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2021-05-09 Afghanistan

US Sends More Warplanes to Protect Afghan Withdrawal

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 "They’re fighting for their own country now, so it’s not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, or any of those kinds of dire predictions," Milley said. "That’s not a foregone conclusion. There’s a significant military capability in the Afghan government. We have to see how this plays out."

...There's yer problem right there.

THEY DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY. They have a series of connected, clan/tribal ruled regions with shifting loyalties to one another and where being a cousin counts for far, far more more than what hopeless political faction you may be associated with. On top of that, they certainly never cared about utterly imaginary and arbitrary lines on a map, drawn in a room somewhere they'd never even heard of, much less cared about.

The only thing - the only God-blessed thing that would have made a difference - would have been if we'd have gone full SPQR on the place for a couple years, and then left with a warning. It would have only held until this generation died off and the next one forgot the tales of what it was like the night the Americans came, but it would have been better than the waste of lives and treasure we got.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-09 08:02|| 2021-05-09 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The source of the problem lies in Pakistan. We never went after the source.

Posted by Slens Angineting7010 2021-05-09 09:05|| 2021-05-09 09:05|| Front Page Top

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