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Tdotbluejays:
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I worked as a soldier at the coalface of Nato’s Resolute Support mission, which was supposed to train, support and assist Afghan security services and institutions. We provided security for advisers while they engaged with their Afghan counterparts in Kabul. Generally, this would mean picking them up, taking them to the meeting, providing security for the meeting and bringing them back to base. From my perspective, there were at least two fundamental errors in the mission’s approach. The first was the massive outsourcing to the private sector that underwrote the operation.

Let me state categorically, our service people are not to blame. The soldiers I served with, those who fought in Helmand and later safeguarded in Kabul, acted, almost without exception, with the utmost professionalism and valour. To have served alongside them is the great honour of my life. But Nato’s mission was not fit for purpose.

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When I was in Afghanistan, private military contractors numbered almost 30,000. Some were engaged in protection tasks, but many more were responsible for training and mentoring Afghans who held positions of significant influence. They advised on intelligence, war-fighting, diplomacy, policing, you name it. Some of them were doing their best. Many more didn’t give a damn. Many were on six figures and had been for years. Afghanistan for them was a cash cow, a way of putting their kids through college (most were American) or paying off a mortgage. In sum, there were too many poorly qualified people working without accountability, getting paid far too much. If you want an answer to the question of why Afghanistan’s military crumbled in weeks, take a long hard look at their so-called mentors.

wirinet:
Trump is a hero among Republicans, he is a diety among MAGA cultists and Far right groups. But He is a non entity among the wider US population. And he is a joke according to the rest of the world population. He is the most unpopular former US president in history. He has not been invited for any talks or conference by any International organization since leaving office. Even our own OBJ and Jonathan has more clout than Trump internationally.

Tdotbluejays:
Yes that's why I earlier said he could still have squeezed out a win if not for his lack of empathy and how he handled the GF riots and Corona virus.

Unlike the Afghan issue, those other two factors were personal and affected alot of Americans at home.

Some also argued that the earlier boom in economy was as a result of Obama's policies.

Tdotbluejays:
Excerpt:

I worked as a soldier at the coalface of Nato’s Resolute Support mission, which was supposed to train, support and assist Afghan security services and institutions. We provided security for advisers while they engaged with their Afghan counterparts in Kabul. Generally, this would mean picking them up, taking them to the meeting, providing security for the meeting and bringing them back to base. From my perspective, there were at least two fundamental errors in the mission’s approach. The first was the massive outsourcing to the private sector that underwrote the operation.

Let me state categorically, our service people are not to blame. The soldiers I served with, those who fought in Helmand and later safeguarded in Kabul, acted, almost without exception, with the utmost professionalism and valour. To have served alongside them is the great honour of my life. But Nato’s mission was not fit for purpose.

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When I was in Afghanistan, private military contractors numbered almost 30,000. Some were engaged in protection tasks, but many more were responsible for training and mentoring Afghans who held positions of significant influence. They advised on intelligence, war-fighting, diplomacy, policing, you name it. Some of them were doing their best. Many more didn’t give a damn. Many were on six figures and had been for years. Afghanistan for them was a cash cow, a way of putting their kids through college (most were American) or paying off a mortgage. In sum, there were too many poorly qualified people working without accountability, getting paid far too much. If you want an answer to the question of why Afghanistan’s military crumbled in weeks, take a long hard look at their so-called mentors.

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Then there was the simplistic assumption that everyone in Afghanistan could fall into two categories, enlightened liberal reformers who would welcome a western presence, and conservative folk susceptible to the Taliban. Needless to say, things were more complicated than that.

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There were some pretty unsavoury characters who worked with us in Kabul. One morning, an interpreter who had worked with the British for decades sidled up to me at breakfast and pointed at a young Afghan woman who also worked as an interpreter. In a voice loud enough for her to hear everything, he declared her a “filthy LovePeddler”. His reason? She was wearing a pair of jeans and a bright pink headscarf. This sort of language and these attitudes were commonplace and generally went unchallenged by soldiers and contractors, who didn’t want to be seen as undermining locals. And if they were accepted in a Nato base, what hope was there of combating the Taliban’s brutal misogyny?

