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2021-08-18 Afghanistan

FNC's Tucker Carlson: ‘Why Did the Taliban Win? How Did the 6th Century Triumph over the 21st Century?'

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Posted by Clavique Chanter2227 2021-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Demon Marxism.

Posted by 3dc 2021-08-18 01:57|| 2021-08-18 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Cause those who are charge with waging war collect all the fancy toys but don't know what war has been since the middle of the last century. There is no substitute for destroying the enemy's means of conducting war. In this case destroying the enemy's base of operation, which was and is Pakistan. Further, it means breaking and killing on a large scale. That is too icky and uncomfortable for too many, they have no will to conduct war so engage in 'precision' and 'surgical' approaches as a substitute which is kabuki theater masquerading as war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-18 06:03|| 2021-08-18 06:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Nearly everything in government eventually becomes a costly enterprise. The so-called 'War on Terror' was no exception.

Need additional evidence, see "War on Poverty' followed by 'War on Drugs.'

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-18 07:24|| 2021-08-18 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 this wasnt a war. it was yet another enrichment exercise for politicians and the well-connected

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-08-18 07:42|| 2021-08-18 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Go read the long letter on Isty from a GO.

THOUGHTS ON AFGHANISTAN, from a senior military officer with whom I am acquainted:

"Of course, I blame President Biden for the disastrous retrograde operation still unfolding. But let us not allow that to deflect us from heaping even more blame on military leaders. They stonewalled President Trump rather than beginning deliberate preparations to exit the country when he told them to"

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-18 09:03|| 2021-08-18 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Procopius2k’s link

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-18 09:52|| 2021-08-18 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Home court advantage + it was never about "winning" as far as CIA, Pentagon and the Beltway Bandits were concerned. All way over Tucker's poor little head. He tied those bow ties too tight for too long before he got too weak to keep doing that...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 12:35|| 2021-08-18 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Does Insta whatever he is at the moment still thing Jake Tapper is an honest journalist? He yused to slaver over the guy.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 12:39|| 2021-08-18 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 The locals know that at some point the foreigners will leave and the savages will still be there so most will never go all in to save their country.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-18 12:47|| 2021-08-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#10 #2 What is the sword compared to the hand that holds it?

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-18 13:06|| 2021-08-18 13:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Procopius2k, didn't the Soviets try that?

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-18 19:55|| 2021-08-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Well. For one thing they allowed themselves to use the weightlifting facilities without Covid restrictions.

-watches video-

Wow. Yup.

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