The world's latest air force

[fuzeman]

America went in there bright eyed and bushy tailed ignoring everything that happened to other people who went in there over and over and over again.
And guess what? It happened again. It's on them and the way their country has been 'ruled.'
I'd think if you had an idea the country you were in was going to have a pull out like that sometime, I'd want to get out of Dodge sooner than later and not wait until the last second.

We had to get out of there sometime and it was past due. The guy who got us out finally was going to have to eat the 'tastiest' turd in that crap sandwich of s situation.

[LCADolby]

Maybe the Afghans will set up a national holiday...

Go out and party hard and be incredibly obnoxious and "Patriotic" in interactions with their former overlords.

Yes I can see it now... Call it, Independence Day. And celebrate it like it matters every year.

Maybe even fly their new toys over a parade or a camel race.

 

[Slate]

   It's not like the Taliban is going to organize and form a standing army or air force. They will sell off most of the stuff for millions of dollars to fund their friends in the terrorism business. The thousands of small arms and night vision equipment will also come in quite handy. It's going to go down in history as one of the worst military blunders ever.
   They pulled out with no warning to our Allies around the world who had people there also. They Lied about the Ghost Afgan army that had 300000 troops on the books but evaporated like water in that filthy dessert.
   The US could have taken over the security of Kabul but allowed The deaths of Troops and a hundred more.

          Blood will continue to flow from these mistakes. Bless our troops that have to follow lousy orders. 

   

[guncrasher]

   
   They pulled out with no warning to our Allies around the world who had people there also. They Lied about the Ghost Afgan army that had 300000 troops on the books but evaporated like water in that filthy dessert.
   The US could have taken over the security of Kabul but allowed The deaths of Troops and a hundred more.

          Blood will continue to flow from these mistakes. Bless our troops that have to follow lousy orders. 

 

what do you mean no warning too our allies.  i knew about it since last year, in November it was decided that troops would be reduced to 2500 by jan 15, complete withdrawal by may 1. it was extended to August 31.

hard to believe other nations knew nothing about it.  it was a controversial deal at the time, but hey over 2400 dead, thousands wounded. Afghani government was corrupt. why stick around.


semp

[Eagler]

2400 dead... something I never understood...

PTSD continues to kill 1000's a year.
.I think all of the deaths caused by a war should be counted but that might make too much sense and show a true cost

Eagler

[Traveler]

Then a treaty with the Taliban should never have been negotiated and signed by a self aggrandizing President who wanted to have the Taliban leadership come to Camp David on 9/11...........just sayin....

Your right we should just continue on with the Military Industrial Complex dictating foreign policy, worked out pretty well for them so far.  Billions earned in government contracts, nothing gained, nothing lost.  20 years of war with minimal dead, yea US.  Life's perfect.

[perdue3]

Just a huge waste of everything that you would think would make every American boiling mad.

Eagler

We could continue to waste resources and money on Afghanistan for 5 more years, I guess? These aircraft will become scrap metal soon once any one part becomes damaged.

[Eviscerate]

2400 dead... something I never understood...

PTSD continues to kill 1000's a year.
.I think all of the deaths caused by a war should be counted but that might make too much sense and show a true cost

Eagler

One Thousand's what?

[guncrasher]

the last 13 servicemen that died had barely been born when the war started.

semp

[Busher]

   The thousands of small arms and night vision equipment will also come in quite handy. It's going to go down in history as one of the worst military blunders ever.
   

Oh I don't know about that.... if the 50000+ dead in Vietnam could talk....

[CptTrips]

Oh I don't know about that.... if the 50000+ dead in Vietnam could talk....

Publius Quinctilius Varus:  "Hold my beer..."

[LCADolby]

Publius Quinctilius Varus:  "Hold my beer..."

Ouch, that's a burn... and a classical one too 

[DmonSlyr]

Oh I don't know about that.... if the 50000+ dead in Vietnam could talk....

And yet, you mock me when I say these people should be hung for their war crimes using American children for their foreign wars... certainly is amazing how you think we should give them a pass and defend them while the same people in the CFR like Henry Kissenger and Rockefeller cabal continue to sell weapons for drugs and oil leading to 93K American overdose deaths a year and another failed foreign war in the middle east... but I digress.

[guncrasher]

And yet, you mock me when I say these people should be hung for their war crimes using American children for their foreign wars... certainly is amazing how you think we should give them a pass and defend them while the same people in the CFR like Henry Kissenger and Rockefeller cabal continue to sell weapons for drugs and oil leading to 93K American overdose deaths a year and another failed foreign war in the middle east... but I digress.

me thinks you don't know what a war crime is.

and using your logic, we should just stop gun manufacturers from making guns.  no guns to sell, no drugs imported. that way 93k people won't die from using drugs.

I wonder what the cartels will do when they figure out that kissinger and rockerfeller are cutting into their profits. I'm thinking like ending of scarface.


semp

[Peanut1]

And yet, you mock me when I say these people should be hung for their war crimes using American children for their foreign wars... certainly is amazing how you think we should give them a pass and defend them while the same people in the CFR like Henry Kissenger and Rockefeller cabal continue to sell weapons for drugs and oil leading to 93K American overdose deaths a year and another failed foreign war in the middle east... but I digress.

here we go again....