Zelensky likes our built-up military. You don't?

@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
I hate to break it to YOU butt, bin Laden was off'd in Pakistan not Afghanistan.

I'll break YOUR butt first 😠

@averagejoe1 said
Scotland is an example of a country in-need-of-help when pounced upon by a huge force. Who they gonna call, Vivify? Finland? That is a clear answer. You fellers do not like it when the power of the USA is manifested. Pacifists all.
As to wasting money, all agencies his waste money. How do you like giving $40M to the Kennedy center, and $35M +-, to Pakistan for bo ...[text shortened]... little neighborhoods? Yes, you are saying. I hope you are. are you trying to get me started!??!

You think Saddam Hussein was fxin'
to land troops in Miami?

@athousandyoung said
We didn’t fail in Afghanistan we got bin Laden

What the hell did bin Laden have to do with Afghanistan... I mean, *really*

@vivify said
Had Obama brought the troops back right after, then it would've been a success. The failure is the lives lost and trillions spent afterward trying conquer the Taliban.

Ya think...?
So we learned in the end, that all it took was a dozen or so Navy SEAL Team 6 members
to take out OBL. So why, in 2002, did the US *invade* Afghanistan with thousands of troops?
Why did the US war against the Taliban when they were supposed to be in Pakistan getting OBL?

The whole thing sucked, top to bottom.

@vivify said
What makes this particularly bad is the fact that the Taliban offered up Bin-Laden back when Bush was in office, in exchange for the U.S. ceasing their attack. Bush declined that offer because "we don't negotiate with terrorists"....even when the terrorists are giving you the exact thing you are seeking.

Afghanistan is a colossal failure, a tragic waste of human lives, and a monumental waste of time and money.

He(Bush) sure did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/10/15/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-on-bin-laden/bc0ec919-082b-40e6-91ca-55e5ca34a70a/

Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden

By John F. HarrisOctober 15, 2001
"President Bush rejected an offer from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to turn over suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to a neutral third country yesterday as an eighth day of bombing made clear that military coercion, not diplomacy, remains the crux of U.S. policy toward the regime.

"They must have not heard: There's no negotiations," Bush told reporters on the White House South Lawn after returning from Camp David."