Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 41 23.6%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 48 27.6%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.4%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 60 34.5%
  • Total voters
    174
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evillawyer said:
Per CNN
"US military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties," the statement said.
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I have noticed the new buzz word is over the horizon.
 
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In Afghanistan, the Worst Is Yet to Come

Say what you will about President Joe Biden, he has stuck to his guns on ending America's 20-year involvement in Afghanistan's forever war.

His decision not to delay our departure after Aug. 31 was fortified by hard intel that the terrorist ISIS-K was preparing attacks at Kabul airport.

Thursday evening, the two bomb attacks occurred.

It now seems inevitable that the withdrawal will be completed by Aug. 31, with all U.S. military forces following the last civilians out.

In Afghanistan, the Worst Is Yet to Come
 
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lukeneyland said:
This is the kind of thing that happens when you have left wing ideologues making military decisions. This sort of thing doesn’t happen if you let the military focus on it’s purpose of destroying those that would do us harm.
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Correct, but we are a dedicated top down society despite the supposedly representative democracy that we stand on. We practice the top down approach in every facet of our civilization. We don't believe in training and then allowing people at the working level to do what they were trained to do - they have to be micromanaged whether military, government, or the corporate world. Worse we don't even make leaders of people who have been there and done that; we teach kids right out of HS how to run businesses, and somehow believe they can't screw it up as they move up bureaucratic org chart.

Perfect example is that people on the ground in Afghanistan aren't the ones to say the job is done and now we can go - nobody else to evacuate. Instead the rule is an arbitrary end date ... AGAIN. If we took away the initiative that was demonstrated in WW2 and replaced it with today's methods, we'd lose.
 
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AM64 said:
Correct, but we are a dedicated top down society despite the supposedly representative democracy that we stand on. We practice the top down approach in every facet of our civilization. We don't believe in training and then allowing people at the working level to do what they were trained to do - they have to be micromanaged whether military, government, or the corporate world. Worse we don't even make leaders of people who have been there and done that; we teach kids right out of HS how to run businesses, and somehow believe they can't screw it up as they move up bureaucratic org chart.

Perfect example is that people on the ground in Afghanistan aren't the ones to say the job is done and now we can go - nobody else to evacuate. Instead the rule is an arbitrary end date ... AGAIN. If we took away the initiative that was demonstrated in WW2 and replaced it with today's methods, we'd lose.
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We’d lose badly. Japs would have ate our lunch
 
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BreatheUT said:
Have you have seen Clint Eastwood reciting his lines and his eyes are almost closed?

Then when he did that "hunt you down" talk it came up short compared to W's 9/11 speech.
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OK, I can picture the Eastwood and W images now.

I'm not sure that is really what Biden was going for in either case... at least I hope not, And I'm still not sure what the head in his hands moment was. Was that W also?
 
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Volatility said:
Sad, but true. Smedley Butler and president Eisenhower tried to warn us, but here we are almost 100 years from War is A Racket and nothing has really changed.
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Contracting manpower to fight wars has stepped it up. You can hide a lot more waste and incompetence in contracted services than you can in hardware and expendables. It's pretty obvious when things that are supposed to go bang, don't. With unions and bureaucracies, we've learned well how to hide incompetence, empire building, featherbedding, and the art of doing nothing while appearing to work; and, boy, can we turn out the reports and stats to show outstanding performance.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
OK, I can picture the Eastwood and W images now.

I'm not sure that is really what Biden was going for in either case... at least I hope not, And I'm still not sure what the head in his hands moment was. Was that W also?
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I'm thinking they we're just drawing a comparison that Biden is more imitation than anything.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
We've made it through 7 months of the Biden Regime ....
We still have 41 more months to go ....
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I'm almost 40 years old.
I've not seen ONE good US presidency.

So what happens after Biden leaves?
Please tell me about the good before Biden and before that president.

Why do you support what you support, and disdain the opposite when IT'S ALL BAD???
 
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Weezer said:
I said something similar the other day, and I'm not even one of these vaunted intelligence experts. Common sense should have made it evident.
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Weezer you mentioned common sense in reference to our government. I think we have plenty of examples it doesn’t exist in the 10 miles square that is the pit of profit, stupidity, arrogance, power and ego. We just keep putting more of it there. Half the people in this country have no idea how badly our federal gov has abused their roles and yet they keep cheering it.
The more the federal gov grows the more the republic dies. It doesn’t matter who’s in office.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
Weezer you mentioned common sense in reference to our government. I think we have plenty of examples it doesn’t exist in the 10 miles square that is the pit of profit, stupidity, arrogance, power and ego. We just keep putting more of it there. Half the people in this country have no idea how badly our federal gov has abused their roles and yet they keep cheering it.
The more the federal gov grows the more the republic dies. It doesn’t matter who’s in office.
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People need to learn that voting for someone based on their party affiliation is a bad way of voting. That's why we keep ending up with the same idiots. We need more independents at every level. People who aren't beholden to party and will actually serve the citizenry that elects them. Somewhere along the line, politicians have forgotten they are the servants of the people, not the masters. But it's the fault of we the people for not reminding them.
 
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