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   oldlegodad said, 9 months ago

   And we are still giving them a short barrel version of the POS M-16 .223 popgun.

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   Dale Hopson said, 9 months ago

   We’ll stay the course like Bush NOT improving veteran’s benefits…

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   HUMPHRIES said, 9 months ago

   … like the Great ANandy be dandy.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 9 months ago

   Non-experience is always a slow learner

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   Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

   A better imagine, in my opinion would have been a Russian soldier, coming OUT of Afghanistan followed by a British soldier.

   Still what are we supposed to do? If the Taliban takes back Afghanisntan, al-Qaeda will come in with them.

   Oh, and ANandy…I don’t seem to have heard ANY conservatives railing against US effort in Afghanistant… until we elected a Dem President.

   But I DO seem to recall Thom Hartmann being labeled ‘anti-american’ and a ‘traitor’ by the conservatives for opposing the US going into Afghanistan in the first place.

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   Dale Hopson said, 9 months ago

   Simon-Jester, recall why the one British solider lived… he was sent back from Afghanistan to witness what he saw!

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   HUMPHRIES said, 9 months ago

   Who else ya think it might be … ANandy ?

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   claudermilk said, 9 months ago

   Not laying blame at anyone’s feet, but this comic is frighteningly apt. Hopefully the people with the ability to extricate the country from this mess can learn from history (ours in Vietnam, and the many predecessors in Afghanistan).

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   Dale Hopson said, 9 months ago

   Those chanting “USA! USA!” forget we have not won a war in 65 years!

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    HUMPHRIES said, 9 months ago

    claudermilk, Many of us who served in the RVN feel like the rug was pulled out from under us.

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    Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

    You know…the first time I heard that “U-S-A! U-S-A!” chant was back in the ’80s.

    I was watching the World Wrestling Federation at the time.

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    William Wilkerson said, 9 months ago

    The really SAD part is that following the Soviet “defeat” in the Graveyard of Empires the US/Western world had a significant opportunity to deflect many of the issues presently plaguing the Guerilla’s Paradise buuuuuut it was too easy to gloat and then keep shoveling moneys into the MIC [Military Industrial Complex] which served no one except [Doh!] the lackeys in Congress… Again.

    This nation does many things greatly, one thing it does NOT do very well is make difficult / honest / non-cosmetic decisions about how best to handle situation where carpet bombing won’t / can’t / shouldn’t solve the issues at hand [those would be lack of infrastructure, poverty, illiteracy, etc. - things that Lockheed Gruman Northrup Boeing Martin McDouglas can’t manufacture in all fifty states]

    Oh, ONE MORE TIME: President Barry didn’t engineer the US into this nightmare, that was president Stooge and vice-president Creepy… period.

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    claudermilk said, 9 months ago

    SJ: It was the ’80s where it started. IIRC, it was the gold medal olympic hockey game that originated (I’m jsut old enough to remember that).

    Humphries: I’m too young to have experienced any of htat personally, but from my perspective, I think you are right; I also think the country learned from that and won’t do it again. Note that the soldiers are not blamed for the mess, but the politicians who sent them into it are. To use andy’s favorite word: thoise who do blame the soldiers are idiots.