More Troops to Afghan

[Rune]

It's not nation building because the nation is pre-existent. Nation building is tied to regime change.

Nice try though.

But like I suspected, you don't have answer for it.

This is easily the stupidest thing that I have ever read. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Darth Omar]

This is easily the stupidest thing that I have ever read. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I didn't think you'd have much.

[Rune]

Drool some more. So, that nation is all set? Then why do we have to stay?

If they're not all set, it's nation-building. You have a capability for denial which I have never really seen on the board.

yup. Hear no evil, see no evil.

[dukkha]

Road Trip to Afghanistan: Snapshots from the Lost Hippie Trail
http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/0...-hippie-trail/

[Phantasmal]

Oh, please. The bolded is hilarious. The left crowded the streets - when it looked like the war was "won" (after Saddam's statue fell), the left was on the "wrong side of history." We were traitors, and terrorist sympathizers. Talk radio ridiculed the mass demonstrations.

Now that everyone knows it was a mistake, there isn't enough credit to go around. "The left were a part of it, too!" Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, et al. are corporatist Dems. They are not the "left."

The left was right about the war. Deal w/ it.

Oh, I thought I was the most dishonest, now I'm bummed.

[domer76]

Like I said, you don't care about Iraqis.

Bush et al, screwed the war up with their war plan and we as a nation suffered. But at least Saddam is gone and his people won't be terrorized by him or his sons anymore.

Obviously, you care more about Iraqis than your own fellow Americans, asswipe. I don't.

[Cancel 2018.2]

Obviously, you care more about Iraqis than your own fellow Americans, asswipe. I don't.

Racist. Iraqis are brown, so they mean less to you than other human beings.

[Irish]

If you don't want to create a "vacuum for terrorists," you're nation-building.

The same guys who were crowing just last week about Trump's remarkable ability to keep us out of war are now singing his praises for (drumroll)...escalating a war.

Trump can say literally anything & they'll buy it. It's hard to watch.

Sort of like when Obama ran to end the wars, then escalated it.

[Cypress]

In other news concerning Trump's Escalation of the 16 year old Afghan War

"That’s worth sending kids to die for??"

Internet slams Tillerson for saying US can fight Taliban to a draw

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/that...ban-to-a-draw/

[Cancel 2020.1]

Sort of like when Obama ran to end the wars, then escalated it.

And he lost my vote in '12.

But you guys continue to defend the pathological liar & buy everything he says.

[Cypress]

Sort of like when Obama ran to end the wars, then escalated it.

No comparison at all. You are either grossly misinformed, or your are a liar.

Obama campaigned in 2008 to increase the military effort in Afghanistan. He thought you and George Bush got us sidetracked in Iraq.

So Obama lived up to what he promised in the campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/20...q.html?mcubz=1

Your Orange Clown deceived people by suggesting Afghanistan was a NeoCon war and he wanted to pull out.


See the difference? Obama was transparent, told the truth, and followed through on his campaign promise.
Your Orange Clown did just the opposite.

[domer76]

Racist. Iraqis are brown, so they mean less to you than other human beings.

lol

There you go again, starting your series of:

Miscomprehension
Twisting
Distorting
Lying

Your MO is obvious and chronic.

Idiot.

[dukkha]

In other news concerning Trump's Escalation of the 16 year old Afghan War

lol. 4k is an "escalation"

the levels were critically low as Obama pulled the plug on the war but didn't flush it down the drain -
leaving 8k circling without enough firepower to do anything except watch the ANA do a slow bleed.

[cancel2 2022]

exactly.
we were big on building schools and pushing women's rights. No more of that nation building
Afghanistan way back when was a westernized society -the mujahideen /Taliban changed all that.


Before the 1979 invasion

Adam Curtis had an excellent blog about Afghanistan. Rather than provide all the links to the different parts just look at this!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ad...56.hgMK38Hc0LQ

[cancel2 2022]

Most of the left was right about the war, but not all. Good on you for admitting that.

I was always against the 2003 war but felt that the focus should have been far more on Afghanistan.