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ThatOneGuyWhoIsAlwaysRepostingShitPosts
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zenoghost1
generational war
Quenya3675
It's not war, it's business.
Quipod
If we isolate ourselves again, someone fills the void and eventually grows bold/large enough to lash out its quite unfortunate.
Domehammer
Meanwhile in the distance is the Korean War looking through the blinds.
VinchVolt
TBF the war in Afghanistan has been continuously active since 2001; the Korean War IS technically ongoing, but it's been dormant since 1953.
ReitnesTenought
Blame the military industrial complex and their puppets in the government for the forever wars.
BrickOodie
Fuck. So sadly accurate. And all for nothing.
BoredCreep
It's almost like we're fighting an ideology instead of just a specific finite group.
DoublevBomb
It was initially declared as a "war on terror", was it not?
shmekie
we did arm bin laden in the 80s so we kinda started the whole thing. Actually lets go back further... *checks* yea still a lot of fault here
ilovemynami
Active duty here and my pops is retired surfing amazing waves. Can’t wait to join him
smellsmiketeenspirit
This could mean different things.
Nalianna
about the time your song starts boot camp?
Nalianna
your son *
csullivan
Republicans want live babies so they can grow up to be dead soldiers.
Tembasilverclaw
America has been at war for 100 years minimum it won't change
Tembasilverclaw
Its not a " solution" anymore it is a way of life
mymindisaterriblethingtowaste
Retired at 39 with full benefits . New house no taxes & front row parking with discounts everywhere. Not for the weak..Yep rough
salbolini11
War is good for business. Until we change that we'll always be at war.
YetAnotherCommenter
War is good for a very specific set of politically-connected industries. It isn't good "for business" as a whole.
OhBuggerIt
It's good for the business interests of the politicians who decide that there will be war.
rockonjones
Like Vietnam only two generations later.
SomeDetroitGuy
There have only been 14 combat deaths in Afghanistan this year. Fewer than 60 in the last four years combined.
ztygs
How many Vet suicides of people coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq this year?
ThermalPanda
There are less than 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan most of the fighting today is done by the local Afghan forces vs the Taliban.
drh1138
The US has practically never not been in a state of war.
FaithAlone
The military industrial complex wanted a perpetual source on income.
RaymondChoppard
The best way to stop wars is to build schools.
eurybaric
That the taliban blow up the next day?
EuanKaPow
I agree. But I personally saw schools created whilst on active service in Afghan. They require protection and help over there.
ElephantKid
im sorry. those are haram.
RaymondChoppard
No lessons given here. I just feel that a lot of opportunities were missed, specially when Massoud was there (long time ago, I know).
FrodoShrugged
War is a business. Terrorism is a cash cow.
cazkey
It’s all a plot to make a philosopher stone.
TorgunFreeman
Dad didnt age well
TheRickestRick
As a Soldier: no one in the military ages well. You have 3 options. Die, retire broken, or get out while you are young.
EirikurDC
In like 300 years they’ll look at the books and say “who held out? Who administered the chemotherapy?” The US and allies did.
EirikurDC
Cancer sucks and takes a long time to beat
jsenne
Yeup. Its pretty fucking pathetic people act like the US is the sole cause of the issues out there. As if they know what it would be like 1/
jsenne
Had we never stepped in. The US's downfall will be an uneducated populace. Which is where we currently are.
Rasdwatrium
Do you remember how Trump said he would bring the troops home? I do.
levitatedwafflelordpart2
People started getting mad and saying he shouldn't
Mewmus
he just tried to do peace negotiations with the taliban, then everyone gave him shit for it because of the timing. guess they love the war
rockonjones
Trump is not the only president that said this, finger pointer. Look back through history.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Yes, but then sent more to replace the troops that came home...
Shpadoinkleman
You know how a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
Rasdwatrium
But I thought Trump was elected because he wasn't a politician and that he would "drain the swamp"?
JimmiRustler
Pretty sure a guy running for a political position is a politician by circumstance
AWarningToOthers
As soon as they can figure out how to get all the returning flights to Prestwick Airport along with a overnight stay at Turnberry they will.
Zerberus
I could swear Obama said the same thing when he first run for presidency like a decade ago.
4k33m
Whataboutism! Concentrate on the presence and what is going wrong right now. approving shit because someone else maybe did something 1/2
4k33m
similar is just plain stupid. It's the end of any dialog. 2/2
Stretch18
Not really. He ran on ending the Iraq war and ramp up in Afghanistan. "The war we should have been fighting" he called it.
skyshadow
It's not that simple to just withdraw troops overnight. There's still a year in this term for him to keep that promise.
ThermalPanda
There really isn't that many US troops left in Afghanistan anyway under 10,000. Most of the fighting now days is done by Afghan local forces
JollyWatson
I mean the most recent development has been a drastic increase in US troops in the area, seems unlikely
TheRealAlpharius
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/asia/afghanistan-civilian-casualties.html at least we're doing good things! Oh...
AmericanAdvocate
Its an insurgency though. Your going to kill civilians, when the enemy is among them. The enemy ARE civilians.
somepersondoingsomethings
The insurgents are really what killed the civilians.
AmericanAdvocate
My point is this; When you cant tell the insurgents apart from the innocents, killing innocents is unavoidable.
Mindshard
The US invaded a foreign country based on lies to overthrow a dictator and in doing so they destabilized an entire region and killed 1/2
Mindshard
Significantly more civilians than did in the attacks they were supposedly retaliating against, and the real kicker? Spent half the time 2/3
Mindshard
Trying to work a deal with the Taliban to run the region, spent 8 years working the deal and just fell apart the other day. 3/3
ztygs
And people wonder why the 'war on terrorism' just breeds new terrorists exactly like it was intended to do.
willywonkalikedmychocolate
Killing tomorrows terrorists today.
Marvellous86
Killing tomorrows terrorists’ parents today.
alwaysupvotefuturama
Creating tomorrow's terrorists
Mewmus
then people gave President Trump shit for inviting the taliban over for peace talks. make up your fucking minds, do you want war or peace?
gostoso666
Only the dead see the end of war
keybladers
To play devils advocate. Afghanistan was the country housing international terrorists and openly admitted it. If IS leaves taliban is back
OhBuggerIt
Saudi Arabia
GraeYstaG237
canipleasejusthaveanameforonce
Yesn’t
Sandyundertones
The word "Is" is present tense, so the sentence can also imply that America is no longer about the subject of the sentence.
36roentgen
America has only been at war for about 1/3 of it's history, not nearly as much as this image suggests.
ministryofpeace
Isn't America still technically at war with North Korea? (just on truce), so you've been continuously at war since 1950
GraeYstaG237
Considering the wars on crime and drugs and healthcare ;D id say longer than 1/3
LyfLesOrdnry
And yet, my children have never known a day of peace in their entire lives. NOT ONE DAY.
robindawilliams
https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/5565946
36roentgen
The anti-piracy wars were as close to wars as the current war on drugs, the majority of the Indian Wars were just conflicts against Native 2
36roentgen
military action as a war when that is a flat out lie. When you look at American history and count actual wars and not just military 6
36roentgen
Just because a lot of these were called war doesn't make them wars...... 1
36roentgen
war, it was rogue elements of the Mexican government spawning from the Mexican Revolution, basically this info combines any need for 5
36roentgen
intervention it equals 87 years out of 243 which would equal 35.8%. 7
36roentgen
with the Mexican government during the Apache Wars, which was about the only actual war against Native Americans, the banana war wasn't a 4
ztygs
Reply to your own comments man, noone wants to guess which order to read that shit in.
36roentgen
Sorry they were all numbered in the order they were written in...
36roentgen
Americans and not called wars until many years later, the only thing I can find on US invading Mexico in the 1880s was when they worked 3
Noodlesocks
I figured it was suggesting that the Afghanistan conflict has been going on so long that kids of 2001 are now old enough to fight in it.
36roentgen
in the 1800s, the Whiskey Rebellion which definitely wasn't a war, and other actions that needed a military response but wasn't a war. 2
36roentgen
It was saying that the vast majority of American history is about wars. Most places that include American wars include Anti-piracy actions 1
disabledwerewolf
How do you figure it was talking about all of American history? It very clearly says "To Afghanistan" on the first slide.
