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Forum: General Talk
11-29-2009, 10:15 AM
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Huh? I don't recall that.
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Forum: General Talk
11-29-2009, 07:10 AM
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Forum: General Talk
11-28-2009, 04:07 PM
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What I can't understand is why we Americans can't grasp the simple truth that people resist foreign occupation. It's not, you know, like we find the prospect so appealing. :confused:
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Forum: General Talk
11-28-2009, 05:58 AM
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Forum: General Talk
11-26-2009, 10:23 AM
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"A cooperative & pliable Afghanistan" Yeah--good luck with that.
The discussion of option 2 is flawed: Afghanistan may be a dysfunctional state but it ain't no vacuum, it's a black hole. Every power which has tried to fill the apparent "vacuum" has been sucked in to enormously costly failure. At worst Afghanistan can be a nuisance: it will not be a threat.
We should focus on the disruption/eradication of Al-Queada without regard to national borders and leave the Afghanis to sort out local governance without interference. The idea that the US &/or Europeans can be successful at "nation building" in such a foreign cultural context is ludicrous.
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