{"id":89221,"date":"2019-07-24T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89221"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:25:53","slug":"afghans-seek-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89221","title":{"rendered":"Afghans Seek Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think that Pres. Trump may have rattled the table like a poltergeist when he said that if necessary, he could bring the 18 year war in Afghanistan to an end in 10 days. It would wipe out the 10 million-person population of Afghanistan, and he added that he didn’t want to go that route.<\/p>\n

Now, that upset the Afghans, who brought up the “empires” they claim to have defeated in the past, including the Mongols and the Soviet Union. Granted, the Soviets didn’t count on waging a long, bloody war the way we did in Vietnam, but after 10 years of trying to pound the the Afghans into the ground, Gorbachev brought it to a halt and said, publicly, “We’re broke. We can’t do this any more.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/07\/23\/afghans-seek-clarity-on-trumps-talk-of-wiping-country-out\/<\/a><\/p>\n

So the Afghans want some clarity on this rather bold statement by Pres. Trump. Can’t say as I blame them. Where would they get money to go on making war on their neighbors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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