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Check in if you're not melting over 4000 new troops in Afghanistan.

Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:29 pm
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:29 pm
This is not a big deal.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35528 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:31 pm to
If it is 4000 I just don't understand the point.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
119044 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:31 pm to
Not melting b/c 4000 is a media number. Not a Ttump and generals number.

So I don't know whether to melt or not. Let me know when I should.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142507 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:32 pm to
are trannies included?

non-navy trannies that is
Posted by 9th life
birmingham
Member since Sep 2009
7310 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:32 pm to
Didnt you already start this thread?
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
80413 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:32 pm to
We're not going to tell them or the American people how many American troops we're sending.

And this is somehow ok. Hello Pentagon Papers part 2
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
War Damn Eagle Dad!
Member since Oct 2010
105453 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:32 pm to
No one is melting about a number dumbass.

It's the fact we are sending troops at all. For me anyway. You already did this dumb thread.
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
19632 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:34 pm to
Posted by Errerrerrwere
Member since Aug 2015
38379 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:34 pm to
quote:

If it is 4000 I just don't understand the point.
Posted by Abadeebadaba
LSU fan @ FSU
Member since Sep 2010
4983 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:38 pm to
quote:

This is not a big deal.

Says the fukstick that is sitting on his computer talking shite. I don't want to watch more Americans have to risk their lives for people that don't care about anything but wanting to take power over the country.
Posted by LSUTIGER in TEXAS
Member since Jan 2008
13610 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:38 pm to
more importantly, are we sending the proper amount of women and LBGTQ community?!? Because equality >>> winning wars

/kamala Harris
Posted by BoogahEatah
Live on Stage
Member since Jan 2004
4146 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:40 pm to
Gotta protect those poppy fields
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142507 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:40 pm to
quote:

I don't want to watch more Americans have to risk their lives for people that don't care about anything but wanting to take power over the country.
So you support cops over BLM, Antifa, and the Democratic Party?
Posted by funnystuff
Member since Nov 2012
8358 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:41 pm to
Not melting, but definitely not stoked. Our last few presidents, who totally weren't nation builders, did a widely horrible job of nation building. It's made the world worse and it's made me cynical about this type escalation.


That said, I'll remain cautiously hopeful that this is the president to finally break that trend. Time will tell.
This post was edited on 8/21/17 at 10:44 pm
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
72216 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:42 pm to
I'm not melting, but I do not like it in any form.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35651 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:43 pm to
quote:

If it is 4000 I just don't understand the point.


Maintaing presence, paying the piper back home...keeping Halliburton and their contracts groovy.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
82355 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:44 pm to
You're a milquetoast Republican - of course it's not a big deal to you
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:46 pm to
quote:

If it is 4000 I just don't understand the point.


16 SF/seals can train and lead hundreds of Afghan troops, including provide recon and intel.

Regular infantry can deploy and defend forward artillery positions to support the above.

4000 isn't an occupation force, but it's plenty to do a ton of damage to the enemy
This post was edited on 8/21/17 at 10:47 pm
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35528 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:48 pm to
When you account for support 4000 is only a few combat arms battalions.
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 8/21/17 at 10:52 pm to
Additional 4000 right? Even 4 SEAL or SF squadrons lead to an exponential increase in fire power when running FID rather than DA Ops. A couple artillery battalions and to support them and its a lot of firepower IMO
(Edited to remove couple hundred artillery battalions)

Not saying they couldn't use more, not saying they should have less, just saying if utilized properly those 4000 will make life a lot tougher on the taliban
This post was edited on 8/21/17 at 11:01 pm
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