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Afghanistan 2021

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Ubiquitin, Jun 25, 2021.

  1. Ubiquitin

    Ubiquitin Contributing Member
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    Sure.
     
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    LOL just stop..... Your boy Trump did worse in his Syria pull out.

    In fact this is BIden carrying out the Trump withdrawal behind schedule.... Imagine if Trump had won in 2020..... Are you capable of truth?
     
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    Germany and Afghanistan aren't apples to apples..... more like strudel to kabuli palaw......
     
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    That's not very honest....

    We entered Afghanistan in 2001 to attack the Taliban but added nation building in 2003.
     
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    Overall Biden has done better than I expected but this is in him and his administration. If they didn’t have a sense that the Afghan government was going to collapse so fast then they got bad intel. Or else they were ignoring intel that didn’t fit their view.

    Biden’s statements about not having helicopters carrying people off rooftops now sounds as hollow Nixon saying peace with honor in Vietnam.
     
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    I was posting under a different name then and wasn’t that active but I will own up to being one who supported invading Afghanistan. I felt it was necessary to take out Al Qaeda. I always felt that Afghanistan was going to be very tough and think it was a huge mistake to take our focus off there to fight in Iraq.

    Even if we didn’t invade Iraq I’m not sure if that might’ve changed things much in Afghanistan.
     
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    the Taliban didn't incite an insurrection?
     
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    F-15 flight simulators in the hands of the Taliban is terrifying.
     
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    The issue is whether the spokesperson used the Twitter account to specifically do things like threaten violence against individuals or promote terrorist activities. If so, those tweets should be reported and Twitter should take action.

    We know the people they represent do those things, but it’s not Twitter’s job to suspend users that have associations with or even provide representation for people who are bad actors in the real world.
     
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    It is not a given that he expedites this process like biden has.
     
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    Credibility? Is there any? Ditched the Kurds and now the afghans. Classic pump and dump
     
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    I wouldn't go to war for Hong Kong or Taiwan. Shoot, I wouldn't go to war for many countries at all.
     
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    You can equip people with the fanciest weapons, but if you have soldiers unwilling to fight what can you do.
     
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    They stayed there for 20 years. This is on the afgan people.
     
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    It’s not as simple as “arm abd train the army”. What you just said is also the problem in a nutshell, thinking we could go there and change things with pure force . A lot of afghans died along side our troops already over these 20 years. It’s a foreign policy failure here and over there on the ground. Just watch vids of troops and their experience
     
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    "Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars" Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower
     
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    He would break the deal he made ?? Wasnt he supposed to have zero troops by May 31st as part of the deal
     

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