Race to oblivion ! Afghanistan vs. South Vietnam edition

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, mmc said:

 

It was a perfect phone call. 

[Rico]

4 hours ago, Redondo said:

Reports of girls being 'shipped in coffins' to be used as Taliban sex slaves paints grim picture of future for Afghan women

Where are all the women's rights groups?

Celebs?

UN?

What would you like to see done?  Should we stay another 20 years?  Shits happening all over the world, should we invade a few other countries too?  What is the point of this post?

[Kotchman]

9 minutes ago, Rico said:

What would you like to see done?  Should we stay another 20 years?  Shits happening all over the world, should we invade a few other countries too?  What is the point of this post?

Absolutely not. We could address the sex slavery in this country. 

[AngelsLongBall]

5 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

Another part of this is that to the extent they were trained, they were trained to fight with close air support.  This is also how our troops operate. Once the close air support that we provided was withdrawn it significantly diminished their ability to operate.  Conversely the Taliban and other fighters like them have a decent ability to fight without air support.  The guys on the ground knew that.  So for that reason and many others they just didn’t.  It’s pretty complex thing.  There’s a lot of components to this.  There’s no simple explanation. 

"This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head."

[UndertheHalo]

21 minutes ago, AngelsLongBall said:

"This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head."

ya, this is right imo.

[AngelsLongBall]

Just now, UndertheHalo said:

ya, this is right imo.

[gotbeer]

Seven San Diego-area families evacuated from Afghanistan after summer trip abroad

Only one family left.  

[Jason]

https://thepostmillennial.com/taliban-announces-partnership-with-china

[Redondo]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

https://thepostmillennial.com/taliban-announces-partnership-with-china

We knew it would happen

Can they make it work when US and Russia failed?

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, Redondo said:

We knew it would happen

Can they make it work when US and Russia failed?

Doubtful

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

We knew it would happen

Can they make it work when US and Russia failed?

They probably will.  Because they won't send troops in like the US and Russia did.  They'd just say do whatever the fuck you want, oh, and here take our muslims from our death camps.  Just have them build us a pipeline and dig the resources out.  

[Redondo]

Afghan refugees heading to US will total 50,000 or more, DHS chief Mayorkas says

[gotbeer]

Haha.

 

[Tank]

I like how that one guy complained about not getting help from nato because the military aircraft were disabled.

[Taylor]

6 hours ago, Redondo said:

Afghan refugees heading to US will total 50,000 or more, DHS chief Mayorkas says

Hopefully we're doing the right thing for the Afghanis who assisted the U.S. army during the war.

[AngelsLakersFan]

22 hours ago, Jason said:

https://thepostmillennial.com/taliban-announces-partnership-with-china

So the Chinese are going to do what the US should've done 15 years ago. They'll invest in the country's infrastructure and then exploit their natural resources. 

[Taylor]

10 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

So the Chinese are going to do what the US should've done 15 years ago. They'll invest in the country's infrastructure and then exploit their natural resources. 

Dick Cheney and co. must have stood to make less money if they invested in the country's infrastructure.

 

[tdawg87]

23 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Dick Cheney and co. must have stood to make less money if they invested in the country's infrastructure.

 

But Cheney!

[Taylor]

19 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

But Cheney!

Lolwut. He's the orchestrator of our wonderful Afghanistan War. Every president since the Bush years bears some responsibility but Dick is the grand wizard.

[Lhalo]

Gee I wonder why. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Dick Cheney and co. must have stood to make less money if they invested in the country's infrastructure.

 

Nah, that dude's been gone a long time. After the Bush years the political philosophy with Afghanistan was to do the bare minimum. It's not all that different from our domestic policy really. It's strangely similar to how the Angels have been run over the last decade as well.

[tdawg87]

43 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Dick is the grand wizard.

[gotbeer]

56 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Gee I wonder why. 

His name was Habib Muhammed.  He was a 12 year old at the local school.  He played D&D and was the Dungeon Master and orchestrator of the plot to overthrow the underworld.

[tdawg87]

I love killing civilians. It's what we do best.

[Kotchman]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

I love killing civilians. It's what we do best.

No self hatred is what libs do best