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   dtroutma said, 2 months ago

   Considering we never should have gone into the country, or picked Condi’s buddy Karzai to run it, why didn’t we just bomb the camps, nail bin Laden and leave it at that??
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   I Play One On TV said, 2 months ago

   But we need to stay (or our troops do; we have other things to do) until the mission is accomplished. And that mission is….um…to, um….
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   Radish said, 2 months ago

   But if we leave now all those Americans shall have died in vain.
   So we need to stay longer and more will die so we will feel even more justified in staying even longer, and so on…
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   Michael wme said, 2 months ago

   The holey British helmet is only half the British story. The first British Afghan War sent a massive British division into Afghanistan to annex Afghanistan to the Raj. Only one man made it out, barely alive.

   
   However, from the Second British Afghan War almost every British soldier returned with glory and honour. The goal was NOT annexation. The British had found an Afghani with a claim to the throne and a lot of local support, but not quite enough to take the throne. The British tipped the balance in his favour, and he and his successors ruled Afghanistan and limited the predation by Afghani bandits on the Raj, and kept Afghanistan out of the hands of the Russians, until the Soviet invasion about a century later.

   
   Of course, the US decision makers carefully studied and followed the example of the First British Afghan War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and are trying to do exactly as they did, and they seem to be succeeding. And success is all that matters.
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   masterskrain said, 2 months ago

   @I Play One On TV

   “…Make a crapload of Money for Halliburton, and the OTHER No-Bid Government Contractors!”
   (Not to mention one of their largest stockholders, Darth Cheney Himself!)
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   Rockngolfer said, 2 months ago

   “Kneebiter” reminds me of Douglas Adams but I don’t remember which of his 5 book trilogy.
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   avarner said, 2 months ago

   There is a reason they call it “The graveyard of empires.”
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   Rockngolfer said, 2 months ago

   http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kneebiter
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   Nos Nevets said, 2 months ago

   Where’s the signs marked “win” & “lose”?
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    David said, 2 months ago

    @Michael wme

    another tip of the hat…
    

    Of course, the US decision makers carefully studied and followed the example of the First British Afghan War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and are trying to do exactly as they did, and they seem to be succeeding. And success is all that matters.
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    kato1979 said, 2 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Why? Because there’s trillions of dollars in heroin to be protected. You think the 1% only care about “legitimate” money?
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    1opinion said, 2 months ago

    @I Play One On TV

    “And that mission is….um…to, um….”
    to get all of the natural resources from them we can at the lowest price.
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    Radish said, 2 months ago

    @kato1979

    The military needs the drug money for their black operations.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 2 months ago

    I’m surprised the US just hasn’t put all their military into the areas to start extracting precious metals and leave the rest of them alone. Afghanistan has been a place of war lords under one national flag. Karzia is known to be the one in charge of 6 square blocks of Kabul. He can’t trust Afghanis so he has one of the private security firms guarding him. Typical puppet ruler. Reminds me of S. Viet Nam and the puppets the US installed then later murdered.
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    tranquil-d said, 2 months ago

    pretty much. as far as I’m concerned, the sooner we get out the better.
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