Vaquero45 7/10/2021 8:27:22 PM (No. 841716)
“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 God like a soldier.” Our generals and politicians should have read Kipling.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Phantomll 7/10/2021 9:35:29 PM (No. 841764)
They're not "fighter jets"! They are jet fighters!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: IowaDad 7/10/2021 10:04:43 PM (No. 841783)
I may be dumb, but why are we interfering in a civil war in a foreign country 4,000 miles away having zero strategic importance to the US?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: chumley 7/10/2021 10:35:32 PM (No. 841799)
They could do far more damage just leaving things be. I've seen pilots in 3rd world moslem nations. Kill the pilot and you still have the plane. Let him fly and you will lose both.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Come And Take It 7/10/2021 10:48:16 PM (No. 841807)
Because, #10, we just cannot help ourselves. We must stick our noses into everybody's business worldwide no matter how little interest we might have in it. And because we flip from one pole to the other about every 8 years, no one can count on us as an ally for long. Our founding fathers warned us of this danger, and we ignored them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DVC 7/10/2021 11:57:52 PM (No. 841860)
When the Afghanis supported and housed Bin Laden, we would have been far better off to have done a nuclear strike on his hideout, and left it at that.
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