Afghanistan sucess or failure?

[kustomizingkid]

Beginning to think we'd be better-off with bare hands, brains, skill, and will.. than with exotic technology .. and empty pockets.. full stop.

Cue Covadonga, Cangas de Onís, Asturias.

This movie has been seen before, already.

It will be played again until someone gets it.

Right?

I mean you can't beat 10 guys and a pile of rocks with trillions of dollars of tech so it sure seems to be the case.

 

[kustomizingkid]

Don't forget the banking cartel!!!

And the Heroin trade.

 

[thermite]

I mean you can't beat 10 guys and a pile of rocks with trillions of dollars of tech so it sure seems to be the case.

They think we don't remember how how to fight the same way?

Or that we are here, now, because we did, then.. prevailed at it .. and BUILT on success,....rather than reveling in the static time-warp of failure?

Devil is going to end up in debt, he has to keep buying Darwin's ghost another round of cheer ever' time he bets against the fittest.

Time will tell. I just hope those idiots at Camp David can't find the courage to come back., simply sneak out some back exit and belly-crawl off to a min-wage job f**king up nowt more crucial than every fourth Mickey-Dee order for fries.

OK. That WAS a tad optimistic.

Settle for only screwing up three out of four?

"C'mon., man!"

 

[kustomizingkid]

They think we don't remember how how to fight the same way?

Or that we are here, now, because we did, then.. prevailed at it .. and BUILT on success,....rather than reveling in the static time-warp of failure?


Devil is going to end up in debt, he has to keep buying Darwin's ghost another round of cheer ever' time he bets against the fittest.

Time will tell.

What if the goal was never to win anything... The war on drugs, the war on terror, you can't fight an idea.

 

[standardparts]

Special forces chopper kept and only used by them?

"special forces" gets used a lot. #154038 has been around according to what history is avail.

Of course, the use of tail numbers have been known to be used to deceive.

In this case it's an aircraft that probably has had an interesting life.

Cripes--1967!

 

[empower]

What if the goal was never to win anything... The war on drugs, the war on terror, you can't fight an idea.

oh you can fight it, but you cant win it.

 

[thermite]

What if the goal was never to win anything... The war on drugs, the war on terror, you can't fight an idea.

Like I said.

Task our military with winning a war?
They win the war.

Task them with NOT WINNING a war?
They NOT WIN a war.

DEA et al, same deal. Follow Other People's Money.

The "idea" is to see whom can impress more fools into voting than the other guy.

Too predictable when one side opens with an advantage on the pool of DEAD fools.

They get more than one vote, each! One is the bonus for voting the opposite side in death than they voted in life.

Me late Mum prolly collected. Democratic machine, Agony County, PA?

I couldn't GET her OFF their voter rolls as Executor with a Virginia Probate Judge's order and a Virginia death certificate.

Well. f**k me!

She had left PA and was domiciled in Virginia when she died?

None of our G-damned rebel business who PA kept on their voting records!

Ripofflican or NOT, she was Dead.
That meant she would vote the Democratic party ticket.

I only managed to get them to excuse her dead soul from their Jury Duty call-up several months after she died ... by clever negotiation about her predictable refusal to cast a vote.. and need for frequent bathroom breaks.. which they'd have to carry her to and from.

No Fine Waaay was a Democrat going to have to wipe a Rip.. 'ner mind.

Anglo-German-Irish or not, Mum can only take so much laffin' at one go.
Saves the rest for later. That's her frugal Merseyside Mum's doin'


Oh.. BTW.... any bets Kommie-Lie Harris is sworn-in as President AT Camp David when the last of the model-airplane glue he relies on for high-speed mouth-fuel has leaked out of Buyed-In's golem?

She wouldn't DARE quit at the same go .... and leave Nutsy Pelosi, C-In-C...

.. or would she?

They told me to cheer up, things could be a lot worse.

So I cheered up.

Sure as s**t?

Things got a lot worse!



Haven't had to build a helipad in ... 55 years?

I think I can make more at it in the DC suburbs than those optimists doing pre-fab winders and cheap-ass roofing! I even speak passable Spanish!

 

[Hobby Shop]

every child in Afghanistan is born fighting the wars of their fathers. You need to understand that constant tribal war is the human social environment. The whole point of democracy/republic is that we can "fight" our internal wars in elections and not with machetes. Not sure how much longer this will last if officials keep refusing to be transparent about election processes and the losing team can't accept that they have to play ball until the next election. My grandpa fought the Germans, like his dad before him... but six generations before that we were the Germans invading America on behalf of Mad King George. There are no good neighbors, only good fences.

You missed my point and you need to understand. 20 years, almost a hundred thousand dead, trillions have been spent but no Act of war was declared. Both WW1 & 2 had declarations of war approved. Every undeclared war since WW2 should’ve been illegal.

