Afghanistan. It's fucked

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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:08 am

Should never have sent the military in.
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Post by Tero » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:00 am

I stand corrected, the UK makes heroin, US does not. It Is still more practical to trade raw opium than the refined heroin as it does not pass any quality tests and FDA manufacture protocol.

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Post by FBM » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:17 am

andrewclunn wrote:Can we just nuke the place and be done with it already?
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Post by Tero » Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:03 pm

Let's go in and help. Send troops there. maybe it will stabilize.
One of the main drivers for the current economic recovery is the return of over 5 million expatriates, who brought with them entrepreneurship and wealth-creating skills as well as much needed funds to start up businesses. Many Afghans are now involved in construction, which is one of the largest industries in the country.[282] Some of the major national construction projects include the $35 billion New Kabul City next to the capital, the Aino Mena project in Kandahar, and the Ghazi Amanullah Khan Town near Jalalabad.[283][284][285] Similar development projects have also begun in Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, and other cities.[286] An estimated 400,000 people enter the labor market each year.
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Post by aufbahrung » Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:31 pm

You all failing to see the larger picture. China is building a consumer base with surplus purchasing power. Without poppy this domestic market could reduce the flow of cheap white goods into America. This was all planned. Do you think the Taliban could have invaded their own country without American help? Now poppy is ready to go to China and it will be China's turn to waste a quarter century trying to convert the lead into gold with Afghanistan.
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You all failing to see the larger picture. China is building a consumer base with surplus purchasing power. Without poppy this domestic market could reduce the flow of cheap white goods into America. This was all planned. Do you think the Taliban could have invaded their own country without American help? Now poppy is ready to go to China and it will be China's turn to waste a quarter century trying to convert the lead into gold with Afghanistan.
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'And without firing a single shot, China just took over all of Asia and bypassed the west’s Pacific Tilt' as said by a expert, not me
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Post by Seabass » Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:44 am

What a waste.

Only ONE congressperson out of 535 opposed both wars and the AUMF: Barbara Lee.

If we were smart, we'd make her our president, but since our country is so stupid, racist, sexist, backward, and violent, she'll never even make it to the Senate.

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Post by Tero » Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:18 am

But they had a chance for democracy, and to get girls educated! What country would not want that? And helicopters, planes, airports!

Answer: a landlocked poppy growing Muslim country.
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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by JimC » Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:13 pm

From what I've read this morning, the Afghan President has fled the country, and the Taliban have seized the palace. Western troops are at the airport, managing the airlift out. It took the Taliban less time to win than most pundits reckoned...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:54 pm

The Afghan always knew which trough to feed from.
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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by JimC » Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:00 pm

You wouldn't want to have two X chromosomes in Afghanistan now... :(
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