The Afghanistan Thread Thread

[grateful]

Super-spreader flight?

[sweetcell]

can we blame Canada?

... before somebody thinks of blaming us

the author makes $2.2 bil sound like a lot of money...

for canada, it is considering its military spending.  canada spends more of its budget on social programs like healthcare, so there isn't as much left for military.  last year the country spent around $22B on military, in total.  having a nearly unlimited military budget, including lots of unreported funding (dark money), isn't something canadians are into...

[sweetcell]

I mean it’s all relative… people on that plane won’t get their heads chopped off but what awaits them in America?

they're not headed to america - that flight went to Doha.  zero chance all those folks will be getting to the US, unless they already have visas. 

[sweetcell]

Can't believe they're not wearing masks on that flight.

i'm told the refreshments were pitiful and service was really, really slow.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

can we blame Canada?

... before somebody thinks of blaming us
 having a nearly unlimited military budget, including lots of unreported funding (dark money), isn't something canadians are into...

Must be nice to have the biggest superpower and an ocean as their closest neighbor
I wouldn't spend any money on a military either

[Yada]

I mean it’s all relative… people on that plane won’t get their heads chopped off but what awaits them in America?

they're not headed to america - that flight went to Doha.  zero chance all those folks will be getting to the US, unless they already have visas.

none of those people are getting to the US.

They'll be living in a higher end version of whatever is happening at the Mexico border for a while and then shipped off to some other wasteland.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Can't believe they're not wearing masks on that flight.

i'm told the refreshments were pitiful and service was really, really slow.

tell me about, paid for the upgrade to get the bigger seat and I heard they just left my luggage on the tarmac, I'm going to be speaking to the manager about this

[sweetcell]

After 20 years of war, it took 3 days of leaving the country to start it's own thread. 

https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=5911.0
https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=8255.0

[Starsky]

Not sure if I am just a cynic, an asshole or a realist


Not putting it up for a vote…. Sorry

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

sounds like fun times

[Starsky]

Ain’t nothing fun about the taliban


Having said that, there are a lot of competing interests

I remain hopeful they will tone it down cause hope is all I got …

Let’s not forget no more Americans will die.

[grateful]

Let’s not forget no more Americans will die.

And this is your positive spin? That armed american men are worth more than unarmed oppressed war-torn civilians?

[Space Freely]

Let’s not forget no more Americans will die.

And this is your positive spin? That armed american men are worth more than unarmed oppressed war-torn civilians?

Worth more to whom?

[Space Freely]

sounds like fun times

Even the ugly ones?

[Yada]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/flyaway-emergency-afghan-rescue-mission?member=13260717&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer