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350 points tepidandroid | 3 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.873s | source

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Roboprog ◴[19 Sep 19 22:21 UTC] No.21021343[source]▶

Why are we there?

What’s the threat, again? I forgot.

1. whiddershins ◴[20 Sep 19 12:19 UTC] No.21025811[source]▶

The anniversary of 9/11 is a week ago and you forget?

2. istjohn ◴[20 Sep 19 13:19 UTC] No.21026339[source]▶

Will that line suffice in 100 years? In my opinion, that justification's sell-by date was a decade ago.

3. Roboprog ◴[20 Sep 19 21:15 UTC] No.21031350[source]▶

Have they given up Bin Laden yet?

Isn’t it just a little ironic that one of our “allies” was harboring OBL?

Lesson learned: nukes are a VERY effective deterrent to foreign invasion. That’s what we’re teaching countries in the Middle East.

U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan