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tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sat August 28, 2021 3:14 pm

ISIS-K sounds like a dope 90s rap duo

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sat August 28, 2021 5:59 pm

Missed opportunity for the propagandists to label them something like "isis - delta variant"

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun August 29, 2021 3:06 am

In other words they launched some missiles into some random mountains.

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

BurtReynolds wrote:

In other words they launched some missiles into some random mountains.

I like that identified one of them as a 'planner'. Like ISIS is just some run of the mill midsize manufacturers with program managers, buyers, engineers, etc. You reckon they are on Linkedin?

How many times did we kill the "number two" of Al Qaeda?

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

I can't figure why they bothered with suicide bombers, except for the optics. Indirect fire would be far more disruptive to the evacuation effort. Do they not have a ready supply of Iranian 107mm rockets? If we don't have counter battery radar up, might as well make a day of it with some 60 or 82mm mortars.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28085

fuck you're creepy

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

spike wrote:

fuck you're creepy

Consider this Biden admin appologia. It could've been way worse.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun August 29, 2021 10:46 pm

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47208

I'm sure they took the keys to the planes and helicopters though

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

I'm sure they took the keys to the planes and helicopters though

How many of those M4s and M249s were in better condition than the average National Guardsman's kit?

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

So, that vehicle with supposed ISIS suicide bombers in it that we blew up actually contained an Afghan soldier, a translator, and some kids. Did we get targeting info from the Taliban or... ? Not the first time we murked civilians, but its not like we're lighting up every car in Kabul.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Mon August 30, 2021 3:38 pm

great job, leaders.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47208

Unfortunately this isn't anything new.

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Unfortunately this isn't anything new.

Sure, but was it our bad intel or did we get it from someone else?

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47208

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

Now that we are hearing more of the breakdowns of Asylum Seekers vs US Passport holders vs SIVs that made it out:

Did they resolve the civilians on the runway issue by promising everyone inside the airport would get flown out to get processed elsewhere?

That doesn't really explain the limited helicopter ops for US passport holders and CIVs, but it certainly explains the chaos and why everyone in Afghanistan thought they could snag a golden ticket if they could vault into the airport.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47208

Lol a flight out of Kabul today full of Americans and other westerners went more smoothly than anything the US military did while there

simple schoolboy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am **Posts:** 5584

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Lol a flight out of Kabul today full of Americans and other westerners went more smoothly than anything the US military did while there

Did Qatar fly in some air traffic controllers or something?

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sat September 11, 2021 12:02 am

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