b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 "The first casualty of war is truth." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Quote “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 What a shocking revelation...as always. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 No shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Has anyone in any official capacity ever explained what it is that we're trying to accomplish there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 7 hours ago, Ghost_MH said: Has anyone in any official capacity ever explained what it is that we're trying to accomplish there? There have been various attempts to do so on ocassion, with varying degrees of non-success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 8 hours ago, SFLUFAN said: “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” Good lord...That's literally the story of every empire that's tried to take over Afghanistan. Like, that's the exact same freaking mistake they all made. Could you take a goddamn history class and read about the area you're trying to conquer before bounding off to war there next time, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 7 hours ago, 2user1cup said: No shit THIS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 We don't tell the truth about war?! My god! Next you'll tell me that Trump's hair is real! We are midgar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyle5150 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 All is fair... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 We can’t nation build in Afghanistan. We should have bombed selective militant targets and left. No ground invasion. I remember back when Obama first took office, the media regularly reported our drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I haven’t looked at the numbers, but if anyone knows, is this a reporting issue or did we actually cut our drone strikes to a small fraction of what they used to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 This will probably win a Pulitzer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 10 hours ago, Massdriver said: We can’t nation build in Afghanistan. We should have bombed selective militant targets and left. No ground invasion. I remember back when Obama first took office, the media regularly reported our drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I haven’t looked at the numbers, but if anyone knows, is this a reporting issue or did we actually cut our drone strikes to a small fraction of what they used to be? From what I've read there is a lot more drone activity now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 This is like the biggest no shit report i've ever seen, and about 15 years too late. This is a poll from last year, and the only really thing that sticks out is just how much whos in charge changes the GOPs opinions on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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