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giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
37. Honestly, fuck if I know.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 08:22 PM
Nov 2013

I just think it's wrong to leave them high & dry. My job put me in a position where I put our soldiers in jail for doing them wrong as well dealing with locals on the regular when it came to claims & helping them out of bad situations that were usually at our hands.

I think we should leave them in a decent situation. Preferably not by military force.

Long-term revenue stream for the MIC. Scuba Nov 2013 #1
War, death, destruction, long term stabilization = BIG MIC $$$$$. That, is what RKP5637 Nov 2013 #3
That's the only thing I could think of... Blus4u Nov 2013 #4
It's what they should have done in Iraq as well giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #2
"Stabalized" for the benefit of whom? Scuba Nov 2013 #6
Well considering we went into their country 12 yrs giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #12
And of course our one and only option is .... military. No one could have predicted that. Scuba Nov 2013 #19
What do you want to do? Put the Peace Corps over giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #26
Yeah, I seem to recall six years of my life not being a stone cold killer. Scuba Nov 2013 #29
My point exactly, i wasn't a stone cold killer either. giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #33
So what are you advocating? Scuba Nov 2013 #34
If there is no other option then yes. giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #35
So funding an international peace/rebuilding coalition never got any traction? Scuba Nov 2013 #36
Honestly, fuck if I know. giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #37
We didn't "abandon" Iraq. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #21
Exactly, the Iraqis didn't want to put a SOFA giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #28
But, as a nation, we cannot sustain that. Blus4u Nov 2013 #7
We have been shutting down bases in Germany giftedgirl77 Nov 2013 #13
And as I suggested in my reply to you above, we chose continued military involvement .... Scuba Nov 2013 #20
We've been there 12 fucking years! rusty fender Nov 2013 #31
Apples and oranges. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #15
We're not done with Iran. Laelth Nov 2013 #5
No wonder Iran is deemed a threat. Look how they put their country right in the middle of our bases. Scuba Nov 2013 #8
Precisely. (sarcasm) n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #10
Persians, getting in the way of freedumb and capitalism. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #17
I spent several years working on Afghanistan policy Proud Public Servant Nov 2013 #9
Very interesting. Thanks for the post. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #11
"but I understand the corner we've painted ourselves into." Blus4u Nov 2013 #27
Not even if you give them the F-16s demanded by the kidnappers of Daniel Pearl. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #39
Hillary helped negotiate it so it must be good. avaistheone1 Nov 2013 #14
Taliban. They're real. nt jazzimov Nov 2013 #16
The concern that the Taliban will reassert control from a government Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #18
It's not the job of the USA to bring stability to every country in the world. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #23
The OP asked for a rational reason. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #25
Chapter VII of the UN Charter authorizes the UN to take military action Ace Acme Nov 2013 #32
The UN has no military. They authorize members to fight for them. Only the Security Council can Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #41
The USA is not authorized to engage in unauthorized military adventures. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #42
The US and any state can act within their interests for self defense. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #44
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen are not a threat to us. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #45
Now I know the speach you were talking about. unfortunately, not one item of he speach was Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #43
Doesn't change the fact that JFK endorsed a proposal for TOTAL disarmanent nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #46
He did that while leading the nation in a war with Veitnam, and after Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #50
He proposed total disarmament, he proposed a joint USSR/USA moon landing, he pledged Ace Acme Nov 2013 #52
Favorable PR for a lost war fought for PR. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #22
That Democrats are so quick to validate Republican mistakes is quite dismaying. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #24
+1 Scuba Nov 2013 #30
Because if we don't stay CFLDem Nov 2013 #38
there is none. demigoddess Nov 2013 #40
^_^_^_^_^_^ ConcernedCanuk Nov 2013 #48
There is nothing new about the USA keeping some troops in Afghanistan until 2024. bluestate10 Nov 2013 #47
The same rationale that caused us to go in in the first place... Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #49
O.I.L. magical thyme Nov 2013 #51
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