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2018-05-26 Afghanistan

US’s 17-Year Effort To Stabilize Parts Of Afghanistan Fails

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 As long as Pakistan is not a parking lot, you're not taking out a major factor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-05-26 07:48|| 2018-05-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 some of it siphoned off by corrupt officials,

How much wound up in the Clinton Foundation?

Posted by AlanC 2018-05-26 08:20|| 2018-05-26 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Forget it, Jake. It's Afghanistan.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-05-26 10:10|| 2018-05-26 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Get out as quickly as we can and with as little warning as possible, but leave a note:

"If it happens again, we will erase your godforsaken little patch of filth, and everyone who enabled you. There will be no aid, there will be no 'rebuilding'. We will act with all the brutality and cruelty that the world has attributed to us for the last seventy-three years.

It would be wise to listen."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-05-26 11:05|| 2018-05-26 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee... its almost as if that was the plan or something.

Impossible - we had the *Lightbringer* in charge!

On wait...

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-05-26 11:49|| 2018-05-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 A playbill, a fable, a cable:
"Afghanistan soon will be stable!
Don't mind feeble whiners,"
Cried capable diners
Whose bellies pushed forward their table.

Paraphrase, not endorsement.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-05-26 14:16|| 2018-05-26 14:16|| Front Page Top

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