Jackson Jambalaya

And you can tell this is macho circle jerk BS right from the start, when he claims that the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan is Biden's fault.

It's Biden's fault that it happened while our people were still there. But the Taliban taking control shortly after our departure has always been inevitable.

More broadly, why are you chumming the waters with this nonsense?

We shouldn't have been there, and we lost. A nation must have the will to take and defend their own freedom. Afghans don't. And no amount of "HOOOOAAHHH, YOU WILL BE KILLLLLLEEEDD!!" nonsense --or hundreds of billions more wasted on "Uhh, we're not in Afghanistan but we kinda are" -- is going to change that.

Thanks KF. Just incredible.

This is the sort of masculinity that built our imperfect America into being a leader of the world.....but that was deemed "toxic" by American women.....due to they're forgetting that there has always been evil in the world just around the corner....and if you ever wanted/needed someone to defend you and your children, it's better to have a nation of fellas like this one, than a scattering of soy-boy, video game addicted Mr. Moms watching the kids just so you can feel empowered.

Note: There are female Marines that died in Afghanistan who have heavier balls than most of the mama's boy, easily triggered men today who lack any killer instinct to protect us.

Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a mistake from the beginning. U.S. has lost every war since WW II, which really just made the world safe for 45 years of Stalinism and communism. We need to bring the troops home and mind our business and balance our federal budget.

Unpopular opinion;: the Afghans did fight for their country. They just happened to be called the Taliban and not our preferred version the Northern Alliance.

Who cares what he thinks. His job was to do what he was told. Sorry, the military is not democracy, your personal opinion does not matter. That’s discipline. His video just undermines our forces. If he wanted to decide what should be done in Afghanistan then he should have risen higher in the ranks or should have won the election to become POTUS. Good that he was kicked out. He should never have joined to begin with. If you have to publish all your thoughts on social media you belong in middle school, not among our best men.

@2:59 Shhhh, you sound like you may actually have a brain.

As for who we need to protect us. In a pinch Uncle Sam will find a way to conscript the poor working class kids who can't get a college deferment, or, get into dental school. The best age is 19 -- which incidentally is the largest age cohort on the Vietnam Wall. I remember it very well indeed.

I absolve you, 2:46 PM, and for your penance go listen to Alice's Restaurant, particularly this part:

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
Guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and
He started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
Yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
Sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

3:21. Kicked out of what? LIAR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocko_Willink

@2:59
I need to correct you. America hasn't won a war since the Philippine-American War. WWI and WW2 were Allied victories.

You're mad (in a psychological sense) 4:06. But, hey...Toke On!

And what was Desert Storm?

Allies? Who helped us in the Pacific?

As for the Great War? Yeah, we had allies but by the time we were there en masse and started fighting in 1918, the allies were exhausted, at a stalemate, and worried about mutinies.

Please explain to the class, oh wise Kingfish, exactly what Desert Storm was? Why did we have to return? Why are we still in Iraq?

And as usual, you have a very pedestrian “HBO” understanding of WW2 history.

Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies, specifically the British Admiralty, after word of Soviet rape in Germany reached Japan. You see, Japan is geographically very close to Russia. And Imperial Japan gave Imperial Russia a humiliating defeat in the 19th century. The Japanese emperor decided that surrender to the Western Allies was far preferable to his people, than surrender to Stalin. Japan wasn’t nearly as fazed by the atomic bomb as Americans like to believe. Why? Because we had been firebombing them for years. They were numb to seeing the horror of massive civilian death. Japan correctly didn’t want to suffer the same hell as Germany under Stalin.

@2:59, We lost WW2 as well, we teamed up with communists to “save” the people that invented communism. Now we have communism.

3:21 So you get to have an opinion but not him? I'd really enjoy watching you tell him that BS to his face. And BTW, he's been retired for about ten years, he didn't get kicked out of anything.

My only concern is that in20 years we never developed an exit strategy or timeline. The fact that we were there so long and the taliban took the country in 10 days is appalling. If you told me the US would occupy a country for 20 years and will not have crushed the opposition, I would laugh. Were we outsmarted or just lazy?

This probably would have happened if we had left 10 years ago, and would likely happen if we stayed (Losing American solder's lives for 10 more years.

Afgan guys are still killing each other because Achmed stole Asaid's goat 150 years ago. Hate and killing is what they do.

8:46 - we fight our wars according to some set of rules that others (Taliban, ISIS, ??) to not feel compelled to follow.

I am afraid the reason we do not win wars now is we have forgotten God telling the Israelites to "Kill them, their families, their goats and sheep." IMO we are not considered the baddest killers on earth, making it too easy for some goat herder to lose respect for us. We refuse to kill all of them, so we will never win.

We’ve pulled our punches in every war. Politicians calling the shots is disaster every time

The key to winning.

A Roman general besieged a city in Spain during the second Punic War. The city laughed and said it could hold out ten years. Old The Roman said that was fine. He'd be back in the eleventh year. The city immediately surrendered.

Jocko Wilink, Tim Kennedy, Leif Babin, Tulsi Gababrd and other brave servicemen and servicewomen like them have sacrificed so much for their country. They understand what's going on and understand what it takes to win. No one's perfect. NO ONE! But I'll take the previously mentioned over many of the current career politicians we have in office now.
It also seems like there's quite a few posting here that are upset they didn't have what it takes to cut it in the military. So they become keyboard warriors.