Posted on 08/27/2021 5:54:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US troops will need to go back into combat in Afghanistan — as the region remains on high alert for more suicide attacks, with the death toll from Thursday’s atrocity rising to more than 100, including 13 US soldiers.
“We’re going to have to go back in to get ISIS,” Panetta told CNN, calling Thursday’s twin suicide blasts by the reinvigorated terrorist group “Joe Biden’s worst nightmare.”
“We’re probably going to have to go back in when al Qaeda resurrects itself, as they will, with this Taliban,” he predicted.
“They gave safe haven to al Qaeda before, they’ll probably do it again,” predicted Panetta, who was the director of the CIA and oversaw the US operation that killed the terror group’s leader, Osama bin Laden.
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Not if President Trump gets back in the White House.
A bit off topic but the first time I heard “Nation Building” I new this was all BS.
How stupid can a Panetta get?
The PRC has all but declared Afghanistan a client state. We’ve been humiliated in front of the world so we won’t have allies. The Pakis will be providing the Taliban even more equipment and sanctuary and could conceivably refuse us bases and overflight.
If we go back, the Taliban will be better equipped that ever and have powerful allies.
I have a better idea. The Taliban has made a deal with the Devil. Let them (and the PRC) enjoy the consequences.
We???? I seriously doubt that old gas bag will be on point and humping a pack in Afghanistan.
I don’t see the point in anything in the middle east beyond drone strikes and the occasional bombing run to wipe out some terrorist groups. Maybe there could be a case to secure some precious minerals or something like that. However, the case of sending in troops to secure peace while the academics implement a liberal western democracy, never again.
So your boy Jimmy will suit up and go first?
Not only no, but f*ck no.
Lol…you think NATO is going to trust the USA to go back in?
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Of course he did. He’s a democrat. Democrats LOVE war. It is good for their business.
When biden decided to abandon Bagram all was lost. That HAD TO BE a deliberate decision knowing all that it would trigger.
Having said that my gut says someone else told Biden to make that decision. More and more I believe he is just a placeholder for who is really calling the shots.
Hell no. Let’s Tallywackers go at it within their borders.
If Biden goes in now, he’ll find things VERY DIFFERENT there, obviously due to our hardware being used against us, but also a lot of new faces, faces from China and elsewhere.
Grab a rifle, Leon, lead the way.
Erik Prince had an interesting plan. Drop a couple of million dollars 2 kilometers from the Baghram air base and it will be empty within a few minutes and then take it over. Could be fake money, photocopies.
Then secure the 40 minute path between the base and Kabul and start moving people out.
What's another 20 years of war if you don't have to fight it?
“ This was a NATO mission. We are not the only ones involved here.”
We are now. No way in hell NATO trusts us.
Yep, all going as planned. The MIC just can’t wait to go back in 20 fold.
Liz Cheyney is orgasmic at the thought.
Sure, Leon - when you’re the first man in the first stick going out the door, with all the complicit generals that have been busted to private for going along with this idiocy for so long.
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