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surfered

(13,539 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:17 AM Mar 12

Someone should have explained to Trump it took us $2.5 trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

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Someone should have explained to Trump it took us $2.5 trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. (Original Post) surfered Mar 12 OP

Someone might have tried. Trump is 1000% certain that he knows better. tanyev Mar 12 #1

Until he suddenly isn't the "stable genius" who just knows everything underpants Mar 12 #5

Yep. Bad outcomes are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever his fault. tanyev Mar 12 #7

Dick Cheney didn't care and Trump doesn't care either. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #2

I doubt it would have mattered to him. City Lights Mar 12 #3

Talk about efficiency, he only took a week to replace an Ayatollah with an Ayatollah underpants Mar 12 #4

War profiteers don't care about the end result. It's the bombing and killing that makes them rich dalton99a Mar 12 #6

John Gorka song Easterncedar Mar 12 #8

trump is claiming that he is simply more efficient LetMyPeopleVote Mar 12 #9

tanyev

(49,318 posts)

1. Someone might have tried. Trump is 1000% certain that he knows better.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:21 AM

Mar 12

underpants

(196,586 posts)

5. Until he suddenly isn't the "stable genius" who just knows everything

Reply to tanyev (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:31 AM

Mar 12

Reporter: A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school in Iran. Do you take responsibility?

Trump: I don’t know about that.

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tanyev

(49,318 posts)

7. Yep. Bad outcomes are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever his fault.

Reply to underpants (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:38 AM

Mar 12

😒

Irish_Dem

(81,437 posts)

2. Dick Cheney didn't care and Trump doesn't care either.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:24 AM

Mar 12

It was about the US taxpayer and US military supporting their grand theft.

City Lights

(25,851 posts)

3. I doubt it would have mattered to him.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:27 AM

Mar 12

He believes whatever he does will be done better than anyone who has done it before him. He probably even thinks the bombs he has ordered to be dropped are of higher quality because he is the one ordering them to be dropped.