Build Back Better: Taliban Edition
I've been wrong when I've stated "what a fucking waste", it's worse than that.
Link: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-185017ba2944eb43392a0ad8ffffb25f
Replies to: Build Back Better: Taliban Edition
We’re at 880 billion to 1.2 trillion dollars to date
depending on your sources and 20 years. To whit, somehow we can’t afford universal healthcare.
Meh, that doesn't even cover a third of human infrastructure.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty sure you're talking about real money.
Well there is a profit motive I’m sure somewhere.
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National HC is too expensive and besides, brown people would be able to get it too.
Can't have that.
Yeah, Biden said the Taliban had no Air Force. Oh yeah? They do now.
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You're so smart.
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I wish I could return the compliment, dim.
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No they don’t. They can’t fly or maintain those planes.
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no but they can sell them.
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Yeah, that's just like having an air-force
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You don't think they can flip some US trained pilots and maintenance personel?
Wowza.
There's no way Al Queda could learn to fly airplanes either.
So...you gave in and tried the peyote...it's not worth it...come back to us, we like you the way you
were...forming an Air Force with 'flipped U.S. pilots and maintenance personnel"...Wowza!
You misunderstand. US trained, as in the Afghanis we trained to fly and maintain the aircraft...
we gave them. AKA, probably some of the Afghanis we almost ran over on the airstrip on our way out of Kabul. Pretty easy to flip to the Taliban right about now.
The US military said the US fighter jets were stripped of their computer systems.
They do however have a few hundred MIG's. Not sure if they're in working condition. They've been there since the early 90's.
PS: they did have an airforce at one time but their collection of jets are long since obsolete.
We will see.
The U.S. military has been telling lies for 18 years..
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I see yr metronome is working overtime tonite, Tyrone. BTW
Please don't use the word "Wowza" It's out of character for a wanna be sophisticate such as yourself
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Uh, no.
And al Qaeda didn’t “flip” any pilots.
It’s not like you can learn to fly an F-16 though trial-and-error.
I know you're not this stupid.
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You think they’ll just hire some F-16 pilots? Sure thing.
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Nowhere in the article did they mention F-16s.
Maybe you are this stupid. I keep underestimating stupidity lately.
And Al-queda did learn how to fly planes.
It's believed they didn't learn to fly planes. They learned to steer them.
It is believed that Atta had a small craft license - the others learned to do some things by using a flight simulator.
It takes years of lessons to become adept at flying passenger jets.
Military aircraft are that much harder to learn and it takes hours and hours of flying to become proficient. Far more than passenger jets
and they take years of lessons.
Clean up on table 7, get to it jimbo
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Dorothy the Dolt.
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Right. They never learned to land.
Cheeks is being willfully obtuse. There is no way the Taliban can fly those planes.
Link: https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/taliban-captured-helicopters-can-they-capture-air-force/184525/
Wow, dude. Give this a little thought.
You and Dim are the only ones who haven’t figured this out.