Taliban in Kabul as President Flees

gwb-trading said:
Once again... I have been addressing the people who demanded a citation of the media speculation of the two points I outlined.
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I wouldn't say "demanded", I merely asked.

CaptainObvious said:
Me thinks we're just seeing the opening act for a killing field.
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I hope you're wrong on this one. At least with regards to the innocent.
But with these f's, if things escalate, it won't work out that way.
They'll take shelter in homes, schools, and hospitals.
F'n barbarians.

TreeFrogTrader said:
But as I said a couple days ago.
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I said this a year or so ago about your posts.... I may breeze through other people's, but I always read yours. There's a few others too, but you have been spot on from the git-go on this one. You really have. Hats off.

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Random thoughts...
If a stock is highly overvalued, most of the time it spikes north hard before it drops precipitously.
Now I would have bet anything yesterday the markets would have sold off... at least a little... today. Instead we have a record close on the Naz, and the other two are in the ether also.

But the defense etf's... they were green, but basically they beta'd the tide.

This is interesting....
More to follow on this if I feel like digging later.

Ok one more thing.....

And I say this with 10,000% complete honesty.... in my opinion.... despite all his bs and all his f/u's... I firmly believe this would not be happening if Trump was in office. He's a f'n bully. But ya know what, that's the only thing that works against these pos's. Let Trump see a woman getting set on fire... I promise you... it would be... "deal's over mother f'rs, you die".
But it wouldn't come to that.
And I guess we can all play hypothetical situations all day, so that's just my opinion, but I know I'm right.

There's only one way to handle a f'n bully.... and that's to be a bigger f'n bully.
With the muscle to back it up.
pffff.....
...Trump lives for that.

But whatever. Nothing we write here means 2 sh8ts anyway.
Except figuring out the markets.
Workin' on that.
As always.
 
vanzandt said:
I wouldn't say "demanded", I merely asked.



I hope you're wrong on this one. At least with regards to the innocent.
But with these f's, if things escalate, it won't work out that way.
They'll take shelter in homes, schools, and hospitals.
F'n barbarians.



I said this a year or so ago about your posts.... I may breeze through other people's, but I always read yours. There's a few others too, but you have been spot on from the git-go on this one. You really have. Hats off.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Random thoughts...
If a stock is highly overvalued, most of the time it spikes north hard before it drops precipitously.
Now I would have bet anything yesterday the markets would have sold off... at least a little... today. Instead we have a record close on the Naz, and the other two are in the ether also.

But the defense etf's... they were green, but basically they beta'd the tide.

This is interesting....
More to follow on this if I feel like digging later.

Ok one more thing.....

And I say this with 10,000% complete honesty.... in my opinion.... despite all his bs and all his f/u's... I firmly believe this would not be happening if Trump was in office. He's a f'n bully. But ya know what, that's the only thing that works against these pos's. Let Trump see a woman getting set on fire... I promise you... it would be... "deal's over mother f'rs, you die".
But it wouldn't come to that.
And I guess we can all play hypothetical situations all day, so that's just my opinion, but I know I'm right.

There's only one way to handle a f'n bully.... and that's to be a bigger f'n bully.
With the muscle to back it up.
pffff.....
...Trump lives for that.

But whatever. Nothing we write here means 2 sh8ts anyway.
Except figuring out the markets.
Workin' on that.
As always.
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They feared Trump. His unpredictability and his willingness to put a Hellfire missile up an Iranian general's butt on the tarmac in Iraq pretty much worked in his favor.
 
smallfil said:
If Joe Biden and extreme liberal idiot Democrats, had any shame, they would all go fly to Afghanistan
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Yeah, good luck with that lol.

But if we're gonna conjure up fantasyland here...
....maybe on the way over we can get them to schedule a 2 or 3 hour refueling stop at an AFB near our southern border.

Just a thought.
 
Allegedly the military has told Biden they have to know by tomorrow whether they need to plan for an extension of the deadline.

Heh. That's going to generate some doublespeak, circumlocutionary bloviating that only Miss Cleo would be able to define as "yes" or "no."

Helmets on for some olympic level spin.

Preview of coming events:

"While we have not decided at this time to extend the deadline, I have instructed the Joint Chiefs to take steps to allow for that option should it be needed to accomplish our goal of returning every American"..............blah, blah, blah.

The problem is of course that buying time with the media does not necessarily buy any time with the Taliban.

There is actually a little subtext in what the military is asking for that is more important than may meet the eye. They apparently are willing to sandwich the President between a rock and hard place in public as a means of protecting themselves against future charges that they failed to take action. I guess they must have gotten burned recently by having to take some blame for Biden's directives. As in "very recently."

MORE TO COME.


US military gives Biden a deadline to decide on extending Afghanistan evacuations


https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/politics/afghanistan-kabul-airport-military-deadline/index.html
 
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El OchoCinco said:
Why is she saying it like that.... what Americans in Afghanistan want to stay versus come home??
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Deja vu all over again.

The retreat from Kabul in 1842:


This whole experience has come as a terrible shock to the US, but there is really no excuse for that. The West, and especially the English-speaking world, has had ample opportunity to learn this lesson. After the first British fiasco in Afghanistan ended in total annihilation during the retreat from Kabul in 1842, the army chaplain in Jalalabad, Rev G R Gleig, summed up the experience.


It was, he wrote, "a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has been acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated".

There's only one way for the Taliban to hold power

https://www.thenationalnews.com/opi...s-only-one-way-for-the-taliban-to-hold-power/
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
Allegedly the military has told Biden they have to know by tomorrow whether they need to plan for an extension of the deadline.

Heh. That's going to generate some doublespeak, circumlocutionary bloviating that only Miss Cleo would be able to define as "yes" or "no."

Helmets on for some olympic level spin.

Preview of coming events:

"While we have not decided at this time to extend the deadline, I have instructed the Joint Chiefs to take steps to allow for that option should it be needed to accomplish our goal of returning every American"..............blah, blah, blah.

The problem is of course that buying time with the media does not necessarily buy any time with the Taliban.

There is actually a little subtext in what the military is asking for that is more important than may meet the eye. They apparently are willing to sandwich the President between a rock and hard place in public as a means of protecting themselves against future charges that they failed to take action. I guess they must have gotten burned recently by having to take some blame for Biden's directives. As in "very recently."

MORE TO COME.


US military gives Biden a deadline to decide on extending Afghanistan evacuations


https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/politics/afghanistan-kabul-airport-military-deadline/index.html
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The Tali are calling the shots and they are dictating the terms of our surrender. That's how it works. We are the equivalent of the Japanese/Germans after WW II. The victors determine the future, and that ain't us.
 
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