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90% of missionaries just don't want a real job and like living abroad with no accountability. If I was running Kabul Airport I'd have them at the back of the line.

Spot on.

Regular ANA were faced with the choice of fighting till they ran out of supplies and were killed or just giving up.

Not many of us would choose option A.

Check out Bin Laden's relatives being flown out of the U.S. and you'll have your answer.

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No dice boss. We just left American troops to fend for themselves as terrorists deposed the regime and military we spent 20 years setting up. Pudding will pay for this for the rest of his life, and the American people are waking up to the fact the Satan Pelosi has been in charge the whole time and destroyed the country they love. The Terrorist Party is finally coming to an end.

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I hope you are right but I'm skeptical.

Nobody cared about it for the last 15 years and with football kicking off the general public will move on. :usa:

Did three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, saw first hand how the ORA / TRA reports were bullshite and we threw money at problems one year at a time so Battalion Command and up could have successful metrics.

Don't even get me started on contractors.

Betrayed? In 2007 I felt betrayed once I knew what the game was. Made the decision to stay in and do the best I could to help my Soldiers navigate the insane bureaucracy and make my corner of the Army a little better.

As shitty as watching all this goes down is, there is also a sense of validation because now the whole world gets to see what those of us on the ground knew all along.

Check the tapes, every GO that said we were turning the corner and making progress, every BN and BDE commander that hyped up their one year as an amazing success, and every politician that believed what they wanted to believe about the wars owns this.

Generals and career minded officers and diplomats lied about progress last decade.

Nobody wanted to be one to end it since this was predictable, we finally did end it and Taliban took over in a week instead of the anticipated 2- 3 months.

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Time for our military to break away from the losers in Washington running them. All the men and women that gave their lives for literally nothing. And the billions of dollars spent. Our men should tell the 5 stars to pound sand.

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Military leadership own this own too. 20 years of lying about progress on the ground.

Depends on career field. Medical field probably 65-70%, regular jobs less. Teachers who knows.

Chad Morris was probably the worst coach in college football history and made $14 million or so to get fired.

But yeah players are amateurs and shouldn't make any money off the billion dollar industry they generate. I love the NIL, it's the most American thing that's happened in 2021. :usa: :usa: