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13 families now, 12 Marines and their Devil Doc -- Happy Dog 08/26/2021 8:09PM Pretty sure the group was from Camp Lejeune in NC -- FlintMS 08/26/2021 5:23PM They were from the 1/8 -- Happy Dog 08/26/2021 8:07PM 1/8 is the BLT for the 24the MEU....very sad situation -- FlintMS 08/26/2021 9:35PM Very heartbreaking -- Happy Dog 08/27/2021 06:07AM I feel for the families, i was blessed during my time. -- FlintMS 08/27/2021 07:34AM Thanks for your words -- Happy Dog 08/27/2021 07:41AM I have found -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 08:38AM Glad to see you have found a path of light -- Happy Dog 08/27/2021 08:49AM God Bless him -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 09:27AM Agreed. Cried today for the first time in a long time. ** -- TabbHokie 08/26/2021 6:07PM We knew it was coming -- TabbHokie 08/26/2021 4:52PM Yep. And weve given the NAMES of remaining americans and helpers out.... -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 5:46PM 🤬🤬🤬 ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/26/2021 8:07PM When does it pass from simply stupid to CRIMINAL?! ** -- HOKIERIT 08/26/2021 7:57PM It already has, IMO yet people are still turning a blind up eye. ** -- Hoakie82 08/26/2021 11:57PM Criminal, treasonous and pure evil. I can not believe we are even -- HokiesBill48 08/26/2021 9:29PM You do realize the previous administration was also negotiating and making -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 10:57PM This isn't about leaving, this is about pulling the plug and everything-> -- HOKIERIT 08/27/2021 2:58PM Again my post was mostly in response to this line of the post I was -- AbsolutVT03 08/27/2021 3:03PM I don't fault the previous admin for starting dialogue -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 10:57AM ..and the :"ending" is what I have a SERIOUS problem with.. ** -- HOKIERIT 08/27/2021 3:01PM My point was the notion that this administration was the only one who -- AbsolutVT03 08/27/2021 2:52PM But the deadline and prior administration negotiations had ... -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 4:49PM Again my main point was that it wasn't just the current administration that -- AbsolutVT03 08/27/2021 5:15PM I do know about those negotiations -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 5:24PM .well said. people like to live in the present with no understanding of -- squarerootofone 08/27/2021 08:32AM Many should be resigning, right now. ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 9:16PM Who knew that ISIS had a 'K' variant? ** -- vt90 08/26/2021 5:38PM The body of your post sums up my feelings about all this pretty accurately. -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:31PM Apparently there's been another blast. It's basically back to war -- hoosnowahokie 08/26/2021 4:20PM I almost wonder at this point if the "best" (and I use that term loosely) -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:28PM Should have been done MONTHS ago IMO.too late for that now-> -- HOKIERIT 08/26/2021 8:00PM The Taliban won't last either. They are -- HokieR 08/26/2021 4:59PM 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 ** -- Major Kong 08/26/2021 4:12PM 13 KIA . 12 marines , 1 navy medic. Many injured. Ugh** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:00PM My brother was a Navy medic stationed with the Marines. They were hit by a -- HokieGator 08/26/2021 5:17PM Amen to that. ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 5:43PM 😡😢🙏🏻 -- B777Fr8Dog 08/26/2021 3:26PM Unfortunately, I think you will have bide your time for a long time until -- vtox1 08/26/2021 6:52PM Pray for those caught behind enemy lines.... ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:06PM "A-men!" ☦️ ** -- bourbonstreet 08/26/2021 5:44PM Tricky part here is it apparently was not the Taliban but a branch of ISIS. -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 3:40PM But who would the Taliban really be more aligned with? ISIS or the US? -- Maroon Effect 08/26/2021 6:16PM My point is we can't really retaliate against the Taliban for something -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:34PM I always HATED the term "War on Terror" -- SteveInBaltimore 08/26/2021 6:49PM Also hate it’s cousin, “the war on drugs” ** -- agray123 08/26/2021 8:05PM I agree with just about everything you said. I think it was V for Vendetta -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:54PM We fundamentally agree. Pointless endless wars -- Maroon Effect 08/26/2021 6:38PM In this particular scenario I'm not sure. Obviously "getting humiliated" -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:43PM Sad to see -- hokie77th 08/26/2021 7:07PM I highly doubt joe biden made the decision on how. That was more likely the -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 12:19AM I try to look at things from all angles. The decision to withdrawal as -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 