I'm proud we went into Afghanistan....

You shouldn’t be

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Going into Iraq was a complete mistake. Going into Afghanistan to take out Al Qaeda, was understandable.

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Nation building was a mistake.

Iraq was to save face for Daddy and Cheney, who fricked up royally, not taking out Hussein. We had no choice in Afghanistan. Here or there.

Should have nuked half the middle east and dared any country to say a fricking word.

Not a single soldier needed to die for the MIC.

We never had to set foot there. No one, not the British Empire, the Red Army, no one, has been successful on the ground in Afghanistan.

But we could have won this conflict in a matter of a couple of weeks and set the tone for years to come had we done one thing. We should have used tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan as a response to 9-11.

We should have nuked the terrorist training camps, wiped the poppy fields from the face of the earth for good, and when we found out Osama was hiding at Tora Bora nuked his arse too.Any other targets should have been serviced too.

We would have been totally justified in this response, NO ONE would have dared said anything and the country would have backed whatever we did in striking back. In addition, anyone associated with the attacks should have been taken out by conventional means elsewhere, whether it be snipers Special Ops or a Tomahawk through a window.

A message would have been sent loud and clear. The gloves are now off and we will kill you ALL if you ever do anything close to this again. A lot of good Americans would be alive and well today that are not, and many problems we have had in the years after would simply not have come to pass.

I wish we would go into California. Stupid frick's out there don't deserve that land.

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Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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Get ready for another one. It's coming, and it's going to be brutal.

The guys we fought against in Afghanistan were our buddies 20 years earlier when we were giving them weapons to fight the Soviets. It's Exhibit A in America's moronic foreign policy. And Al Qaeda was primarily composed of radicals born and raised in Saudi Arabia, our second closest "ally" in the region and also a benefactor of American taxpayer aid in the form of money and weapons. It's Exhibit B in America's moronic foreign policy. Trump has been very good about not starting new wars, but our continued alliance with the Saudi and Gulf State monarchies is troubling.

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Nation building was a mistake.

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This.

I agree with going in and teaching them not to frick with us, but then we should have left and let them deal with rebuilding themselves, with the promise that if they act up again we double the retribution. 3rd time they frick with us, their nation becomes glass.

Saudi has us by the balls, though. Even though we aren’t dependent on them, like we used to be, they trade oil in US dollars, making it the World’s reserve currency. We lose that distinction and we have problems, and it might just have to be done, at some point, but will be a painful step....