Haumana wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:02 pm
Look harder. Who isn't on borrowed time? We start dying the moment we are born.
That's a real glass-is-half-empty way to approach it, man.
Look at it this way - We're born with an overabundance of life, and we learn, through time, to just kinda scale it back to a more manageable level.
Dude has been saying the sky has been falling for over a decade. Any day now. Is that any way to raise the next gen. I get what Smitty is saying about not wanting that fool in the foxhole with him. This shit is unsustainable but somehow it keeps on keeping on.
I see what you are saying and that is my approach too. But if we want to go naked then let's do that.
DBTrek wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:11 pm
The Taliban knows what's up if the terrorist training camps take hold again.
It's not like we're out of bullets and bombs.
The withdrawal has been a disaster.
But I'm ok with it.
Biden looks like the incompetent ass he is, the Afghanis are acting like exactly who they are, and we're policing one less shithole on the globe.
Win all around.
/shrug
Plus we get a nice supply of qualified doctors and academics etc in the hand picked refugees we are evacuating. All English speaking and well educated.
Not like the detritus we get from your other fuck ups in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
Montegriffo wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:22 pm
Plus we get a nice supply of qualified doctors and academics etc in the hand picked refugees we are evacuating. All English speaking and well educated.
Not like the detritus we get from your other fuck ups in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
I'm sure there's an absolute horde of world class surgeons and Nobel prize winning thinkers that were just waiting for this event to leave Afghanistan.
Why they went back to live in the squalid poverty and incessant warfare of Afghanistan after achieving such meritorious education and expertise is a mystery ... but right on Monte.
Glad you're getting them now.
DBTrek wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:11 pm
The Taliban knows what's up if the terrorist training camps take hold again.
It's not like we're out of bullets and bombs.
The withdrawal has been a disaster.
But I'm ok with it.
Biden looks like the incompetent ass he is, the Afghanis are acting like exactly who they are, and we're policing one less shithole on the globe.
Win all around.
/shrug
Plus we get a nice supply of qualified doctors and academics etc in the hand picked refugees we are evacuating. All English speaking and well educated.
Not like the detritus we get from your other fuck ups in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
What is up with your locals? All the smartest people come from brown shitholes but yet they come from shitholes. What a quagmire. They aren't making their origins better but they are gonna make your life better. Cool story.
DBTrek wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:11 pm
The Taliban knows what's up if the terrorist training camps take hold again.
It's not like we're out of bullets and bombs.
The withdrawal has been a disaster.
But I'm ok with it.
Biden looks like the incompetent ass he is, the Afghanis are acting like exactly who they are, and we're policing one less shithole on the globe.
Win all around.
/shrug
Plus we get a nice supply of qualified doctors and academics etc in the hand picked refugees we are evacuating. All English speaking and well educated.
Not like the detritus we get from your other fuck ups in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
What is up with your locals? All the smartest people come from brown shitholes but yet they come from shitholes. What a quagmire. They aren't making their origins better but they are gonna make your life better. Cool story.
The NHS has been short of doctors and nurses since Brexit. All the great EU doctors from places like Poland stopped coming here to plug the gaps in our understaffed healthcare system.