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Posted: 8/21/2017 6:46:22 PM EDT

Trump approves sending 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan, senior official says

http://www.fox4news.com/politics/275147865-story

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:50:17 PM EDT

[#1]

Well dang, but I hope he at least lets Mad Dog direct them to take the kid gloves off.....

no sense in them boys being there if they cannot break people and kill things

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:52:02 PM EDT

[#2]

Globalists gonna global

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:53:01 PM EDT

[#3]

More leaks..... Can't even make it to 9PM EST to tell us himself before someone leaks it.

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:53:02 PM EDT

[#4]

4K more troops really isn't enough

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:53:39 PM EDT

[#5]

Fuck that shit.

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:54:48 PM EDT

[#6]

Disappointing, but will wait for details.

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:54:55 PM EDT

[#7]

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More leaks..... Can't even make it to 9PM EST to tell us himself before someone leaks it.

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But it's Priebus!! No wait totally Bannon!! No wait who's next?!

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:56:25 PM EDT

[#8]

Whats the point unless the 4000 are wiring up enough explosives to blow that place off the map?

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:58:16 PM EDT

[#9]

Trump is stuck cleaning up this mess from the last two admins. He's really got no other choice at this point. War has been dragging on for 16 years now.

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:59:37 PM EDT

[#10]

Disappointing if true.

We need to Come home.

Posted: 8/21/2017 6:59:44 PM EDT

[#11]

I'd be pissed if a loved one was sent over there for no fucking reason. Waste of time.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:00:50 PM EDT

[#12]

It's official. Bannon and every other nationalist gone. Him tweeting praising Antifa. And now this.

Looks like the globalists successfully beat him down

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:01:27 PM EDT

[#13]

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4K more troops really isn't enough

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It is if each one is controlling an Army of Kill dozers and Murdercidal Robots. We're also gonna need 50,000 contractors to wrench on them.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:03:02 PM EDT

[#14]

Doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:03:29 PM EDT

[#15]

more lives on the line

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:05:17 PM EDT

[#16]

we need to GTFO and NEVER go back. We should have learned from Russia. We have no business there and no way to win.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:06:04 PM EDT

[#17]

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Well dang, but I hope he at least lets Mad Dog direct them to take the kid gloves off.....

no sense in them boys being there if they cannot break people and kill things

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Turning more of Afghanistan into rubble won't do anything except waste American blood and money. What exactly are our objectives there? What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know when we're done?

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:08:26 PM EDT

[#18]

Its over, it needs to stop. The war there is over man.......

ZERO reason to be there unless there is a backdoor operation bringing in revenue that we aren't privy too.

If that's the case call it like it is

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:09:03 PM EDT

[#19]

MAGA

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:09:58 PM EDT

[#20]

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Turning more of Afghanistan into rubble won't do anything except waste American blood and money. What exactly are our objectives there? What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know when we're done?

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American threatens to bomb Afghanistan into stone age......Afghanis celebrate they are finally getting an upgrade.....

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:10:15 PM EDT

[#21]

3 President war. I think Trump wants to be the one to end Americas longest war.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:10:47 PM EDT

[#22]

Healthcare reform, tax reform, loosening gun restrictions and spending reductions? Nah, sending 4k more troops and throwing more money at Afghanistan is definitely a win.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:10:48 PM EDT

[#23]

It was only a matter of time.

They removed all the nationalists from his administration. Everyone who wants to see him as to go through Kelly who is a Lindsey Graham/McCain wet dream.

Oh we'll still get tax cuts, maybe an infrastructure bill, maybe even some gun laws but MAGA will be watered down quite a bit.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:11:49 PM EDT

[#24]

Maybe we can get Afghanistan wrapped up in the next 16 years?

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:12:14 PM EDT

[#25]

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Disappointing if true.

We need to Come home.

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Agree. Get everyone out of there forever. Screw that nonsense.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:12:57 PM EDT

[#26]

A watered down MAGA still beats Hildabeast any day.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:13:10 PM EDT

[#27]

My Lieutenant and Friend (same person) just got deployment orders last Sunday.

He is a junky, but his 12 year old is not taking it well.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:14:07 PM EDT

[#28]

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Disappointing if true.

We need to Come home.

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And if we did, then we'd just end up having to go back in a year or two.

I don't like this any more than any of the rest of you guys, but quitting just isn't an option. We've gotta outlast these assholes.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:14:09 PM EDT

[#29]

More of doing the same fucking thing over and over again. And expecting different results.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:15:46 PM EDT

[#30]

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Trump is stuck cleaning up this mess from the last two admins. He's really got no other choice at this point. War has been dragging on for 16 years now.

