Costs of the Afghanistan War

[WhatsHisNuts]

This is what you want to stick around and continue?

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38f

[FONT=&quot]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Extrapolate from the past two decades, the conservative cost estimate would be:<br>1,000 U.S. solders dead<br>500 NATO allied soldiers dead<br>1,500 contractors dead<br>200 journalists dead<br>30,000 Afghan soldiers/policemen dead<br>20,000 Afghan civilians dead<br>$1 trillion more spent. <a href="https://t.co/uMLAx08FzC">https://t.co/uMLAx08FzC</a></p>— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) <a href="https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1431055388347191300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/FONT]​

 

[Cricket]

This is what you want to stick around and continue?

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38f

[FONT=&quot]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Extrapolate from the past two decades, the conservative cost estimate would be:<br>1,000 U.S. solders dead<br>500 NATO allied soldiers dead<br>1,500 contractors dead<br>200 journalists dead<br>30,000 Afghan soldiers/policemen dead<br>20,000 Afghan civilians dead<br>$1 trillion more spent. <a href="https://t.co/uMLAx08FzC">https://t.co/uMLAx08FzC</a></p>— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) <a href="https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1431055388347191300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/FONT]​

What if the bumbled, under manned withdrawal was a reason to stay there. ? Biden has no problem undoing Trump's policy on anything else. So now he has to get out pronto. Trump had conditions that had to be met for withdrawal and wouldn't have let his guard down like this.WTF

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

What if the bumbled, under manned withdrawal was a reason to stay there. ? Biden has no problem undoing Trump's policy on anything else. So now he has to get out pronto. Trump had conditions that had to be met for withdrawal and wouldn't have let his guard down like this.WTF

What if suicide attacks by ISIS-K are proof we should get the fuck out?

 

[yyz]

What if suicide attacks by ISIS-K are proof we should get the fuck out?

These threads are exactly like the "war".

You can't win.


All of these guys think Democrat run cities should burn to the ground, but wring their hands over a place on the map they can't point to.

We're circling the drain, and they think they're at a waterpark.

 

[lowell]

Maybe I missed it but who on this site is saying we need to stay in Afghanistan?
Biden and his Woke generals/advisors closed Bagram Air Base in the dead of night on July 5th and withdrew all US forces , not even bothering to tell Afghans . Once our deadly air power was gone the Taliban began their offensive.
Any military person / aide that allowed the Taliban to provide security at the airport should be fired or face a court martial. The perimeter should have been 2000-3000 meters from gates . Fly in tanks and position them to protect the evacuation. Sgt. Bilko could have come up with a better strategy than these clowns. Get every American out first and then the Afghans .Blow up all US equipment . If Taliban objects kill every one of them.

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Maybe I missed it but who on this site is saying we need to stay in Afghanistan?
Biden and his Woke generals/advisors closed Bagram Air Base in the dead of night on July 5th and withdrew all US forces , not even bothering to tell Afghans . Once our deadly air power was gone the Taliban began their offensive.
Any military person / aide that allowed the Taliban to provide security at the airport should be fired or face a court martial. The perimeter should have been 2000-3000 meters from gates . Fly in tanks and position them to protect the evacuation. Sgt. Bilko could have come up with a better strategy than these clowns. Get every American out first and then the Afghans .Blow up all US equipment . If Taliban objects kill every one of them.

Sportsaholic made the case that we should stay and see things through.

Lowell: Your post above is probably the closest we'll ever come to seeing eye to eye on something. On that note, unless there is some major development, I think I've said all I care to on this.

 

[Sportsaholic]

Sportsaholic made the case that we should stay and see things through.

I said 20 years wasn't enough time to change the Afghans mindset to recognize they were free in my opinion....And just so you know I didn't send troupes to Afghanistan to try and change minds in the first place.