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2021-07-06 Afghanistan

Afghan looters ransack Bagram Air Base and hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after US troops bugged out in the dead of night

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 No need giving out their departure schedule, information that the Taliban would end up with in 5 minutes.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-07-06 00:30|| 2021-07-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 US left Bagram Air Base in dead of night, didn't tell new Afghan commander

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-06 07:24|| 2021-07-06 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 sounds like Detroit

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-07-06 08:01|| 2021-07-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok, so turning it into 'Reston Town Center' didn't work. So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.

The cultural and civil evolution of these lovely people lags at least 1000 years behind the West, possibly longer. It appears to be a 'self-paced' process. Come back and check on them in another 500-750 years.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-06 08:06|| 2021-07-06 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 There is and always has been only one reason to fight. I don't care if you just slung your bronze shield across your back to make your 5th attempt on the walls of Troy or you're climbing into a boxing ring in San Francisco harbor centuries later...

VICTORY. The devastating kind. The absolute kind. If you're not in it for that kind of win, do everybody a favor and stay the Hell home.

Posted by Cesare 2021-07-06 08:14|| 2021-07-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I wondered what the Afghan version of the helicopter bug out in Vietnam would be. This is it.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-06 08:43|| 2021-07-06 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok, so turning it into 'Reston Town Center' didn't work. So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.

The cultural and civil evolution of these lovely people lags at least 1000 years behind the West, possibly longer. It appears to be a 'self-paced' process. Come back and check on them in another 500-750 years.

We weren't there to civilize them. We showed up to pound the Taliban into the ground in a way acceptable under the rules written by lawyers who now rule the military in the same way that they dominate the civilian world. The issue isn't that we were there - it's that lawyers are running our wars.

We've also brainwashed ourselves into believing that atrocity doesn't work. Or course it does. If it did not, how did Alexander build an empire that lasted centuries? How did Muhammad build a religion that has lasted 1300 years, using Alexander's rules of engagement? Has it occurred to anyone that the elimination of 10% and 5% of Germany's and Japan's populations during WWII had anything to do with their relative quiescence afterwards?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-07-06 10:55|| 2021-07-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 ...they took the bar..

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-06 11:01|| 2021-07-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#9 So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.

Cam Ranh Bay

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-06 11:13|| 2021-07-06 11:13|| Front Page Top

#10 should have done scorched earth.

Posted by Warthog 2021-07-06 11:24|| 2021-07-06 11:24|| Front Page Top

#11 The term or failed concept I should have included in #4 was.... "nation building."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-06 11:43|| 2021-07-06 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 What ever happened to smallpox blankets?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-06 12:56|| 2021-07-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Smallpox blankets are old school. Nowadays, we use bats and Chinamen.