Will It Go Down In History, Or Hidden Away.

[teacake44]

That the might of the US army and navy along with their mighty hardware, not to mention the British with their fully loaded aircraft carriers, have been beaten back by a few hundred tatty Toyota pickups with a machine gun on the back, and a few hundred tatty mopeds with one fighter on wearing beach shoes. You have to laugh or dry.

[dannyk13]

Link please. otherwise no idea to what you are referring.

[teacake44]

Do you think the simple answer could be to stop anymore Toyota pickups going into Afghanistan, or mopeds?

[bobbinwales]

I'll dry. Noticeable what your on about though but hopefully someone will explain

[dannyk13]

TC, they weren't beaten back, They withdrew their troops from Afghanistan.

[bobbinwales]

No idea not noticeable. I hate predictive text

[dannyk13]

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9241/

[youngmafbog]

The Russians gave up too.

Its due to the terrain, it is unwinnable against religious driven terrorists who, like the IRA once said “You have to be lucky all the time. We only have to be lucky once.”

I am also not too sure what the Navy could of done unless you were thinking of Nuking them?

It's no laughing matter, many have died. We should never have gone in.

[Sqad]

LOL.....blimey...a link .. Bloody link?

Isn't the OP quite obvious ?

Soon GMEB will have to supply a link from the Met Office before using the term " good."

[teacake44]

Beaten back is only a battle half won, withdrawing is a war lost, to men dressed in rags, driving a tatty Toyota and a moped.

[roadman]

apparently the taliban have taken back multiple parts of afghanistan i can only pray for the civilians

[dannyk13]

TC // withdrawing is a war lost//
Not in this case. Read the link.

[teacake44]

12.06 Your not sure what the Navy could have done, really? The state of the art Navy war planes that have been bombing since gods knows when. Not to mention the billions of pounds the British have invested in new Aircraft carriers, the latter is Navy by the way. Just saying.

[teacake44]

Whatever way you care to cook it, when you withdraw / retreat your losing or you've lost.

[youngmafbog]

You want to send an aircraft carrier to Afghanistan? I am glad you are not in charge of the military.

I note you have ignored the rest of my post explaining the problems. Doesn't suit your left wing ideology I suppose.

[teacake44]

12.19 you don't know much do you, you park up your aircraft carrier at the park and ride. Just goes to show really, it don't matter what you have in your arsenal its only as good as the one operating it. It don't take much training to drive a pickup with a gun on the back, and a good aim.

[margarettom]

Whenever I read a post by you teacake I get the same feeling as I do when I look at a Salvador Dali painting - a strange distortion of reality.

[ToraToraTora]

what a load of anti western cods wallop.

[ToraToraTora]

I don;t know where to begin to offset this ignorant BS.

[ichkeria]

Strange distortion of reality indeed.
Mind you aren’t the only one.

The situation in Afghanistan now is the result of the shameful withdrawal, not the cause

[ToraToraTora]

this is what happens to Toyota pickups
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HqxoAj2DsHc/VyoL7WzV83I/AAAAAAABNRU/DOpwjP5xFK4/highway-of-death-iraq-116.jpg?imgmax=1600