‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains

[Desperado]

We lostit when we tried to make regime change work
let alone we should never have been there in the 1st place.

 

[Asclepias]

Nobody but you said that, I said the complete opposite

This is what you said you dizzy bitch.

"The Vietcong waged guerrilla warfare....who won, Lips?"

My comment before that was that we cannot win a guerilla war. So either you're retarded and can't read or you were suggesting the US won the war.

 

[Anathema]

Most who served there, if honest about their time, will tell you the same. The same with Iraq. You cannot impose your will, your culture, and your value sets on others. It never, ever works out

Exactly. That’s why the only acceptable form of Warfsre should be Total War. If all the enemies are dead, the war is over.

 

[pknopp]

Why? Suckers.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

So it seems that our war veterans feel the Fucktard is throwing their sacrifices away....

‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains​

After enlisting in the U.S. military against his family’s wishes, Chicago native Tom Amenta said he found himself in “middle-of-nowhere,” Afghanistan, in 2002 as an Army ranger in a remote area some 15 minutes from the border with Pakistan. He was fighting the initial battles of a war that few knew would stretch on for 20 years.

Now 40 and retired from the military, he felt anger foam inside as he watched the evening news on Thursday while on a work trip to Pennsylvania.

Headline after headline broadcast the latest gains by Taliban fighters, who have seized control of more than a dozen of the country’s provincial capitals as the Afghan government inches closer to collapse in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal. He was riveted in horror by news of fighters committing suspected war crimes against civilians or Afghan troops.

Friends who had been killed there came to mind, including NFL star Pat Tillman. Fond memories of former Afghan colleagues, such as interpreters, who remained in the country and whose fates he didn’t know, also resurfaced.

“It makes me angry, really angry,” Amenta said of the U.S. withdrawal, lamenting the billions upon billions of dollars spent on the war effort. Not to mention the emotional, financial and human toll suffered by thousands of Americans who served or had sent their loved ones to fight in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan “has never had a clean solution. But now that it’s gotten hard, we’re just going to bounce? It doesn’t make it right,” he said in a phone interview.

Amenta is one of many veterans across the world voicing frustration over the Taliban’s faster-than-expected comeback, reflecting how deeply the conflict resonates throughout the world. Around four dozen countries have sent troops in support of the United States, which with 2,300 killed while serving, has spilled the most amount of blood in the war excluding Afghanistan itself.

Taliban fighters capture Kandahar, Herat and Lashkar Gah in sweeping territorial gains
Amenta recounted memories of Jay A. Blessing of Tacoma, Wash., a goofy friend and fellow Army ranger who used to put hot sauce on everything: “I mean, literally everything. He put hot sauce on ice cream.” Blessing was killed by an improvised bomb in 2003 in Asadabad, Afghanistan.

“I mean, why did my friend get blown up? For what?” said Amenta, who has recently spoken to nearly six dozen veterans from the post-9/11 wars to write a book that’s to be released next month.

n the United Kingdom, where at least 455 British lives were lost over the course of the war, Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat, who served in Afghanistan, tweeted: “If you think I’m taking the news from Afghanistan badly and personally, you’re right.”

Tugendhat said the withdrawal was “wasteful and unnecessary.” He said, “I’ve seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away.”

Tugendhat, in a BBC interview, said that withdrawing coalition support in the country had left its government exposed and weak. “We’ve pulled the rug from under them,” he said. “We’ve taken away their air support, we’ve taken away their logistics and we’ve said, ‘Go on then, let’s see how you do.’ ”

Speaking from his home in Tucson, Army veteran John Whalen sighed as reports came in that Kandahar, the second-largest Afghan city, had fallen to the Taliban.

“It’s just frustrating,” Whalen said over the phone. “We knew that this would happen. Now, all the people who went and served, are like, ‘Why did my friend die?’ ”

“I ask that question, too,” Whalen said.

They died because GWB wanted to be reelected.

 

[Asclepias]

If all the enemies are dead

That will never happen.

 

[Obiwan]

They died because GWB wanted to be reelected.

Actually, the link to casualties that I posted demonstrated that the tough part of the fighting was over, and our casualties were at a minimum now...

So, after voting to get over 2,300 of our troops killed in Afghanistan then basically pacifying the country, the Fucktard handed it all back over to the Taliban....

The Baffoon-in-Chief lost a 20-year war where we were making progress in less than 8 months, giving the Taliban a total victory!!!!

United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You seem to not understand why the war as we fought it was unwinnable. There is no organized, uniformed threat to fight in the Middle East. They hide, hit and run in very loosely organized groups, and new groups form all the time as new people are recruited. You can't kill an idea like that. It's not an army. It's just pissed off people. You would have to commit genocide to end all extremism in the Middle East.

You are close. Afghanistan is the country that east empires. It isn't a country and that's the problem. The landmass is called Afghanistan. There is no nation. It is collection of sparring warlords. If we had installed a despotic dictator to impose nationhood by a heavy hand we would have won. It needs it's own saddam hussein.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Exactly. That’s why the only acceptable form of Warfsre should be Total War. If all the enemies are dead, the war is over.

