Trump says 8,600 US troops will stay after Afghanistan withdrawal

We all die for nothing. I'm sorry for you loss sir.

CPT (Join to see) every time I hear of two or three people dying in Afghanistan, it reminds me to the ramp ceremonies that I had to attend in kirkuk, Iraq. Losing my first sergeant was sad too because he was happy and so what's his family seeing them at the dining in before we deployed. My wife even got to know his wife. I can't believe that he passed away over 10 years ago. I had anger issues when Isis was over running capturing pre-positioned Warstock and brand new Russian main battle tanks from the Ukraine and capturing and threatening large parts of Iraq. We did had to go in with A-10 Warthog to destroy those main battle tanks. I hope Iraqi Imam mukhtar al-sadr realizes a mistake he made for having' the occupier' leave Iraq.
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LTC (Join to see) - Muqtada al-Sadr is walking, talking proof as to why targeted killing needs to be utilized more often.

MAJ James Woods thank you for your details answers on this subject.

MAJ James Woods you and I were there in operation Iraqi Freedom 3/4. I am sorry to say that you were with operation New Dawn of the Dead and the rise of Isis. You did your best under the circumstances. It's strange that when I was 18 years old oh, I was afraid to join the military or ROTC later in college because of the cold war and the threat of nuclear war. Ever since Putin came to power and took over Crimea, I have felt that we are back in the Cold War. We both suffered under the sequestration. I hope we never have to go to war again. I'm not fearful of the world having out-of-control weather like some are concerned about now. I'm worried about tensions flaring with China and Taiwan, China and the South China Sea with free navigation conflict with the USA, I'm afraid of Iran nuking Israel but glad to see the test launch was a failure but I still think they are looking for a nuclear warhead. Even if we didn't get out of the nuclear deal, I'm afraid because by 2027 they would have busted out with an A-bomb anyway periods I'm also afraid of North Korea. North Korea and Iran are friends. Hopefully, we can continue the ceasefire and maybe make an Armistice with North Korea but I doubt it. I am worried about Russia doing a blitzkrieg into the baltics. I know Russia is afraid of American troops in Poland but we are going ahead anyway. What I'm trying to say is I feel a Deja Vu feeling of being back in the Cold War that I was born into. I was born two days after the Cuban Missile Crisis was over in October of 1962. I almost wasn't born. I feel that I'm back in the cold war that your parents, you and I had to deal with when we were younger. Battling insurgents or second world armies in Iraq or Afghanistan is a piece of cake compared to if we have a nuclear war. I also forgot, we have an India vs Pakistan standoff that could lead to global cooling if they get into a shooting War. What's the latest issue concerning the Indian province of Kashmir under martial law, India and Pakistan are at Defcon 2. We may have a war whether we like it or not. Democrats predicted that President Trump would get us into World War 3. Now we are in year 3, and so far so good.

LTC (Join to see) Actually we referred to ourselves as OIF 2.5; long story about our short noticed alert deployment. Sorry I’m not buying into ISIS began to rise as early as 2003. If that was the case then perhaps folks should start blaming Bush and not Obama for the rise of ISIS. Perhaps in Syria but not in Iraq. Anyway, don’t get me started on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or the Korean Peninsula. I spent four years there and I have plenty opinion about the state of affairs there and how US politics is mucking it up. I’m not gonna comment about Dems claiming Trump is gonna start WW3; though it hasn’t been from a lack of trying by Bolton and Pompeo. GOP made a lot of predictions about Obama (he’ll come out as a Muslim, he’ll make us a Socialist state, he’ll take all the guns). Yeah partisan politics is just that, UGLY. Anyways. Getting late. I’m out.

MAJ James Woods thanks for your comments I'm sorry it's late. Yes, Isis was started around the bush era and the red headed Saddam Field Marshal and others were probably helpful in forming Isis or other factions of the Insurgency. I was surprised when my DD-214 said operation Iraqi Freedom 3/4. I don't deserve those two Battle Stars. Anyways, the anxiety I felt as a young adult is just like in this movie scene from the day after showing Air Force units scrambling missile silo launch sequence as well as a representation of the E4 doomsday plane giving launch code sequences to subordinate Commanders at missile silos.

I'm not really worried about global warming as I am of severe temperature drops caused by nuclear fallout and fires..
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In the entire history of these nations they have never known freedom. It is unreasonable for us to expect them to comprehend what it means to live in a free nation. Virginia became the first of the British Royal possessions on the North American Continent. That was 1607. Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the Bill of Rights was appended to the Constitution in 1791. In total that is 184 years or ~ 10 generations to go from relatively free subjects of the crown to being a "free" people. We still weren't finished even then. There was the issue of slavery and indentured servitude which were not completely eliminated until the passage of the 13th Amendment. Along the way almost 700,000 Americans perished in a cataclysmic struggle. Today we are on the brink of another war within our family brought on by (among other things) gross corruption in our government, endless wars, and attempts to impose a political agenda upon unwilling Americans.
I bring all this up to make a point. While we have been at this "freedom" business for 236 years we are still plagued by the same issues that complicate the Middle East. Human beings because of our essentially "fallen" nature, are incapable of creating a utopia anywhere. We need to get our own house in order before we try to get their house in order.
There is however one problem we cannot allow to continue. It is the potential of nuclear weapon production, and their use against the US. We cannot allow the lunatics calling the shots over there to threaten the existence of US or it's people. We need to harden ourselves to the necessities of survival in the 21st c.
Sorry that this post rambled on ......