re: #416 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am so not shocked that there is not a single person amongst trump’s expert advisors who know at least a modicum of recent ME history to understand that NO ONE WINS in Afghanistan.
Ever.

Add to that the fact that Russia is backing the Taliban now…goes to show that even Putin didn’t learn a damned thing when, last time it tried to be the bad ass player, the Soviet Union lost everything in Afghanistan…and that happened during his own adult lifetime.

Putin backing the Taliban makes sense in the context of opposing the USA, however. Couple that with Trump “suggesting” he fire the commander of our forces there, and Putin gets an additional benefit.

Undermining command authority by the President is bad for the whole US military. If you’re going to fire a flag officer for something, you just do it.

Speculating publicly whether you might only throws the whole chain-of-command from general to private into question, weakening morale.