« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 20 21 [22] 23 24 ... 28

Author Topic: Afghanistan  (Read 38303 times)

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #525 on: August 30, 2021, 05:33:10 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on August 30, 2021, 05:31:05 PM
Did we leave behind one of those also?   :O

what we should be doing right now.
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

Lennyjoe

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2,764
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #526 on: August 30, 2021, 06:37:27 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged

Jim147

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 7,596
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #527 on: August 30, 2021, 06:54:32 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on August 30, 2021, 05:27:26 PM
Any report on how many Americans and eligible Afghanis we left behind?

It is a bunch. I'm going to have to spend some time in the ac to cool off from the heat this afternoon then take a stomach pill before I can watch anymore news.
Report to moderator   Logged
Sometimes we carry more weight then we owe.
And sometimes goes on and on and on.

BAH-WEEP-GRAAAGHNAH WHEEP NI-NI BONG

RoadKingLarry

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 21,841
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #528 on: August 30, 2021, 07:13:23 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 30, 2021, 05:29:28 PM


As a former submariner, I approve of this message.
Report to moderator   Logged
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #529 on: August 30, 2021, 07:18:44 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on August 30, 2021, 05:27:26 PM
Any report on how many Americans and eligible Afghanis we left behind?

You mean how many soon to be hostages and soon to be headless bodies did we leave behind?
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

Hawkmoon

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,277
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #530 on: August 30, 2021, 07:41:23 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 30, 2021, 07:18:44 PM
You mean how many soon to be hostages and soon to be headless bodies did we leave behind?

Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you for clarifying.
Report to moderator   Logged
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
100% Politically Incorrect by Design

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #531 on: August 30, 2021, 08:11:26 PM »
President Biden to speak Tuesday afternoon about the decision to end the airlift out of Afghanistan
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/08/30/president-biden-to-speak-tuesday-afternoon-about-the-decision-to-end-the-airlift-out-of-afghanistan/

Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

griz

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,049
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #532 on: August 30, 2021, 09:15:51 PM »
I just saw a spokesman for the administration explain that we're shifting from a military operation to a diplomatic effort to evacuate the remaining people.  I think that's politispeak for "now our only option is to ask the Taliban to not kill these people as they try to leave".  So I guess we are hoping for a kinder, gentler Taliban. 
Report to moderator   Logged
Sent from a stone age computer via an ordinary keyboard.

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #533 on: August 30, 2021, 09:20:53 PM »
Quote from: griz on August 30, 2021, 09:15:51 PM
I just saw a spokesman for the administration explain that we're shifting from a military operation to a diplomatic effort to evacuate the remaining people.  I think that's politispeak for "now our only option is to ask the Taliban to not kill these people as they try to leave".  So I guess we are hoping for a kinder, gentler Taliban.

Diplomatic effort in this case no doubt will be $$$$ on our part
« Last Edit: August 30, 2021, 09:34:07 PM by WLJ »
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,776
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #534 on: August 30, 2021, 09:39:28 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 30, 2021, 09:20:53 PM
Diplomatic effort in this case no doubt will be $$$$ on our part
If they try to ship pallets of cash, I hope someone arranges to steal it.
Report to moderator   Logged
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge

just Warren

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,234
  • My DJ name is Heavy Cream.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #535 on: August 30, 2021, 09:49:12 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 30, 2021, 09:20:53 PM
Diplomatic effort in this case no doubt will be $$$$ on our part

This might be a good time to empty Gitmo.

Figure out the proper ratio: X of ours for Y of theirs and make the trade.
Report to moderator   Logged
Member in Good Standing of the Spontaneous Order of the Invisible Hand.

Hawkmoon

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,277
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #536 on: August 30, 2021, 09:55:50 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on August 30, 2021, 09:39:28 PM
If they try to ship pallets of cash, I hope someone arranges to steal it.