That's the only way. All of the laws of armed conflict, and all that BS just prolongs the war, and permits your enemy the ability to sit in and plan....and plan.

 

[WTF19]

So your dumb ass thinks the Vietcong lost the Vietnam war and the US won? I have idiots all over this thread.

you should quit LYING....those words never came out of me....all i typed, was---You're a shit stain. You never know what you are talking about. Don't you get it yet?
show me where those words are located, you fucking retard

 

[Asclepias]

That's the only way. All of the laws of armed conflict, and all that BS just prolongs the war, and permits your enemy the ability to sit in and plan....and plan.

Thats all bullshit. If two countries go to war the prez of both countries should battle to the death.

 

[Adrenochrome Junkie]

Thats only because youre retarded. I had no such delusions when I was in the military. I knew that wherever they sent me there was a very good chance that all hard work would be for naught.

So you put your life on the line knowingly for an unjust cause. With today’s vaccines, nothing about you has changed

 

[Asclepias]

you should quit LYING....those words never came out of me....all i typed, was---You're a shit stain. You never know what you are talking about. Don't you get it yet?
show me where those words are located, you fucking retard

I was asking a question you retard. Did you not notice the question mark?

"So your dumb ass thinks the Vietcong lost the Vietnam war and the US won?" <------- Right there

 

[WTF19]

So your dumb ass thinks the Vietcong lost the Vietnam war and the US won? I have idiots all over this thread.

you are the only idiot who keeps whining....go get your pic of TRUMP out, and ram that dildo in and out of yourself

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

So it seems that our war veterans feel the Fucktard is throwing their sacrifices away....

‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains​

After enlisting in the U.S. military against his family’s wishes, Chicago native Tom Amenta said he found himself in “middle-of-nowhere,” Afghanistan, in 2002 as an Army ranger in a remote area some 15 minutes from the border with Pakistan. He was fighting the initial battles of a war that few knew would stretch on for 20 years.

Now 40 and retired from the military, he felt anger foam inside as he watched the evening news on Thursday while on a work trip to Pennsylvania.

Headline after headline broadcast the latest gains by Taliban fighters, who have seized control of more than a dozen of the country’s provincial capitals as the Afghan government inches closer to collapse in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal. He was riveted in horror by news of fighters committing suspected war crimes against civilians or Afghan troops.

Friends who had been killed there came to mind, including NFL star Pat Tillman. Fond memories of former Afghan colleagues, such as interpreters, who remained in the country and whose fates he didn’t know, also resurfaced.

“It makes me angry, really angry,” Amenta said of the U.S. withdrawal, lamenting the billions upon billions of dollars spent on the war effort. Not to mention the emotional, financial and human toll suffered by thousands of Americans who served or had sent their loved ones to fight in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan “has never had a clean solution. But now that it’s gotten hard, we’re just going to bounce? It doesn’t make it right,” he said in a phone interview.

Amenta is one of many veterans across the world voicing frustration over the Taliban’s faster-than-expected comeback, reflecting how deeply the conflict resonates throughout the world. Around four dozen countries have sent troops in support of the United States, which with 2,300 killed while serving, has spilled the most amount of blood in the war excluding Afghanistan itself.

Taliban fighters capture Kandahar, Herat and Lashkar Gah in sweeping territorial gains
Amenta recounted memories of Jay A. Blessing of Tacoma, Wash., a goofy friend and fellow Army ranger who used to put hot sauce on everything: “I mean, literally everything. He put hot sauce on ice cream.” Blessing was killed by an improvised bomb in 2003 in Asadabad, Afghanistan.

“I mean, why did my friend get blown up? For what?” said Amenta, who has recently spoken to nearly six dozen veterans from the post-9/11 wars to write a book that’s to be released next month.

n the United Kingdom, where at least 455 British lives were lost over the course of the war, Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat, who served in Afghanistan, tweeted: “If you think I’m taking the news from Afghanistan badly and personally, you’re right.”

Tugendhat said the withdrawal was “wasteful and unnecessary.” He said, “I’ve seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away.”

Tugendhat, in a BBC interview, said that withdrawing coalition support in the country had left its government exposed and weak. “We’ve pulled the rug from under them,” he said. “We’ve taken away their air support, we’ve taken away their logistics and we’ve said, ‘Go on then, let’s see how you do.’ ”

Speaking from his home in Tucson, Army veteran John Whalen sighed as reports came in that Kandahar, the second-largest Afghan city, had fallen to the Taliban.

“It’s just frustrating,” Whalen said over the phone. “We knew that this would happen. Now, all the people who went and served, are like, ‘Why did my friend die?’ ”

“I ask that question, too,” Whalen said.

Plutes Never Wear Combat Boots

Orchestrated whining. So they want more troops sent there to get killed? When this mission-creep started, instead we should have bypassed the Taliban and killed off Al Qaida even in they went to Pakistan or Kashmir. Even better, we should have nuked Tora Bora and be done with it in no time.

