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2021-04-15 Afghanistan
Biden Announces Withdrawal of US Forces from Afghanistan, Germany and Britain to follow
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Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 This set the collective Pentagon and Beltway MIC's hair on fire when Trump announced it. Now, it's a good idea. Got it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-15 00:35||   2021-04-15 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Soon to be filled by Islamic State or another terrorist organization. Just like under Bumbles.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-04-15 00:37||   2021-04-15 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Except as a "Dr. Evil's Hidden Lair" what difference would it make?
Posted by magpie 2021-04-15 00:40||   2021-04-15 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 

Wasn't this the TRUMP Plan to scale down and cease to support once protected countries that now are verbally & physically combative with the USA while taking US $$$$?

We should have been out of the UK and Europe in back 1992 a year after the USSR Collapsed.

The way things are going here in the USA, Military recruiting is way down, we are hearing background noise of possible CCP / West Coast political agenda teaming and etc.

IF this administration continues attacking the Bill of Rights, the US Constitutional, going hell bend to erase common social morals along with our borders. Then the Harris/Pelosi/biden Admin will need all the troops and equipment here they can get to protect the Swamp.

However, given the Enlisted and Officers Military Oaths (unless they also change UCMJ) . I doubt 10% of the troops will put their necks on the line to protect such Anti-USA political Types.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-15 06:42||   2021-04-15 06:42|| Front Page Top

#5 ..more like 30% from the rankers and 90% of the higher leadership. Split around the O4/O5 level for the rest of the leadership.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-15 07:29||   2021-04-15 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I smell a 'post VN' style reduction in force (RIF) coming very soon.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-15 07:30||   2021-04-15 07:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Will the Pentagon slow-walk this like they did under Trump?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-15 07:53||   2021-04-15 07:53|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Negative. They've been promised other, more lucrative theaters.
Posted by Warthog 2021-04-15 09:38||   2021-04-15 09:38|| Front Page Top

#9 ^More lucrative than the Opium trade?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-15 09:43||   2021-04-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 #6 they can start by reducing the number of general officers to troop ratio we had in the period '44=45.

then they can use the physical fitness test for everyone else. One make up in 6 months or out.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-15 09:45||   2021-04-15 09:45|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ ....physical fitness test

No-can-do First Sergeant. My ***** hurts. Ok, perhaps next quarter then. Do you feel well enough to be a 'grader' and hold your fellow soldiers accountable? Great! Please see me after chow.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-15 09:47||   2021-04-15 09:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Thinking other lucrative g(r)om. The ability to deploy massive materiel and gain increased $$ in appropriations. Sure Trump massively increased funding but now, it's for the right reason ...you know? And you avoid the messy, clandestine drug trade.
Posted by Warthog 2021-04-15 09:49||   2021-04-15 09:49|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 It is said you can trap a monkey by putting a nut through a small hole
in a gourd. The monkey reaches in and grabs the nut, but then his fist
won’t fit back through the hole. Greedy monkeys will literally let
themselves be caught rather than let go of the nut.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-15 09:59||   2021-04-15 09:59|| Front Page Top

#14 You may be right g(r)om..certainly Opium $ are a huge nut. How else do you fund CIA clandestine ops?
Posted by Warthog 2021-04-15 10:30||   2021-04-15 10:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Secretary of State Blinken visits Afghanistan in surprise trip after Biden troop announcement
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-15 10:55||   2021-04-15 10:55|| Front Page Top

#16  How else do you fund CIA clandestine ops?

Chinese fentanyl from Mexico.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-15 10:58||   2021-04-15 10:58|| Front Page Top

#17 # 13 yes, Frank Buck would trap monkeys that way. Film probably still exists on You tube.
Posted by Dale 2021-04-15 14:52||   2021-04-15 14:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Or you can put drugs in the... gourd. That works, too. Mostly.
Posted by Ed Buck 2021-04-15 16:44||   2021-04-15 16:44|| Front Page Top

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