Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
[Re: Gary Benson]
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08/16/21 05:02 AM
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Yep.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
[Re: Gary Benson]
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08/16/21 05:05 AM
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When the handful of survivors from your home town are literally starving to death the only option is surrender. When the invader shows up with trucks of food and medicine peoples emotions are relief and gratitude. They tend to blame their previous government/leaders for causing all the suffering. There are entire books on the subject.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 05:18 AM
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I honestly doubt 80 of the afgans or talibs can even use most of that equipment. Alot of it's probably gonna end up being sold on the street like what happened in Iraq. Most of the stuff like MRAPS ,MATV's ect require alot of matinence to run . The drones and UAV's will probably be sold off to other countries or just torn up for scrap. Honestly if it was ISIS getting all this yeah that's a different sore but average Taliban can barely aim a AK Well, I don't know about that. Not sure we had time to properly fold our flag before the inept Taliban run us off.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 07:45 AM
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Don't worry ,the chinese will figure how to run the equipment! They probably wrote the manual. And many of the components were probably made in China ?
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
[Re: Gary Benson]
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If I were king, Kabul would be rubble about now. However, if I were king, I wouldn't be worried to much about Afghanistan and would focus more on the invasion of my own country from the south.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 08:56 AM
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They crossed all that open country and we did nothing to stop them, deals have been made it looks like to me.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 10:14 AM
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They crossed all that open country and we did nothing to stop them, deals have been made it looks like to me. I doubt they crossed anything. More likely have been present in the general population the whole time, and simply stood up. Seems like the residents are not fighting them, but welcoming them. Not sure how what has taken place could have taken place without full knowledge and cooperation with nearly the entire population. And also clear these guys operate from a different rule book than the one we used. They are much more ruthless. We took and held prisoners. They execute prisoners. And lastly, wondering if the Biden bunch left those BLM and gay pride flags flying over the embassy?
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 10:26 AM
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I gotta ask ,how many wars where a linear millitary group fought a nonlinear / insurgency group and won ?
Regardless if tactics. When it come to come somewhere like that area unless your able to either A. Get the populous completely on your side and with the balls to fight for there or B. Complete and total ethnic cleansing to the point no one is lest what so ever your just going to keep having kids, wives , cousins ect of the slain picking up arms to avenge theirs When did the Japanese avenge? Well they did create the video games that are turning our youth to bums. Sneaky Japanese probably biding their time until the only guns Americans know how to shoot are the ones in Call of Duty, lol.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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They crossed all that open country and we did nothing to stop them, deals have been made it looks like to me. I doubt they crossed anything. More likely have been present in the general population the whole time, and simply stood up. Seems like the residents are not fighting them, but welcoming them. Not sure how what has taken place could have taken place without full knowledge and cooperation with nearly the entire population. And also clear these guys operate from a different rule book than the one we used. They are much more ruthless. We took and held prisoners. They execute prisoners. And lastly, wondering if the Biden bunch left those BLM and gay pride flags flying over the embassy? My thoughts from the start. To take the entire country in a day or so, they had lots of help from the population.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
[Re: Gary Benson]
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08/16/21 11:42 AM
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If they have so much support why are hoards of afghanis trying to get out of the country?
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
[Re: Gary Benson]
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Not hoards.......only a few thousand who were helping us. They don't get out, they are dead and they know it. Their families are dead and they know it.
BTW, not all of those who are seen running in front of those planes are trying to get on them. Some are clearly celebrating their departure.......or trying to block it.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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Watching the video from Kabul, it’s all men storming the airplanes. The US should have trained and armed the women of Afghanistan. It clear now that the our military leaders and pentagon officials have lied to us once again.
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Re: Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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08/16/21 12:58 PM
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I pray to God to somehow remove our destructive leadership. Plain and simple. I believe it to be in Gods hands now. There is talk of bringing Afghan refugees to Fort McCoy Wisconsin to house them. Getting them out is the next thing. Won't be the first time. I wonder how many remember when the Cubans were housed there. I don't have a problem with those that helped our service members over there being brought here, what I do have a problem with are those that don't have cajones to fight back and keep their country.
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