Brooks: ‘It’s Become Obvious in Record Time’ Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is a Mistake

[sneakypete]

Now, leaving behind our military gear for the Taliban,   that's Grade A stupidity.

@dfwgator


But...,but...,look at all the jobs that would be lost if the manufacturers didn't have to replace it in our inventory!

Have you no humanity?

You sum kinda commie,boy?

[sneakypete]

Whether we stayed in Afghanistan 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, or 100 years -- so long as we were unwilling to identify and fight "the real enemy" there, our efforts were destined to fail. Just as they have.

Who is willing to spit out the reality of who that "real enemy" IS...?

@Fishrrman

Exhaust emissions?

Sexism?

Racism?

Sexism AND racism?

Conservatives?

All the above?

[sneakypete]

The original intent was to avoid the Soviet doctrine, and instead keep a minimal presence (less than 10k) there to ensure that the Taliban does not take control of the Afghan government.

@Hoodat

No,it wasn't,because anyone with any common sense KNOWS that was impossible.

We "went in there" so a weak US President could look manly,and to increase jobs and votes in ciites with defense industries and bad economies.

Everybody back here in the US looked good,and was happy. After all it wasn't any of THEIR sons going off to be killed,and what few that DID go there were like the Biden spawn,and reamained locked up in a secure base camp with their personal bodyguards.

And MY best guess is that NO amount of US soldiers would have fixed a single damn thing becuase their entire freaking culture was against everything western,and they wanted us ALL to die.

To them we are ALL "infidels",and "infidels should be killed whereever they are found!"

There is no reasoning with religious beliefs. They are absolute. It's the nature of the thing.

All we did was in essecence was to give the ragheads a cause to rally around that made some of them stop fighting each other in order to fight us.

It also allowed us a military base in a part of the world were we had none.

 

AND.......? How did THAT help us in any way? This ain't the 1950's,and we no longer need military bases all over the planet.

This scope was abandoned in 2009 (by repeating Soviet strategy), restored in 2017, and is now being abandoned again (by surrendering everything).

It was destined to fail from the very day it began.

[AARguy]

There is a problem with Afghanistan "falling" to the Taliban. In the days before America arrived in Afghanistan, after Russia had left with its tail between its legs and the Taliban ran free... the Taliban flexed its muscles. One of the ways it did it this was to invade Pakistan at will. It raided and captured Pakistani police stations at will. It did the same with Pakistani military facilities. It attacked and occupied the Pakistani military academy.

Pakistan has nuke weapons. Unlike US controls which require release from the National Command Authority to enable nuclear weapons, Pakistan places the authority to enable nukes along old Soviet lines... giving that ability to local authorities, typically at the two star level.

Now that the Taliban is free to regroup... retrain... thrive and grow... Pakistani nukes are threatened.

That means we are ALL threatened.

[Cyber Liberty]

There is a problem with Afghanistan "falling" to the Taliban. In the days before America arrived in Afghanistan, after Russia had left with its tail between its legs and the Taliban ran free... the Taliban flexed its muscles. One of the ways it did it this was to invade Pakistan at will. It raided and captured Pakistani police stations at will. It did the same with Pakistani military facilities. It attacked and occupied the Pakistani military academy.

Pakistan has nuke weapons. Unlike US controls which require release from the National Command Authority to enable nuclear weapons, Pakistan places the authority to enable nukes along old Soviet lines... giving that ability to local authorities, typically at the two star level.

Now that the Taliban is free to regroup... retrain... thrive and grow... Pakistani nukes are threatened.

That means we are ALL threatened.

I'm not threatened.  Let them annihilate each other.  I'll make popcorn.

[AARguy]

The Taliban has demonstrated their ability to successfully raid Pakistan time and again... from Paki police stations to the Paki Military Academy. Pakistan has nukes. Now that the Taliban can regroup and reconstitute, some of those Paki nukes will be grabbed by the Taliban. It should be noted that US retains "release" of our nukes in the hands of the National Command Authority. The ability to "release Paki nukes is done at the local level. Buckle up.

[DefiantMassRINO]

To defeat the Taliban, we'd also need to defeat the Pakistani intelligence services, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; all of whom proivde support to the Taliban.

[sneakypete]

To defeat the Taliban, we'd also need to defeat the Pakistani intelligence services, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; all of whom provide support to the Taliban.

@DefiantMassRINO

Pay attention,Bubba. You might even want to frame this post because it is one of the few times I am ever going to agree with you.

YEAH,we should have either had the intention and the will power to have done ALL of that,or just kept our troops at home.

You either fight wars to win them,or you don't fight the damn wars!

BTW,the world would have been a better AND  a safer place if we had done exactly that.