Gulfstream4 said:SmaptyWolf said:Gulfstream4 said:SmaptyWolf said:Gulfstream4 said:SmaptyWolf said:Gulfstream4 said:hokiewolf said:Gulfstream4 said:hokiewolf said:
Do you think he remembers being President during g the Afghan war? I'm believing no.Trump: I would’ve won The Vietnam War in a week. I would’ve won the war in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/eaWK6o2pnb
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 1, 2026
I think he meant with a second term but you do you.
Hey, anything on your party's handling of the end of the Afghan War?
so I'm not supposed to take the President at his word?
I think you knew what he meant.
Any thing on your party's actually handling of the end of the war?
You sure are trying hard to skip past what Trump said.
So what do you think he meant? You mean after the Doha Accords between Trump and the Taliban (the Afghan government wasn't even invited), where Trump agreed to pull out half of our remaining troops with the understanding that the Taliban wouldn't attack the token force remaining, in exchange for a promise that we'd pull out the rest completely in 14 months... you're saying after that 14 months that Trump could have won the war in 3 weeks? Is that what he meant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal
Please watch this. It will
Only take 1min. of your time
Is this you "trying to have a conversation"? Notice you completely disregarded my question?
Yes, I watched the video. Apparently it's designed to impress shockingly unintelligent people. "Ok, I'm withdrawing, and if you don't attack the handful of poor bast**ds I leave behind, then soon after we'll withdraw completely, totally abandon the Afghan government, and never look back... and in exchange we get, ummm, nothing? But if you do attack them, man, I'm totally gonna kill you personally!!!"
You're takeaway from that is that Trump is a tough guy? Lol, seriously? /facepalm
So yeah, now can you move beyond your pointless aside and just answer the question? Did Trump really mean he could win the war in Afghanistan that he had just surrendered in 3 weeks, with something like 2500 troops remaining?
He wouldn't have gotten 13 Marines blown to pieces in his withdrawal without some payback.
Who in the hell withdraws from Kabul when Bagram is 50km north?!?
Everything we needed was in Bagram. Two long runways (thick) to land and take off heavy airplanes. Blast walls all the way around. Internet. More fuel than you know what to do with. Hospital. Housing/chow halls…everything you need for a withdrawal.
YOUR guy made those decisions. The buck stops with him.
Well let's see... leaving aside that Biden wasn't on the ground directing troop movements, GENERALS were, I'll take a stab at it:Any other questions?
- Securing Bagram would have required 5000 more troops than we had in country
- The highway to Bagram from the capitol (aka the people needing to evacuate) was 50 miles long and not secure, hence needing more troops.
- Did I mention almost everyone that we were evacuating was already in Kabul, next to the airport?
- US forces had already abandoned Bagram as part of Trump's Doha surrender, and reoccupying would have been logistically difficult.
[sigh] Bagram was already secure. We still had forces there. You have it backwards, most of the people we evacuated had to travel south TO Kabul, but you wouldn't know that.
There are plenty of commanders on the ground at the time who have talked about this extensively. You like to pretend you were there rubbing elbows with the troops, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
Kabul is 4 miles from Kabul airport, and the road was already secure. Meanwhile, Kabul is 40 to 50 miles from Bagram, which had been abandoned by US Troops in July 2021 as part of Trump's agreement with the Taliban. It was "secured" afterwards by the Afghan army which dissolved prior to us pulling out, and that road to Bagram was quickly overrun by insurgents. Your genius Bagram plan would have resulted in way more casualties.