36roentgen
Because it says,"This is not what America is about. America is about *opens history book* and then proceeds to get nervous flipping 1
36roentgen
through pages trying to find something in American history that isn't about war. 2
StarDangerous
Winston Churchill - History is written by the victors
ThisIsWhyIDontTrustPeople
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. - Winston Churchill
thylm
Who are these Victors and why should we trust them? And why are they all called Victor?
StarDangerous
Hi I'm Victor and my mom called me Victor. ?
JudgementalMan
Wrong, history is written by the WRITERS, which is why its called "The Fall of Rome" and not "Rise of the Goths"
bedframe
Please love Truck.
darkhero99
Stupid.
thewaylilpumpsayshuh
What's funny is you need to be somewhat aware of America's shady history to understand and get mad at that joke.
ikeepbees
Nah or they're just stupid
canipleasejusthaveanameforonce
Damn this shit got downvoted to hell
CatMarrow
Well said
DaveTheScientist
Stupidly said.
Nemothenubbed
I get the feeling this was sarcasm and you got shit on because no one got that
CatMarrow
Yep. :P
Nemothenubbed
Welcome to imgur am I right?
TyrionLannisterTheImp
no u
Cazzobello
GeneralWho
BuzzKillingtonEsq
Got ‘em!
GeneralWho
Odb718
2 wars became 7.
DashDaddyD
Thanks Obama
MrChurch
1LostPuppy
Lol, he looks like the dude "the online gamer"
BatmanOSX
Obama is still my president....
skrrrt99
Thanks Obama!
atomiccheesegod
I mean he did kill a fuck ton of civilians with drone strikes, so did Bush/Trump
Zev610
You are going to have to remind me of the Trump bombings. Since all he bombed was a Syrian air base in 2017.
Remmon1
We can't, under Trump they stopped reporting on drone strikes so we only hear about the ones big enough to show up in the media.
Zev610
With the amount of leaks and media hungry for anything to make Trump look bad, do you honestly think we wouldn't hear about it?
Imrqange
The MOAB in Afghanistan, framed as manly and heroic, comes immediately to mind.
HighImpactSexualViolence
I think that applies to every president since we've had drones.
DildoHaeuptling
Or presidents...
atomiccheesegod
True but Bush and Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize after they bombed a hospital and a wedding
ISellUsernames
Its almost like the president doesn’t actually make decisions on this... or has a “choice” for that matter.
HighImpactSexualViolence
Yeah, I agree that the nobel prize thing was dumb.
GoIIum
Neither did Obama, just saying.
MuresanDani
The US will withdraw, the Taliban will take over and then everyone will blame the US for not stopping it. I'm calling it right now.
ValentineN
Your point? They're the root cause of all the troubles that country has. They ARE the bad guys.
Spidey209
You didn't call it. It has already happened in Afghanistan.
DiceyBusiness
TBF people were calling that before the invasion even began.
DukePhelan
This. They call that shit hole 'The graveyard of empires' for a reason. If Alexander the great couldn't take it none of our strategists wil.
DiceyBusiness
Short of genociding literally everyone with gross prejudice & repopulating with Bob & Sandra from Twiddlywinkesville, Idahodilodio, yup.
comacomacomacomachameleon
I mean... We invited the Taliban to Camp David to discuss peace talks. I think we're expecting them to have representation in the government
Brokenkave
Nah that was about a week ago, then the Taliban had a car bomb go off in Kabul and it was called off
WC2ElectricBoogaloo
You're dead right. People say "the US shouldnt be the police of the world", and sure, they're right, but those will be the same people 1/
beaubrent
We repeated Russia’s failure, only we did it so some companies could profit.
Lagunitas707
You do know the US funded the Taliban to fight Russia. Hell the movie rambo 3 has the taliban helping him
jicahmusic
This is utter bullshit
RustyShackelfordandshackelfordaccessories
Considering the US created the taliban
MAXRR
Hey, someone needs to protect the poppy fields right. For your health....
RPCd
There were enough countries saying that this intervention doesn't make sense unless you have a plan and commitment for decades.
Lethous
We should never leave. Afghanistan is a neat hub on a map. China Iran Russia. They are right there. Keep it like we did after ww2/Korea.
gpixelVillain
You should have never come
Etereo
You mean to tell me the puppet government left behind wont work? That would be a first!