The idea a president (fill in the blank) can engage in a military conflict that spans decades and spends trillions without the consent of Congress is incomprehensible. What is this democracy you speak of when elected or appointed officials collet paychecks but refuse to do their jobs?

 

[empower]

Like I said.

Task our military with winning a war?
They win the war.

Task them with NOT WINNING a war?
They NOT WIN a war.

DEA et al, same deal. Follow Other People's Money.

The "idea" is to see whom can impress more fools into voting than the other guy.

Too predictable when one side opens with an advantage on the pool of DEAD fools.

They get more than one vote, each! One is the bonus for voting the opposite side in death than they voted in life.

Me late Mum prolly collected. Democratic machine, Agony County, PA?

I couldn't GET her OFF their votor rolls as Executor with a Virginia Probate Judge's order and a Virginia death certificate.

Well. f**k me!

She had left PA and was domiciled in Virginia when she died?

None of our G-damned rebel business who PA kept on their voting records!

Ripofflican or NOT, she was Dead.
That meant she would vote the Democratic party ticket.

I only managed to get them to excuse her dead soul from their Jury Duty call-up several months after she died ... by clever negotiation about her predictable refusal to cast a vote.. and need for frequent bathroom breaks.. which they'd have to carry her to and from.

No Fine Waaay was a Democrat going to have to wipe a Rip.. 'ner mind.

Anglo-German-Irish or not, Mum can only take so much laffin' at one go.

Saves the rest for later. That's her frugal Merseyside Mum's doin'

i fucking hate agreeing with you.

 

[DDoug]

i fucking hate agreeing with you.

I can see it's tearing you up inside....
The Number - from taxi. - YouTube

 

[thermite]

i fucking hate agreeing with you.

Not near as much as I do!

Told yah things had got a lot worse!



Shudda bought me that Czech item in that Rooshin cat'ridge with the .30 Win ballistics?

If we are meant to see "Red Dawn" come real it'll be THEIR ammo for stealin'

Sure won't be none of OURS arount. The ragheads been gifted it all.

 

[standardparts]

Obviously though....a few major avionics refits between the decades though!
Prolly like my old chaps broom he's had for 50 years - it's had 4 new heads and 2 replacement handles but it's the same one.

If the real logbooks and airframe records even exist it would probably make great reading.

 

[thermite]

If the real logbooks and airframe records even exist it would probably make great reading.

On a g-damned BROOM?

I've heard of "OCD" but that's OTT even if the bugger was a retired Zurcher BANKER with a nocturnal aerobatics hobby!

 

[standardparts]

On a g-damned BROOM?

I've heard of "OCD" but that's OTT even if the bugger was a retired Zurcher BANKER with a nocturnal aerobatics hobby!

Oh yes....beyond falling under OSHA's authority....A good union sweeper most certainly cuts it to perfect length to be leaned on.

"Description for 3991: Brooms and Brushes"

Description for 3991: Brooms and Brushes | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

 

[thermite]

Hahahaha!
My 'ol chaps' a stickler for procedure.
Never underestimate his pedanticness!

My age, I can't even get MY one to wake UP!

Why TF would I even enter a bet on who had the longest one?

??

 

[Rob F.]

Question Pete

What is your opinion of JFK? Not the dead one, While he was still alive.

Who did not like JFK?

 

[Scottl]

Who did not like JFK?

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Actually quite a few people disliked JFK, some so much that they arranged for his murder.

Contrary to the modern myth that everybody loved him, the country was more or less evenly split.

I was only a child at the time but we heard how adults talked and when our parents watched political discussions on TV. Reasons for disliking him varied, from those who thought he was a typical liberal Democrat to those who feared that as a Catholic he would take orders from the Pope.

Controversy over his policies even included military brass who were dismayed when he overrode their decision to ban special forces troops from wearing berets, which they considered "too foreign".

 

[SteelrFn]

Taliban enter Kabul, await '''peaceful transfer''' of power

This cant be called a success in any way shape or form.
Should have never been there in the first place, but to end it like this? All those lives ended in vain.
Wonder how long before Al Qaida gets their camps set up again.

 

[kustomizingkid]

Who did not like JFK?

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The guy banged Marilyn Monroe, respect the game son. He also proved that you can't go up against all the crime syndicates in America and stay alive, even as the president of the United States.

 

[thermite]

This cant be called a success in any way shape or form.
Should have never been there in the first place, but to end it like this? All those lives ended in vain.
Wonder how long before Al Qaida gets their camps set up again.

Just where was it you thought this project was launched from?

KFC-Halal, Kabul's kiddie swing sets, maybe?