I don’t think anybody expected this collapse

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I don’t think anybody expected this collapse

Author: Chris94 (35729 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:38 am on Aug 15, 2021

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300,000 troops (at least on paper) with armor, an Air Force and 20+ years of training by the best alliance in world history that cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

They faced a motley group of 75K, no tech and no training.

Our efforts were totally wasted.

Replies to: "I don’t think anybody expected this collapse"

An orderly evacuation with honor. [LINK] - Curly1918 - 7:52am 8/15/21 (33) [View All]
- Pray for the Afghanis who will be raped, beheaded and slaughtered. [NT] - Aragoto - 9:14am 8/15/21
  - They never told Joe there would be times like this when he signed up [NT] - ColeyO - 9:17am 8/15/21
- Only weeks ago, Biden dismissed the prospect of the Taliban taking back control of the country as .. - CC72 - 8:57am 8/15/21
  - And he will be rightly criticized for those statements. - Frank L - 11:38am 8/15/21
  - I don’t think anybody expected this collapse - Chris94 - 9:38am 8/15/21
    - Then just say and own that. Blinken and the prez are looking like weasels on this. - Frank L - 1:39pm 8/15/21
      - They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do. - Chris94 - 1:47pm 8/15/21
    - Everyone except Biden and his Intel people expected it [NT] - CC72 - 10:32am 8/15/21
      - Oh sure. Everyone did. [NT] - Chris94 - 10:57am 8/15/21
        Yes, everyone except those of you with your heads up your asses. [NT] - CC72 - 11:01am 8/15/21
        I did pick the under... - TakethetrainKnute - 11:29am 8/15/21
        So did I. I said by thanksgiving. [NT] - Frank L - 11:39am 8/15/21
        I did not know that it would fall this fast...but the WH should have better info than I and should - TakethetrainKnute - 11:58am 8/15/21
        That’s easy to say and he does own that failure. - Frank L - 12:07pm 8/15/21
    - We trained them to fight like us, with our military intelligence and our air support. - Curly1918 - 10:31am 8/15/21
    - Nuking Kabul & Tora Bora was always the best option [NT] - MarkHarman - 9:49am 8/15/21
  - Weeks? More like week. That was August 8. [NT] - Iggle - 9:00am 8/15/21
    - Blame it on whoever authors his humongous teleprompter script. [LINK] - Curly1918 - 9:12am 8/15/21
    - Baker: Joe has been wrong on every foreign relations - ColeyO - 9:09am 8/15/21
- Et tu, CNN? [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 8:01am 8/15/21
  - Own your vote. Think the press will ask him a hard question? Think he will speak gibberish? [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:59am 8/15/21
    - The potential genocide seems to excite our president. - Aragoto - 9:19am 8/15/21
  - Means it’s botched so badly they can’t cover for him… [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 8:14am 8/15/21
    - Nonsense. Time to don the bomber jacket, chains and aviator sunglasses. - Aragoto - 9:23am 8/15/21
  - A complete failure of leadership. - Iggle - 8:08am 8/15/21
    - At least Biden threw away our energy independence to the Arab countries before all of this. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 9:00am 8/15/21
    - It is President Biden’s clusterfuck. He will have to own it. [NT] [LINK] - conorlarkin - 8:57am 8/15/21
      - He’s not owning it. No one ever has or will. I said it would happen by thanksgiving. - Frank L - 10:52am 8/15/21
        Biden is responsible for the execution of the withdrawal. - conorlarkin - 11:55am 8/15/21
        That is obvious and he should acknowledge it and take his lumps. - Frank L - 12:17pm 8/15/21
      - World wide unraveling FP, resurgence of defeated Al Queda on way,& gave away our energy independence - BaronVonZemo - 9:12am 8/15/21
        But there's always Barry O to remember. He was the greatest [NT] - ColeyO - 9:19am 8/15/21
        Obama reprised LBJ's Viet Nam surge in Afghanistan [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 10:34am 8/15/21