And this right here is why an Army rolling on Toyota Trucks could take back the country in a couple days.

https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1426939587713241095


The Afghan Air Force didn’t take flight because — God help us — Joe Biden refused to let outside maintenance crews into Afghanistan, effectively grounding the fleet.

“The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country…” - Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 21, 2021. Milley had no idea what he was talking about.



https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1426896604464877570

That pic isn't right /  justified. GEN Milley is SF, combat diver and Ranger qual'd. Needless to say those aren't easy courses.

Well, the Taliban has taken over Kabul. The US left tons of military weapons and ammo for t h e Afgan army to fight the Taliban. Instead, they just gave up without a fight and the Taliban got all the equipment including aircraft.  Trillion $$,  thousands of lives lost, thousands of soldiers crippled for what?  Saddam Hussein kept everybody in line.  After the US took him out, chaos in the Middle East resulted.

That pic isn't right /  justified. GEN Milley is SF, combat diver and Ranger qual'd. Needless to say those aren't easy courses.

I can respect his quals, but under his leadership he has pushed CRT, the witch hunt for White Nationalists in the ranks and now the fall of Afghan Security Forces.  As posted earlier in this thread Gen Flynn complained to the IG that the Pentagon was flat out lying to the WH and Congress about how things were going in Afghanistan for YEARS. He was balls deep in both the leadership decisions in both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also lied to the WH and Congress about troops levels in Syria.

My opinion of him might change IF he falls on his sword and resigns over what happened this week. But taking responsibility isnt something people seem to do anymore.

Well, the Taliban has taken over Kabul. The US left tons of military weapons and ammo for t h e Afgan army to fight the Taliban. Instead, they just gave up without a fight and the Taliban got all the equipment including aircraft.  Trillion $$,  thousands of lives lost, thousands of soldiers crippled for what?  Saddam Hussein kept everybody in line.  After the US took him out, chaos in the Middle East resulted.

Yup. It’s fawked up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/taliban-seize-jalalabad-cut-off-030052842.html

Which President started this stupid shit ?
Republican or Democrat ?
Doomed from the beginning.
Not supporting either stupid side. Just asking
(Yes. I know the answer.)

Plus. 

Trump 'to order further troop withdrawal' from Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54968200
Was it Trump’s idea while still in office ?

This article lumps Biden and Trump in the same but separate boats.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-surrender-ugly-needless-220220347.html

Careful of the talking/writing head your listening to.
It’s in the classic quotes thread but I forget who posted it: seek the sound within the noise.

#WhyFourUserNames (mr. Flappjack)

Maybe if the Afghan women would have picked up a rifle instead of screeching about all the rights they're about to lose things would have turned out different.  Get to work, cupcake.

Maybe if the Afghan women would have picked up a rifle instead of screeching about all the rights they're about to lose things would have turned out different.  Get to work, cupcake.

I’m intrigued.  Does that mean ?

Excuse me. I mean elaborate.

I’m intrigued.  Does that mean ?

Excuse me. I mean elaborate.

Sure.  I'm saying they should have taken a page from the Kurd Ladies militias that beat down ISIS in Syria.  Equal rights require equal responsibilities.

Teaching the women marskmanship, small unit tactics and survival probably would have been a lot more helpful than what we decided we needed  to inject into their culture instead.


In 2015, Kabul University and UNDP launched Afghanistan’s first-ever Master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies. UNDP also inaugurated a Gender Resources Center within the faculty, equipped with computers, books and research materials.


I guess now they can explain to the Taliban about why the 'Wage Gap' and getting "Me Too'd' are bad.

Maybe if the Afghan women would have picked up a rifle instead of screeching about all the rights they're about to lose things would have turned out different.  Get to work, cupcake.

Says the person in a may-issue state where nothing gets issued

Says the person in a may-issue state where nothing gets issued

Touche!

This might have something to do with why the government never controlled the country. He might be qualified to head up a university, but probably knew nothing running a nation.


Ashraf Ghani, the deposed president of Afghanistan, was a professor who taught anthropology at UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins

Which President started this stupid shit ?
Republican or Democrat ?
Doomed from the beginning.
Not supporting either stupid side. Just asking.
Plus. 
Trump 'to order further troop withdrawal' from Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54968200
Was it Trump’s idea while still in office ?

This article lumps Biden and Trump in the same but separate boats.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-surrender-ugly-needless-220220347.html

#WhyFourUserNames (mr. Flappjack) ?

Who also started Iraq ? Boots on the ground. WMD’s.
Republican or Democrat ?
  My bad.
Way off topic.

Get the hell out of Afghanistan ASAP
None of the shit we left will be used against us but on control of their own Country. That’s our bet.
China gets the minerals. We get the finished or semi finished product  from China.
Win Win except the people of Afghanistan depending which side of the coin you’re looking at.

China going take over. Deal would be that they will stay out of A-stan's politics and lifestyle.  But allow China to harvest minerals and keep their workers safe.  In return they will pay Taliban or who ever is ruling A-stan.  China could care less if there's executions or stuff like that.  That is 1 thing they got going for them if they enter.

Word around town is the Afghan Government stopped paying the Army and the Police, and the Afghan President fled the country with so many buckets of money he had to abandon most of it. Nice job.