withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea? (Read 153714 times)

changemyoil66

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #140 on: August 16, 2021, 06:26:40 PM »
Pics released, not many women and children. Like 90-95% men.

So where are these refugees 1st stop and where is the end stop?

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Flapp_Jackson

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #141 on: August 16, 2021, 06:38:17 PM »
Worst administration ever.

REPORTER: "So there's no US actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else?"

MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: "I don't have the answer to that question."



https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1427401118334717957

There are a variety of rationales for leaving equipment vs. destroying it.   In this situation, the equipment was left with FRIENDLIES.  Much like when we do exercises in foreign countries.  The phone lines, electrical runs, fiber optic and ethernet runs are all left for the locals.  They usually allow contractors to pay the government for the privilege of removing the infrastructure parts and equipment which they then use or sell for their own profit.

If this were a withdrawal in the face of a US/Ally defeat, then the equipment would have been taken with our troops or destroyed in place.

If the people we gave it to let it get taken from them, that's not our fault.  They should have USED some of the stuff we left them to defend all that stuff.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #142 on: August 16, 2021, 07:01:28 PM »
'Bidens approval higher than Trumps' ....

Probably not after everyone sees this.

Footage of an Afghan caught in the landing gear of the C17 that transported civilians out of Kabul earlier today…


https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1427465849779146754

hvybarrels

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #143 on: August 16, 2021, 07:16:03 PM »
Refugees are heading to Guam, which probably means this is the next stop for at least some of them.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/hawaii-congressional-delegates-urge-biden-speed-up-airlift-of-afghans/
Pretending to be offended does not make you a good person.

omnigun

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #144 on: August 16, 2021, 07:18:02 PM »
'Bidens approval higher than Trumps' ....

Probably not after everyone sees this.

Footage of an Afghan caught in the landing gear of the C17 that transported civilians out of Kabul earlier today…


https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1427465849779146754

Natural selection, not really bidens fault.  If you try and catch a plane by the tires what do you expect.   

omnigun

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #145 on: August 16, 2021, 07:18:57 PM »
Refugees are heading to Guam, which probably means this is the next stop for at least some of them.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/hawaii-congressional-delegates-urge-biden-speed-up-airlift-of-afghans/

Fu%k that.   Vet the living fu%k out then and only let them in if qualified.  We ain't a charity case. 

hvybarrels

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #146 on: August 16, 2021, 07:20:09 PM »
Pretending to be offended does not make you a good person.

Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #147 on: August 16, 2021, 07:53:40 PM »


groveler

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #148 on: August 16, 2021, 09:00:00 PM »
'Bidens approval higher than Trumps' ....

Probably not after everyone sees this.

Footage of an Afghan caught in the landing gear of the C17 that transported civilians out of Kabul earlier today…


https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1427465849779146754
I was in the air force and spent over twenty years  at Boeing.
in Experimental flight test.  I know a little bit about aircraft.
I feel sorry for the ground crew that has to clean up the mess
that Moslem is making out of the airplane.
Most people don't think about this, but do you understand
how fast those tires are spinning once the aircraft rotates?
Last place you want to be is close to the tires.
There are brakes for them.
The wheel flaps are fast and very strong.
Not that I like Moslems, but hopefully his head was instantly crushed.




Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #149 on: August 16, 2021, 09:09:46 PM »

Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #150 on: August 16, 2021, 09:10:28 PM »

omnigun

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #151 on: August 16, 2021, 10:13:39 PM »


lol

macsak

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #152 on: August 17, 2021, 05:21:41 AM »

Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #153 on: August 17, 2021, 07:18:46 AM »
Quoting Nick Fuentes? Really? Why not see what David Duke has to say about it as well? Damn you are a moron.

omnigun

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #154 on: August 17, 2021, 07:29:08 AM »
Quoting Nick Fuentes? Really? Why not see what David Duke has to say about it as well? Damn you are a moron.

You quote Bernie/AOC and other fringe democrat people as if they represent the majority. 
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Glasser

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #155 on: August 17, 2021, 07:42:52 AM »
A random YouTube streamer is the same thing as 2 elected officials who actually make policy? You really are retarded.

RSN172

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #156 on: August 17, 2021, 08:18:24 AM »
I greatly underestimated the cost of the Afghan war at 1 trillion $.
This is from the AP.
Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.
Estimated interest costs by 2050: Up to $6.5 trillion.
Amount Bilmes estimates the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans: more than $2 trillion.
Period those costs will peak: after 2048.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Happily living in Puna

changemyoil66

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #157 on: August 17, 2021, 08:30:09 AM »
Taliban confiscating guns cause the people are safe now.  Wait a month.

aieahound

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #158 on: August 17, 2021, 09:27:10 AM »
Back to Square One.
George W. was an idiot. Or is it just not smart ?

There was never an exit strategy.
Not a feasible one anyway.
And if anyone says Trump had one I will laugh so hard I will fall out of my chair.

But this is definitely a Shit Show.
On Biden’s watch.

hvybarrels

Re: withdrawal from Afghanistan, bad idea?
« Reply #159 on: August 17, 2021, 09:52:24 AM »
Quoting Nick Fuentes? Really? Why not see what David Duke has to say about it as well? Damn you are a moron.

Have you not noticed that the guy is a total racist?

He has several posts literally advocating for eugenics.

My guess is that a lot of his motivation for harassing us comes from his disdain of mixed race people.
Pretending to be offended does not make you a good person.