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http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-vows-revenge-after-al-qaida-beheads-aid-worker-michel-germaneau/19568739?test=latestnews>>>>>
>>>>>I wish the French well. DGSE knows how to play rough and this a part of the world where they are very much at home.
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>>>>Imagine if a recent U.S. president (I won't mention the obvious) had actually used the word
revenge...
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>>>>Still, that story is truly tragic and a perfect example of how utterly crazy extremists are and what would be left for those in two countries if we just picked up and left as some here think should be done.
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>>>You know in the end you're going to leave and so are we. And the net benefit of all the deaths and the money spent will be pretty near zero.
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>>On this I fear you may be right.
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>There is precedent for long-term US involvement overseas - South Korea, to name one.
Yeah, but they have a government and a country. I do think we are at Baghram to stay and maybe a few other places and I'm sure there are some deals in Iraq that are long term. But it is a different model that Korea.
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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
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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