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panader0

(25,816 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 09:40 PM Aug 2017

Bring our soldiers home.

There is no real goal in our intervention. Except maybe oil pipelines.
The Taliban is a fucked up band of retro assholes, I agree. But history
has taught the lesson of invading Afghanistan. The lives lost, the unbelievable
amount of our tax money lost--- for what? Nothing will be gained by
this. Except more loss of life, more hatred for the US, more tax dollars
spent. There is no real defined goal except win! Win what?
Afghanistan, however fucked up they may be, is much better off without the presence of
our troops, and so are we.

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Bring our soldiers home. (Original Post) panader0 Aug 2017 OP
There is not even a strategy. Gen. Wesley Clark can't believe it. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #1
That is the bottom line, WTF are we winning. All I see is more money thrown to the MIC. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2017 #2
Just what I said to my husband tonite, again. sprinkleeninow Aug 2017 #3

sprinkleeninow

(20,249 posts)
3. Just what I said to my husband tonite, again.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 09:50 PM
Aug 2017

'Experts' that have inmersed themselves in the study of the Middle East say it's not fixable over there.

This latest war drum banging is another deflection ploy.

FIX OUR COUNTRY, DAMMMITTT.

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