Topic: Kabul
Saigon........................
This is the bitterest pain among men,
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
2 2021-08-20 20:03:51 (edited by Chuut 2021-08-20 20:06:50)
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Re: Kabul
More like Tehran 1979 than Saigon 1975 atm, at least until we get the Westerners out......
Either way its all a part of that 70s show along with inflation and rising gas prices.
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I was 16, that image was/is burned onto my mind, the Huey and the US had lost, unthinkable to a 16 year old...................
That Chinook hovering over the Embassy/CIA HQ last week brought that same visceral feeling.......................
This is the bitterest pain among men,
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
4 2021-08-22 07:55:37 (edited by Chuut 2021-08-22 07:57:47)
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Cesca wrote:
I was 16, that image was/is burned onto my mind, the Huey and the US had lost, unthinkable to a 16 year old...................
That Chinook hovering over the Embassy/CIA HQ last week brought that same visceral feeling.......................
I was 8 and didn't see that image for another 8 or 9 years.
My First Cousin died in Vietnam in 1967 shortly before I was born and although I knew he had died bravely there as a marine it wasn't talked about except in the most general terms, even then very very rarely, and anytime the news would start to talk about Vietnam, my mother would change the channel.
I was a good thing for me, an gave me a more innocent childhood, full of outdoor and indoor play and carefree joy.
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/salutes.
This is the bitterest pain among men,
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
- Cesca
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It was/is an untenable situation, but why pull out in Summer, in winter the Taliban are constrained by snow....
The Afghans have been at it a long time, my 96 year old mother reminded me last weekend, that my grandfather was gassed at Passchendaele. In those days they just sent you to a quieter area of the front, but as he had been in India in 1914, he was sent back to India.
He spent the next 3 (1918-1921) years fighting on the Northwest frontier on and around the Khyber pass. Bandits they called them, but they were the same folk as now. We (Brits and Russians) had been doing it for a hundred years prior to that, and now a hundred years after my Grandfather left, we probably still have not learned our lessons about determination in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds.
I wonder where the next one will be?
This is the bitterest pain among men,
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus
To have much knowledge , but no power.
Herodotus