May have something to do with that it is the world's #1 exporter of heroin.

6/4/2011 8:34:50 AM

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"May have something to do with that it is the world's #1 exporter of heroin."

It'd be cheaper to go back to paying them to burn the fields.

6/4/2011 3:24:16 PM

We can't. It's the only jobs program we have.

6/9/2011 1:17:48 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8633302/Death-of-Ahmad-Wali-Karzai-leaves-Afghan-power-vacuum.html

7/12/2011 3:08:09 PM

still a fucking hell hole

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/24/afghanistan.militants.hang.boy/index.html

you can't civilize or democratize people who don't want to be civilized or democratized.

7/25/2011 11:52:48 AM

The general that was killed a few days ago was the highest ranking US officer to be killed in combat since 1970 in Vietnam.

8/6/2014 11:02:09 AM

This story has some neat pictures:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758175/US-left-Afghan-airfield-night-didnt-tell-new-commander.html

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"US troops abandoned Bagram airport base in the dead of night WITHOUT telling Afghan forces who were due to take it over… and only realised two hours later"

7/6/2021 2:36:53 PM

That's a huge WTF for me. Why is communication such a hard thing?

7/6/2021 3:27:55 PM

Because they don't give a shit lol.

7/6/2021 4:01:46 PM

We all knew it was going to happen:

10 years ago almost to the day:

https://www.theonion.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night-1819572778

7/6/2021 4:09:03 PM

^wow, that's kinda weird

7/6/2021 5:08:44 PM

bump

8/26/2021 3:37:14 PM

Joe Lied, Troops Died

Hillary 4 Prez

8/26/2021 3:46:01 PM

Can't quit you, babe!

8/26/2021 7:33:10 PM

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" OH WE BACK "

8/26/2021 8:12:08 PM

110,000 people evacuated since 8/14

8/26/2021 8:25:11 PM

would be pretty cool if those super outraged over what’s happening in Afghanistan would’ve had the same energy over the raging pandemic that we’re currently going through

8/26/2021 8:58:15 PM

Or, like, the last 20 years of this war

8/26/2021 9:05:04 PM

that, too

8/26/2021 9:06:10 PM

My whole thing is like 20 years for this?

8/26/2021 9:46:29 PM

The definition of quagmire

8/26/2021 10:12:01 PM

Somebody is not supportin' are troops!

8/26/2021 10:33:29 PM

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"would be pretty cool if those super outraged over what’s happening in Afghanistan would’ve had the same energy over the raging pandemic that we’re currently going through"

4 people die in Benghazi = outrage

13 marines die in Kabul = outrage

600,000+ dead from a virus now with a vaccine = muh liberties



[Edited on August 27, 2021 at 4:57 PM. Reason : .]

8/27/2021 4:57:12 PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image

It's only a matter of time before it's updated for Afghanistan.

8/27/2021 5:14:47 PM

https://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=575997&page=3#13393363

I was pretty much spot on back in 2009 the military could never solve this problem. Obama sweet talked me with his ideas of a “comprehensive plan” that obviously failed. Also I’m sorry to jcashfan not sure why I was such an ass to you

9/4/2021 11:35:20 AM

^

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"hooksaw ^^ Yeah, some Intarweb fuckhead--you--knows more than General Stanley McChrystal, ISAF and USFOR-A commander; Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense; the NATO defense ministers; and so on. They have all requested more forces. Shut. . .the fuck. . .up, you reflexively defensive, bed-wetting leftist, Obama cock gobbler. 10/27/2009 5:38:39 PM"

I remember him; he was a belligerent, racist, warmongering piece of shit. Hope he is fucking dead.

9/6/2021 2:26:22 PM