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In reply to the discussion: STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]cilla4progress
(24,798 posts)6. Why can't we do bombing runs
on Taliban strongholds?
This is way above my paygrade. I am getting desperate texts from my Afghan exhange daughter about her family left there. She is afraid her nieces will be taken as child brides. I send my daughter money as often as I can to help get her family out. It's not enough.
I also have a friend whose son, an Army ranger, was killed in friendly fire there on Thanksgiving day several years ago.
This is a terrible, complicated situation. As usual, regular people caught in the crossfire, fodder for the war machine.
Tragic mess.
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STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]
Rustyeye77
Aug 2021
OP
If we haven't been able to "save" Afghanistan in 20 years then when will we?
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#27
Your strategy will only work if we decide to stay in Afghanistan forever and if we decide
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#24
A full committee hearing in the coming weeks sounds like it's too late, to me.
secondwind
Aug 2021
#13
It is not within our ability to "save" that country unless we decide to stay there forever.
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#25