I Will Not Sugar Coat What Is Happening in Afghanistan. It Is Bad, Will Get Worse and Could Have Been Prevented.

@beckyromero Jackson certainly won the skirmish at New Orleans. He sat tight and fired his cannon at a stationary British force commanded by the stupidest officer in the British Army, then refused to leave safety to finish his little victory. That allowed the British to withdraw and regather, to capture an American fort a few days later, ready for the next round. So the British victory was the last action of the war.
The British held Canada with some ease (the object of the US) and once Britain defeated France, - the US major ally - the US was looking for peace. With her trade shattered and her maritime areas suffering, she could do little else.
British power in Canada and the Caribbean remained as it was as the US continued its aggression against Spain, a nation weakened by years of war.

@OnlyRhonda
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Now, now. That's not a nice thing to say about the brother-in-law of The Duke of Wellington.


Britain hardly used Canada as a base of power. But there was really no need to do so after the war. Peace was secured.


Remember the Maine!

@beckyromero It was Wellington who called him that. No other general would take the job in the Americas- not with the Congress of Vienna in full swing and the possibility of glory if Bonaparte returned.
And Canada remained Britain's power base in North America. Not that there were many soldiers stationed there (The British army was always tiny) - it was Canadian militia that saw off the 1867 invasion from south of the Border.

@HootyTheNightOwl
Being alive during the Viet Nam war in the late 60s & early 70s, scenes like that were normal to see on the news every night.

@Pfuzylogic That was 10-20 years before my time - and it still doesn't make the practice okay, either.

@HootyTheNightOwl
After you see it hundreds of times as a child you get desensitized when every adult around you doesn’t respond.

@Pitchblue

We should have sent Lorena Bobbitt to Afghanistan to teach Afghan women how to defend themselves against the Taliban.

WOMENS' RIGHTS. THAT should have been at the top of the list of our goals.

@beckyromero 20 years of training and the men ran away but surely the Women wouldn't run if they got the chance to cut off a penis.

@QuixoticSoul
Where have I heard that before?

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@beckyromero Sometimes it fits. One of the few honest things Trump said during his whole presidency.

@beckyromero
I am very aware of the posture of our country then considering I was an active CPO at the time.

@Pfuzylogic I guess that you forgot 9/11 already???

@HootyTheNightOwl
I am very aware of 9/11.