Afghanistan - why did we bother?

[wanderlust]

After Boris got slaughtered by all sides of the house yesterday there have been renewed calls for Dominic Raab's head - again.

This time for refusing to make a phone call that could have saved people's lives.

As John Stevens puts it:


Raab wasn't asked to be the ambassador processing visas at Kabul airport

Raab wasn't asked to be one of the 600 troops deployed to secure the airport

He was asked to make *one phone call* from his sun lounger to help the translators who served our troops - and he refused.


Asshole. But of course he won't resign and Blojo won't sack him.

I was impressed by this soldier demanding a public inquiry: https://twitter.com/i/status/1428084653718753286

[sinkov]

After Boris got slaughtered by all sides of the house yesterday there have been renewed calls for Dominic Raab's head - again.

This time for refusing to make a phone call that could have saved people's lives.

As John Stevens puts it:


Raab wasn't asked to be the ambassador processing visas at Kabul airport

Raab wasn't asked to be one of the 600 troops deployed to secure the airport

He was asked to make *one phone call* from his sun lounger to help the translators who served our troops - and he refused.


Asshole. But of course he won't resign and Blojo won't sack him.

I was impressed by this soldier demanding a public inquiry: https://twitter.com/i/status/1428084653718753286

But what they don't tell you is that the phone call was made, it just wasn't Raab that made it. Not that it made any difference anyway, by this time the Afghan government was only concerned with saving it's own skin.

Another non-story, Lefties running round in circles, chasing their own tails.

[sinkov]

Of course not. I think he's a tosser. Just not as big a tosser as Trump, but still a tosser.

Would you replace him with Kamala Harris then, is that the answer ? Personally I'd leave him in situ, I get almost as many laughs out of Joe as I did out of the Donald, not quite as many, but he's running him close.

[wanderlust]

Would you replace him with Kamala Harris then, is that the answer ? Personally I'd leave him in situ, I get almost as many laughs out of Joe as I did out of the Donald, not quite as many, but he's running him close.

I reckon God will replace him with Kamala Harris. He was looking a bit peaky on the telly last night.

[sinkov]

It might get worse than Harris Lusty, there's a rustling in the undergrowth over there, a big beast stirring from it's slumber.

"Joe Biden's asinine handling of Afghanistan could gift Donald Trump the White House. The president has committed the unforgivable sin: making the United States look like a loser"

He couldn't, could he ?

[Supersub6]

It might get worse than Harris Lusty, there's a rustling in the undergrowth over there, a big beast stirring from it's slumber.

"Joe Biden's asinine handling of Afghanistan could gift Donald Trump the White House. The president has committed the unforgivable sin: making the United States look like a loser"

He couldn't, could he ?

It would not be a surprise, sinkov!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The last word..."It was a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, was acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.’ – Rev. G. R. Geig, British Army Chaplain on the First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-42, known by the British as the ‘Disaster in Afghanistan’

We never learn - do we?

[sinkov]

The last word..."It was a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, was acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.’ – Rev. G. R. Geig, British Army Chaplain on the First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-42, known by the British as the ‘Disaster in Afghanistan’

We never learn - do we?

There's an even more recent example, the Red Army gave up to it as well. There was every reason for the Yanks to go after Alky Ada and Bin Laden, but then mission creep took over, almost as you say BT, our politicians never learn, 'we' or at least our sons and daughters are the ones that suffer, the ones that get killed and maimed.

[Supersub6]

There's an even more recent example, the Red Army gave up to it as well. There was every reason for the Yanks to go after Alky Ada and Bin Laden, but then mission creep took over, almost as you say BT, our politicians never learn, 'we' or at least our sons and daughters are the ones that suffer, the ones that get killed and maimed.

Sadly, not just killed and maimed physically because many are contending with terrible mental problems because they actually survived in incidents where others were killed.
History was not heeded after the disasters stretching back almost 200 years in Afghanistan.

[Norder]

The last word..."It was a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, was acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.’ – Rev. G. R. Geig, British Army Chaplain on the First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-42, known by the British as the ‘Disaster in Afghanistan’

We never learn - do we?

as long as folk keep falling for the lies, believing their dominant masters are working hard to keep them safe, the misery will continue... when in reality, it's an old cabal who's game is to construct hostiliy and bloodshed in order to raise the fear levels and bolster their protection racket. Believe Nothing they tell you....just remember, those that the people switch onto, the regular faces, are nothing but egocentric puppets of an unseen order, their job, to convince, to distract and deflect us from the truth, they know exactly what theyre doing.