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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Bases on alert right now, fun fun fun Is there a reason? It seems pretty widespread.
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It is likely a reaction to the thing going on in Australia at the moment. Not an incident just a lockdown on a group of people who are likely nutters. Bombs possibly involved though. Spacman fucked around with this message at 20:54 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 20:52
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Spacman posted:It is likely a reaction to the thing going on in Australia at the moment. pretend like I work in an environment where I don't have easy access to media and just got home
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krispykremessuck posted:pretend like I work in an environment where I don't have easy access to media and just got home Google it. There have been a few anti terrorism raids today. Spacman fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 20:55
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krispykremessuck posted:pretend like I work in an environment where I don't have easy access to media and just got home Australia anti-terror police arrest two in Sydney.
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Spacman posted:Google it thanks I'm glad to know some weird australian guy thinks global warming is a UN plot
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RFC2324 posted:Texas, Hell, I can't tell the difference. Both hot as gently caress. "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell" -Gen. Sheridan
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krispykremessuck posted:thanks I'm glad to know some weird australian guy thinks global warming is a UN plot I hope you are wounded in a market bombing and go broke because you have to pay for poo poo like basic lifesaving medical treatment in America Spacman fucked around with this message at 21:13 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 21:00
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Spacman posted:I hope you are wounded in a market bombing and go broke because you have to pay for poo poo like basic lifesaving medical treatment in America same e: also I dunno if you've got FAS or are just ESL (I get you're australian and probably interbred with aborigines or maoris) or where the communication breakdown here is but no major news source, including non-American news sources is carrying any kind of headline news (about something in Australia) that would shed light on why US bases would change their FPCON so... here we are. krispykremessuck fucked around with this message at 21:14 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 21:10
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Spacman posted:I hope you are wounded in a market bombing and go broke because you have to pay for poo poo like basic lifesaving medical treatment in America wow rude as gently caress m8
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:wow rude as gently caress m8 It might be rude, but I hope you all get scabies and need to pay money to get it fixed. haha, paying money for that... hahaha
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May 8, 2015 21:16
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Hey, it was ISIS all along: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/politics/isis-activity-prompts-threat-level-increase-at-bases/
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krispykremessuck posted:same You have a load of bases here, and marines ruining the NT... likely just to get that sweet free healthcare on a 457 visa... Link whatever bullshit cnn story you want. I know you are trying to steal our free healthcare. Spacman fucked around with this message at 21:20 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 21:18
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Spacman posted:It might be rude, but I hope you all get scabies and need to pay money to get it fixed. haha, paying money for that... hahaha sorry to burst your bubble but i live in a 1st world country and not an apocalyptic hellscape and i bath on a regular basis so not too worried about scabies
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somewhatpathetic posted:Hey, it was ISIS all along: hey thanks bud, didn't see that earlier
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:sorry to burst your bubble but i live in a 1st world country and not an apocalyptic hellscape and i bath on a regular basis so not too worried about scabies So Germany or Russia?
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Spacman posted:So Germany or Russia? 
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It makes sense. I understand now why the Stennis battle group was hanging about fleet base west last week. Sucking up all our free health care.
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Spacman posted:It makes sense. I understand now why the Stennis battle group was hanging about fleet base west last week. pretty sure they had enough motrin on board that they didnt need to resort to using your witch doctors
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Spacman posted:It makes sense. I understand now why the Stennis battle group was hanging about fleet base west last week. idgi, because everyone in the military gets free healthcare
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Yeah, Tricare pays for it when you are overseas, I don't get it either. And if you call the public system there anything kind of good then I don't know what the gently caress. Also, 30 dollars for scripts you gotta be outta your loving mind get the gently caress outta here.
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Spacman posted:You have a load of bases here, and marines ruining the NT... likely just to get that sweet free healthcare on a 457 visa... Well, you had an angry brown teen with a pipe bomb...
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Forbes: Five Signs Afghanistan is Becoming an American Success Story
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Forbes: Have we ever really known what we're talking about?
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Forbes: lol
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Whenever I hear success and afghanistan in the same sentence I think of that officer talking about the afghan troops in that vice episode. Such a waste of resources
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I'm enjoying the "stabbed in the back" meme that conservatives are starting to bandy about regarding Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Depends on your definition of success. If that definition includes pumping billions of dollars into US defense contractors, killing lots of brown people, creating an economic stimulus for the portable hard drive and dip industries, and getting half of GiP free education and zero money down on houses, then Mission Accomplished.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm enjoying the "stabbed in the back" meme that conservatives are starting to bandy about regarding Iraq and Afghanistan. We're calling it "Green on Blue" now, thanks.
