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2021-08-30 Economy

Why Americans will be paying for the cost of the war in Afghanistan for decades

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 08:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Because there are, as always, GOPe idiots on TV saying we need to go back and throw even more blood and treasure at the permanent mess.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 08:56|| 2021-08-30 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I have even seen reporting of the "possible need to returning to AFG to get ISIS-K'.... or whatever it is being referred to.

Someone needs to start publishing a '~~Small~~ New Wars' or 'New Crisis' Journal.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 09:01|| 2021-08-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Now VDH is in the "we gotta go back" camp. At the rate this is going, there will be no sane voices left on the matter.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 10:50|| 2021-08-30 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 If we go back it should be special forces targetting things for airpower the way we won in the first place. Minimal footprint. No nation building and 15,000 civilians.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-30 11:20|| 2021-08-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Let the people who wanna go back go back. Just don't ask me to pay for it and don't expect any sympathy when they get their butts blown off.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-30 11:30|| 2021-08-30 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 At this point I can't see how anybody suggesting we should continue to throw even more blood and treasure at the permanent mess can in any way be called rational or sane.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 11:32|| 2021-08-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "Going back"...from 30,000 feet possibly.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 11:34|| 2021-08-30 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I've reserved all of my respect and sympathy for the people who already served and sacrificed over there when our so-called leaders convinced them that it was a noble cause. By now we should have learned our lesson.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-30 11:35|| 2021-08-30 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 To anyone who steps in with "but, but, we have to restore respect for US power, our credibility," I would say the only way you get that respect back is to utterly destroy the Taliban, Al-Quaeda, ISIS, and the whole rest of that ever expanding zoo / cesspool. Total annihilation.

Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 11:42|| 2021-08-30 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Taxpayers have already spent $925 billion in interest payments

Ain't nothing compared to Queen Nancy's multi-trillion dollar robbery of the Treasury she's pushing. The American citizenry and any decedents are being sold into involuntary servitude.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-30 12:12|| 2021-08-30 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Just keep them out of our country. Is that too much to ask?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-30 12:13|| 2021-08-30 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Russians had a go. Americans had a go. Now it's China's turn.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-30 12:15|| 2021-08-30 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Grom, don't forget England had a go as well.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-30 13:08|| 2021-08-30 13:08|| Front Page Top

#14 In 2001 the problem with Afghanistan was that it couldn't be bombed back into the stone age.

Posted by European Conservative 2021-08-30 14:03|| 2021-08-30 14:03|| Front Page Top

#15 #1 Because there are, as always, GOPe idiots on TV saying we need to go back and throw even more blood and treasure at the permanent mess.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 08:56|| 2021-08-30 08:56|

More US troops were KIA under Dem Pres Obama than any other president. Osama Bin Laden set his 9/11 US attack plan in the later part of Dem Pres ~~Hillary~~ Bill Clinton term and was executed just months into Bush's term due to dissarray in US intel sharing.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-30 14:51|| 2021-08-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#16 saying we need to go back

OK, but only at close to 50,000' to deliver their next load of explosive supplies ...

Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-30 15:20|| 2021-08-30 15:20|| Front Page Top

#17 #13 Touché.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-30 15:56|| 2021-08-30 15:56|| Front Page Top

#18 Look at the bright side:
The Tahlli Bahn two. point. oh. have at least one person who can fly a Blackhawk, so it isn't all sitting around going to dust.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-30 17:06|| 2021-08-30 17:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Now VDH is in the "we gotta go back" camp.

Blow the bugle, draw the sword.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-30 18:12|| 2021-08-30 18:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Now VDH is in the "we gotta go back" camp.

No, he isn't - just read the article all thee way through.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-30 18:17|| 2021-08-30 18:17|| Front Page Top

#21 I didn't see that part, unless he said something outside the article or I missed it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-30 18:40|| 2021-08-30 18:40|| Front Page Top

#22 From the article: In an ideal world, Biden would order a nocturnal retaking of Bagram, shift all U.S. evacuation efforts there, and provide air cover for incoming and outcoming flights as well as retaliatory strikes on terrorist enclaves as necessary. He would tell the Taliban that $80 billion of free military stuff was enough of bribes and that any more obstructive efforts will be met with bombs, not more cash and weapons.

But i guess that isn't what he meant when he wrote it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-30 18:56|| 2021-08-30 18:56|| Front Page Top

#23 Took that as do something other that cuck out, but I see that now.

I would expect VDH to have read The Great Game.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-30 19:01|| 2021-08-30 19:01|| Front Page Top

#24 In an ideal world, Biden would order a nocturnal retaking of Bagram,

Control of Kabul was offered to the US by taliban. The Centcom General in charge refused. A post submitted for Tuesday.

Posted by Greck Thoque4148 2021-08-30 20:07|| 2021-08-30 20:07|| Front Page Top

#25 Just watching the news. It just makes me angry and disgusted all over again. The current leadership are a bunch of traitorous surrender monkeys. They all need to resign or be removed from office or rank in disgrace. Personally, I think they should be prosecuted. They don't deserve to be in office and represent the American people. God bless the rank and file for they did a good job. God bless those who went over there in good faith and did their jobs. God bless those who were injured and died. We should have not left in the way we did. We will pay the price for a long time to come.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-30 23:39|| 2021-08-30 23:39|| Front Page Top

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