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Corruption existed at every level. One afternoon I provided protection for a meeting between an Afghan air force lawyer and his US adviser. As I sweated into my body armour, they discussed an investigation relating to unauthorised travel on Afghan air force flights. In brief, the Taliban had been able to board flights reserved for Afghan soldiers and fly across the country with impunity. After several hours of back-and-forth on how best to proceed, the American eventually lost his cool and shouted: “You have to get rid of these corrupt people!” The Afghan lawyer calmly answered: “Would you like me to disband the entire Afghan air force?” The American had no answer to that. The west has had no answer to that for 20 years.

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How Nato believed that these fragile institutions were capable of holding back a group like the Taliban, who spoke with one voice and strove towards one end, is beyond me. In truth, it probably didn’t – it was accepting of Afghanistan’s fate and the fate of its hopeful youth.

On Thursday morning, only hours before the terrorist attack on Kabul Airport was widely reported across the world, the U.S. Army’s top sergeant major, who reportedly is the most senior enlisted member and advises enlistment efforts, tweeted a tribute to Women’s Equality Day and diversity in the army, prompting harsh criticism in the wake of the terrorist attack.

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston tweeted:

Diversity is a number — do you have people that don’t look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people. #Women’s Equality Day reminds us we’re smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team. Our values demand it.

Diversity is a number – do you have people that don’t look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people. #WomensEqualityDay reminds us we’re smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team. Our values demand it. pic.twitter.com/b72l2EcIn0

— SMA Michael Grinston (@16thSMA) August 26, 2021

The anger among Grinson’s critics was palpable:

Gunnery Sergeant U.S. Marine Corps Jessica Jane Duff: “This is what matters: 11 Marines and one Navy Corpsman killed. Americans. I’m positive hey didn’t look or hink like you, Sergeant Major. Every flag draped coffin looks the same. We have an @AfghanistanCrisis and this is your tweet. Shameful.”

This is what matters: 11 Marines and one Navy Corpsman killed. Americans.

I'm positive they didn't look or think like you, Sergeant Major. Every flag drapped coffin looks the same.

We have an #AfghanistanCrisis and this is your tweet. Shameful. https:///tVYbi8ROlM

— Jessie Jane Duff (@JessieJaneDuff) August 26, 2021

Radio host Jason Rantz: “13 is a number… of the service members who were killed today in Afghanistan. The attack was the deadliest day for the U.S. military in more than 10 years. Those are numbers that matter more than your performative twitter nonsense.”

13 is a number… of the service members who were killed today in Afghanistan. The attack was the deadliest day for the U.S. military in more than 10 years. Those are numbers that matter more than your performative twitter nonsense. https:///Iq3kkxZ3g0

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) August 27, 2021

Radio host Derek Hunter: “‘How could an attack like this happen?’ Idiots like this are in charge.”

"How could an attack like this happen?"
Idiots like this are in charge. https:///aKOSI1zxSA

— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) August 26, 2021

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “This is what our military’s leadership was worried about this morning, hours before 12 Marines were killed.”

This is what our military's leadership was worried about this morning, hours before 12 Marines were killed https:///H8njYINNQS

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 26, 2021

In mid-June, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who along with Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw had offered an avenue for members of the military to send whistleblower complaints about “woke” efforts to transform the U.S. military, revealed some blistering complaints he had received as he questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

After citing numerous examples of service members disconsolate from the “woke” incidents they cited, Cotton fired off a series of questions to Austin, including, “Should a member of the organization you lead be treated differently in violation of the Constitution, I would add, based on their sex or the color of their skin?”

Austin answered, “No, I do not believe that,” but then added, “And that is why we have diversity, equity and inclusion focus in the military,” later insisting, “I would also say that diversity, equity and inclusion is important to this military now, and it will be important in the future.”

Cotton started by saying, “Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I just want to share a small selection of what your troops are saying.”

