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Rustyeye77

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5. C'mon...give me a break

Reply to secondwind (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 15, 2021, 08:16 AM

Aug 2021

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So Kabul has fallen...And so has Afghanistan. [View all] Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 OP

You've really said it all in your post. Excellent summary. So very sad. MLAA Aug 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #3

Drugs should be LEGALIZED all around the world secondwind Aug 2021 #2

C'mon...give me a break Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #5

Yeah, lets start handing out drugs worse than oxycodone. milestogo Aug 2021 #12

Even that is preferable to letting pain patients suffer. Ligyron Aug 2021 #25

Aren't the Taliban opposed to bacha bazi? mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #4

Yes, they are -- they consider it homosexuality obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #7

It does not matter who is in charge the culturally accepted sexual perversion will continue. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #27

👏👏👏👏 Traildogbob Aug 2021 #31

My rant has been building for twenty years. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #37

IIRC back before we invaded, the Taliban rigorously suppressed growing poppies for opium... Hekate Aug 2021 #39

Correct The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #42

Yes, it's pretty horrible. And sad. Goodheart Aug 2021 #6

Rusty, I'm pretty sure that a great many Afghans feel that the nation has been liberated. panader0 Aug 2021 #8

I dont even have a comment. Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #13

Google 'Afghan civilians killed by US forces'--it's horrendous. panader0 Aug 2021 #17

Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld vanity war agingdem Aug 2021 #15

Add Wolfowitz and Doug Feith. 3Hotdogs Aug 2021 #18

I think the poster is lamenting the taste of freedom... joshcryer Aug 2021 #24

War cannot defeat religion Tiger8 Aug 2021 #28

Now it's China and Iran's turn. roamer65 Aug 2021 #9

Russia couldn't do it. The US couldn't do it. China/Iran want to be hegemonies, time to pony up. TheBlackAdder Aug 2021 #33

Britain failed there too. Captain Zero Aug 2021 #41

We cannot hope to bring democracy to anyone else until we secure it here at home. Irish_Dem Aug 2021 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #11

that is just baldly false dsc Aug 2021 #16

You know, you're right. 20% of Afghanistan was controlled JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #22

I suggest you study some of the facts surrounding what that filthy culture also does to boys. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #38

I blame Bush all the way Blues Heron Aug 2021 #14

And we must remember praxEs Aug 2021 #19

+1000 NJCher Aug 2021 #34

The RW is having a collective orgasm Mosby Aug 2021 #20

The men of Afghanistan are not going to save Afghan women. MrModerate Aug 2021 #21

Very sad Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #23

If only we learn the lessons that Afghan is teaching us. nt joetheman Aug 2021 #26

My brother spent a year there on an FOB near the Pakistan border. He worked yaesu Aug 2021 #29

illuminating post NJCher Aug 2021 #35

TY, this was around 2007 & hearing his experiences was really an eyeopener. yaesu Aug 2021 #40

It was never really a viable country. elevator Aug 2021 #30

when you have passed sad, where are you? Piasladic Aug 2021 #32

The maudlin. marble falls Aug 2021 #36