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Politics 10/30/19 1:13:18 PM #1:	We spent the whole war literally just bombing empty caves lmao. Osama was in Pakistan anyway, wtf were we doing there? LOL <cite>Politics posted [p:929432613] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>We spent the whole war literally just bombing empty caves lmao. Osama was in Pakistan anyway, wtf were we doing there? LOL</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
konokonohamaru 10/30/19 1:14:08 PM #2:	Giving inspiration for the video games industry --- A very happy young man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. <cite>konokonohamaru posted [p:929432636] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Giving inspiration for the video games industry</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Elmer_Glue 10/30/19 1:14:22 PM #3:	Wow, that's pretty rascist, calling Afghanistan pointless... <cite>Elmer_Glue posted [p:929432639] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Wow, that's pretty rascist, calling Afghanistan pointless...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Ultima Dragon 10/30/19 1:19:32 PM #4:	We got hella opium from there though, and continue to do so to this day. --- "We know things can move faster than the speed of light because liberal tears are on the ground before something offensive even happens" - Coffeebeanz <cite>Ultima Dragon posted [p:929432817] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>We got hella opium from there though, and continue to do so to this day.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
codey 10/30/19 1:21:33 PM #5:	Afghans are like the best throw blankets --- *runs out of topic naked* <cite>codey posted [p:929432906] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Afghans are like the best throw blankets</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Foppe 10/30/19 1:22:20 PM #6:	It kept the war economy alive. --- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC <cite>Foppe posted [p:929432937] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>It kept the war economy alive.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 10/30/19 1:23:17 PM #7:	It wasn't "pointless". It further destabilized the country and basically left them with almost no chance of recovery without massive amounts of foreign assistance. --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https:/i.imgur.com/S1m3po4.jpg https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:929432968] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>It wasn't "pointless". It further destabilized the country and basically left them with almost no chance of recovery without massive amounts of foreign assistance.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Garioshi 10/30/19 1:23:36 PM #8:	"were" implies that it ended --- "I play with myself" - Darklit_Minuet, 2018 <cite>Garioshi posted [p:929432982] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>"were" implies that it ended</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ElatedVenusaur 10/30/19 1:27:31 PM #9:	Bio1590 posted... It wasn't "pointless". It further destabilized the country and basically left them with almost no chance of recovery without massive amounts of foreign assistance. Hey, once we leave, the Taliban will probably bring back some stability. And when you're not sure if that would be a good or bad thing, you know you've really screwed up! <cite>ElatedVenusaur posted [p:929433158] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>It wasn't "pointless". It further destabilized the country and basically left them with almost no chance of recovery without massive amounts of foreign assistance.</quote> Hey, once we leave, the Taliban will probably bring back some stability. And when you're not sure if that would be a good or bad thing, you know you've really screwed up!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
coh 10/30/19 1:28:22 PM #10:	How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 <cite>coh posted [p:929433192] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
konokonohamaru 10/30/19 1:29:56 PM #11:	coh posted... How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 A lot of it was also Cold War. We were involved everywhere trying to fight communism Everyone should play the board game Twilight Struggle. Great way to learn international cold war history --- A very happy young man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. <cite>konokonohamaru posted [p:929433251] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>coh posted...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> A lot of it was also Cold War. We were involved everywhere trying to fight communism Everyone should play the board game Twilight Struggle. Great way to learn international cold war history</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Garioshi 10/30/19 1:30:29 PM #12:	coh posted... How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 America hates third world countries nationalizing their natural resources --- "I play with myself" - Darklit_Minuet, 2018 <cite>Garioshi posted [p:929433275] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>coh posted...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> America hates third world countries nationalizing their natural resources</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Foppe 10/30/19 1:32:26 PM #13:	coh posted... How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 Had to be sure that the Iraq revolution gave the power to somebody that supported USA more than Soviet. --- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC <cite>Foppe posted [p:929433350] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>coh posted...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> Had to be sure that the Iraq revolution gave the power to somebody that supported USA more than Soviet.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ElatedVenusaur 10/30/19 1:32:47 PM #14:	coh posted... How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 Afghanistan isn't really in the Middle East though: it's in Central Asia. We first really got involved in the '80s when the Soviets were waging a war to support their client government, so we slipped the rebels(which included the proto-Taliban) missile launchers so they could shoot down Soviet helicopters and stuff. Afghanistan as it exists really isn't a cohesive entity and hasn't been, not really in terms of having had a cohesive national government and definitely not in terms of their being an Afghan identity that supersedes ethnicities. <cite>ElatedVenusaur posted [p:929433368] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>coh posted...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> Afghanistan isn't really in the Middle East though: it's in Central Asia. We first really got involved in the '80s when the Soviets were waging a war to support their client government, so we slipped the rebels(which included the proto-Taliban) missile launchers so they could shoot down Soviet helicopters and stuff. Afghanistan as it exists really isn't a cohesive entity and hasn't been, not really in terms of having had a cohesive national government and definitely not in terms of their being an Afghan identity that supersedes ethnicities.