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Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



so when's the ken burns documentary on afghanistan. his vietnam one was pretty good

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Sad Billionaire
Mar 31, 2009

What a twist
Fan of Britches

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1427005110299680768?s=20
https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1427008924377509891?s=20

If you wanted the US to leave Afghanistan you are responsible for anything the Taliban atrocities. US atrocities were just a "heavy toll," and not as bad.

please someone remove this guy's quotation mark keys or his fingers

Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth

What too much soy does to a mofo.

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Hillary 2024 posted:

You can just attach parachutes to the pallets of cash and push them out of an aeroplane as it flies over the enemy. No need to even stop moving.

not if you want to make sure it actually reaches the recipient

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



getting word that the US is dispatching Big Boss to extract everyone from afghanistan, as well as a bunch of wolves and scorpions and a bear or two

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin

Buck Turgidson posted:

the usa lost but that doesn't really matter, i'm sure all the right people got paid for their part in this MIC boondoggle.

I'm gonna move this one over to the "Wars The United States Didn't Win" column

Taco Duck
Feb 18, 2011


If we had just built more Taco Bells there

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️

Shear Modulus posted:

getting word that the US is dispatching Big Boss to extract everyone from afghanistan

Endless Kaz quotes

McNugget Buddy
Aug 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Unoriginal Name posted:

if you want America to save the woman and children, maybe you can convince them to start with their own country by providing them food and healthcare

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol what the hell, flightradar24 thinks its a twin engine beachcraft

The US Military has at least 100 King Airs in their inventory, so it's pretty likely

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1427091832807305219?s=20
https://twitter.com/dpa_intl/status/1427101593900564487?s=20
So the US didn't send 6k troops to scare off the Taliban, it was to scare off NATO collaborators so actual NATO citizens could have the seats on planes

ColtMcAsskick
Nov 7, 2010
There's some weird sockpuppetry on Reddit right now saying variations of "The US didn't lose Afghanistan, Afghanistan lost Afghanistan" in a bunch of comment sections. I can't figure out if it's actually a sockpuppet campaign or everyone on reddit is trying to rationalise away the fact the US got extremely owned. Either way lmao, lol

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Buck Turgidson posted:

the usa lost but that doesn't really matter, i'm sure all the right people got paid for their part in this MIC boondoggle.

the people with the greatest culpability for organizing and maintaining the disaster were lauded, rewarded, and celebrated. they won. the only mistake that could be made was to oppose the war and this is born out by the evidence.

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin

the trigger discipline

Unoriginal Name
Aug 1, 2006

by sebmojo

Bring The Troops Home

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/1427099866723848195?s=20

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin

paul_soccer12 posted:

Taliban are literally giving amnesty to everyone except ISIS, whom they are beheading

why do they hate isis?

Buck Turgidson
Feb 6, 2011

𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬

Hillary 2024 posted:

I'm gonna move this one over to the "Wars The United States Didn't Win" column

100%. just trying to focus on what's really important here: the enrichment of the capitalist class, who don't give a poo poo about winning or losing as long as they made megabucks out of this decades long extravaganza of waste and misery

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?

because isis was a giant war band loyal only to themselves that delt with other groups by murdering them if they didn't become isis.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Tiler Kiwi posted:

i do feel bad for library solder lady, who got to have a positive reflection of her sons pointless death by thinking "at least the little girls of afghanistan have things to read because of my son's sacrifice" but then whoops there goes gravity. more owned than the literacy rate is gonna be

kandahar airfield was part of a us military base. the library was at the airfield, which means it was not for public use.

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008



pocket square/jacket/top buttoned floral combo has me screaming. soy overkill

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1427005110299680768?s=20
https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1427008924377509891?s=20

If you wanted the US to leave Afghanistan you are responsible for anything the Taliban atrocities. US atrocities were just a "heavy toll," and not as bad.

they didnt build any institutions that could last a week. so yes the empire has more agency than the collective left behind

Tiler Kiwi
Feb 26, 2011

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

kandahar airfield was part of a us military base. the library was at the airfield, which means it was not for public use.

oh, lol, loving incredible

Sad Billionaire
Mar 31, 2009

What a twist
Fan of Britches
yeah when she was talking about her son setting up a library she meant a storage closet full of naruto and porn

hellotoothpaste
Dec 21, 2006

I dare you to call it a perm again..

LGD posted:

Okay, so this is obviously hosed. Any wargaming thoughts about how this plays out with a reinforcement of the airport etc? Is there any chance there’s a plan to draw the Taliban in and then USAF the gently caress out of them or something?

Ever the pessimist about the fact that there’s a plan involved here, but even from a naive point of view this process looks completely absurd.

Hey! That was my stupid question you jerk

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007


Good lord.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
wonder what happened to ol' Izzy Khan and his visit with Ghani

mcclay
Jul 8, 2013

Oh dear oh gosh oh darn
Soiled Meat

PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?
ISIS also hates the local, Pashtun version of Sunni Islam which the TB follows

Popy
Feb 19, 2008


i refuse to believe he came up with this himself. ghostwritten by daddy

Love Stole the Day
Nov 4, 2012
Please give me free quality professional advice so I can be a baby about it and insult you
The reason why it's funny is not because of what's being said but because of who's saying it

hopefully by explaining this joke it is now dead like LGBT rights in Afghanistan

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

Vermain posted:

his vietnam one was pretty good

lol

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Sad Billionaire posted:

yeah when she was talking about her son setting up a library she meant a storage closet full of naruto and porn

well, operation paperback is apparently a pretty straightforward non-profit that sends used books to overseas military personnel. so this guy stuck the books he was given for free into a room on base. there's nothing particularly noteworthy about that feat at all but his idiot mom thinks it is somehow amazing.

Omnicarus
Jan 16, 2006

Some people are saying this could be America's equivalent of the Soviet disaster in Afghanistan, and are even referring to it as America's Afghanistan.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?

they hate them for their freedoms

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?
aside from them being somewhat unpleasant people and interlopers, the taliban committed that they would deny refuge to terrorist groups

Goon Boots
Feb 2, 2020



please tag and spoiler nsfw posts tia

Animal Friend
Sep 7, 2011

Omnicarus posted:

Some people are saying this could be America's equivalent of the Soviet disaster in Afghanistan, and are even referring to it as America's Afghanistan.

Like a Vietnam's Cambodia kind of deal?

hosed up if true.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?

They hate their freedoms.

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Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

PyPy posted:

why do they hate isis?

isis are basically jokerfied muslim 4channers only they banded together in groups to shoot people and boondock across the desert rather than lone wolf shoot up their school

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