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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 04:34 PM Aug 2019

Trump "We could win Afghanistan in two days or three days or four days if we wanted. But..."

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Trump on Afghanistan: "We could win Afghanistan in two days or three days or four days if we wanted. But I'm not looking to kill 10 million people ... I'm not talking nuclear, by the way. I'm talking totally conventional."


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Trump "We could win Afghanistan in two days or three days or four days if we wanted. But..." (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2019 OP
If it was your father or grandfather talking like that, you'd take away his car keys gratuitous Aug 2019 #1
Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. But if course Trump is ignorant of history tblue37 Aug 2019 #2
His hair draws "nutrients" from his brain, ergo the color captain queeg Aug 2019 #3
alien symbiont Thomas Hurt Aug 2019 #4
you, sir, are incorrect onethatcares Aug 2019 #6
Ah the stable genius D_Master81 Aug 2019 #5

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. If it was your father or grandfather talking like that, you'd take away his car keys
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 04:37 PM
Aug 2019

The man is flat out delusional. He has no grounding in reality for his statements, and I don't think he can distinguish reality from whatever tapes are playing in his increasingly addled brain anymore.

tblue37

(65,217 posts)
2. Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. But if course Trump is ignorant of history
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 04:38 PM
Aug 2019

(and everything else), so he doesn't understand that no conventional force has subdued Afghanistan in that many years, much less that many days. Their overextension in Afghanistan helped bring down the Soviet Union--another thing Trump doesn't know.

captain queeg

(10,089 posts)
3. His hair draws "nutrients" from his brain, ergo the color
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 04:44 PM
Aug 2019

Poisoned by god knows what that’s inside his skull. Obviously nothing natural. It’s such a bizarre color, what does he tell himself when primping?

onethatcares

(16,161 posts)
6. you, sir, are incorrect
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 05:45 PM
Aug 2019

his hair draws nutrias from his brain and they've gone rampant.

Just trying to help ya out.

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
5. Ah the stable genius
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 05:40 PM
Aug 2019

Where are we when the president is having to 3X repeat “I’m not looking to kill 10 million people “? I mean thank god I guess. What was the point of this statement?

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