Yeah… Afghanistan.
Better options:
1.) Run our punitive option to displace the Taliban and destroy the AQ in that country and then go home. A few months tops.
2.) Stay a little longer but don’t put the kleptocrats and corrupt warlords in charge. Do not return immediate sovereignty to the Afghans. Run the ANA like the USMC in Haiti. Have the ANA with US corporals as platoon commanders and US staff sergeants as company commanders as company commanders and all US command above that.
Don’t finance shit like US built madrasas. Use radio and media to saturate the country with secular modernist propaganda, not the Islamist-lite propaganda we paid for.
Open the doors of economic exploitation wide open and bring in US and foreign mining (etc) and boost the economy.
Ruthlessly urge influential Islamists. Promote and place local administrators based on merit and loyalty.
Focus on development that builds a local government that’s funding is based on local funding from the local economy, so there’s self interest to continue when we leave, not the 100% taxpayer funded boondoggle that locals are only motivated to exploit until it ends when we inevitably leave.
Don’t allow an unimpeded enemy to operate in Pakistan.
3.) Just never go there in the first place.
4.) Do that bureaucratic self-licking ice cream cone thing we actually did. Okay, don’t do this.
@wayofftheres@pinpulleddrmf I think rotary aviation might be one thing that the Army generally does well and maybe better than the USMC. All those warrants set the culture and it’s about mission and flying and less about officer career pressures.
@TtimeFortyfive@WeaponOutfitter An average dip of Cope is about 5 milligrams. The most popular pouches are 3, 6 or 9 milligrams. The nicotine isn’t cancer causing, the cancer agents are from other chemicals in tobacco, so the pouches are far better (health wise).
And dip is a gross habit.
So… what’s the functional difference between a synthetic nicotine pouch and a nicotine patch.
Are you trying to avoid the artificial sweeteners in the nicotine pouch?
I do notice that both caffeine and nicotine make me a little shakier so avoiding them before a match is a good practice.