This bothers me a bit, I always thought Bolton knew his stuff.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...3oOuN276qO5iNOzCikOxNAuRGW6hXONqqyK5DoMPI8oig
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...3oOuN276qO5iNOzCikOxNAuRGW6hXONqqyK5DoMPI8oig
Well, that makes me feel some better then.Bolton was and is a war monger. I only question why Trump hired him in the first place.
I wondered about that. Bolton would have been dead set against it as he has recommended sending in up to 30,000 troops to mop up. There were obvious problems with the location, timing, and high level of the proposed meeting, but if we get out we will need to eventually talk to the Taliban. 18 years and little has changed on that point.Me thinks it's somehow related to the cancelled meeting with the Taliban.
Until they’re not.Trump hires the best people.
This bothers me a bit, I always thought Bolton knew his stuff.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...3oOuN276qO5iNOzCikOxNAuRGW6hXONqqyK5DoMPI8oig
Sad, but true. When a person is that consumed with hate, negotiations do not work. Whether by death or incarceration, they must be removed from society.The only way you can deal with these Terrorist is to join them or kill them, I prefer the latter. There’s no negotiating with these people. Bomb the Hell out of them.
I’m done.
Have a Good Day.
If we pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban would be back in control of the country shortly afterward. It would once again become a safe haven and training ground for terrorist like it was before 9/11. It's a precarious situation; damned if we stay, damned if we leave. There's no negotiation with the Taliban as they won't keep their word anyway.It's been 18 years. Eighteen years. What have we accomplished?
We have lost 14,000 more US lives. That says nothing about the 250,000 civilians dead who were unlucky enough to have been born in Afghanistan or Iraq.
We have spent 2 trillion dollars.
We have installed a malleable government who will become the regions largest dealer of US arms in exchange for power when we leave. These arms will end up in the hands of our enemies.
Those enemies, by the way, are the exact same Taliban who we went over there to eradicate eighteen years ago. Some are the exact same people.
So I ask, how is all this war stuff working out for us? We could have left 17 years ago, we could leave today, or we could make eternal Mideast war part of the US Constitution, and the Mideast will forever be a den of heathens and terrorists who want to kill us. The only question is how much more blood of our countrymen are we willing to spend in some insane attempt to make ourselves feel like we aren't the same losers, for the same reasons, we were in Vietnam. Bombs don't change minds. Bombs defeat armies.
Sadly, this is true.If we pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban would be back in control of the country shortly afterward. It would once again become a safe haven and training ground for terrorist like it was before 9/11. It's a precarious situation; damned if we stay, damned if we leave. There's no negotiation with the Taliban as they won't keep their word anyway.
I don't think we could truly conquer it because of all the radical Muslims and the Afghans themselves. More than 75% of the people there are illiterate. We built lots of schools for children there and the Taliban would blow them up. The Taliban doesn't wan the people to be literate, because if they were, they would know the Taliban has been deceiving them for years.Sadly, this is true.
I wonder if maybe we should just go ahead and (officially) conquer and take control of the country? It might be a lessor of evils. At least then we could properly mine their natural resources and get our money back.
Ehhh, just a thought.
So the solution is to stay in Afghanistan forever?If we pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban would be back in control of the country shortly afterward. It would once again become a safe haven and training ground for terrorist like it was before 9/11. It's a precarious situation; damned if we stay, damned if we leave. There's no negotiation with the Taliban as they won't keep their word anyway.