Who cares who rules Afghanistan? As in Vietnam, the ones the propaganda claimed were on our side were cowards, crooks, and incompetents. The only way we should be told that the Taliban counter-offensive makes us lose face is if we don't learn a lesson from it. Just as we didn't learn the lesson from Vietnam.

A greater lesson would be to force the sons of the ruling class to fight their Daddies' FUBAR wars. No college deferments, no hideouts in the Guard or Reserves, no medical deferments authorized by crooked doctors. If the people in power had something personal to lose, they'd never inflict these mismanaged and overreaching adventures on us. They'd also revoke the Geneva Convention if their own pampered sons ever had to suffer from the suicidal Rules of Engagement.

 

[WTF19]

I was asking a question you retard. Did you not notice the question mark?

sure did....shit stain....still waiting for you to explain how you got all of that bullshit you spewed out of what i typed.....yes, you are a retard

 

[Asclepias]

you are the only idiot who keeps whining....go get your pic of TRUMP out, and ram that dildo in and out of yourself

What is it with you and dildos?

 

[Asclepias]

sure did....shit stain....still waiting for you to explain how you got all of that bullshit you spewed out of what i typed.....yes, you are a retard

I dont have to explain shit to you. Make sure your reading comprehension is working before you reply next time or have an adult read it out loud to you.

 

[Turtlesoup]

So it seems that our war veterans feel the Fucktard is throwing their sacrifices away....

‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains​

After enlisting in the U.S. military against his family’s wishes, Chicago native Tom Amenta said he found himself in “middle-of-nowhere,” Afghanistan, in 2002 as an Army ranger in a remote area some 15 minutes from the border with Pakistan. He was fighting the initial battles of a war that few knew would stretch on for 20 years.

Now 40 and retired from the military, he felt anger foam inside as he watched the evening news on Thursday while on a work trip to Pennsylvania.

Headline after headline broadcast the latest gains by Taliban fighters, who have seized control of more than a dozen of the country’s provincial capitals as the Afghan government inches closer to collapse in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal. He was riveted in horror by news of fighters committing suspected war crimes against civilians or Afghan troops.

Friends who had been killed there came to mind, including NFL star Pat Tillman. Fond memories of former Afghan colleagues, such as interpreters, who remained in the country and whose fates he didn’t know, also resurfaced.

“It makes me angry, really angry,” Amenta said of the U.S. withdrawal, lamenting the billions upon billions of dollars spent on the war effort. Not to mention the emotional, financial and human toll suffered by thousands of Americans who served or had sent their loved ones to fight in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan “has never had a clean solution. But now that it’s gotten hard, we’re just going to bounce? It doesn’t make it right,” he said in a phone interview.

Amenta is one of many veterans across the world voicing frustration over the Taliban’s faster-than-expected comeback, reflecting how deeply the conflict resonates throughout the world. Around four dozen countries have sent troops in support of the United States, which with 2,300 killed while serving, has spilled the most amount of blood in the war excluding Afghanistan itself.

Taliban fighters capture Kandahar, Herat and Lashkar Gah in sweeping territorial gains
Amenta recounted memories of Jay A. Blessing of Tacoma, Wash., a goofy friend and fellow Army ranger who used to put hot sauce on everything: “I mean, literally everything. He put hot sauce on ice cream.” Blessing was killed by an improvised bomb in 2003 in Asadabad, Afghanistan.

“I mean, why did my friend get blown up? For what?” said Amenta, who has recently spoken to nearly six dozen veterans from the post-9/11 wars to write a book that’s to be released next month.

n the United Kingdom, where at least 455 British lives were lost over the course of the war, Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat, who served in Afghanistan, tweeted: “If you think I’m taking the news from Afghanistan badly and personally, you’re right.”

Tugendhat said the withdrawal was “wasteful and unnecessary.” He said, “I’ve seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away.”

Tugendhat, in a BBC interview, said that withdrawing coalition support in the country had left its government exposed and weak. “We’ve pulled the rug from under them,” he said. “We’ve taken away their air support, we’ve taken away their logistics and we’ve said, ‘Go on then, let’s see how you do.’ ”

Speaking from his home in Tucson, Army veteran John Whalen sighed as reports came in that Kandahar, the second-largest Afghan city, had fallen to the Taliban.

“It’s just frustrating,” Whalen said over the phone. “We knew that this would happen. Now, all the people who went and served, are like, ‘Why did my friend die?’ ”

“I ask that question, too,” Whalen said.

This is monsterous.....thousands are going to be murdered, tortured, raped just in the next few weeks over this. Our soldiers lives and limbs mean nothing now, our allies will all be hunted down and killed, and no one in the ME will trust us again. Massive refugees will be sent west creating more nightmares for the west as well. This is worse than nam....

 

[WTF19]

deny, deflect, twist to suit---that describes you to a T....you couldn't explain w/out doing at least 1 of them
Make sure your reading comprehension is working before you reply next time or have an adult read it out loud to you.