- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: HR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise'
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:17 am to jatilen
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:17 am to jatilen
quote:
“Well I think what he did with this new policy is he in effect is partnering with the Taliban against, in many ways, the Afghan government,” McMaster told CBS’s Scott Pelley in a portion of the interview released by the network Thursday.
Our intervention in the affairs of Afghanistan should go on forever and ever lest Al-Quaeda will come back and get us I guess. How long have we been hanging around there? I don't give on shite about what he says. He is the military equivalent of an entrenched job for life bureaucrat. He's part of the military industrial complex.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:19 am to jatilen
20 years and 1 Trillion spent in that country alone isn't enough?
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:41 am to jatilen
Just a few trillion more dollars and another 20 years and we'll achieve our goal of whatever the frick we are pretending to do over there. McMaster promises.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:52 am to rsbd
quote:
War mongers gonna war monger
I second this.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 6:53 am to jatilen
The taliban was never a threat to the us. Al Qaeda was.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:01 am to jatilen
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:02 am to jatilen
So it is actually "wise" then
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:02 am to jatilen
Joe Biden's administration will do the bidding of the MIC. There's a reason the neocon right was firmly behind Clinton. There's a reason the neocon right is behind Biden. They've become one and the same. So Decatur, texridder, TigerDoc, Mickey, George West, 56lsu and the rest of the prog brigade will whine about kids being separated at the border but have no problem with our military permanently separating kids from their parents via war and occupation.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:06 am to jatilen
No. Just no. They have to decide what is important to themselves. American lives and money is not the answer. If they want their freedom they are going to have to fight for it. Enough is enough. The only people who want us to remain are those who profit from our enduring presence.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:07 am to jatilen
These retired military officials thinking they are the most important people are the worst
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:11 am to jatilen
Let me guess. McMaster’s preferred timeline is: never.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:16 am to jatilen
quote:
and I think what we require in Afghanistan is a sustained commitment to help the Afghan government and help the Afghan security forces to continue to bear the brunt of this fight
nope. Gtfo
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:17 am to boosiebadazz
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t recall retired generals attempting to influence politics this much in the past.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:18 am to jatilen
H.R has always been a show off. The genius should volunteer to go to Afghanistan in a private capacity if he likes it there so much.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:22 am to roadGator
quote:
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t recall retired generals attempting to influence politics this much in the past.
One could almost surmise $$$ is involved- as crazy as that sounds.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:22 am to jatilen
quote:
what we require in Afghanistan is a sustained commitment
Yeah, 20 years is past long enough... way past long enough for the Afghan people to get it together and move forward...
We have invested way more capital and blood than we ever should have...
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:38 am to boot
quote:
frick Afghanistan.
Yep. The Russians were there for over nine years, the U.S. has been there for 19 years. No lasting peace has been established yet. Enough is enough.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:57 am to jatilen
So, we stay 50? 100? 1000 years?
FFS - we should have deleted Afghanistan in 2001 and we wouldn't have to deal with this shite.
FFS - we should have deleted Afghanistan in 2001 and we wouldn't have to deal with this shite.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:00 am to RICHIE APRILE
quote:
frick the middle east, they have always been fighting over there, they always will be fighting over there, no point in being there. Bring all our troops home from the region.
We need to bring our troops home from everywhere.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:02 am to jatilen
The White Man's Burden
TAKE up the White Man's burden -
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden -
The savage wars of peace -
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden -
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper -
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead !
Take up the White Man's burden -
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard -
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night ?"
Take up the White Man's burden -
Ye dare not stoop to less -
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden -
Have done with childish days -
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.
TAKE up the White Man's burden -
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden -
The savage wars of peace -
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden -
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper -
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead !
Take up the White Man's burden -
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard -
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night ?"
Take up the White Man's burden -
Ye dare not stoop to less -
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden -
Have done with childish days -
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News