He followed by citing reports of a military history training session being replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism; instructions to a member of Special Operations that “The U.S. Special Operations community is racist” ; a general officer telling an Army officer that “the entire U.S. Army is racist” ; a midshipman at the Naval Academy attesting that classmates were calling America a “fundamentally racist place” and were not challenged by school administrators; an airman saying their unit was forced into a racist exercise called a “privilege walk”; a Space Force officer saying an African-American servicemember said after the training that she would never have joined the military had she known that it was such a hotbed of racism; and a white airman who said he didn’t sign up to be indoctrinated, then filed separation paperwork.

PrideofLincoln1:
Ronaldo back at ManU, we are going to carry the Premier League this season. Lol. Big ups for ManU.

ono:
Your entry does not add up bro. This man garnered (easily too) 70+ million American votes in the 2020 Election. You sound like one of the reasonable ones here and not some foul, loud mouth cursing dolt. Half dead Biden was rigged in by . . .

Will/Can you truthfully say that someone with that number of votes is truly unpopular among the wider US population?

basilico:
This Kabul attack was that deadly.
175 casualties so far.
And a local Afghan whose neighbor died says All that happened because of the Americans.

wirinet:
Rigged by who? That "Biden was rigged in" has become an psychotic obsession for a few of Trumps followers.
Biden was rigged in but most Republican election officials, election observers, state legislative members and federal legislative members endorsed the elections.

Biden was rigged in but his lawyers said they did not expect people to be stupid enough to believe it.

Biden was rigged in and yet not one proof was presented in the over 60 court cases which they lost.

As I said, Trump is popular among republucan voters, but not so popular among the general US population. He lost the popular votes in 2016 by close to 3 million votes. He lost to Biden by over 7 million votes. If he contests again I am certain he will lose the popular votes by over 10 million votes. He has become even more unpopular within the US population.

Tdotbluejays:
The local Afghan won't have to worry about NATO, America or other Allies of the Western powers anymore after the 31st of August. They are leaving their shithole for them

Tdotbluejays:
Even his own Attorney General called the fraud claims Bullshit.

ono:
Your entry does not add up bro. This man garnered (easily too) 70+ million American votes in the 2020 Election. You sound like one of the reasonable ones here and not some foul, loud mouth cursing dolt. Half dead Biden was rigged in by . . .

Will/Can you truthfully say that someone with that number of votes is truly unpopular among the wider US population?

Ibime:
Hi bro, what happened to Biden getting arrested on March 4th?

wirinet:
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Very shameless people. I am shocked that some of them have the guts to crawl out of their wormhole after all the noise they made before the last elections on how Trump will annihilate senile and basement hiding Biden in the elections, even when all popular polls and the two presidential debates indicated otherwise. After loeing face, instead of keeping quiet, the are further humiliating themselves with a "Trump actually won and Biden rigged" narrative [/s].

basilico:
Why not let audits go on.They democrats go to court to stop them.

basilico:
Why not let audits go on.They democrats go to court to stop them.

wirinet:
Which audit? Is there any where in the world that election audits determines the winner of elections?What do you think is the purpose of Republican arranged audits? Is there any place for external audits in the electoral process?The so called audits is to keep MAGAs fired up until the mid term elections.

Tdotbluejays:
Gladly, the war ends on the 31st of August. Thanks to President Biden.

Enough of the loss of lives and stupid waste of money.

wirinet:
Rigged by who? That "Biden was rigged in" has become an psychotic obsession for a few of Trumps followers.
Biden was rigged in but most Republican election officials, election observers, state legislative members and federal legislative members endorsed the elections.

Biden was rigged in but his lawyers said they did not expect people to be stupid enough to believe it.

Biden was rigged in and yet not one proof was presented in the over 60 court cases which they lost.

As I said, Trump is popular among republucan voters, but not so popular among the general US population. He lost the popular votes in 2016 by close to 3 million votes. He lost to Biden by over 7 million votes. If he contests again I am certain he will lose the popular votes by over 10 million votes. He has become even more unpopular within the US population.

Ibime:
Hi bro, what happened to Biden getting arrested on March 4th?

basilico:
I think its only the US that still continuing evacuations from Sunday .
There will be people left under the mercy of the Taliban.
Turkey will be stationed at the airport in a tech support role.
US will help Taliban to search for ISIS-K and probably bomb them too.