Our Undeclared Wars

[HooDat]

...or maybe the tough guy approach would make things worse with those two.
They have home field advantage on the issues under contention.

Sigh. You're right. Might make things worse.

When I get frustrated, I have to remember my adage: "there's no such thing as a "right move" in the Middle East for American Presidents".

you got that right!

[jhu72]

Shades of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

[Typical Lax Dad]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

[old salt]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

...ask again when they retake Mosul. Then we'll know it's not just the JV.

Turkey (finally) agrees to establish a safe zone in NE Syria, with joint US supervision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... story.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/ ... 35933.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-eas ... a-1.593635

[Typical Lax Dad]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

...ask again when they retake Mosul. Then we'll know it's not just the JV.

Turkey (finally) agrees to establish a safe zone in NE Syria, with joint US supervision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... story.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/ ... 35933.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-eas ... a-1.593635

Thanks Old Sarah

[old salt]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

...ask again when they retake Mosul. Then we'll know it's not just the JV.

Turkey (finally) agrees to establish a safe zone in NE Syria, with joint US supervision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... story.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/ ... 35933.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-eas ... a-1.593635

Thanks Old Sarah

You're Welcome Typical Liberal Douche.
How many more troops do you recommend we send back in to Syria & Iraq ?

[Typical Lax Dad]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

...ask again when they retake Mosul. Then we'll know it's not just the JV.

Turkey (finally) agrees to establish a safe zone in NE Syria, with joint US supervision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... story.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/ ... 35933.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-eas ... a-1.593635

Thanks Old Sarah

You're Welcome Typical Liberal Douche.
How many more troops do you recommend we send back in to Syria & Iraq ?

I’ll leave that up to you and Trump.

[ABV 8.3%]

Shade's of Obama's sin (just the one). How will this be explained away?

You mean Isis isn't dead? Trump said they were finished.

...ask again when they retake Mosul. Then we'll know it's not just the JV.

Turkey (finally) agrees to establish a safe zone in NE Syria, with joint US supervision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... story.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/ ... 35933.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-eas ... a-1.593635

Who cares. In three years we could have a modern day NUKE power plant built for every congressional district in the USA. Let them drink their oil, we'll eat our heads of wheat.
Why not just give the war monger money to the oil folks, about 1/3, that we are spending in the ME, for the next 7 years. After that, they are on their own. Brits control us tho.

[Trinity]

Kim wants to cancel more US exercises. Three-page letter this time!

[HooDat]

Let them drink their oil,

WE don't need their oil. The production coming out of West Texas has made the US one of the top oil producers in the world, and is crushing oil prices globally which has the Saudi's getting nervous.

[CU77]

WE don't need their oil.

The US production rate is about half of the US consumption rate. So unless you want to cut oil use in half, we DO need their oil ...

[HooDat]

WE don't need their oil.

The US production rate is about half of the US consumption rate. So unless you want to cut oil use in half, we DO need their oil ...

Production is where is it because of commodity prices and access to capital. It could be doubled in 6 months. Now how sustainable that production capacity is over 20 years - that is a completely different matter.

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

http://news.trust.org/item/20190821105917-4tg0b

[old salt]

Further evidence of our Russophobia forcing us to do stupid things :
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articl ... d=22670555
how many residual forces are we going to have to leave behind in Afghanistan to maintain the 160 used, refurbished Blackhawk helos we forced on the Afghans to replace their Russian MI-17's, which they already know how to operate & maintain & can operate high & hot, where the Blackhawk can't.
Nice work War Hero Blumenthal. This stupid boondoggle didn't save the plant in Bridgeport.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsr ... han-forces
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Sik ... 302510.php

[a fan]

Forgotten your own advice already, have we?

You just need to be patient, Mr. Instant Gratification. Afghanistan will work out just fine. You just have to wait and see.....

[Typical Lax Dad]

Further evidence of our Russophobia forcing us to do stupid things :
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articl ... d=22670555
how many residual forces are we going to have to leave behind in Afghanistan to maintain the 160 used, refurbished Blackhawk helos we forced on the Afghans to replace their Russian MI-17's, which they already know how to operate & maintain & can operate high & hot, where the Blackhawk can't.
Nice work War Hero Blumenthal. This stupid boondoggle didn't save the plant in Bridgeport.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsr ... han-forces
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Sik ... 302510.php

What are you complaining about? You have to wait and see how things turn out. Be patient.

[old salt]

No need to wait. 'This has been years in the making. I've been squawking for a long time about the stupidity of how we're forcing the Afghan Air Force to try to use our stuff which is too complex for them to maintain & operate & ill suited for the operating conditions.

Wait for what ? Is the density altitude of Afghan terrain going to be reduced.

[a fan]

No need to wait. 'This has been years in the making. I've been squawking for a long time about the stupidity of how we're forcing the Afghan Air Force to try to use our stuff which is too complex for them to maintain & operate & ill suited for the operating conditions.

Wait for what ?

For it to all work out, man. You don't understand that these things take time, and you need to be patient. We'll survive just fine.

Criticizing things like this is just a symptom of our instant gratification culture.

[old salt]

No need to wait. 'This has been years in the making. I've been squawking for a long time about the stupidity of how we're forcing the Afghan Air Force to try to use our stuff which is too complex for them to maintain & operate & ill suited for the operating conditions.

Wait for what ?

For it to all work out, man. You don't understand that these things take time, and you need to be patient. We'll survive just fine.

Criticizing things like this is just a symptom of our instant gratification culture.

You've become quite the cry baby.

[a fan]

Me? I'm not the one crying about some helicopters half way round the world.

So yep. Be patient with your whirlybirds, and quit crying about how Trump is handling them "wrong". It'll all work out, dude. Be patient.