Posted on Aug 29, 2021

Should we drop a MOAB on Bagram Air Base on our way out? Should we use smaller ordinance to destroy all the other base's we have built?

SPC Richard Zacke

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It's clear that the so called Afghan Army lacks the patriotism and love of country to fight for it. After nearly 20 years of training they can't even do a simple "jumping jack"! It's my opinion that we bugged out to suddenly but the Afghan Army should still have pick up the torch and fought for their country...they shouldn't have to depend to the help from other countries. They are all running around like chickens with their heads cut off in fear of the Taliban and others. They are so afraid they try clinging to the side of a C-17 and eventually fall to their deaths. I ask you, wouldn't it be better to fight with all your might than to do something akin to suicide. If you thought you were gonna die anyway wouldn't that give you the courage to fight back even stronger? This is just one veterans opinion and you know what they say about opinions, "opinions are like assholes everybody has one",

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MAJ Byron Oyler

Posted 4 y ago

I like your opinion and say we let the Taliban get comfortable at Bagram and then bomb the shit out of them.

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SFC Casey O'Mally

Posted 4 y ago

You suffer from one blinding misconception. One which, frankly, most of the world suffers from. And that is the concept of Afghanistan as a nation. For tjw overwhelming majority of Afghans, tje "nation" of Afghanistan is lines on a map that other people worry about. They have NEVER been a unified or cohesive nation as we think of one. Even in 2019, after years of nation building by the US and NATO and before everyone pulled out, even them, the Afghan President was often refered to as the mayor of Kabul; because that is just about all he had effective control over.

Love of nation? What nation? Even now, as the Taliban establish their "rule" over Afghanistan, it is incomplete. Tribes will continue to be tribal.

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CSM Charles Hayden

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Read: ‘One Tribe at a Time’, by MAJ Jim Gant.

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SGM Bill Frazer

Posted 4 y ago

Kinda of hard- they Gov't seldom paid them, we took away their Ari and Arty support after teaching them how to fight using it. The Taliiban seldom took prisoners, and it is well known that they would hunt/kill family members. So with all that- Fight or flee to try to get family out?

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