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Old 18th Oct 2021, 14:05
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Salute!

to Nuts and others about trying to help the 'stan.....

check out this op ed and it will explain a lot. Sure, some political jabs that could have been omitted, but the basics are there. It is one big reason an analogy with the Saigon evacuation does not compute. And my squad covered the evac in 1975, and I worked with the VNAF for three years, understood their culture and such.
The ''stan has never existed as a country except western folks drew some lines on a map. I also had two Afghan students when an instructor at Air University. Oh yeah, the first Pakistan and Israeli folks to check out in the Viper. Just some background...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/202...el-greenfield/

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