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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/06/us.afghanistan.karzai/index.html>>>>>>
>>>>>>This makes steam come out of my ears. Are eight years and untold billions of dollars not patience enough? Here is the leader of one of the most corrupt governments in the world, the "winner" of an election this fall that was so crooked it would have made the old Soviets blush, and he's lecturing us. Unbelievable.
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>>>>>>Someone please remind me why we care about Afghanistan beyond taking out the terrorists who are there. We can do that without having to put up with lectures from tinhorn dictators.
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>>>>>Don't be angry him. He just the "voice of his master". Read this article:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/20/saigon_2009>>>>>
>>>>>Taliban will be next at Afghanistan. Noone can change that truth.
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>>>>Well, we can. Obama and other U.S. officials are already putting pressure on both Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Taliban have been retreating to resupply. Obama told the Pakistani president directly that if they don't do anything about the Taliban in his country, we will. I agree with him that we have spent too much time screwing around with countries that take our money and then do little or nothing.
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>>>You already did someting at Pakistan. You killed civillians...
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>>Some, Sorry about that. It wouldn't happen if Al Qaeda fighters didn't hide among them.
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>You're right. Very unreasonable of them to conceal themselves like that. Maybe we should do a deal, they stop hiding amongst the civilian population and our guys wear day glo jackets with targets on the back.
Actually our guys wear uniforms ( except for a few of maybe the most effective <s>) If they would wear uniforms too that would probably cover it.
Asymetric warfare is a fascinating thing. Remember the absolute outrage over the (later proved false) allegations that US troops at Guatanamo or someplace had somehow disrespected the Koran? ... by the folks who are slaughtering innocents in bombing and shooting up mosques during prayer all over Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan ?
No moral high ground. Just war - there can never be anything "moral" about that. You just try win and get it over with.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
