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re: The last Americans are leaving Bagram Airfield this week, what do you think will happen?
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:02 pm to Nigel Farage
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:02 pm to Nigel Farage
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Afghanistan is supposed to have trillions in precious mineral deposits.
If this is true why didn’t the Russians or the U.S capitalize on this in the last 40 years?
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Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:03 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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He said Da Nang.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:07 pm to GetCocky11
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The most recent, at 12,000 feet long, was built in 2006 at a cost of $96 million.
In a third world country with lots of cheap labor.
What did they do? Fly in all the concrete?
*I'm sure a good chunk of that money ended up in DC pockets.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:08 pm to GetCocky11
Graveyard of Empires. Someone will get stuck in the quagmire again.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:12 pm to Obtuse1
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You wanna know how to make them stronger? That is how you make them stronger.
Well not really. They wont be stronger. They might be ash but definitely not stronger.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:20 pm to Mike da Tigah
Saigon fell because Congress cut funding.
I wonder if our client state will last as long as the Soviet one did. My guess is no.
I wonder if our client state will last as long as the Soviet one did. My guess is no.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:23 pm to CatfishJohn
American aid to the Afghan rebels destabilized the region, and damaged the tribal structure that was responsible for basic governance, creating a long term problem
In hindsight. I don’t know if we did the right thing.
In hindsight. I don’t know if we did the right thing.
This post was edited on 6/29/21 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 6/29/21 at 6:06 pm to Dawgwithnoname
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We should have wrecked it
Dude, it's fricking Afghanistan. I don't think turning their big rocks into smaller rocks would've made much of a difference.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 6:58 pm to GetCocky11
Taliban will take back control within a few months. All that we have worked to build will be destroyed. Billions of dollars and countless American lives lost all for naught.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 7:02 pm to notiger1997
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If this is true why didn’t the Russians or the U.S capitalize on this in the last 40 years?
Bloomberg
Because the locals aren’t what you’d call hospitable. China has been capitalizing on the security provided by American troops to exploit their minerals and build their “Silk Road” project. When we shut down FOB Salerno (iirc) the taliban Merc’d the Chinese construction crews who had previously been safe thanks to us.
Hopefully it bogs down China for a few decades.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 7:06 pm to pkloa
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Disney Drive
TYFYS. Bagram was one of our rest/stopping points when I was there in 2010.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 9:10 pm to Basura Blanco
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It was 15 Saudis, a Lebanese, an Egyptian and 2 UAE nationals who killed Americans on US soil. And it was a Saudi masterminded it.
You're either a poor troll, or pretty stupid to believe this disingenuous crap.
Bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia years before and had his citizenship revoked. Afghanistan welcomed him with open arms when he was subsequently expelled from Sudan.
Afghanistan harbored him and his terrorist group for years while they planned and executed the 9/11 attack, and then for years afterwards until he was forced into Pakistan. They hosted him while his recruiters brought in recruits from all over the world so he could vet them. The Taliban in Afghanistan was just as culpable as Bin Laden himself.
The invasion was well deserved. What happened since was a shitshow.
This post was edited on 6/29/21 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 6/29/21 at 9:25 pm to Evolved Simian
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The invasion was well deserved.
No shite. I never said it wasn't. They were harboring a terrorist.
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The Taliban in Afghanistan was just as culpable as Bin Laden himself
Again, the Taliban deserved everything they got and more. As it applies to 9/11, I would think that the lead terrorist may have been a little bit more culpable than the shite country hosting him.
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You're either a poor troll, or pretty stupid to believe this disingenuous crap.
Stupid to believe that there weren't 15 Saudi's on the 4 planes? I will try to do a better job at trolling next time and not use so many facts.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 9:29 pm to GetCocky11
Who cares? Screw the rest of the world. We need to start worrying about our own country.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 9:31 pm to cypresstiger
That long? Let them come in, then blow the place to hell.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 9:37 pm to GetCocky11
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How long until the base is in Taliban hands?
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Posted on 6/29/21 at 10:21 pm to GetCocky11
Repeat of 1975 in South Vietnam
Posted on 6/29/21 at 10:58 pm to GetCocky11
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How long until the base is in Taliban hands?
21 months
We should just nuke Afghanistan out of existence after the next time the terrorist use it as a base to attack us.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 10:59 pm to GetCocky11
WHO CARES!
We should not be the world police. We can cut the Military budget in HALF and strengthen National defense by focusing on defending the USA and not the world.
We should not be the world police. We can cut the Military budget in HALF and strengthen National defense by focusing on defending the USA and not the world.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 11:12 pm to GetCocky11
Honestly? They are gonna strip that bitch bare and sell anything they can.
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