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2017-02-04 Afghanistan

The Travel Ban Endangers Special Operations Forces

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-04 08:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 We've been conducting Foreign Internal Defense (FID) missions and training indigenous forces in Iraq and Afghanistan for how many years....and suddenly Donald Trump is now responsible for continuing mission (host nation) failure and the death of a SEAL operator in Yemen ?

Total rubbish.

An 'ominous' Petraeus quote lead-in, absolutely priceless.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-04 09:01|| 2017-02-04 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe we should stop training our enemies and then letting them into the US.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-02-04 09:33|| 2017-02-04 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Good thing these people weren't around in WW2.

"We must cancel the Doolittle raid! It will only make the Japs want to bomb us some more!"

Posted by charger 2017-02-04 10:42|| 2017-02-04 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Stop calling them violent or they'll kill us!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-04 12:29|| 2017-02-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 A kind of Bizarro-Finlandization apparently is now a mainstream Western political doctrine.

We are witnessing a process by which a group of weak and failed countries strongly influences the policies of a a group of prosperous and overwhelmingly powerful countries, while allowing them to nominally keep their independence and political system.

Why shouldn't e.g. Russia and China conclude that the West has gone mad?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-02-04 23:07|| 2017-02-04 23:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Hate to break the news to you Devil Dog but our FID missions in IRQ and AFG have been total failures. 100's of SF lives and 100's of millions of dollars - failure. IRQ is lost and AFG is Vietnam in late 71 early 72 - just waiting for the Easter Offensive. We f'd up both places and we just don't have the sense or balls to own up it.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2017-02-04 23:24|| 2017-02-04 23:24|| Front Page Top

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