Taliban in control way to go Joe

newfie

Well-Known Member
As much as I believe the Biden Administration's foreign policy is an incoherent mess in general, this doesn't fall entirely in Action Joe's lap. His bumbling withdrawal is just the icing on the cake.

This is the legacy of the neocons and their attempts at nation building and regime change to create Greater George Bushistan.
It aint just George bush. The military industrial complex is the over riding concern. Neocons shifts the blame to the wrong source.
you have a lot of folks on the left lining their pockets too.
 

The Driver

I drive.
Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Never should have been so cocky in the first place.

We should've sent special forces troops to track UBL and leave it at that. No stupid nation building attempt. Glad we're out now, finally (hopefully?).
 

DELACROIX

In the Spirit of Honore' Daumier
Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Never should have been so cocky in the first place.

We should've sent special forces troops to track UBL and leave it at that. No stupid nation building attempt. Glad we're out now, finally (hopefully?).

Does Afghanistan have any natural resources that we would be interested in anyway?

The problem is what their Muslim Brotherhood will do once they are in charge.
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
The Afghan government never controlled more than 65% of the country and had been losing ground over the past 4-5 years. The Taliban fought for religious beliefs while the Afghan police and military fought for money. The Afghan War was simply another religious war and civilizations have spent the past 8000 years destroying each other over the question of who's god is the true god and who loves him more.

So what American would want his kid to get drafted into the military to go fight another religious war?

When you look around at the situation in Korea, Ukraine, Iran, South China Sea, Haiti, clearly the movement was to conserve and consolidate American military assets in preparation for what might happen next in those regions.

Given what could happen in those regions , after 20 years Afghanistan just as was the case with Viet Nam it just wasn't worth fighting over any more.
As someone said. They live there. Their ideals are born and bred there. It was simply a matter of waiting us out. Stupid to go there because there was never any way to win.
 

bacha29

Well-Known Member
Yes the withdrawal was conditional on Al Qaeda not being allowed to operate. Al Qaeda terrorists have been released from prisons.

Your massa Biden is a feckless c u next Tuesday.
Then why wasn't the war won when your Bush god invaded? He had 8 of those years to win the war. The withdrawal from Afghanistan began when Trump wanted to invite the Taliban to Washington. Not only was it his stated plan to withdraw from Afghanistan he wanted to bring troops back from other parts of the world as well.

Therefore even if your dear leader had won the election the final chapter of the Afghan War would not have been much different than the one currently being written.

Whoever is assigned the majority of the blame one thing is certain. When the rest of the world enters the twenty second century Afghanistan will still be stuck in the ninth
 

DriveInDriѵeOut

Inordinately Right
Then why wasn't the war won when your Bush god invaded? He had 8 of those years to win the war. The withdrawal from Afghanistan began when Trump wanted to invite the Taliban to Washington. Not only was it his stated plan to withdraw from Afghanistan he wanted to bring troops back from other parts of the world as well.

Therefore even if your dear leader had won the election the final chapter of the Afghan War would not have been much different than the one currently being written.

Whoever is assigned the majority of the blame one thing is certain. When the rest of the world enters the twenty second century Afghanistan will still be stuck in the ninth
Sloppy Joe is President.
Stop deflecting from the fact that he is responsible for the disastrous withdrawal.
 

El Correcto

god is dead
As someone said. They live there. Their ideals are born and bred there. It was simply a matter of waiting us out. Stupid to go there because there was never any way to win.
I’ll never understand this defeatist attitude among isolationists. We had already won, the war was winding down. We already didn’t have that many boots on the ground over there, from what I understand it was mostly air support that kept the taliban in check. Joe Biden flushed 2 generations of american blood down the toilet for a cheap political victory of being the great peace maker and ender of wars, no he just kicked the can down the road like all these leftist scumbags do at the expense of the next generation that will now grow up with an emboldened taliban in control of a country. Another rogue government in the world.
 

bacha29

Well-Known Member
Sloppy Joe is President.
Stop deflecting from the fact that he is responsible for the disastrous withdrawal.
Your conservative hero GW Bush spent 8 years there and he couldn't beat the Taliban . What makes you think that Biden could do what his predecessors 2 of them Republican couldn't do? Furthermore what makes you think that if Trump had won he would not have carried out his well publicized decision to withdraw from Afghanistan?
 

bacha29

Well-Known Member
I’ll never understand this defeatist attitude among isolationists. We had already won, the war was winding down. We already didn’t have that many boots on the ground over there, from what I understand it was mostly air support that kept the taliban in check. Joe Biden flushed 2 generations of american blood down the toilet for a cheap political victory of being the great peace maker and ender of wars, no he just kicked the can down the road like all these leftist scumbags do at the expense of the next generation that will now grow up with an emboldened taliban in control of a country. Another rogue government in the world.
You would have to search far and wide in order to find a qualified diplomatic or military assessment that would tell you that we had the war won.

What would you have them to do? How about we draft your kid into the military and send him over there to fight a determined enemy driven by the most dangerous and impossible to defeat motivation.....religion.
 

DriveInDriѵeOut

Inordinately Right
Your conservative hero GW Bush spent 8 years there and he couldn't beat the Taliban . What makes you think that Biden could do what his predecessors 2 of them Republican couldn't do? Furthermore what makes you think that if Trump had won he would not have carried out his well publicized decision to withdraw from Afghanistan?
Rreeeeeeeee George bush Donald Trump Rreeeeeeeee

Sloppy Joe is President.
Stop deflecting from the fact that he is responsible for the disastrous withdrawal.
 
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