Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 40 23.4%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 47 27.5%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.6%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 59 34.5%
  • Total voters
    171
#33
#33
volinbham said:
should be that way - won't.
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US to start embassy evacuation in Kabul and will send in troops to help as Taliban rapidly advances (msn.com)

Gotta go with Joe on this one, although Price is FOS

"Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years. We trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 Afghan forces," Biden said on Tuesday. "And Afghan leaders have to come together. We lost thousands - lost to death and injury - thousands of American personnel. They've got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation."
 
#34
#34
What a disaster. Shoulda just turned that place into glass right after 9/11 and been done with it. Have no idea why the .gov is so enamored with wasting taxpayer money and American lives for what you had to know would be a futile effort given the history of that place. More dumbassery by the truck load.
 
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Vol737 said:
What a disaster. Shoulda just turned that place into glass right after 9/11 and been done with it. Have no idea why the .gov is so enamored with wasting taxpayer money and American lives for what you had to know would be a futile effort given the history of that place. More dumbassery by the truck load.
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Because that money was going into the pockets bureaucrats, politicians and their major donors.
 
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#38
Orangeburst said:
US to start embassy evacuation in Kabul and will send in troops to help as Taliban rapidly advances (msn.com)

Gotta go with Joe on this one, although Price is FOS

"Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years. We trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 Afghan forces," Biden said on Tuesday. "And Afghan leaders have to come together. We lost thousands - lost to death and injury - thousands of American personnel. They've got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation."
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Reverting back to what it has been for the last 1,000 years.
 
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#39
#39
volinbham said:
Saigon all over again.
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While living in Ho Chi Minh ten years ago, I made some good friends that fought with us. Several ask me, "Why oh why did Nixon stop the bombing? Another week or so, North Vietnam would have surrendered." I said he had allot of pressure from some people in this country about it being too harsh. :confused:
 
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overseasorange2 said:
While living in Ho Chi Minh ten years ago, I made some good friends that fought with us. Several ask me, "Why oh why did Nixon stop the bombing? Another week or so, North Vietnam would have surrendered." I said he had allot of pressure from some people in this country about it being too harsh. :confused:
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Wasnt that Linebacker II? Had them on their knees which led to the armistice.
 
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overseasorange2 said:
While living in Ho Chi Minh ten years ago, I made some good friends that fought with us. Several ask me, "Why oh why did Nixon stop the bombing? Another week or so, North Vietnam would have surrendered." I said he had allot of pressure from some people in this country about it being too harsh. :confused:
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IT is a well known fact that N. Vietnam was coming to the table after TET of 68, because we had decimated their forces in the south. News media and public reaction to the casualty count from both sides convinced the North that they had a path to victory thru the news media and public dissent. The end result was the fall of the south and at least 200 times more casualties in the following years than what fell during the 68 Tet Offensive,
 
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#44
#44
Orangeburst said:
I hope the modern equipment was not too modern. Hopefully no shoulder fired SAMs like Stingers
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I am afraid that some of those shoulder fired SAMs will find their way into people's hands in other places and in the US. The way our border is leaking right now I could smuggle in an entire Division.
 
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overseasorange2 said:
While living in Ho Chi Minh ten years ago, I made some good friends that fought with us. Several ask me, "Why oh why did Nixon stop the bombing? Another week or so, North Vietnam would have surrendered." I said he had allot of pressure from some people in this country about it being too harsh. :confused:
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Reckon there are any POWS still there?
 
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#47
#47
AirVol said:
Reckon there are any POWS still there?
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Ahhh an old 1980's debate. I remember as a 10 YO kid I had a POW metal bracelet while the free sex and love kids spit and abused the returning veterans. We know who they are
 
#50
#50
AirVol said:
Reckon there are any POWS still there?
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Didn't see any, but that doesn't mean anything. However, it's been 40 years , so I doubt it.

Let's ask this guy

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