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2021-08-16 Afghanistan

Lessons to Learn from the Loss of Afghanistan

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Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-16 10:15|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 I see.

BZZZT! Zero lessons learnt. And shit for advice, Mr Jarrett.

'Close your eyes and think of home, and maybe you won't feel the machete when it comes.'

More than half the good decisions made by humanity were reactions to the sight of their citadels falling.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-16 10:50|| 2021-08-16 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "Grabbing a cat by the tail teaches a man something he can learn in no other way."

- Mark Twain

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 10:57|| 2021-08-16 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 One lesson Jarrett didn't learn is that when you see a society as awful as he described it then why ask people to put their lives at risk to protect that society. Why funnel money into a society that bad?

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-16 11:46|| 2021-08-16 11:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Big problem is way too many people fell for the Three Cups of Tea bushwah...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 12:21|| 2021-08-16 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The USA is beginning to sound like Afghanistan, stolen elections and crooked politicians.

Posted by Gpa Cooky 2021-08-16 13:18|| 2021-08-16 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Spot on #5. Put a Democrat in charge and you are out of money and nothing is done.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-16 13:21|| 2021-08-16 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Lessons:
1. Don't nation build. US military is the best at winning wars, not at nation building.
2. Learn from the soviets. Use advisors to teach the locals to do things themselves but don't take over a war for them because it is too easily spun as foreign occupation and it is too easily perverted by corruption all around.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-16 13:41|| 2021-08-16 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Next time, ask yourself, "What would the Roman Army do? And do that."

Posted by Silentbrick 2021-08-16 14:37|| 2021-08-16 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Bet that superhighway from Karachi to Kabul is sounding good now.

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

#10 Don't nation build.

It's actually a rather transparent scam. The host 'nation' foments trouble, or lets things go to seed and factions fight to the point intervention can be invited. They approach those wonderful people in Washington who for all you know schooled them and gave step-by-step instructions in how to appear totally fcuked to the world. Then begin the presentations to all the House committees and the reports come in from the Vindmans all around, enabling the LOTUS to declare an 'important mission for America'.

And in go the C17s, tents are pitched and another ice cream cone is ready.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-16 23:12|| 2021-08-16 23:12|| Front Page Top

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