Posted on 03/10/2020 10:17:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I was just going to say that. #€££
Get Our People OUT OF THE Sandbox !!! Load up a few medium Nukes and turn it to GLASS !!!
Go back in 100 years or so and crush the glass back to Sand and Open up a Big Ol’ Margarita & Pina Colada with a Fajita and Nacho Distribution Center and teach People how to RELAX.
How many examples does a country need about fighting in Afghanistan? England, Russia, and now the US? Food for thought, a good read but long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War
Pull the troops home—if they set up an anti-American state so what! There are many others all around the world. Let them kill each other for a while. I understand, they hate being occupied by people so different from them—with all sorts of strange new ideas—like women should vote and be equal. They are just Not ready for the 21st Century or even the 18th.
Pull the troops home—if they set up an anti-American state so what! There are many others all around the world. Let them kill each other for a while. I understand, they hate being occupied by people so different from them—with all sorts of strange new ideas—like women should vote and be equal. They are just Not ready for the 21st Century or even the 18th.
Pull the troops home—if they set up an anti-American state so what! There are many others all around the world. Let them kill each other for a while. I understand, they hate being occupied by people so different from them—with all sorts of strange new ideas—like women should vote and be equal. They are just Not ready for the 21st Century or even the 18th.
They’d be happier in the 7th.
...good point.... for what it is worth, I lived through
the Vietnam era - I am a Vietnam-era vet, but NOT a combat
vet...one reason we stayed there so long was that Pres.
Johnson, who inherited that miserable war from JFK and
wasn’t quite sure what to do about it, wanted at all costs
to avoid being seen as “soft on communism,” which was
just about a kiss of death for any politician....
Bring our troops home from Afghanistan now....no more
useless, needless losses of life....!!!
Truman was the one who blew off Ho Chi Minh and let France recover Vietnam after Japan’s defeat; the rest is history.
PS: Thank you for your service regardless. My dad and uncle served in VN, dad a Marine pilot off a carrier and my uncle a chopper pilot there.
...excellent point....!!! your comment brings back
some memories of all that phony blather about “If we
don’t stop them in Saigon, we’ll be fighting them in
Peoria...” and foolish statements such as that....
All Ho wanted was to unify Vietman and kick the
foreigners out...I doubt that he had any dreams of
him and his troops marching down New York’s Fith
Avenue at some point in the distant future.....!!
It sounds like our guys walked into a trap.
And, apparently the “several dozen Iraqi counterterrorism forces” had essentially zero fighting capability...
Yeah, some thing sounds off here. USMC takes near 50% casualties including two KIA and the “partner” force has one wounded? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Home schooling by your military family is great. I’ve learned so much more than my friends who when to public school. I loved history and still read it. Think of all the men and women who died in that stupid war all because of politics.
Wasted. Completely wasted by our government. We could have pounded that cave complex with ten or twenty 2000 pound bombs and napalm.
A tragic waste that our crappy leaders refuse to stop.
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