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Here We Go Again
Taliban fight: US may send 3,000 more troops to Afghanistan
US military officials and the state department are recommending sending at least 3,000 more troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, US media report.
Military leaders would also regain the authority to target Taliban leaders with air strikes under the proposals.
President Donald Trump has not approved the plan, unnamed officials say. They may include a request that other Nato countries send 3,000-5,000 soldiers.
There are 13,000 Nato troops currently in the country, 8,400 of them US.
US combat operations against the Taliban officially ended in 2014, but special forces have continued to provide support to Afghan troops.
In February, the commander of US troops in Afghanistan Gen John Nicholson told a Senate committee there was "a shortfall of a few thousand".
He said he needed more troops to break a "stalemate".
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- Rongone
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Don't these people understand why Afghanistan was given the title of "graveyard of empires"?
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Trump is finding out very fast just how tough a job this is and that campaign rhetoric is just that.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Rongone wrote:
Don't these people understand why Afghanistan was given the title of "graveyard of empires"?
We keep thinking we can go in and turn a country into a mini-democracy.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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We've been there since shortly after 9/11,
2001.
But we believe that sending another 3,000 men will solve the problem?
We never learn.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Don't these people understand why Afghanistan was given the title of "graveyard of empires"?
We keep thinking we can go in and turn a country into a mini-democracy.
Maybe it's part of the secret ISIS strategy?
3,000 troops, 30 days and we win?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Bring back the draft and you'd see alot of this bullshit come to screeching halt. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
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Bring back the draft and you'd see alot of this bullshit come to screeching halt. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Unless you have a bone spur in your foot. Oh, and a rich Daddy too.
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Thread Starter- Just Fred
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Good one, Goose. But, I know you understand my point. The draft forces all of us have a stake in what the hell is going on military-wise. Right now it's something like 1% or less of the entire population. If it weren't for the draft, we'd probably still be screwing around in Vietnam.
rongone could probably speak to this better than than me. My number was 291 in that 1969 lottery.
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We've been there since shortly after 9/11,
2001.
But we believe that sending another 3,000 men will solve the problem?
We never learn.
As we come up on high school graduation time, just think that this group of high school seniors - born around 1998/99 - has *never* known a time that we weren't at war in the middle east.
1984 comes to mind. "Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
Sad.
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