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2012-01-03 Afghanistan

Removing $30B Worth of Gear From Afghanistan a Logistical Nightmare

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2012-01-03 14:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Putting it in there and keeping it operational is a daily logistical nightmare. It has always been thus in the hell-hole that is A-stan. This battle is a drain on us and weakens us strategically. Better to let the savages have this near worthless ground while we focus on more important locales as the need arises.

Posted by remoteman 2012-01-03 15:58|| 2012-01-03 15:58|| Front Page Top

#2 If the 'savages' use the land to train and plan newvattacks on us then it is not 'wothless'. Please recall why we went there in the first place.

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-03 16:04|| 2012-01-03 16:04|| Front Page Top

#3 We didn't go there to build a nation. We went there to get bin Laden and throw the Taliban out. Both missions were accomplished. Shoulda left 8 years ago.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-01-03 16:25|| 2012-01-03 16:25|| Front Page Top

#4 I wouldn't argue with that, with the provision that our leaving doesn't leave the door wide open to al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, I think the Taliban would invite them back into that miserable excuse for a country in about five seconds after we left.

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-03 16:48|| 2012-01-03 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 And Karzai would be dead in 6 minutes, Steve.

Whether he thinks so or not.

Posted by Barbara 2012-01-03 19:08|| 2012-01-03 19:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Just anuther reason among many, past + future, for US or US-led unilateral war agz Iran.

Agree wid #2 - the 9-11 attacks agz NYC was a MIXED GROUP EFFORT = CONSPIRACY, of which OSAMA + Al-QAEDA + TALIBAN, to include Radical Islam as a movement, are merely the most famous or notorious. LOTS OF THINGYS ARE STILL THERE HANGING ON THE TREE OF JIHAD + ALIGNED FOR THE US + ALLIES TO FIGHT + DEFEAT.

IIRC CNN > Interview wid WALID PHARES > believes that at a Vertical level, while the US has successfully reduced, vee combat + drone strikes, much of the top leadership of AQ + Taliban, at the Horizontal level IT IS SEEING AL-QAEDA EXPAND OR FORM POTENS MORE VIOLENT NEW GROUPS = QAEDA AFFILIATES THROUGHOUT NORTH AFRICA.

E.g. EGYPT is, after all, AYMAN ZAWAHIRI home land.

* IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [India Today]CHINA SECRETLY WANTS TO BUILD MILITARY BASES IN PAKISTAN, SAYS INTELLIGENCE REPORT.

IMO iff true read, GWADAR + KARACHI - subread, PLA NAVAL, AIR BASES IN PERSIAN GULF [Iran again] + NEAR NORTHERN INDIA [West = NW Indjuh, IOR].

* SAME > {Russia Today] ROGOZIN: NATO [US-led gross interference in Muslim, Regional affairs] BEHIND THE [successful] SPREAD OF RADICAL ISLAM, to "relatively secular" Arab-Muslim States + Regions, wid "un-intended consequences" for neighboring countries including Mama Russia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-03 20:58|| 2012-01-03 20:58|| Front Page Top

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