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  1. prinCZess

    The War in Afghanistan

    'The French did better' is not a positive, and when the casualties happen directly because of American incompetence, those who made the incompetent decision deserve condemnation.
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    The War in Afghanistan

    I would have maybe, with some big ol' heapings of salt, said it closer to the 'badass' end of things...Were the dude any kind of visible 'operator' or even intelligence weenie. Call it the Jack Ryan complimentary assumption of badass-ness. ...Except from what I can tell, he's a run-of-the-mill...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    'No longer--the withdrawel just shouldn't have been handled by incompetents who apparently don't have the strategic military planning capabilities of random fucktards on twitter' is the obvious answer here that's being discounted by the phrasing.
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    The War in Afghanistan

    Frankly, anyone who doesn't join the military because they can't stand bases named after Americans with moral difference to present-day thought is a positive--they obviously lack the mental flexibility necessary to learn tactical and strategic (or political) lessons from historical figures or...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    >Create a situation in unstable, war-torn country known for suicide-bombings where a massive number of people are concentrated into a crowded arena. >There's a suicide-bombing there. State Department and Pentagon needs to be evicted of every yabo in the upper-echelons with responsibility for...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    Seems like doing that earlier would've been better. I have the terrible suspicion it wasn't because it makes the 'optics' even worse. Bright side to all the dead people this has resulted in--all this makes very clear that high-level civil and military authorities in the US are a cluster of...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    Wholly independent of any impeachment/removal issue or objection or anything else around the Presidency... I'd like to add that forced resignations at the least, potentially court-martials at the other end of things, should definitely be on the table for numerous Pentagon/CENTCOM/military...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    From the looks of things, it might not be bodies but equipment/doctrine(?) that made that decision--the Minnesota Guard unit is an armored/mechanized-infantry unit that brags on the MinGuard website about training exercises in "base defense, tactical logistical resupply, maintenance operations...
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    The War in Afghanistan

    I mean...If the American political class (this including the upper-echelon military) were competent or actually motivated to create anything resembling a stable state, then it's absolutely proper to have gotten hopes up. Though it may have cost compromises of principle when applied to a foreign...
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