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TreasonousBastard

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1. Well, we don't fight wars with spears and cavalry charges any more, but...

Reply to llashram (Original post)

Thu Apr 15, 2021, 10:51 AM

Apr 2021

it is true that Afghanistan is as unconquerable as it gets.

We are now there to save it from itself and its warlords. And maybe to cut through Iranian/Russian/etc influence.

But then we're back to the world's policeman bullshit.

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Well, we don't fight wars with spears and cavalry charges any more, but... TreasonousBastard Apr 2021 #1

Rudyard Kipling-"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, Walleye Apr 2021 #2

uuumfff llashram Apr 2021 #3