[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The last exit: The Union flag is lowered, British depart, and Afghanistan’s next chapter begins

Posted: 10/26/2014 8:12:37 PM EDT

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“Please don’t call it our Dien Bien Phu,” Lieutenant Colonel Simon Winkworth, of the Royal Engineers, requested as we gazed out onto a desolate expanse of scrub and sand on which he was going to build Camp Bastion.

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Posted: 10/26/2014 8:14:28 PM EDT

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How much equipment did we leave them?

Posted: 10/26/2014 8:35:17 PM EDT

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And how long before ISIS moves in.

Posted: 10/26/2014 8:36:50 PM EDT

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How long before it is captured or abandon is a better question!

Posted: 10/26/2014 9:39:19 PM EDT

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No worries guys, artillery commands were not in the Teutonic tongue.

How sad.

Posted: 10/26/2014 9:40:33 PM EDT

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Geography much?

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:06:52 PM EDT

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I guess GD doesn't read... The article clearly explains how US Marines have been the bulk of the force in that area for a few years now, their arrival turned the tide (at least temporarily) and they aren't leaving yet.

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:20:01 PM EDT

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250 mil at the two bases alone. Don't worry,ISIS will be by tomorrow to pick it up.

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:33:20 PM EDT

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Geography much?

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Geography much?

Yeah, it will be interesting to see Sunni Isis March through Shia Iran to pick up their slightly used military equipment.

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:35:40 PM EDT

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All hail to the Chief

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:36:01 PM EDT

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When this country was founded, the Founding Fathers placed the future of their country in the hands of what they believed had to be a moral and educated people. And what's why we are where we are today.

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:36:46 PM EDT

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250 mil at the two bases alone. Don't worry,ISIS will be by tomorrow to pick it up.

Posted: 10/26/2014 10:39:56 PM EDT

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Really though, I suppose it's par-for-the-course, we gave Cam Ranh Bay to Russia. Ahh, the games we play

Posted: 10/26/2014 11:19:08 PM EDT

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250 mil at the two bases alone. Don't worry,ISIS will be by tomorrow to pick it up.

ISIS aint taking over Afghanistan anytime soon.

Posted: 10/27/2014 12:14:42 AM EDT

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When this country was founded, the Founding Fathers placed the future of their country in the hands of what they believed had to be a moral and educated people. And what's why we are where we are today.

And that is why the Political Left is working tirelessly to degrade morality and education.

Humanists hate humanity as much as they hate themselves, they work to destroy both.

Posted: 10/27/2014 12:33:09 AM EDT

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Should be " The Latest Exit "

Won't be the last.

Posted: 10/27/2014 12:39:02 AM EDT

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We should teach them a lesson and kill all the goats before we leave.

Posted: 10/27/2014 1:04:01 AM EDT

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lol geography

Posted: 10/27/2014 1:06:19 AM EDT

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I'm laughing at you, not with you.

Posted: 10/27/2014 1:15:07 AM EDT

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Vietnam wanted the US to return but obviously that didn't happen for political rather than pragmatic reasons. Funny enough,in Pew research finding which countries have the most favorable view of the US,Vietnam is near 80% and in the top tier. Some US allies are in the single or low double digits,like Egypt and Turkey. Germany was about 50% by comparison.

Posted: 10/27/2014 1:45:51 AM EDT

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I flew into Bastion many times last year, and it was the first place I landed in Afganistan. The girls in the tower would come down and steal our fresh milk for their tea. It was pretty quiet when I was there and the Brits said they were gearing down and pulling out, and I guess they did!