34 troops diagnosed with brain injuries days after Trump dismissed them as 'headaches'
President Donald Trump initially said no one was harmed during the Jan. 8 Iranian ballistic missile attack on bases in Iraq that house U.S. troops.www.politico.com
He never has cared one iota about the military or their service or wellbeing.
I think the withdrawal from Afghanistan was close to a disaster if not an actual disaster. But we’re out now. The band-aid has been ripped off. We already had lost.
You're so performative.I’ming sick of Republicans acting like they own patriotism. Democrats have fought in battle for the country. Liberals have died on the battlefield. Enough with this patriotism gatekeeping bull
I see what you believe. I don’t care what you believe.
Nope.
We didn't lose. We determined it wasn't worth staying there spending a lot of money. The Afghan Army lost with help(or lack thereof)from Biden.
We never had a fully fleshed out plan. No president ever had one. That’s the definition of a failure and a loss to me.
We stopped fighting there in pretty much 2014 if I remember right. We gave air support and training to the Afghan Army. And Trump said we shouldn't be there spending $2 billion a month.
He did say that, Why didn’t he have an orderly withdrawal, instead of leaving it to the senile commander-in-chief?
It was negotiated to happen during the spring planting season so that there would be very little fighting going on. I'm guessing Trump assumed he would win re-election and would oversee the withdrawal. But Biden came in and threw out about everything Trump had done. Put the withdrawal in the summer fighting season and withdrew air support. Trump was also preoccupied with the pandemic.
I agree with you that Barrack Obama was a failure to our country.
He wasn’t a failure in my view. He presided over the deletion of Osama bin Laden and got us out of major Iraqi engagements.
We most certainly did have operational security in Afghanistan. By about 2007. Most of the Taliban had fled to Pakistan. The Afghanistan/Pakistan border isn't like our southern border. There's only narrow corridors through a few passes because of the mountains. One in particular has a highway. The Taliban started coming back through that pass. That wasn't on donkeys and camels. Caravans of trucks. The U.S. knew they were coming in. And let them. This was reported a few years ago by Lara Logan. Highly respected journalist who used to be on "60 Minutes." Then she started saying this stuff outloud. She had spent years in Afghanistan and had cultivated relationships with the most powerful people in the country. That's how she learned what was going on. There absolutely was a plan. Perpetual war.
He gets offended when I point out that he makes stuff up as he goes along and pushes his opinions as facts lol.
I'm pointing out what those in power are saying. What respected journalists are saying. If it goes against what the favored Leftist narrative is saying then you attack it. You don't point out the fallacies. You just attack personally. Try to discredit anyone who isn't pushing the narrative.
Thts because the majority of the budget s shifted to the air force and navy.It was recognized that having boots on the ground is becoming archaic as the modern war is increasingly being fought with superior air and naval power .
Fact is regardless of who held the presidency the Taliban ( that the great republican God Ronnie Raygun created) was coming back to take over. It was Saigon 1975 all over again
The Taliban was to be held in check by our air support for the Afghan Army. Biden closed down Bagram Air Base. And they would still be in Pakistan if Obummer had closed down that artery into Pakistan. Perpetual war. It's what the Democrats, and Republicans, who are in bed with the military/industrial complex and Wall Street want. It was Trump who got us out of Afghanistan. What was Biden going to do, insist on staying there and throw the withdrawal out? If it resembled Saigon it was because the mumbler in chief screwed it up.
Yah, it only has 472,000 members as opposed to 319,000 each for the Navy and Air Force. Israel is demonstrating why we need boots on the ground right now.