TotallyNotKimJongIL
Well well well
gurimalla47
I remember boycotting Moscow olympic games (1980) over Soviet war in Afghanistan
dunewolf
I mean they did that in Vietnam.. when North Vietnam (with help from China/Russia) invaded South.
MorrighanWolf
Just Russian aid china tried invasion
dunewolf
I never said Russia invaded - I said helped (weapons/training/etc) is helping - China may have done more but again still helping
MorrighanWolf
No misundersyamding me, china was litterally enemies with the VC anf had a war against them, the Russians did help north viet.
copingcabana
Yeah, but then we get to go back like a reunion tour.
removekarling
No mate, we'll congratulate the US and specifically Americans for actually giving a shit about foreign policy for once.
smellsmiketeenspirit
Poor US of A which gets blamed whatever it does.
landforgottenbygod
then they just have to stop fucking invading everywere its that easy
SidneyHarbor
That's an easy prediction because that's exactly what happened when ISIS took over northern Iraq and Syria as soon as we left Iraq.
CandidGamera
I know you're insinuating that's hypocritical, but it's not because you SUCK at post-conquest nation-building these days.
xXxRickMoranis420x69xbox360xboxoneVAPExmas1
The taliban are already taking over. It's been a complete failure.
badintensions42
The Us was there to hunt for Bin Laden. The day after his death they should have packed up and left.
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badintensions42
They offered to try him in an “Islamic Court” or hand him over to a neutral country. An unacceptable offer as far as the US was concerned
WC2ElectricBoogaloo
Who complain when the US doesn't do something to help another country. Nobody complains when we give food. 2/
TheWombatStrikesAgain
If you think these are comparable... well, that actually explains how many Americans seem to "think" about foreign policy.
AoShin
There are good ways and bad ways to help another country.Rebuilding Europe after WW2 = Good. Invading Iraq for 20 years = Bad.
ProximaCentaur
US : "NO! You either accept us fomenting wars around the world for political and corporate interests or we'll stop giving all aid."
LeviathanOmega
^ Pretty much this. You can help in a way that doesn't involve invading conveniently oil-rich areas with a large amount of firearms.
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
You want to be the boss, you gotta take the blame
DrProfessorProfessorson
The US funded the Taliban and they destroyed any and all infraatructure for 2 decades. So it would be kind of weird if they weren't blamed.
RefAtty
Destroyed? What infrastructure? How about the billions spent to build roads etc? Plz.
Mctestecles
Look up "phantom aid". Afghanistan only received 0.7 of promised amount
RefAtty
Show me. The money gets misused/wasted mostly by Afghanis. Around 15.7 billion a year from US making up basically all afghan GDP.
Mctestecles
Google, lazy boy. Using a developing state as a foreign military base as a result of 30 years of proxy wars is not really aid.
Mctestecles
How is it that your statements are truisms, yet you can't be bothered to google a search word from me? The US pledged only 12billion
Bukkhockey
Prior to 911 the number 1 enemy of the Taliban was Iran. I wonder if the Iranians would've done a better job cleaning them up.
NothingButReactionGifs
Fun fact: Iran was the target of the first CIA organized coup in 1953.
KidneyBeene
Yes and No. Some funding was given to stop the warm water ports of the CCCP. But the last two decades its Pakistan funded.
PangolinBan
There was funding and training. Not sure it matters that stopped 2 decades ago, backing one horse and then switching sides is SOP for 1/2
PangolinBan
2/2 the US in the Middle-East.
KidneyBeene
Very much matters. The doctrine and intent speak volumes. 1. is a "Do you" the other is a "Do what I say Allah says".
RyanAndTheQuestForWorldDomination
Right so we can stay and get shit on for trying to fix it or get shit on for leaving them alone to ruin themselves. Loose loose really.
CatsIsTheAnswer
Well it makes sense, since it's the US that funded them
barnwolf
It's not our fault. It's the damn Spaniards who financed Columbus.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
You broke it, you bought it. Can't just run around invading whatever place you like and then just leave when things are getting (1)
TheWombatStrikesAgain
uncomfortable. The locals have it worse and they can't leave - especially not to America. (2)
MuresanDani
I strongly suggest you educate yourself on the last hundred years of Afghan history because you're coming across as incredibly ignorant.
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ReturnWinchester
Worse than when the Taliban were running everything?
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