Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

[NorthDallas40]

We're sending in 6k troops. I don't know about that. That may make this worse.

Up to 6k now? It was only 3k about 3 days ago. So we are basically sending in around two or three regimental combat teams worth of troops. Sure… there’s no way this could have been done in a more orderly fashion

 

[lawgator1]

Up to 6k now? It was only 3k about 3 days ago. So we are basically sending in around two or three regimental combat teams worth of troops. Sure… there’s no way this could have been done in a more orderly fashion

US intelligence agencies have admitted they underestimated the speed with which the Taliban has come back to power. Fooled both Trump and Viden administrations.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

We're sending in 6k troops. I don't know about that. That may make this worse.

Hopefully it's just a show of might and an attempt to keep the peace

 

[rjd970]

US intelligence agencies have admitted they underestimated the speed with which the Taliban has come back to power. Fooled both Trump and Viden administrations.

I guarantee nobody expected it to be this this fast. Epic failure.

 

[RikidyBones]

Then good on Biden for having the political fortitude to actually follow through.

Lol not sure I'd go with the victory lap method here.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I feel like now would be a good time to drone strike the presidential palace in Kabul.

Wouldn't it be cool if we 'allowed' them to take control and when they are all there just kill them wholesale?

 

[Electric Orange]

 

[rjd970]

Up to 6k now? It was only 3k about 3 days ago. So we are basically sending in around two or three regimental combat teams worth of troops. Sure… there’s no way this could have been done in a more orderly fashion

Of course it could have been done better.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I guarantee nobody expected it to be this this fast. Epic failure.

From a party that is so 'science' based they certainly forgot about that whole nature and vacuum thingy...

 

[lawgator1]

Of course it could have been done better.

Trump alone can fix this.

 

[RikidyBones]

Up to 6k now? It was only 3k about 3 days ago. So we are basically sending in around two or three regimental combat teams worth of troops. Sure… there’s no way this could have been done in a more orderly fashion

Isn't this now nearly double the amount we had there two months ago? Seems silly.

 

[rjd970]

From a party that is so 'science' based they certainly forgot about that whole nature and vacuum thingy...

Probably should have just gone to SpaceCoastVol since he would have called this months ago, knowing the country would fall within basically a month.

 

[AM64]

Brett Bruen, former White House director of Global Engagement for Obama and Bush, issues strong rhetoric of incompetence on a global scale and prediction that allies will be hesitant to partner with the USA.

That should have been a message well understood a long time ago by any "ally". We have a whiplash political system and virtually no consistent policy lasting beyond any eight year span. If a republican administration starts something, the next dem will slash it, and vice versa. The thing is those allies may not be much more stable. It was different during the Cold War when there was a common enemy. Now Europeans are buying oil and gas from the same people they were hoping with our support to barricade, and nobody seems to be paying much attention to national security and China - the next enemy.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Trump alone can fix this.

Rent. Free.

 

[Orangeburst]

Lol not sure I'd go with the victory lap method here.

I think the geopolictical outcome of this is going to be real bad. We now have a theological state that will possibly be supplemented by the CCP causing all sorts of chaos.
And they will be untouchable, so no more lobbying Tomahawks into caves.

 

[Orangeburst]

US intelligence agencies have admitted they underestimated the speed with which the Taliban has come back to power. Fooled both Trump and Viden administrations.

And fooled ur ass with the Mueller investigation

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Probably should have just gone to SpaceCoastVol since he would have called this months ago, knowing the country would fall within basically a month.

or exercised some common sense

 

[NorthDallas40]

US intelligence agencies have admitted they underestimated the speed with which the Taliban has come back to power. Fooled both Trump and Viden administrations.

Stop trying to deflect ownership. Nobody is buying what your boy owns. His admin has had plenty of time to review any prior plan and make whatever changes he wanted. And those people you keep trying to throw under the bus work for Biden.

 

[headhunter15]

 

[headhunter15]

A lonely man there. I do feel for him. His administration gravely miscalculated the Taliban.

 

[NorthDallas40]

That’s 2000 from the 82nd alone. They already sent their alert regiment.

These are top tier combat units. They aren’t there to “facilitate a peaceful withdrawal”. This thing is going to spiral out of control.

 

[ENGRVOL]

I guarantee nobody expected it to be this this fast. Epic failure.

Haven’t seen someone fold this quickly since Sal Sunseri was our DC.

 

[RikidyBones]

I think the geopolictical outcome of this is going to be real bad. We now have a theological state that will possibly be supplemented by the CCP causing all sorts of chaos.
And they will be untouchable, so no more lobbying Tomahawks into caves.

Agreed. Changed the war with China in a really bad way.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Haven’t seen someone fold this quickly since Sal Sunseri was our DC.

Solid.

3rd and Chavis comes to mind too.

 

[AM64]

The mistake we continue to make (here more than Iraq and other places) is that the enemy is rational in the way we define rationality rather than operating on a different plane of motive and sense of what's right/wrong in combat.

It's like George doing the opposite on Seinfeld. All our instincts on how to handle this are wrong.

Wise people have said for a long time "know your enemy" - we never have; so we negotiate and deal with them like we are looking in a mirror across a peace table or battlefield; and we're always surprised at the outcome. Kinda makes you think of that definition of insanity. It also reminds you that we source and have sourced our "diplomats" from the same damn place for decades - Harvard, Yale, etc, and the ambassadors from "Ambassadors R Us" - whoever donates the most campaign cash.