Hoosier Daddy
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nobody denied airlifting supplies is not an airlift, dumbass. what is wrong with you?
Largest and most successful airlift in history
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nobody denied airlifting supplies is not an airlift, dumbass. what is wrong with you?
Are you on crack?
Today is not September 29.
When you wrote this today was August 29.
The article said 110,000 people were airlifted since August 15 . That is a total of 15 days
Not the 48 days you claim.
The Berlin airlift largely involved transporting canned foods and petrol -- not human beings.
Berlin is only a few hundred kilometers from major European cities, bases, and staging areas, and East Germany was not an active war zone.
In Afghanistan, USA and remaining NATO allies had to deal with the logistics of airlifting over a hundred thousand people in 17 days from an active war zone on the other side of the planet.
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Looks like rockets were fired at the airport.
https://www.aol.com/news/rockets-fired-kabul-airport-u-045518598-075109514.html
Fortunately, no casualties (for now). I wonder if they were our rockets that Biden left behind?
https://www.aol.com/news/rockets-fired-kabul-airport-u-045518598-075109514.html
Fortunately, no casualties (for now). I wonder if they were our rockets that Biden left behind?
People are easier to load than canned foods and petrol.
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
It really is phenomenal, what has been accomplished.
Yes, the Taliban taking over the whole damn country, $billions of our military equipment and technology abandoned, 13 of our service members and hundreds of Afgan friendlies killed...so far. Idiots in charge.
The Biden Administration may have badly miscalculated the Taliban's arrival, but they more than made up for it with this success.
Transporting cans of Campbell's soup from Frankfurt Germany to Berlin Germany does not strike me as the same sort of logistical problem as airlifting 120,000 people in 17 days from a war zone on the opposite side of the planet
Matt Dillon
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Of terrorists to the US with blank visas.
Biggest giveaway of American weapons and tech to enemy combatants ever.
It seems like Trump's attempt to train th the Afghan National Army over the past four years was utterly inept.
Every intelligent person knew the Afghan government was doomed after we left. But I assume their Trump-trained army could hold out for longer than two weeks
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It’s September? I missed a whole month somewhere. I thought it still August.
Thank goodness we are finally getting out of this occupation where thousand of lives of American lives were taken with very little to show for it. The military knew a long time ago that it was a failure. The Afghan Papers revealed the truths no one but Trump and Biden were willing to face.
Son of the Revolution
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Why didn't Obama pull out????
Matt Dillon
Retardium User
Why 114K when there were only 50-60K of "our" people there? That's a lot of indiscriminate evacuating there.
Meanwhile thousands of Americans have been and will be left behind.
Will they be seeded into someplace like Minneapolis to make more "no-go" zones?
No, but the Afgan airlift has 70 years advancement in technology and capacity..
The fact that this discussion has evolved into comparing whether or not the Afghan airlift is quite as good as the iconic Berlin airlift is a credit to Team Biden.
It wasn't that many years ago that conservative message board posters frequently claimed college protestors lost the Vietnam war for us, and we should have stayed to fight on to the final victory.
That is why I am not surprised that within the past 30 days, rightwing posters who were previously posturing as flower-waving hippy peaceniks suddenly started complaining that we should leave our military in Afghanistan.
All of the talk reminds me of Vietnam, the agony of the parents of the last soldiers killed there, the disgruntled vets, and “why did we fight”, so many similarities, but in the end, the realization that it was a war we never should have fought.