Ben Franklen – Putin also seems to think that helping a country led by a member of a messianic death cult to acquire nuclear weapons is somehow in Russia’s best interest.

There is absolutely no evidence or even rumor that Russia is helping Iran build nuclear bombs…that is just idiot conspiracy theory spouted by you and people like Whiskey.
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Mark Maps – Flying in supplies: We have carriers. Even Dubai to Kandahar isn’t much of a stretch to our guys.

You don’t know much about carriers. They are fine for dropping 50 tons of bombs a day, but not the tens of thousands of tons of equipment and supplies a ground force needs.

Just try to conceptualize that carriers are unable to launch large cargo planes – and that launching cargo planes from elsewhere is at the suffereance of Russia and Pakistan (and for that matter, Europeans, allowing American military crossing it’s airspace.)

If you take the time to talk to “our guys” about losing all land supply to Afghanistan, and our limited air supply abilities limited by countries that surround Afghanistan, plus the vast distance our planes must fly from to get to Afghanistan…”our guys” will tell you point black it is not a “no problem”, but a show-stopping “big problem” they can’t overcome and maintain even present US ground troop levels in Afghanistan with.