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psydude posted:Depends on your definition of success. If that definition includes pumping billions of dollars into US defense contractors, killing lots of brown people, creating an economic stimulus for the portable hard drive and dip industries, and getting half of GiP free education and zero money down on houses, then Mission Accomplished. Well, to be fair to Forbes they are citing concrete improvements... so it's a success story if they mean "disregarding that it took almost 14 years to get this far and umpteen zillion dollars and casualties". A better title would have been :"Afghanistan: Where we could have been in 2005 at 1/10 the price if we hadn't decided to go party in Iraq."
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Dead Reckoning posted:We're calling it "Green on Blue" now, thanks. Appropriation of military culture 
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Kiryen posted:Well, to be fair to Forbes they are citing concrete improvements... so it's a success story if they mean "disregarding that it took almost 14 years to get this far and umpteen zillion dollars and casualties". We should have used a hybrid Israeli/US strategy, destroy everything, blockade the country and make any aid go through the US for delivery by Reapers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/world/middleeast/riot-erupts-in-irans-kurdish-capital-over-womans-death.html I guess the kurds are starting to gently caress poo poo up in Iran. I bet the US gov is like " How can we fund these guys? " And some other dude just comes out of no where with a report about funding them in iraq already, sees the figures and just goes " oooooooooh, never mind. " Current world politics reminds me of the support rebels stuff in EU4
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm enjoying the "stabbed in the back" meme that conservatives are starting to bandy about regarding Iraq and Afghanistan. Starting? Maybe I'm plugged into different circles but I've been hearing that poo poo ever since 2011. It's just gotten a lot more intense post-ISIS pulling the entire house of cards down in Iraq, which in turn has further distorted the discussion on Afghanistan. "We can't ever leave otherwise it will turn into another Iraq!!!!!! Terrorists might take-over!!!! Remember what happened the last time they took over??!?!?!?!?" Kiryen posted:Well, to be fair to Forbes they are citing concrete improvements... so it's a success story if they mean "disregarding that it took almost 14 years to get this far and umpteen zillion dollars and casualties". Except even the "concrete improvements" aren't a) concrete (or real) and b) improvements. In order: 1. Afghan security forces are performing well. Except for the bit about how they're getting killed quicker than they can be recruited, or the bit about how they're deserting in droves, or the bit about how a significant portion of them don't exist (pay-roll shenanigans in a third-world military?!?!?!? I'm shocked). Or the part where outside of being used for bullet sponges in poorly thought out tactical operations they are completely helpless because they are incapable of any sort of logistics, or airpower, or intel, or operational thinking (much less strategic) or any of the hundred other enabling functions that a military needs to be at least semi-functional. Or the bit about how saying they're in charge of all 34 provincial capitols is reeeeeeally stretching the truth since militants have been at the gates of Kunduz for the past couple of weeks and the Taliban basically runs the provincial capitols in the east (Jbad, Parun, Khost, etc). 2. The political outlook has brightened. Technically true I guess but short of putting Mullah Omar back in charge it would've been hard to do much worse than Karzai. 3. Pakistan has awakened to shared interests. lol 4. The economy has made huge progress. A 1000% increase of 0 is still 0. Also he claims opium production has fallen and that is an outright lie. Production in 2014 was the highest its been since 2001. 5. Popular opinion supports national institutions. ....according to NATO surveys. So yes, when the white guys with guns come and ask Afghans whether they prefer the side backed by the white guys with guns or the other side, of course they answer the first option. Something tells me that they'll be singing a different tune when asked by the guys with guns from the other side. iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 10:41 on May 9, 2015 |
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MaxPowers posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/world/middleeast/riot-erupts-in-irans-kurdish-capital-over-womans-death.html When the kurds step up against an actual state it usually works out great for them so that's nice.
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The alternative to the "stabbed in the back" myth is essentially Forever War, right? I don't understand how Conservatives would back endless casualties for ARE TROOPS. 
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Frosted Flake posted:The alternative to the "stabbed in the back" myth is essentially Forever War, right? Familiar with the gambler's fallacy? Also known as sunken cost... You may remember it as Vietnam! Lets get it done in 68!
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