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 10/30/19 1:46:47 PM #15:	ElatedVenusaur posted... coh posted... How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 Afghanistan isn't really in the Middle East though: it's in Central Asia. We first really got involved in the '80s when the Soviets were waging a war to support their client government, so we slipped the rebels(which included the proto-Taliban) missile launchers so they could shoot down Soviet helicopters and stuff. Afghanistan as it exists really isn't a cohesive entity and hasn't been, not really in terms of having had a cohesive national government and definitely not in terms of their being an Afghan identity that supersedes ethnicities. It really is amazing how far back that whole area being fucked goes. Like the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is just some random bullshit that was decided between some British dude named Mortimer Durand and the Emir of Afghanistan at the time so they'd stop arguing over some other bullshit. It was slightly modified later but Afghanistan has never formally recognized it and Pakistan ended up inheriting it when they gained independence. It cuts right through the ancestral homelands of a number of ethnic groups (splitting them between Pakistan and Afghanistan) and honestly is one of the worst borders (if not THE worst border) in the world. --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https:/i.imgur.com/S1m3po4.jpg https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:929433986] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>ElatedVenusaur posted...</cite> <quote>coh posted...</cite> <quote>How did we even get involved in the Middle East in the first place. Im talking pre 9/11 </quote> Afghanistan isn't really in the Middle East though: it's in Central Asia. We first really got involved in the '80s when the Soviets were waging a war to support their client government, so we slipped the rebels(which included the proto-Taliban) missile launchers so they could shoot down Soviet helicopters and stuff. Afghanistan as it exists really isn't a cohesive entity and hasn't been, not really in terms of having had a cohesive national government and definitely not in terms of their being an Afghan identity that supersedes ethnicities.</quote> It really is amazing how far back that whole area being fucked goes. Like the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is just some random bullshit that was decided between some British dude named Mortimer Durand and the Emir of Afghanistan at the time so they'd stop arguing over some other bullshit. It was slightly modified later but Afghanistan has never formally recognized it and Pakistan ended up inheriting it when they gained independence. It cuts right through the ancestral homelands of a number of ethnic groups (splitting them between Pakistan and Afghanistan) and honestly is one of the worst borders (if not THE worst border) in the world.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ThyCorndog 10/30/19 1:48:17 PM #16:	europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards --- https://imgur.com/6cPXvLN https://imgur.com/hVC4i6j <cite>ThyCorndog posted [p:929434036] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 10/30/19 1:55:05 PM #17:	ThyCorndog posted... europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https:/i.imgur.com/S1m3po4.jpg https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:929434305] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ThyCorndog 10/30/19 1:57:43 PM #18:	Bio1590 posted... ThyCorndog posted... europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what --- https://imgur.com/6cPXvLN https://imgur.com/hVC4i6j <cite>ThyCorndog posted [p:929434421] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s</quote> well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ElatedVenusaur 10/30/19 1:58:35 PM #19:	Bio1590 posted... ThyCorndog posted... europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s Yeah, it was used as a buffer state between Russia's holdings in Central Asian and British India. The Brits were hyper paranoid about Russian hordes pouring out of Central Asia and overrunning India(logistics be damned). <cite>ElatedVenusaur posted [p:929434454] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s</quote> Yeah, it was used as a buffer state between Russia's holdings in Central Asian and British India. The Brits were hyper paranoid about Russian hordes pouring out of Central Asia and overrunning India(logistics be damned).</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
UnholyMudcrab 10/30/19 1:58:52 PM #20:	The Graveyard of Empires strikes again --- https://imgur.com/VeNBg https://imgur.com/gd5jC8q https://imgur.com/PKIy7 https://imgur.com/3p29JqP <cite>UnholyMudcrab posted [p:929434472] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>The Graveyard of Empires strikes again</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 10/30/19 2:20:26 PM #21:	ThyCorndog posted... Bio1590 posted... ThyCorndog posted... europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what I mean the Europeans fucked the region well before ww1. The Durand Line was established in the early 1890s and hell the whole Russia/British India thing goes back to the 1830s. --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https:/i.imgur.com/S1m3po4.jpg https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:929435487] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s</quote> well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what</quote> I mean the Europeans fucked the region well before ww1. The Durand Line was established in the early 1890s and hell the whole Russia/British India thing goes back to the 1830s.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ThyCorndog 10/30/19 2:31:19 PM #22:	Bio1590 posted... ThyCorndog posted... Bio1590 posted... ThyCorndog posted... europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what I mean the Europeans fucked the region well before ww1. The Durand Line was established in the early 1890s and hell the whole Russia/British India thing goes back to the 1830s. well, sure. you're right --- https://imgur.com/6cPXvLN https://imgur.com/hVC4i6j <cite>ThyCorndog posted [p:929435961] in The Afgan ... [t:78121860]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>europeans fucked the region after ww1 and ww2 and we continued to fuck it up afterwards</quote> Afghanistan goes back to the 1800s</quote> well it goes back to classical history as bactria and even further back as part of the ancient persian empires, but so what</quote> I mean the Europeans fucked the region well before ww1. The Durand Line was established in the early 1890s and hell the whole Russia/British India thing goes back to the 1830s.</quote> well, sure. you're right</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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