Everyone's back home.
The intel types said 60-90 days. We said a week and even that was optimistic. The New York Post reports the Taliban is 'at the gates' and the government is trying to negotiate a peaceful transfer of power. If you're the Taliban, why not just wait for the US to leave? Why fight for the city? Unless you want a bloodbath to make a point. Isis would.
Of course Joe screwed up the withdrawal. Just a few months ago Joe assured the nation that the Taliban couldn't storm Kabul ala Saigon. Joe was wrong. Joe is always wrong. Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up, Obama said. In the end, Joe was completely unprepared for this situation and the boys in Washington have no idea what to do.
The 'War on Terror' (even I'm using scare quotes now) is over. We lost, didn't we? It's debatable. As Zefram Cochrane once said, we'll just have to let history judge. So let's not hit the panic or despair buttons quite yet. However:
This.
— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) August 14, 2021
All day. Every day. This. https://t.co/qrHsB2v06B
Even Petraeus? We tweeted. Maybe even him. What happened to the Iraqi army after we left. Were these generals mere celebrities created by the media?
Now we come to Will's good idea for the week of 8/15/21. World War 1990: Operation Tet. The CIA and Special Forces work with the in A Muj to unleash a grand offensive in Afghanistan. Think about it. One Soviet force defending their embassy on the verge of being overrun. A relief convoy sent from the airport is ambushed. A major attack begins on the airport proper. The Soviets are the good guys, or at least the sympathetic ones. Note, Nightingale Russia, this doesn't mean we're colluding, it just means we're trying to write a novel that's a little different. The only time Afghanistan has ever been mentioned in the series is through Soviet officers who had been there. It's a thought. Of course, how much of this stuff can we write?
It's a good idea as for Afghanistan we had a chance when we were first in there same as with Iraq to go root these people out and kill them but the so called generals and civilian leadership would not do what was necessary they were more afraid of bad press and how history would remember them than actually going in a killing the enemy to hell with civilian loss or property damage it was a fucking war not a tea party this is what happens when you let lawyers run everything
ReplyDeleteOh for Generals in charge like Forrest or Sherman or Patton if these men had been in charge today the so called war on terror would be over in 6months
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