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Posted: 8/21/2017 12:37:23 PM EDT
What changes do you think he'll make?  Poll to follow.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:38:26 PM EDT
[#1]
IBTP.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:38:39 PM EDT
[#2]
A few more moabs
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:40:14 PM EDT
[#3]
Whatever Mattis asked for.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:41:03 PM EDT
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Doesn't matter, MSM will call it the dumbest decision ever.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:41:44 PM EDT
[#5]
turn it over to the contractors.  let them do their work.  


or let the marines loose.  either way.  
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:45:13 PM EDT
[#6]
MAGA
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:45:15 PM EDT
[#7]
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Whatever Mattis asked for.
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Nicholson asked for more troops.  According to the MSM, Trump considered relieving him.  Mattis stated he will ask for troop numbers after Trump has decided on a strategy.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 12:48:55 PM EDT
[#8]
There's no way that the generals would support a limited force of contractors. It would be humiliating for them.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:14:05 PM EDT
[#9]
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There's no way that the generals would support a limited force of contractors. It would be humiliating for them.
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Good point, but it's ultimately not their call.  It will be interesting to see how influential the top brass will be on Trump's decision.  
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:15:59 PM EDT
[#10]
  We have enough problems at home:
Communists are marching  across America.....
Afganistan can wait.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:16:36 PM EDT
[#11]
Or let  warriors be warriors. Kick there asses and get it over with. Problem solved. None of this pampering shit.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:17:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Whatever the decision, it will be controversial and the media will hammer it.

Takes balls for Trump to get up there and announce the who, what, where, when, and why. Wouldn't see Obama doing that shit. Trump wanting to make the decision public himself is a sign of a leader.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:25:40 PM EDT
[#13]
The government has some modicum of control over 60% of the country  and in many places it's not saying much.


  What the US needs to do is to do something radical: erase the Durand line. Recognize that Pashtunistan can not share the territory of Afghanistan.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 2:30:08 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:13:04 PM EDT
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Or let  warriors be warriors. Kick there asses and get it over with. Problem solved. None of this pampering shit.
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Isn't that what happened after the surge?
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:20:40 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:22:02 PM EDT
[#17]
Afgans led successful wars of attrition for centuries. A-stan is where great powers go to bankrupt themselves.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:22:53 PM EDT
[#18]
no make it a parking lot option
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:25:04 PM EDT
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Whatever Mattis asked for.
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Both what I expect and what I hope for. Despite the current trend for the right to bitch about bullshit wars, the enemy we face has made it obvious that they do not intend to leave us in peace. The only viable means for defeating Islam is to get tougher, not softer.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:25:36 PM EDT
[#20]
Replacing troops with contractors actually isn't a bad idea IMO. Its an unwinnable war anyways, AFG needs their fucking hands held to get anything done at all, send in contractors and stockpile our troops for WW3.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:26:39 PM EDT
[#21]
According to Fox Trump just signed off on sending 4k troops.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:27:20 PM EDT
[#22]
I hope full withdrawal.

After 16 years, they need to take care of themselves.  

No more blood and treasure.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:29:52 PM EDT
[#23]
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" I actually have nothing to say about Afghanistan. I have people to handle that. I just wanted all you super jerks who hate me distracted as the 82nd Airborne parachutes down around strategic monuments of Civil War Generals, who were super and had very very uge beards. Throw bottles of pee at them and see what happens"
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I approve of this war plan.  
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:31:52 PM EDT
[#24]
what have we got to show for our efforts in Afghanistan so far?
put the troops on the Mexican border and in South Korea
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:32:00 PM EDT
[#25]
After all these years, we've conclusively proved that the US military and the government that controls them are incapable of implementing a favorable solution. Therefore, we need to un-ass the region ASAP.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:35:28 PM EDT
[#26]
I predict that all of the skin heads, 88ers, etc will be rounded up and sent to get rid of the Afghan bad guys.  
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:44:02 PM EDT
[#27]
I'll be watching Preacher at 9......
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:47:58 PM EDT
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I hope full withdrawal.

After 16 years, they need to take care of themselves.  

No more blood and treasure.
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This. Why in the hell are we wasting American lives there for.
Link Posted: 8/21/2017 6:49:26 PM EDT
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