>The United States military airdropped 2.4 million Pop-Tarts in Afghanistan during the initial attack in 2001.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tarts
Why did they bomb the Taliban with Pop Tarts?
>The United States military airdropped 2.4 million Pop-Tarts in Afghanistan during the initial attack in 2001.
to show them what they're missing out on
Pop tarts taste like shit, especially if untoasted. Frankly I'd think the perfidious Amerikansky were trying to poison us or at the very least that their food was awful and that this is what we could expect by joining them
>Pop tarts taste like shit, especially if untoasted.
They were pretty alright in 2001.
Same issue you see with frozen mini-pizzas now, companies cheaped out on the ingredients.
the smores flavor is amazing tho. best kind of junk food there is.
The last time I ate a pop tart was around 2005 and it tasted like someone had smeared expired raspberry jam on a piece of cardboard and microwaved it. Absolutely disgusting hog feed.
From all the things you could have dropped THIS shit?
The cinnamon ones are great
It was to provide civilians with food aid. The 2000s were an incredibly stupid, surreal time and you had to be there.
This. "Hearts and Minds" was a desperate attempt to convert US logistical and strategic resources towards something other than what it is designed to do - i.e. defeat enemies. Military because the thrall of the State Department, and arguably still is because of that.
*became
I can tell you’re stupid because because it’s Department of State
The best way to win hearts and minds would be to not invade at all or not side with the literal pederasts of the ANA.
The US supported the Taliban and Jihad against the Soviets. The Soviets also allied with the ANA, also lost. The US did the exact same thing, expecting a different outcome.
The result is the anti-government Patriot movement, from those same veterans. The war came home.
>The US supported the Taliban and Jihad against the Soviets.
No they didn't. The US supported Massoud's people, the ones that would become the Taliban were supported by Pakistan through the ISI.
nah they supported others too
The Taliban didn't exist yet when the Soviet-Afghan War went on.
The Northern Alliance did though, which is what he said.
>The war came home
No it hasn't anon, there's not even one minor anti-gov insurgency operating in America on either side of the spectrum
t. never heard about the Berlin Airlift
Completely different circumstance. West Berlin already wanted our help against the Soviets, the Afghans wanted nothing to do with us.
No it was because of post cold war era propaganda when the west convinced itself it won because it was the "goodies" rather than because it was economically more powerful than the USSR. This flawed logic convinced a generation that geopolitical competition was about "goodies" and "baddies" rather than actual interests.
its just fraud to try and justify the oversized US military, the enemy it was designed to fight never existed.
I was there. I was 10, but I was there.
>The 2000s were an incredibly stupid, surreal time and you had to be there.
shit was hilarious
Well, the world as we knew it ended with 9/11, and the consequences of the moronation that ensued (Iraq, Afghanistan, patriot act...) are still resonating worldwide.
Jokes on them, they were all the cherry kind.
>Thats our terrorist, Abdulah, he likes to blow up towers.
>ALLUH AKBAR
>Yes, but can he tell why kids love the flavor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Are you saying we used corporate marketing strategies to fight terrorists?
Not to fight terrorists directly, but to convince the people we bombed and whose brothers we killed that we're actually the good guys and all we want to do is build a school for their daughters.
And their sons.
Stop pretending that uplifting Afghanistan from 200AD wasn't a noble aspiration, even if it was doomed, you contrarian stain on humanity.
>noble aspiration
>even if it was doomed
See, you yourself admit it was not going to work. Because Afghans never wanted it. That Wilsonian bullshit of installing democracy has no place in military operations. I would have rather thousands of lives and trillions of dollars had not been wasted on people I don't give a rats ass about, whether it was to help them or hurt them.
'Oh no the poor Afghans don't know the joys of suburbia and Starbucks, all measures should be spent to educate them!' is moronation. Some people are going to spend their lives in old buildings with dirt floors, that's just how primitives are. Afghanistan had its modernization attempt in the mid 20th century and they chose to return to monke. We should not feel obligated to help those who do not want to help themselves. If they had asked, sure, I could see the benefit in trying. They didn't ask, they didn't want it. And thousands of Americans died for the vain attempt to let Afghan girls vote. Frick that, frick Afghanistan, frick your noble aspirations, and frick you.
