Mike Pompeo says US should 'crush the Taliban' in Kabul using 'American air power'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, said in an interview Sunday that the US Military should intervene to take the Afghanistan capital city of Kabul back from Taliban control.

"They should go crush the Taliban who are surrounding Kabul, we can do it with American airpower," Pompeo said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday." "We should put pressure on them, we should inflict cost and pain on them."

"Every President confronts challenges," he said. "This President confronted a challenge in Afghanistan - he has utterly failed to protect the American people from this challenge."

The Taliban took control of most of the country in just about one week despite the two decades the US and allies spent in the country attempting to bolster its government, as the Associated Press reported. Taliban insurgents reached the capital city of Kabul early Sunday and ordered the unconditional surrender of government officials.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-150253530.html

Why don't we drop your humongous ass on them? That should crush a few.

[roamer65]

1. He's wrong.

Just use it to destroy our military assets and embassy that were left behind.

[Takket]

2. yeah because that has worked out so well the last 20 years...

these ignorant buffoons still think groups like the Taliban have some huge central command and base that we can just pound with bombs.

these guys live in houses like everyone else, drive around 4 at a time in pickup trucks, don't have any centralized command... you can't "bomb" them out of existence. WE TRIED THAT ALREADY

[spanone]

3. this is why you're not if office, mikey

[vapor2]

4. And this advice is coming from one who believes in the rapture?

[Solly Mack]

5. Trump said: United States has a shared interest with the Taliban: 2020

Trump says he spoke to a Taliban leader, had ‘good talk’


Trump said the United States has a shared interest with the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida before the 9/11 attacks.

“We had a very good conversation with the leader of the Taliban today, and they’re looking to get this ended, and we’re looking to get it ended. I think we all have a very common interest,” Trump said. “We had, actually, a very good talk with the leader of the Taliban.”


“The relationship is very good that I have with the mullah (Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar),” Trump said

Since Pompeo wants to talk shit.

[marble falls]

6. The US knows this one thing about this kind of war. The invading army never wins, they ...

... hold. The partisans melt in and out and can't be beaten. When the holding army leaves, the partisans fill the vacuum.

The Russians, who went medieval on the Chechnyans and vice a versa, had their asses handed to them when they left Afghanistan, all the way to the border.

Pompeo's about a pompous ass as anyone who's ever been appointed to an office far above his level of competence.

[Renew Deal]

7. Why should we fight for them when they won't?

[Hekate]

14. A question I'd bet money that Neocons have never asked themselves

[The Wizard]

8. What about the Taliban that isn't in Kabul?

Any institution that bestowed credentials on him owes him a full refund.

[Tarc]

9. The last, tired gasp of neoconservatism

We cannot conquer these people unless we wish to occupy them for eternity.

It's not our problem.

[DenaliDemocrat]

10. It was HIS deal. HE and Orange Buffoon negotiated it

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-trump/pompeo-to-witness-signing-of-u-s-taliban-deal-trump-idUSKCN20M31Z?il=0

[ymetca]

11. Wow

So.. let's go all Colonel Kurtz on them, eh?

Why not just go straight to "The missiles are flying, hallelujah, hallelujah!"

Pompeo --the perfect example of a guy who masturbates with the wrong hand!

[brush]

12. Ahhhh...what about all the people who live in Kabul?

They'll be just collateral damage...not important?

[Bristlecone]

13. Pompeo's Drunk again.

Japanese whiskey

[Hekate]

15. Pompeo, we really really do not want to hear from you

Ever again

[Retrograde]

16. Has he forgotten the deal he negotiated while SoS

to pull all US troops out by early 2021? Is he senile, or just a greedy, opportunistic liar?

[Cracklin Charlie]

17. Really?

Who is this guy working for? It sure the hell ain’t the USA.

You, yes you, let those guys taking over Afghanistan out of prison! You go round them up. No American air power, either.

The nerve of these guys…