Not surprisingly, the United States Government lied its ass off about Afghanistan

WuWei · 2019-12-12T01:17:15.339Z

hwyflier:

WuWei:

You want these people running healthcare?

I’ve never been for a military invasion of healthcare.

Bless your little heart.

hwyflier · 2019-12-12T01:21:22.961Z

WuWei:

Bless your little heart.

Is that a PPO or HMO policy?

merickson · 2019-12-12T03:15:08.848Z

Roxiebelle:

That’s basically because we have the politicization of warfare started by the Democrat President LBJ during the Vietnam war and we couldn’t just get in there and flatten Afghanistan and occupy it for decades like we did Japan to rid them of their radical religious ideology. We got literally nothing to show for our blood, sweat and tears effort in that region when after 18 years we could have been more then halfway to a complete transformation and reformation of their barbaric religion and life style.

America unlike other countries does not occupy forever, we conquer, we occupy, we rebuild and then we give the country back and the 30 year occupation of Japan is the perfect example of that success formula which we will never have again as long as leftist progressive liberal Democrats are voted into political office and power since Dems are hell bent on never making America great and powerful again!

The people of Puerto Rico would disagree with your rebuild and leave claim. The folks in Okinawa might wonder when we are going to leave. And the people of Frankfurt as well, although they don’t seem as anxious for us to leave as the other cases.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T00:20:05.000Z

The Washington Post, after several years of legal battles, acquired a massive trove of internal govt. documents detailing much about the Afghanistan War that was either not known, or downplayed in a major fashion by officials. I have a very simple take on this.

Bin Laden won.

His stated goal, very early on, was to harm our economy by getting us to spend untold fortunes on ineffective warfare. We have spent a trillion dollars there in cash alone, lost nearly 2400 service personnel and nobody knows how much will be spent caring for the thousands of wounded, maimed and disabled veterans in their lifetimes, I dare not guess. I daresay our economy might be considerably different if not for our folly there. Yes I supported it for a very long time.

The Washington Post is a pay site that many can’t read but here is a paragraph from a Reuters article and a link to the full article. It’s pretty depressing, though we all know more or less that the situation is a lose lose one.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/afghanistan-papers-reveal-tragedy-not-170050447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVhbGNsZWFycG9saXRpY3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMTIvMTkvdGhlX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuX3BhcGVyc19yZXZlYWxfYV90cmFnZWR5X25vdF9hX2NyaW1lXzQ5NTk0My5odG1s&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN6oOlqa1Ia7gOhKN716yOknMEKJIw5mZC3lAKj1WMg9Z1kJfS8rxghlMBCan3PCRWLbRAwbu9Gc71IDL2esJmRTz9tjWyfxKo8Q9W8lEB23L6zf9whVFXqbIFXxp9JGtjUz8tJUzBp3NzaGnqYu94zHgZgBhLHlYQYuNZqI2aAY

(Bloomberg Opinion) – Is America’s two-decade war in Afghanistan a tragedy or a crime? A recent series in the Washington Post contends that it is more the latter than the former. For years, the argument goes, U.S. officials systematically lied regarding the prospects for success, while blithely downplaying the corruption and dependency American intervention fostered. The title of this series — “The Afghanistan Papers” — is meant, clearly, to echo the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers. It implies that we should see this conflict, like Vietnam, as a misbegotten war fought in the service of illusions and lies.

SixFoot · 2019-12-22T00:32:26.534Z

Live Fire Exercise.

conan · 2019-12-22T00:32:46.098Z

My take, we had to go in and kill AQ. Now I know there is tons of opinion on it but United States couldn’t allow them to go unpunished. Not a big fan of nation building…or what followed in Iraq.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T00:44:40.557Z

The Afghanistan Papers

Live Fire Exercise.

Yes I know about that lol. I don’t subscribe to it, though the benefits are clear.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T00:45:04.845Z

The Afghanistan Papers

My take, we had to go in and kill AQ. Now I know there is tons of opinion on it but United States couldn’t allow them to go unpunished. Not a big fan of nation building…or what followed in Iraq.

Agreed. We did that in six months.

SixFoot · 2019-12-22T00:47:28.050Z

Best trained fighting force on the planet.

Most experienced too.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T01:00:04.371Z

Probably.

bootz · 2019-12-22T03:35:35.054Z

Perhaps this should be said of al our military excursions but then if we accept this hypothesis we are Trump supporters. WE must keep fighting purposeless wars.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T06:44:16.642Z

The Afghanistan Papers

Perhaps this should be said of al our military excursions but then if we accept this hypothesis we are Trump supporters. WE must keep fighting purposeless wars.

Since Vietnam perhaps.

Safiel · 2019-12-22T06:49:56.467Z

The Afghanistan Papers

Since Vietnam perhaps.

The United States seems to have missed learning any lessons from Vietnam.

For example, staying the **** out of where we are not wanted.

FloridaYankee · 2019-12-22T07:22:16.218Z

The Afghanistan Papers

The Afghanistan Papers

Since Vietnam perhaps.

The United States seems to have missed learning any lessons from Vietnam.

For example, staying the **** out of where we are not wanted.

Boggles the mind

Axxowiz · 2019-12-22T07:58:44.091Z

I guess it’s easy for me to play armchair general but I feel the same way we could have left right after the Taliban was expelled and still searched for Bin Laden or at latest pulled out after Bin Laden was killed.

No earthly clue why were still there.

SixFoot · 2019-12-22T13:18:23.711Z

Safiel:

The Afghanistan Papers

Since Vietnam perhaps.

The United States seems to have missed learning any lessons from Vietnam.

For example, staying the **** out of where we are not wanted.

That’s not how you keep up with training.

WuWei · 2019-12-22T13:30:18.744Z

The US Government lies its ass off about everything.

Safiel:

For example, staying the **** out of where we are not wanted.

Mmmmmm. We could start with that lesson a lot closer to home.

AlexMcAlpine · 2019-12-22T19:04:48.821Z

SixFoot:

Live Fire Exercise.

Our activities in Afghanistan were/are justified because our troops need people to kill to keep in practice?

And be killed or maimed themselves, just to keep in practice.

I’m surprised you’re okay with that.

WuWei · 2019-12-22T19:05:37.420Z

AlexMcAlpine:

our troops need people to kill to keep in practice?

Yes.

What do you think soldiers are for?

SixFoot · 2019-12-22T19:06:37.784Z

AlexMcAlpine:

I’m surprised you’re okay with that.

No, you just neeeeded something to say to me, so you made that up and then pretended to be surprised.