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I’m as big a Trump hater as anyone, but you can’t be serious here…. Trump, for all his flaws, would have evacuated people before military and I doubt it would ever have gotten to that.  Trump is many,

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So we’ve been told today that:   Our President hasn’t spoken to any other world leaders since the fall of Kabul.     We can’t guarantee that we’ll get every American out.     A

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  On 9/1/2021 at 6:56 PM, SectionC3 said:

Had to kill Osama, first.  You know

better, HCQ man.  Now, once Osama was deader than a trumper on ivermectin, it was time to go. 

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Ah yes, Osama.  The guy who was long-retired and watching goat porn by the time he was killed, just in time for Obama's re-election.  No, not an answer in any way shape or form, especially since Obama had 4 more years after that.

 

Try again, Gibbons.

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  On 9/1/2021 at 8:45 PM, Over 29 years of fanhood said:


yes! The “war” was very little of the 20 year timeline. The country was stable with 2500 troops.  There hadn’t been combat fatalities in a year and a half. There’s something that still doesn’t add up about the way we got out and how. 
 

Maybe a deal or forced by China maybe Russia. How the whole thing occurred defied logic. And we left like $80 billion in gear as if we were surprised we actually were leaving. It’s so odd. 

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I would put my money on china. They own biden and they are desperate to go in and extract the lithium in Afghanistan.

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  On 9/1/2021 at 8:45 PM, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

yes! The “war” was very little of the 20 year timeline. The country was stable with 2500 troops.  There hadn’t been combat fatalities in a year and a half. There’s something that still doesn’t add up about the way we got out and how. 
 

Maybe a deal or forced by China maybe Russia. How the whole thing occurred defied logic. And we left like $80 billion in gear as if we were surprised we actually were leaving. It’s so odd. 

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That's amazing, considering Trump released 5,000 Taliban fighters...

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  On 9/1/2021 at 10:49 PM, Doc said:

 

Ah yes, Osama.  The guy who was long-retired and watching goat porn by the time he was killed, just in time for Obama's re-election.  No, not an answer in any way shape or form, especially since Obama had 4 more years after that.

 

Try again, Gibbons.

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You’re having quite a day.  Talking about banging 17 year olds and goat porn in one 24 hour period.  Pretty sick if you ask me, but I guess that’s one of the side effects of excessive HCQ consumption.  

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  On 9/1/2021 at 8:52 PM, SectionC3 said:

Check on Russia. 

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Have you looked at a map of Europe lately?

 

And (though I’m not advocating for maintaining a base there) Afghanistan borders Iran, China and always shaky nuclear-armed Pakistan. So by your measure of usefulness, Afghanistan is a pretty good location. 
 


 

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  On 9/2/2021 at 12:54 PM, snafu said:


Have you looked at a map of Europe lately?

 

And (though I’m not advocating for maintaining a base there) Afghanistan borders Iran, China and always shaky nuclear-armed Pakistan. So by your measure of usefulness, Afghanistan is a pretty good location. 
 


 

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Try looking at a physical map rather than a political map.  

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  On 9/2/2021 at 12:28 PM, BillStime said:


You wanna see garbage? These four idiots

 

 

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I blame @doc.  If he had told these guys about HCQ and zinc and ZPACS and magic loogies then they would have been safe.  

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  On 9/2/2021 at 12:46 PM, Irv said:

You follow this clown.  Rather lied about President Bush and CBS canned him in 2006.  Piece of garbage.  

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Why isn't he busy interviewing old rock stars. The only time I have seen him recently was on Axys before I dropped that tier  from the cable.

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  On 9/1/2021 at 11:13 PM, Bidens_basement said:

I would put my money on china. They own biden and they are desperate to go in and extract the lithium in Afghanistan.

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My expectation is China will fare no better than Russia or America here.  The Chinese will "make nice" at the start with all kinds of investments and incentives which the Afghans will accept.  Then they'll seek to exploit the resources of the country.  But won't stop there.  They'll embark on a mission to colonize the country similar to what they're doing, with few paying attention to what's happening, in parts of Africa.  Moving 100's of thousands, millions of Chinese citizens into the country while building segregated and gated Chinese cities.  Pushing the native inhabitants out of the picture.  Eventually the locals, the Taliban, and the war lords will get sick of the Chinese and work to expel them.  Give it a couple years.  And to top it off I wouldn't be at all surprised if at some point the US intelligence services and the military through discreet and secret arrangements becomes a silent "partner" with the Taliban when it comes time to take it to China here.  Part of the idea is that before taking on China directly the US will need to engage in a few proxy wars to assess and understand their capabilities in live fire settings and this might be one of those opportunities.  As the US through its actions has already provided that recon info to China. 

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  On 9/2/2021 at 2:24 PM, All_Pro_Bills said:

My expectation is China will fare no better than Russia or America here.  The Chinese will "make nice" at the start with all kinds of investments and incentives which the Afghans will accept.  Then they'll seek to exploit the resources of the country.  But won't stop there.  They'll embark on a mission to colonize the country similar to what they're doing, with few paying attention to what's happening, in parts of Africa.  Moving 100's of thousands, millions of Chinese citizens into the country while building segregated and gated Chinese cities.  Pushing the native inhabitants out of the picture.  Eventually the locals, the Taliban, and the war lords will get sick of the Chinese and work to expel them.  Give it a couple years.  And to top it off I wouldn't be at all surprised if at some point the US intelligence services and the military through discreet and secret arrangements becomes a silent "partner" with the Taliban when it comes time to take it to China here.  Part of the idea is that before taking on China directly the US will need to engage in a few proxy wars to assess and understand their capabilities in live fire settings and this might be one of those opportunities.  As the US through its actions has already provided that recon info to China. 

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Sounds like another Korean War might be in our future.

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