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Soldiers React To Biden's “Taliban Is Not Our Enemy” Quote
Yesterday Vice President Biden gave an interview to Newsweek/The Daily Beast where he said, “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” Many soldiers on Facebook and Twitter were less than happy to hear it. posted
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- Kelley S. thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Trashy
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lol, what morons
- coolstorybro thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is LOL
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too lazy to post a brick tamland meme picture, but i think you all know what was going to do.
- cbm thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail & WTF
- camkafura thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
- Gomen thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Cute
- desi444 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Not PC
- kury wagner thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail & Ew
- Lisa thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Not PC
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It's really going to be problematic to argue that harboring terrorists makes you “the enemy,” given that the U.S. Government openly and defiantly harbors known terrorists to this day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bosch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles Now I'm guessing none of you are in favor of Cuba invading Miami, launching drone strike on Washington D.C., and calling it collateral damage when they kill dozens of U.S. civilians for a couple of alleged terrorist conspirators. Moral relativity is a remarkable thing, ain't it? No, the problem with Biden isn't that he's wrong, it's that he's full of shit. Al-Qaeda is practically nonoperational in Afghanistan, a couple hundred members left, tops. We're fighting the insurgency (aka, a bunch of Afghans who want us to get the fuck out of their country), including the Taliban. We are most certainly using drone strike to specifically target alleged Taliban leaders. So it's understandable why these soldiers are angry and confused with the double talk. None of this is to say that the Taliban aren't a destructive, awful force in the region, but let's stop pretending the U.S. has any problem with tyrannical elements in the Middle East. Shit, we materially support most of them. And maybe if we got the hell out of the region, Afghan civilians would stop flocking to the largest group of armed militants fighting our presence out of a very understandable survivalist impulse. - juanmarcosg thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
- tjhb thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
- dude man thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Win
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The daily stole this article from buzzfeed. It's in today's edition.
- jayj2 Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... and thinks it’s Dios MiO, LOL & Win
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http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/12/21/122111-opinions-graphic-fb-biden/ The daily stole this entire buzzfeed article and didn't even bother to change the order they were in. Guess they think we don't own iPads? Fuck you, The Daily.
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- Idiot Ballroom thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
- tauhids thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
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Soldiers said something? Clearly this must be the pure and unadulterated word of God. There is no need to actually think hard about this.
- christopherc19 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is LOL & Win
- SoShia thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail & WTF
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That's right, everybody in the middle east is exactly the same and they're all EVIL! Wingnuts would be ridiculous if they weren't so dangerous.
- hayzay26 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
- soulstand thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is LOL & Fail
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- ashleys33 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is WTF
- rhoden3000 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail & WTF
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Nice to see how clueless liberals are when it comes to terrorism on this message board.
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Where was all this outrage when Bush said “I really just don't spend that much time on (bin Laden), to be honest with you”?
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- realchrisjones Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba...
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Duh. Biden is a fucking idiot
- lukeb3 thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is LOL & Fail
- sylviel thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
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We had armed the Taliban against the Soviets previously. If we categorically coat everyone with the terrorist brush we will never get anything finished there. I wouldn't say we're friendly or allies, but stabilizing Afghanistan is more important to long-term security then exterminating the Taliban.
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- Azanpanda thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail
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Well we did end up killing our way through around 30,000 Afghanis, so even though we typically view foreign lives as worthless, 10 for 1 is a pretty good deal don't you think?
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So many of you…soooo stupid. Wow, you know that it was not Taliban that flew the planes. Gee, gold stars for you. I think that the issue with the Taliban probably stems from them harboring terrorists and protecting them. I guess you do not have a problem with that but just so you know, if someone kills a bunch of people in a store and then you hide that person at your house. Most of society will find you to be a pretty bad person. If you lie or keep us from bringing that person in, you pretty much just crossed the line into being just as guilty. Again, I am not sure if you follow what I am saying. I would use some pictures but I really do not have time to make some crayon drawings for you.
- jamesr17 Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... and thinks it’s Win
- benr11 Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... and thinks it’s Trashy, Win & Fail
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what administration caught OBL wingnuts? what administration showed how to correctly oust a country's dictator with not 1 loss of an american life? maybe this administration knows something you idiots dont, considering the wingnuts FAILED for 8 straight years at everything and left nothing but suffering and disaster in their wake. and a giant unpaid bill for it all too.
- xsmall thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Fail & WTF
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The taliban harbored and aided al-qaida. Taliban=enemy, for all you ignorant armchair-military jackasses.
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Nice to see some of the troops still unable to make the distinction between a group of mostly Saudi criminals flying planes into our buildings and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
- thetrackr thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Win
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Uh, you dumb asses know that the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11 right?
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- MrSwearword thinks Soldiers React To Biden's "Taliba... is Dios MiO
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I read the interview and I understand what he was trying to say, but he shouldn't have said it this close to an election. Of course he wants to protect this country, he just doesn't want a frivolous war or to seem hostile and attract even more ire than we already have. Still, since no one (especially the right) will read the entire thing, and instead will hear about it from Fox News pundits… it was a very bad thing to say.
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Hurray for blinding spitting back Fox News soundbites without doing any critical thinking or research for yourself!
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OK Is this what we should expect from the new Direction at BuzzFeed? Two days in a row now that we have had to endure right-wing talking point du jour on the front page.