They don't have to ship them. They left them there.
Report to moderator   Logged
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
100% Politically Incorrect by Design

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #537 on: August 30, 2021, 10:09:28 PM »
Only AC going in or out now are KAM Air AC
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #538 on: August 30, 2021, 10:16:27 PM »
Quote
On 22 February 2021, Kam Air operated Afghanistan's first ever all-female crew flight. The airline's first female Afghan pilot, 22-year-old Mohadese Mirzaee, joined Captain Veronica Borysova from Ukraine in piloting the Boeing 737-500 from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to Herat. The event made global headlines and was first covered by Josh Cahill who organised the flight, and later featured on the BBC, DW and the Business Insider. [6][7] The flight took 90 minutes.[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Air

Well I guess this won't be happening again anytime soon.
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,776
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #539 on: August 30, 2021, 11:03:43 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 28,394
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #540 on: August 30, 2021, 11:09:06 PM »
If he doesn't want it I'll take it. Heck, I paid for it.
Report to moderator   Logged
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

just Warren

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,234
  • My DJ name is Heavy Cream.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #541 on: August 31, 2021, 12:59:18 AM »
The last man onto the last plane leaving Afghanistan was th commanding general of the 82nd Airborne.

https://twitter.com/18airbornecorps/status/1432487566675259393?s=21

https://www.army.mil/article-amp/237517/maj_gen_christopher_donahue_82nd_airborne_division_commanding_general

When the Reds left, their ranking officer was also the last to leave.

I've never served so maybe it's not my place to say but I think this is how it should be.
Report to moderator   Logged
Member in Good Standing of the Spontaneous Order of the Invisible Hand.

kgbsquirrel

  • APS Photoshop God
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,466
  • Bill, slayer of threads.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #542 on: August 31, 2021, 01:12:12 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on August 31, 2021, 12:59:18 AM
The last man onto the last plane leaving Afghanistan was th commanding general of the 82nd Airborne.

https://twitter.com/18airbornecorps/status/1432487566675259393?s=21

https://www.army.mil/article-amp/237517/maj_gen_christopher_donahue_82nd_airborne_division_commanding_general

When the Reds left, their ranking officer was also the last to leave.

I've never served so maybe it's not my place to say but I think this is how it should be.

But there's still Americans there.  So really, he was the last to leave them behind.
Report to moderator   Logged

just Warren

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,234
  • My DJ name is Heavy Cream.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #543 on: August 31, 2021, 01:26:37 AM »
That's unfair. It wasn't his call.
Report to moderator   Logged
Member in Good Standing of the Spontaneous Order of the Invisible Hand.

kgbsquirrel

  • APS Photoshop God
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,466
  • Bill, slayer of threads.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #544 on: August 31, 2021, 01:53:18 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on August 31, 2021, 01:26:37 AM
That's unfair. It wasn't his call.

rofl  "I vas just following ze orders."
Report to moderator   Logged

just Warren

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,234
  • My DJ name is Heavy Cream.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #545 on: August 31, 2021, 01:56:07 AM »
You'd rather the military make their own decisions regarding this sort of thing?

We have civilian control of the military for a reason.

And sometimes those civilians make horrible decisions, but if we allow the military to override those then what do we have?
Report to moderator   Logged
Member in Good Standing of the Spontaneous Order of the Invisible Hand.

kgbsquirrel

  • APS Photoshop God
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,466
  • Bill, slayer of threads.
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #546 on: August 31, 2021, 03:16:17 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on August 31, 2021, 01:56:07 AM
You'd rather the military make their own decisions regarding this sort of thing?

We have civilian control of the military for a reason.

And sometimes those civilians make horrible decisions, but if we allow the military to override those then what do we have?

Then we have Americans choosing not to leave other Americans to die at the hands of our enemy.
Report to moderator   Logged

Lennyjoe

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2,764
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #547 on: August 31, 2021, 05:57:26 AM »
At a press conference today, U.S. Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said the following items had been "demilitarized" at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul:

At least two Counter-Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (C-RAM) defense systems
A total of 73 aircraft, including U.S. and Afghan airframes
70 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored trucks
27 Humvees

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42197/heres-what-the-u-s-military-left-behind-at-kabul-airport
Report to moderator   Logged

dogmush

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,901
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #548 on: August 31, 2021, 06:41:41 AM »
I know it's not that huge in the grand scheme of injustice in the world, but this makes me *expletive deleted*ing see red.  There needs to be real consequences for the decision makers of this flusterlcuck.

https://twitter.com/VetSheepdogsUS/status/1432358558658666497?s=20
Report to moderator   Logged

Ron

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10,882
  • Like a tree planted by the rivers of water
    • What I believe ...
Re: Afghanistan
« Reply #549 on: August 31, 2021, 06:44:09 AM »
Our country is ruled by psycopaths.



Report to moderator   Logged
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Pages: 1 ... 20 21 [22] 23 24 ... 28
« previous next »