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He can always say Afghanistan is known as the Graveyard of Empires for a reason, we're not going to change shit without genocide and colonization, we're pulling all of our troops out, and if the locals can't get it under control by now they aren't going to suddenly be capable tomorrow. It's their hill of manure and it's not our problem any longer.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:16:25 PM EDT

[#31]

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It's official. Bannon and every other nationalist gone. Him tweeting praising Antifa. And now this.

Looks like the globalists successfully beat him down

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He always was a pro-intervention globalist, for fucks sake.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:17:06 PM EDT

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And if we did, then we'd just end up having to go back in a year or two.

I don't like this any more than any of the rest of you guys, but quitting just isn't an option. We've gotta outlast these assholes.

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impossible to achieve

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:17:40 PM EDT

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4K more troops really isn't enough

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This.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:19:15 PM EDT

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And if we did, then we'd just end up having to go back in a year or two.

I don't like this any more than any of the rest of you guys, but quitting just isn't an option. We've gotta outlast these assholes.

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They are multiple generations over there who have been killing outsiders since Alexander the Great. They are doing God's work every time they kill one of us or get killed in the process. We can't outlast that mindset.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:19:45 PM EDT

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Trump is stuck cleaning up this mess from the last two admins. He's really got no other choice at this point. War has been dragging on for 16 years now.

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No other choice? How abut pull out completely, bomb from above. Rebuilt and provide nothing.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:19:55 PM EDT

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MAGA

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"You just don't understand how business works."

"You've been totally wrong about everything so far, why should anyone listen to you now?"

"He's not a politician."

"Trump is thinking 14 steps ahead of everyone else and you're just a cuck."

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:20:06 PM EDT

[#37]

19 May 2017 - The total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expanding, leading to a significant increase in its production, according to the latest survey report released today by UNODC.
The report reveals that the total cultivation area in Afghanistan increased by 10 per cent from 183,000 to 201,000 hectares compared to the previous year. Similarly, potential opium production saw 43 per cent increase, reaching 4,800 tons in 2016.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:20:40 PM EDT

[#38]

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Trump is stuck cleaning up this mess from the last two admins. He's really got no other choice at this point. War has been dragging on for 16 years now.

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Weird, I can think of another option.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:21:17 PM EDT

[#39]

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A watered down MAGA still beats Hildabeast any day.

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Trump is not HRC. That is his greatest virtue.

Because of this, he will always be a net positive IMO

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:22:25 PM EDT

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And if we did, then we'd just end up having to go back in a year or two.

I don't like this any more than any of the rest of you guys, but quitting just isn't an option. We've gotta outlast these assholes.

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Lol are you serious? Outlast them in their own country with their own fucked up UNCHANGEABLE culture??? All the while fighting with our hands behind our backs?

Yeah ok....

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:22:29 PM EDT

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19 May 2017 - The total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expanding, leading to a significant increase in its production, according to the latest survey report released today by UNODC.
The report reveals that the total cultivation area in Afghanistan increased by 10 per cent from 183,000 to 201,000 hectares compared to the previous year. Similarly, potential opium production saw 43 per cent increase, reaching 4,800 tons in 2016.

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Napalm every inch of the poppy fields and then hit them with the strongest most lethal herbicide we have on the way out. Fuck the locals that rely on opium for income. They can learn how to farm corn and sell on the open markets and get ethanol subsidies.

Or starve.

I'm good either way.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:23:14 PM EDT

[#42]

unless we are there to keep a close presence to Iran....

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:23:55 PM EDT

[#43]

My suspicion is that it's more about Iran than Afg. Maps don't lie.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:24:20 PM EDT

[#44]

How will this impact work on The Wall?

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:24:51 PM EDT

[#45]

He's going to go full neocon now that Bannon is gone. Watch him back out of building the wall. They just wore him down and seized on his PR blunders.

PS, still better than Hillary.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:25:13 PM EDT

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My suspicion is that it's more about Iran than Afg. Maps don't lie.

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Yeah....

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:26:15 PM EDT

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Trump is stuck cleaning up this mess from the last two admins. He's really got no other choice at this point. War has been dragging on for 16 years now.

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Serious question: What would happen if we just pulled every single US soldier out of Afghanistan? Why can't we?

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:27:53 PM EDT

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My suspicion is that it's more about Iran than Afg. Maps don't lie.

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How pray tell is getting bogged down into a protracted, unpopular, unwinable (define a reasonable victory there) war a good way to "keep your enemies in check"

All we do is embolden and train a hostile flank if we ever have to fight in Iran

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:28:05 PM EDT

[#49]

Can see both sides.

Would love to see our guys come home.

Understand maybe there are important things being done against terrorism, and our troops need more support.

Happy Mattis is advising, and I will trust him.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:28:05 PM EDT

[#50]

Pointless.

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