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2017-03-27 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2017-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 The town has literally been a major killing field for British, US and Afghan soldiers over the past 16 years of war in Afghanistan.

We been at this for a long time. WWII began on 12/7/1941 and ended in 1945; just 4 years. Is there a strategy in Afghanistan?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-27 09:17|| 2017-03-27 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The US has not won a foreign war it led. As I recall we entered the European theater/et. al. late in the hostilities. Just as Russia was mobilizing and pushing back against the Germans.

I think the state of Japan was crushed by a technological marvel, diminishing resources and an overextended logistics chain, not battle superiority.

As you know fighting a war in someone else's land is logistically costly. Hundreds of billions spent, the level of the National Debt, and we still haven't crushed the enemy. Pretty much because we don't know who he is.

The amazing point I think is that we have managed to continue, albeit abated, as a functioning society even with this remarkable drain of resources.

One of the (many) questions I ask myself is how might those resources have been applied were we not trying to occupy a foreign continent, not trying to feed the world, not trying for total eradication of disease and not trying to educate primitives as an instrument of cultural suppression.

I'm afraid the answer is that we would simply buy more shiny 'Made in ....' discardable toys because the national manufacturing mandate will have been tooled for war machines.
/rant

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-27 11:08|| 2017-03-27 11:08|| Front Page Top

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