Asymmetrical biological warfare via food poisoning.
>/Pop-Tarts
Probably haram. Warcrime.
next time we should drop these on them. they are fricking delicious
>Why did they bomb the Taliban with Pop Tarts?
Killing them with diabetus.
i think pop tarts are in the humanitarian ration
They are. Never laughed so hard, the humanitarian is like 3 cookies and a poptart.
they were a decent change of pace after eating mres for 6 months straight.
I guess if you're tired and starving, sugar can't be all bad and something tasty is welcome.
unironically sugar after a long time without eating or having anything sweet is pretty much a cheat code to making dopamine, I didn't eat for a week because I was bored and broke the fast with a small sugar cookie and it floored me how great I felt. (this is assuming you have other stuff to slow down a crash)
If you are literally starving as in severely malnourished, eating high sugar content foods will just kill you outright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome
To make the enemy fat so they would be disadvantaged
They're CRAZY GOOD
> Air dropping toaster pastries on a country without toasters or electricity
This perfectly sums up the 20 year war in Afghanistan.
They were probably trying to get them hooked on sugar.
>Afghans fighting in an arid area
>limited drinking water
>body is primed for insulin levels corresponding to slightly sweet fruit
>drop pure refined corn syrup
>on chronically dehydrated fighters
>they eat it
>enter hyperglycemic shock
>collapse
>die of exposure
It's biological warfare.
When I lived in a Muslim country pop tarts were kept in the section behind the curtain with the bacon and stuff
what? why
Must have been something haram in them. Was kind of weird going to get my 20 dollar bacon and seeing them there
Some are not halal due to use of gelatin derived from pork. Rather than try and distinguish which is which they probably just write off the entire brand.
As for why we would air drop them? Dense, cheap, durable, and generally regarded as tasty across a wide variety of cultural palettes.
It’s where a man belongs
>.m
go back
kys, phoneposter
>Why did they bomb the Taliban with Pop Tarts?
They were trying to give them diarrhea.
To give it to civies. Its no different from americans airdropping shit in berlin when the Soviets took over.
>Why did they bomb the Taliban with Pop Tarts?
they dropped food aid packages that contained pop tarts, along with other food. it wasn't just pop tarts
You gotta get in the CIA MIND
1.kristina Aguilara 24/7
2. Poptarts only for starving people
Cherry
Every fricking day
Early in the morning
Early in the evening
Early ar super Time
Pop tarts cherry
Wedding cake
Pop tart cherry
Food for fasting
No pop tart cherry
Let's say you get crazy on and decide you want a coke or Pepsi to wash down the poptart
You get a cup of
Crushed poptart
Cherry
You want some water (pop tart cherry)?
Your wife needs glasses to see at school? Here's some cherry pop tarts
COVID pop tart cherry shots. Just smashing them on you.
Oh no al queda is raiding your village? Quick here's some pop tarts!they are cherry!
Maybe this was the inspiration for Nyan Cat. Its body sort of looks like a pop tart.
It is a pop tart.
To feed Paul Harrell who was spelunking there at the time.
They hated us for our freedumb.
>pop-tarts
Daily remainder that this is what the average pop-tart enthusiast looks like
is he going to shoot me too?
The first and hopefully last time I had a Poptart must have been 5 years ago. I ordered a bunch of murrican candy stuff to test. Best was Twinkies, but we have much better alternatives to those in my country. Absolute worst was Poptarts, overpriced garbage that even managed to kill my friend's toaster (lmao) when it got stuck. It tasted horrible, both cold and toasted.
goddamn that webm is sick, wagies btfo
were they fruit-flavored? those are the worst pop-tarts imo, they just can't get them to taste right. The chocolate-based ones however are pretty good, especially smores-flavored.
Because some politician on the Defense Budget Committee owned a lot of stock in Kellogg’s.