I speak Arabic like TV 'chief no-say-em-much' and that was obvious by the third sentence.
With "there's an app for that"--like translation, you'd think the DNC ministry-of-propaganda outlets would be embarrassed to clown themselves like that
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I speak Arabic like TV 'chief no-say-em-much' and that was obvious by the third sentence.
With "there's an app for that"--like translation, you'd think the DNC ministry-of-propaganda outlets would be embarrassed to clown themselves like that
"War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight.
Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time.
This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end."
-Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Just some food for thought as talking heads and politicians are rubbing their chubbies over each other.
I will have to do some checking of my homework, but I seem to recall the last time an executive asked congress for a declaration of war was in 1941. Since then, it has been a series of "executive knows best".
Executive can go **** itself all the way to ****.
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Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time.
This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end."
-Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Just some food for thought as talking heads and politicians are rubbing their chubbies over each other.
I will have to do some checking of my homework, but I seem to recall the last time an executive asked congress for a declaration of war was in 1941. Since then, it has been a series of "executive knows best".
Executive can go **** itself all the way to ****.
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Or they just didn't think that the Americans would actually fly that plane out of there with people hanging off of it.
The Afghans were only wrong once. We stopped flying out planes until we could secure them.
We all know how this is going to play out. The leadership will put out an ad for English speaking translators, and kill all who show up. Then they will ask for women to apply for .gov positions, and kill all who apply. This will go on for some time with the lack of information dissemination. This is Old Testament stuff.
And what recourse do we have? A stern talking to from Biden? Perish the thought!
And what recourse do we have? A stern talking to from Biden? Perish the thought!
Wow was that one guy pointing an RPG at the guy on his knees? That would have been a disaster with all them people around that close.
RPGs have a 40 meter arming distance from what I was reading earlier.
The RPG-7 has an arming range of 5 meters. He is right at that point I believe.
Overkill, for sure, but it would still hit you like a 600 caliber bullet, even if it didn't arm
NO NO NO.... nothing like vietnam.
The following is a post made by a friend of mine this morning. It speaks for itself:
I would say I’ve transitioned my mindset better than most I know from being a Marine to being a civilian.
God has granted me peace with the things I saw and did while in the Marines in Afghanistan. But this entire situation going on with the withdraw and reconquering by the Taliban has been really angering.
These cities and places aren’t distant names on the news from a foreign land. These are places I have been. When I read how the Taliban re-conquered the Garmsir district, that was an area that I personally was involved in taking over from the Taliban. My boots were literally the first American boots to ever enter those cities. I took life and watched the lives of some of my closest friends get taken in those places.
It honestly has made me feel like those in charge felt like it was for nothing.
I’m so tired of hearing how Afghanistan could never be conquered and it was an un-winnable war. That’s a load of crap. We walked into countless gun fights essentially with our hands tied behind our back. We had air support and artillery that we weren’t permitted to use constantly. We on countless occasions had the Taliban on the run and trapped and would just get up and go back to our base leaving them alive because those in charge would not allow us to blow them away because of what it might do to the “hearts and minds” of the locals and also wouldn’t let us pursue them closer because of imaginary lines in the sand limiting our advance.
These are people who are tough behind their AK-47s and IED’s but when they are captured, whine like little girls. 90 pounds soaking wet who my wife would be able to take in a fight. They aren’t unconquerable war machines. They are simply people who are lucky that our own leaders wouldn’t actually let us fight them in the manner we were capable of.
This was completely mismanaged by our leadership. One of them gave a speech this week calling the land a “graveyard of empires”, knowing full well that we could have easily annihilated the Taliban if actually given the permission to do so.
I don’t know how to not take the mismanagement of the exodus from Afghanistan personally. If we continue to fight future wars in the same manner this one was fought, we will never win another war again.
I would say I’ve transitioned my mindset better than most I know from being a Marine to being a civilian.
God has granted me peace with the things I saw and did while in the Marines in Afghanistan. But this entire situation going on with the withdraw and reconquering by the Taliban has been really angering.
These cities and places aren’t distant names on the news from a foreign land. These are places I have been. When I read how the Taliban re-conquered the Garmsir district, that was an area that I personally was involved in taking over from the Taliban. My boots were literally the first American boots to ever enter those cities. I took life and watched the lives of some of my closest friends get taken in those places.
It honestly has made me feel like those in charge felt like it was for nothing.
I’m so tired of hearing how Afghanistan could never be conquered and it was an un-winnable war. That’s a load of crap. We walked into countless gun fights essentially with our hands tied behind our back. We had air support and artillery that we weren’t permitted to use constantly. We on countless occasions had the Taliban on the run and trapped and would just get up and go back to our base leaving them alive because those in charge would not allow us to blow them away because of what it might do to the “hearts and minds” of the locals and also wouldn’t let us pursue them closer because of imaginary lines in the sand limiting our advance.
These are people who are tough behind their AK-47s and IED’s but when they are captured, whine like little girls. 90 pounds soaking wet who my wife would be able to take in a fight. They aren’t unconquerable war machines. They are simply people who are lucky that our own leaders wouldn’t actually let us fight them in the manner we were capable of.
This was completely mismanaged by our leadership. One of them gave a speech this week calling the land a “graveyard of empires”, knowing full well that we could have easily annihilated the Taliban if actually given the permission to do so.
I don’t know how to not take the mismanagement of the exodus from Afghanistan personally. If we continue to fight future wars in the same manner this one was fought, we will never win another war again.
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