USA leaves Bagram Air Base. What's the over/under date for Taliban takeover?
Replies to: USA leaves Bagram Air Base. What's the over/under date for Taliban takeover?
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Afghanistan banana stand. I’ll take the under…
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Don’t sit under the banana stand with anyone else but me,anyone else but me๐๐
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"There's always money in the BANANA STAND!"
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๐๐Train for the win๐ฅ
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Another Boeing 737 crash Hawaii,Buy the dip
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I take the under on that date. By Thanksgiving.
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Oh, I'll take the over. We'll still be helping.
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What are the known unknowns?
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In fairness, if the Afghan gvmt can't fight them off by this point, they never will
A huge % of our time and money went into training that army. It has 350K soldiers.
If they are too corrupt at this point to fight off the Taliban - who, it is helpful to remember, have killed no one outside of the AfPak region - then fuck them.
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I agree with this. Get out.
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Re: I agree with this. Get out.
I agree , but need to protect those working with our troops.
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I am conflicted, to be honest.
On the one hand, yes it's been 20 years and zillions of dollars. At some point you need to say, "enough".
On the other hand, I have little confidence that the Afghan army will win the fight and I have a notion that at some point we are going to wish we still controlled that airbase.
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How many Afghan military are going to defect to the Taliban asap?
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It's hard not to envision them melting like the ARVN.
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