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Afghanistan
Generation GWOT And The Fall Of Afghanistan
2021-08-19
[OffTheReservation]
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#6  So true, the word from the frontline door smashers. Very moving too, that bit about being needed again, if a little sad. I doubt men like Austin and Biden's loon troupe will ever let America retain its effective deterrence.

But worse than that America has a regime problem and needs to focus on the domestic.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-19 10:35  

#5  Imagine the hilarious stories

Shiite Muslim men cut their heads with SWORDS as they take part in bloodletting mourning rituals to mark the holy day of Ashura
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-19 10:05  

#4  Imagine the hilarious stories about muzz still trying to go into Kabul and dying "because of the djinns" a few days later.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-19 09:30  

#3  If there was ever a place where you could have deployed a nuke to make a statement. Afghanistan was the place. Should have been done on 9/12. There would be entire countries still having a migraine from concentrating on it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-19 09:27  

#2  A valuable read. The only generation that came home with similar experience was the World War II generation, but man for man I think he’s right Gen GWOT.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-19 09:24  

#1  I agree with most points made in the article except the false dichotomy between masochistic submission and genocide of the enemy.

There were many options available (both miltary and political) that would have restored Western deterrence by being sufficiently punitive well short of being genocidal.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2021-08-19 08:50  

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