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3 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Since TRUMP SOLD that Farm to the Taliban...

You are correct.

I'll be honest.  I think the trade if it had to be made for a more East Asia/Europe centered defense with our Navy and less heavy forces watching the center makes more sense.   The idea is to protect what is important.  Afghanistan was the lesson in how amazing we are at projecting force anywhere.   The big boy war is what we need to prevent now. 

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41 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I'll be honest.  I think the trade if it had to be made for a more East Asia/Europe centered defense with our Navy and less heavy forces watching the center makes more sense.   The idea is to protect what is important.  Afghanistan was the lesson in how amazing we are at projecting force anywhere.   The big boy war is what we need to prevent now. 

100% on board with this.

But I'm a bit tired of the Biden Bashing under TRUMP's Taliban deal.

The China-Russia-Iran Anti-Democracy Tripartite Threat is what is currently overriding everything else in International Importance.

"Keep your eye on the prize".

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1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

Since TRUMP SOLD that Farm to the Taliban...

You are correct.

Biden got soldiers and many friendlies killed on the botched pull out. He will be remembered for this by the military community. 

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1 hour ago, romad1 said:

I'll be honest.  I think the trade if it had to be made for a more East Asia/Europe centered defense with our Navy and less heavy forces watching the center makes more sense.   The idea is to protect what is important.  Afghanistan was the lesson in how amazing we are at projecting force anywhere.   The big boy war is what we need to prevent now. 

Sometimes you just can't keep pushing uphill against the realities of the geography. If Afghanistan were not landlocked, and you had a capital either on or with a defensible route to the sea, maybe you could have pacified and protected at least one major population center and let your nation building percolate outward - assuming you could even do that successfully, But Kabul had hostiles over the horizon in almost every direction. With no support for a western agenda anywhere in the hinterlands, and the fractured ethnic situation, Kabul was an ill-omened place to try and plant a western flag.

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12 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Sometimes you just can't keep pushing uphill against the realities of the geography. If Afghanistan were not landlocked, and you had a capital either on or with a defensible route to the sea, maybe you could have pacified and protected at least one major population center and let your nation building percolate outward - assuming you could even do that successfully, But Kabul had hostiles over the horizon in almost every direction. With no support for a western agenda anywhere in the hinterlands, and the fractured ethnic situation, Kabul was an ill-omened place to try and plant a western flag.

We learned nothing from the Russian/Afghan war and had the exact same outcome. Except we left billions and billions of military equipment behind.

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12 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Biden got soldiers and many friendlies killed on the botched pull out. He will be remembered for this by the military community. 

Trump's deal allowed 5,000 Taliban terrorists out of prison.

The intelligence community told Biden and his team that Afghan National forces could hold off the Taliban for at least another 18 mths - 2 years.

Biden was ready to start pulling troops out in February. His generals said: "We're not ready, please push this back at least 6 months." He did that. Based on their request and the intelligence community's advice.

SURPRISE!!! The Taliban wiped out the Afghani National forces in 3 months.

 

But yeah... Biden got soldiers and friendlies killed. It's all his fault.

In other words, you don't have a clue. Are you MAGA? I'm just asking based on what you're showing us here... I won't judge... just curious.

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30 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Trump's deal allowed 5,000 Taliban terrorists out of prison.

The intelligence community told Biden and his team that Afghan National forces could hold off the Taliban for at least another 18 mths - 2 years.

Biden was ready to start pulling troops out in February. His generals said: "We're not ready, please push this back at least 6 months." He did that. Based on their request and the intelligence community's advice.

SURPRISE!!! The Taliban wiped out the Afghani National forces in 3 months.

 

But yeah... Biden got soldiers and friendlies killed. It's all his fault.

In other words, you don't have a clue. Are you MAGA? I'm just asking based on what you're showing us here... I won't judge... just curious.

 Negative I am not MAGA. We are the strongest military in the world and were muscled out by a Militia. We could have found a way to hold onto our fortified bases and evacuated the hundreds of interpreters and other personal who laid their life along with their families lives on the line. The gravity of that betrayal is lost in the U.S. They were all slaughtered, women and children. That was a choice the administration made on their own. 

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5 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 Negative I am not MAGA. We are the strongest military in the world and were muscled out by a Militia. We could have found a way to hold onto our fortified bases and evacuated the hundreds of interpreters and other personal who laid their life along with their families lives on the line. The gravity of that betrayal is lost in the U.S. They were all slaughtered, women and children. That was a choice the administration made on their own. 

FYI Joe Biden was a senator so you don't get to trash him.  That's bullying 

 

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8 minutes ago, pfife said:

FYI Joe Biden was a senator so you don't get to trash him.  That's bullying 

 

You smoking the good good tonight Cheefer? We pulled out the summer of 2021, lol. Trump still pulling the strings then? Remember, I am the dumb neck bearder….

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2 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

You smoking the good good tonight Cheefer? We pulled out the summer of 2021, lol. Trump still pulling the strings then? Remember, I am the dumb neck bearder….

As I said, he was a Senator.   Are you arguing he wasn't a Senator?

Why are you bullying me about my correctness? 

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