Too bad this irony of the religious conservative end game will be lost on Trump.
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Trump Flipped on Afghanistan Strategy after seeing Afghan Women in Miniskirts
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Too bad this irony of the religious conservative end game will be lost on Trump.
Electric Eye
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McMaster: "Mr. president if you build the wall and cancel NAFTA the US supply of taco salads will run out within a day"
Trump: "I've changed my mind!"
Yeah definitely. You watch shit like Handmaid's Tale and it feels really farfetched but then you look at some countries and places like this that have slipped so ridiculously quickly and it's scary.
PsychoSoldier
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I swear to God the Onion writers don't get paid enough to have to work around this stuff.
Angelus Errare
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"Donald, look at this! You used to be able to on them like a bitch! Now you can't, Sad. If we bomb them enough we can get them to wear skirts again!"
trump knows nothing, reads nothing, listens to nothing, but pictures make him clap and get his attention
Policing fashion crimes against humanity since Day One is H.
I mean the POTUS changing his mind on something of this magnitude after seeing a pic of what women were wearing then vs now is pretty headline worthy.
McMaster has pretty much figured out how to manipulate Trump as he pleases, just play to his inner pig.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Do we get him to stop trying to get Seoul nuked by showing him K-POP videos?
Well one thing it shows is that the President of the United States doesn't know the history of the country that he is tasked with deciding strategy for. Normally I would find it incredible that a president would not know this information, but in this timeline, it's just another day.
OG Shaka Zulu
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Lmao exactly. Trump's mind was blown.
Etrian Oddity
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Photos of Afghanistan and Iran through the 1960s through 1970s are some of the most heartbreaking things to me. Beautiful progression brought down by religious zealots and literally regressed into medieval societies.
Peter Ian Staker
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That ship has sailed a long time ago and increased military involvement won't bring it back.
Wahhabism was a mistake.
People want to believe the Aghanistan briefing consisted of someone showing Trump a picture and it convinced him to alter his basic strategy.
To be fair, you really have to acknowledge there was a real briefing, and probably multiple high-ranking military officials gave presentations. There may have been questions and answers and a series of recommendations, etc.
This is not a defense of our president but rather an indictment of how far people are willing to go to highlight any sliver of information that paints the administration in a bad light,
Captin Quacker
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"This will get those Mexicans I called rapists and criminals to vote for me!"
Yeah that's the problem, no amount of U.S. or European intervention is going to change anything because Islam has been hijacked by hardliners in most of these nations where Islam and the government is one and the same. The spread of wahhabism and the complete intertwining of mosque and state means moderate and liberal Islam never gets a voice strong enough to make a difference in most nations.
He's really put on a lot of weight since then. By the end of his first term, he's going to look like that fat vampire in the first Blade movie.
Yeah and it's sad if it wasn't so hilarious at the same time.
Pervy President
Gunblade47
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A half arsed war is not gonna suddenly make this society magically embrace western ideals. If anything it will make them more fearful and hateful.
Also, I might be somewhat mistaken here, but wasn't it the soviet union that tried to empower the women in the afghan society during the 70s-80s? And they achieved this minor moment of enlightenment through education, not war.
So it's kinda silly to imply that US military force can ever revive that.
Also, I might be somewhat mistaken here, but wasn't it the soviet union that tried to empower the women in the afghan society during the 70s-80s? And they achieved this minor moment of enlightenment through education, not war.
So it's kinda silly to imply that US military force can ever revive that.
It just might work!
No, that would make him launch the missiles himself.
always crazy bacon
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Subtle shop there.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I hate Trump, but this is kind of wonderful in the "Archie Bunker will always be a cheapskate, even if he has a gun pointed at him" sense of comedy.
Shadow Puppetry
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Some are I guess, but we have a thread dedicated to idiocy around the true progress is through regression.
Shadow Puppetry
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Close enough.
DALLAS, TX Donald Trump had a change of heart -and plans- after his campaign crew stopped for lunch at a Mexican restaurant by mistake.
It's a joke article but lol
AcademicSaucer
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The US is gonna have to stay 100 years in Afghanistan .
radios shipping overview
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I wonder how many people who preach against Islam as a whole non-stop are aware of how recent a phenomenon Islamist fundamentalism is.
fluffydelusions
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rofl this guy
CyclopsRock
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I'm not sure if you can really, at the same time, look at those photos from Afghanistan, Iran etc and say "What a shame, it used to be so much more free" (as everyone here does) and say "ha ha ha, Trump's an idiot for letting this be a compelling argument!" (ad everyone here is). It is a compelling argument - a demonstration that there was a time when this place embraced western values and aesthetics and it could do again. That's not enough on its own, but there's hardly evidence that this was literally the only thing.
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Sorry, communist?
Edit:
Sorry, communist?
gutter_trash
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Carter and Reagan should not have sided with the Taliban in the first place.
The US fucked around in both those countries prior to the religious zealots taking over. In fact in one (Afghanistan) they helped arm and fund some of these zealots.
EdwardTeach
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If he really wants to stop Afghanistan being regressive /appressive he should bomb Saudi Arabia.
I Stalk Alone
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We know it wasn't but it is still good to laugh at him, because he is capable of it.
People keep joking about stuff like this, but I really want to see someone actually try it.
It might actually work.
Croatoan
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Seeing how far the middle east has regressed is depressing. All because of oil greed and a book of fairy tales (To be clear I view the bible the same way).
Sending more troops is moronic though. The followers of Islam want to rule themselves, back out and let them try to survive on their own. The future of American Foreign policy should be anything but nation building.
Sending more troops is moronic though. The followers of Islam want to rule themselves, back out and let them try to survive on their own. The future of American Foreign policy should be anything but nation building.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Hasn't the same tactic been used on us in meme videos on Facebook?
I'm not sure trump is the only dope in America to fall for it.
That he is in charge of a military hasn't gone unnoticed obviously, but it's not like we weren't already concerned about that power
I'm not sure trump is the only dope in America to fall for it.
That he is in charge of a military hasn't gone unnoticed obviously, but it's not like we weren't already concerned about that power
Using pictures and video is literally the only way people can get to have him pay attention to briefings ( http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...-top-secret-intelligence-briefings-big-617515
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The Hermit
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Yeah, how do you beat that?