11:14PM Afgan Army was only functional with US air support and U.S. paying their -- vtox1 08/26/2021 7:06PM I’ve seen people make this point and I get that an air base itself is -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 11:23PM Well, Bagram was outside Of city not as close to urban masses. -- vtox1 08/26/2021 11:32PM Not to mention .CTR’s doing their maintenance on aircraft and other stuff -- agray123 08/26/2021 8:08PM Jmho, I think we should have kept Bagram permanently and small force we had -- vtox1 08/26/2021 9:25PM If I understand what you’re saying, I agree. There is precedent -- Maroon Effect 08/26/2021 10:21PM Pick one province or two to just not leave. Ditch Ghani etc ** -- agray123 08/26/2021 9:31PM Nothing tricky about it. Big targets of opportunity for them. Chaos ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:10PM Tricky in terms of how we are able to respond. Not many good options. ** -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:18PM There are none at this point. Pray ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 5:47PM A sophisticated intel network would know not only who did this but where -- PhotoHokieNC 08/26/2021 3:47PM If only James Bond were on the case instead of a bunch of gov't workers -- HokieNoVA 08/26/2021 4:17PM Im stunned to hear CENTCOM say he gets his insights not from intel but from -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:15PM Does he read the daily intelligence briefs? -- HokieR 08/26/2021 4:29PM Actually he did, but keep the narrative rolling ** -- 133743Hokie 08/26/2021 10:05PM False ** -- RRHOKIE 08/27/2021 08:23AM Yes, the statement about the last guy was indeed false ** -- 133743Hokie 08/27/2021 10:16AM No -- RRHOKIE 08/27/2021 12:24PM Geez. The things some people's believe. Ok ** -- 133743Hokie 08/27/2021 3:40PM The sad thing is this whole thing was set in motion long before either one -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:34PM Baloney -this is squarely on hapless joe and party, including Sen warner on -- Kappa Sig Hokie 08/26/2021 8:50PM Not remotely true. Views like yours are disappointing but not remotely -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 10:51PM Somewhere around 2500 us troops have died there -- Vippie1 08/26/2021 5:13PM Completely agree. But in the current -- HokieR 08/26/2021 4:52PM The problem is ... -- vt90 08/26/2021 3:45PM Troop levels had generally hit rock bottom in 2015 anticipating 2016 exit -- lchoro 08/26/2021 5:04PM Those soldiers never should've been there in the first place. ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 4:53PM Can't disagree with you there ** -- vt90 08/26/2021 4:57PM The taliban were willing to hand over bin laden to dubya. But we don't deal -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 4:58PM My recollection is W went in because they would not hand bin laden over... -- Hungry Joe 08/26/2021 5:06PM What evidence do you have to support your recollections? But here's mine... -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 5:12PM Your own source indicates they were not willing to hand him over to us. -- Hungry Joe 08/26/2021 5:24PM It said they were willing if we stopped the bombing. Seems reasonable... ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 5:38PM It did not say they were willing... -- Hungry Joe 08/26/2021 6:32PM And you know it was a BS offer how? ** -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 12:20AM Those soldiers never should've been there in the first place. ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 4:53PM Or we should have listed to the military when they said not to abandon -- AirborneHokie96 08/26/2021 9:38PM We wouldn't have to if we weren't there at all. End the military grifting. ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 9:46PM It's mostly counter-terrorism these days -- AirborneHokie96 08/26/2021 9:57PM Look, the exit was botched, exactly what I expected from the government. It -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 10:03PM It's not what I expected because information was given and then ignored -- AirborneHokie96 08/26/2021 10:07PM Well "the military" told "the government" that the Afghan govt would hold -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 10:08PM That's not what I know to be the truth ** -- AirborneHokie96 08/26/2021 10:18PM What do you know to be the truth? ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 10:56PM What I stated above -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 08:28AM Totally with you on the wuhan lab leak. As far as abandoning bigram, okay. -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 09:43AM Politicians lost the "war" -- AirborneHokie96 08/27/2021 10:02AM My overall answer would be because trump agreed to get us out in May. I'd -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 10:17AM can't disagree with you here either. :)** -- vt90 08/26/2021 4:57PM Yeah. There's a better plan than this one. Our allies are PO'd. They -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:17PM The UK also thought the Afghani Army would hold out much longer than they -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:20PM Afghan Army members have been dropping weapons and surrendering -- TabbHokie 08/26/2021 5:05PM I mean if we want to get really technical they probably should have never -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 3:50PM Or at least since Bin Laden was found ** -- WestyHokie 08/26/2021 5:41PM Can’t you just say ol joe screwed up massively? ** -- fordham 08/26/2021 4:25PM Extremely myopic view and that's part of the problem. What we're seeing -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:10PM Respectfully, both the current and former president knew the public wanted -- Maroon Effect 08/26/2021 6:21PM My point on that is that it's less of a defense of how this played out and -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:38PM We are going to have to agree to disagree here. -- Maroon Effect 08/26/2021 6:41PM Fair enough. The unfortunate thing is there's no way we'll ever know who -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:50PM BINGO! ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 10:04PM Watch John Oliver from 8/22 - Bush, Obama, Trump all saying how well it was -- agray123 08/26/2021 5:28PM Bingo. This is a failure that spans multiple years, administrations, and -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 6:13PM The current failure is upon the current President -- hokie77th 08/26/2021 6:35PM We lost a lot more fine soldiers to greed and corruption by the military -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 12:23AM I get your point - but continued FP fails at “Nation Building” have to stop -- agray123 08/26/2021 6:45PM This! ** -- NokieHokie 08/27/2021 12:23AM I can say every president is war criminal and they all screwed up massively ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 5:03PM We'll never agree here so won't waste space but GreenvilleVT raises a ... -- vt90 08/26/2021 3:54PM Like I said, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Not sure what you're -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:00PM I think what most of us are saying is that... -- MP4VT2004 08/26/2021 4:04PM And I'm saying the people claiming "most of this could have been avoided" -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:17PM The alternative would have been... -- MP4VT2004 08/26/2021 3:51PM And like I said, even if you do things in that order, what happened today -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 3:55PM There was precisely a way to do it well. You don't announce a date -- PhotoHokieNC 08/26/2021 4:01PM Current DoD confounds me with arbitrary dates, not tied to LOE -- agray123 08/26/2021 5:32PM If we had evacuated civilians first... -- MP4VT2004 08/26/2021 4:00PM …yes. this is what I can’t get past…seems so logical -- chumley 08/26/2021 5:37PM I think you're missing my point. It doesn't really have to do with sending -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:06PM If we still held Bagram this could have been entirely avoided ... -- vt90 08/26/2021 4:00PM No way to say an act of terror especially involving suicide bombers could -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:03PM If this was done in an orderly fashion... -- MP4VT2004 08/26/2021 4:08PM Sounds great on paper, but it doesn't actually make much sense. -- Gobbler-100 08/26/2021 4:15PM Right, I understand that. I'm saying the same opportunities could have -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:12PM If Bagram was secured ... and we could certainly do that ... -- vt90 08/26/2021 4:05PM The date thing was something done by multiple administrations correct? One -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:10PM Yep. There's no clean way to get out of war... IIWII. ** -- NokieHokie 08/26/2021 4:59PM It sure would be great if we had an airbase nearby -- GreenvilleVT 08/26/2021 3:45PM That still wouldn't prevent potential terror attacks aimed at civilians -- AbsolutVT03 08/26/2021 4:30PM Umm, can u spell bagram? ** -- ColoVT82 08/26/2021 4:03PM 😢 ** -- reestuart 08/26/2021 3:05PM 🙏😭 ** -- astrohokie 08/26/2021 2:59PM Damnit. Terrible and needless. ** -- Brewing_Hokie 08/26/2021 2:58PM 12 now confirmed and number could go up. ** -- vt90 08/26/2021 2:38PM ISIS-Khorasan a group that was getting support from India -- lchoro 08/26/2021 2:34PM A report says this number will rise ** -- capitals1 08/26/2021 2:24PM I’ve already seen 13 but all these early numbers can’t be trusted. ** -- Hoakie82 08/26/2021 2:30PM Damnit ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/26/2021 2:22PM Prayers to their families and fellow soldiers. Such a tremendously sad ... -- vt90 08/26/2021 2:21PM I was at Bragg on the 4th of July. -- GreenvilleVT 08/26/2021 3:47PMTech Sideline is Presented By:
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