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GoodRaisin

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19. Winner.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 12:05 PM

Aug 2021

Only the people involved in the planning and execution know what has happened and continuing to happen. So, to go onto TV and social media spewing all this blame over the withdrawal is pretty dumb. Notice that everyone knocking Joe hasn't presented their own "bellwether" plans. Just a lot of mindless conjecture and blame.

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I have decided I have no opinion on all this. That's because I really have... [View all] TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 OP

one suspects taliban are not invaders, they are from there and part of that culture. right now they msongs Aug 2021 #1

Just one more small part of the puzzle-- didn't Reagan fund the Taliban, or... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #2

See the movie Charlie Wilson's War for an amazing take on how that happened Hekate Aug 2021 #3

I remember the movie, but not much of what happened... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #6

It's actually rather enjoyable, about how one Southern congressman had a passion for "the 'Stans" Hekate Aug 2021 #10

The Mujahideen marie999 Aug 2021 #9

I know we needed to pull-out, I just feel sick for the women and girls. Laffy Kat Aug 2021 #4

I think they exist, these trained women. In Afghanistan secondwind Aug 2021 #5

That is a reality that could never be changed there. msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #16

I would argue MuseRider Aug 2021 #7

I would think that targeting women the way they do makes... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #11

Interesting. MuseRider Aug 2021 #15

If you get MSNBC at all I highly recommend DVRing both Nicolle Wallace & Rachel Maddow... Hekate Aug 2021 #8

I caught some of each of them today. This seems simply... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #12

The coverage I saw was so horrible, all blaming Biden: failed, catastrophe, disaster, Biden's betsuni Aug 2021 #13

I kept the TV off for 3 or so days, knowing events on the ground were horrible & news presentation Hekate Aug 2021 #17

A few years ago on one of the anniversaries of the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan I abqtommy Aug 2021 #14

Lest we think that only the Japanese suffered firebombing we did the same thing to Dresden. CTyankee Aug 2021 #20

This has been in the works for years ismnotwasm Aug 2021 #18

Winner. GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #19