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2021-08-16 Afghanistan

Concerns Over Us Terror Threats Rising, More Troops Deployed As Taliban Takes Over [Military Times]

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Posted by Glolet Sholuse9176 2021-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 The coming plague of very swarthy, non-English speaking white supremacists.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 08:57|| 2021-08-16 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 How exactly will the evacuators be evacuated and by whom?

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-16 09:38|| 2021-08-16 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 One of my favorite things about this mess is imagining that there's more than one journalist out there shredding his lovingly written "Milley for prexident" story right now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 10:48|| 2021-08-16 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 RE #2: See
Anabasis by Xenophon.

Posted by Cromert 2021-08-16 16:10|| 2021-08-16 16:10|| Front Page Top

#5 An optimist.

History would lean more Khyber.

Thousands would be a lot of helicopter rides flying a long distance to....where? Uzbekh? Aren't they shooting down flying things?

Some Raid on Entebbe style ad-hoc airfield airlift?

Whatever it takes to secure those LBTBQWERTY flags from the embassy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-16 16:44|| 2021-08-16 16:44|| Front Page Top

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