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US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
February 29, 2020 at 8:04 pm
Technology doesn't matter.

Fighting a determined guerilla force in their own territory is a good way to lose a war.

Especially if they have the people behind them, through popularity or fear.

The only way to really win is eradication of the population.

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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
February 29, 2020 at 8:45 pm (This post was last modified: February 29, 2020 at 8:47 pm by Fireball.)
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
February 29, 2020 at 10:39 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
February 29, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Maybe the country can get back to what's really important, poppy production.
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
February 29, 2020 at 11:44 pm
To be honest I don't see what's the big deal since I remember news, even before Trump was president, that Talibans are pretty much history and that new enemy is al Qaeda and ISIS.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 1, 2020 at 12:51 am
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 1, 2020 at 1:01 am
Quote:The crew chief replied "How can you defeat a man who is so determined as to attack against all odds?
The same way you defeat any other kind of man.
"Change was inevitable"


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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 1, 2020 at 1:15 am
(March 1, 2020 at 1:01 am)SUNGULA Wrote:
Quote:The crew chief replied "How can you defeat a man who is so determined as to attack against all odds?
The same way you defeat any other kind of man.

And if war was a matter of one-on-one combat, that argument might actually mean something. The bigger problem is that the man has a whole shitton of people in line to take you on once the person behind you is taken out.
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 1, 2020 at 2:34 am
(March 1, 2020 at 1:15 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(March 1, 2020 at 1:01 am)SUNGULA Wrote: The same way you defeat any other kind of man.

And if war was a matter of one-on-one combat, that argument might actually mean something. The bigger problem is that the man has a whole shitton of people in line to take you on once the person behind you is taken out.
I'm not sure if your criticizing me or OLB

If your criticizing me then my response is one or a thousand the solution the same it merely becomes a matter of scale
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RE: US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan
March 1, 2020 at 7:15 am
(March 1, 2020 at 1:15 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(March 1, 2020 at 1:01 am)SUNGULA Wrote: The same way you defeat any other kind of man.

And if war was a matter of one-on-one combat, that argument might actually mean something. The bigger problem is that the man has a whole shitton of people in line to take you on once the person behind you is taken out.

That's why God gave us belt-fed machine guns.
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