aquart
aquart's JournalMeantime, China is moving in with contracts and bulldozers.
Without spending a dime on a bullet.
WE created the Taliban? Now that is colonial arrogance.
Those dumb brown people need white guys in suits or they can't do a damn thing.
How about they took advantage of the training we gave and cleverly used it for their own purposes?
Uh huh. The borders are pretty artificial and Taliban move back and forth.
Pakistan is a nuclear power. DO YOU REALLY THINK WE DON'T HAVE PERMISSION FOR THOSE DRONES?
Thanks for calling me a thug for acknowledging that super powers do bad things. I'd rather belong to the super power than a nation with no power.
Military fuck-ups are the essence of reality. I PREFER THE FUCK-UP THAT KILLS THE FEWEST AMERICANS.
How many Pakistanis do you think would be dead if we had sent in troops? Oh, I'm sorry, you want a perfect world.
Me, I want out of there. Let Russia, China, and India kill them. It's their neighborhood. Why should we be their mercenaries?
We're there because Russia, China and India do not want war with America. If we leave, the grab begins.
Cry over the little dead children. It's sad. Will you cry as much when they die by the millions? Will you insist we intervene?
In that region, they are experts at killing each other. We're amateurs by comparison.
They know the job is risky. But there are no other jobs.
No birth control either. So desperate families can spare a son or two who might be able to send some money home.
And every awful drone means an American soldier who wasn't asked to risk his life or his sanity.
Little girls pleading for their lives IN ENGLISH in a country that murders them for learning to read is a joke.
Dear Lord, you think WE taught that region to kill?
Not even that blood-drenched monster Alexander the Great had the guts to take them on.
Do we teach NO history in our schools?
At one point Japan was buying everything.
China is a fiscal nightmare. There have already been disruptions. And somebody has probably already noticed the complete betrayal of the communist rationale.
Investing in China is just a bet that you'll get your money out before all-out civil war.
Maybe it's time to think of Sandy as Grover Norquist's bathtub.
How many Americans drowned because his vicious oath prevented updated infrastructure, practical research designed to deal with climate change, and gutted inspection that might have suggested generators don't belong in hospital basements...
To save billionaires from necessary taxation, Norquist and his accomplices have stripped our preparedness leaving us naked to any kind of invasion: seawater, wind, disease....
Benghazi terrorists killed 4 Americans. Sandy did more than that on one block. No terrorist ever destroyed a city or ravaged a coastline. Katrina and Sandy did.
Let's get serious and put serious money where the real danger is.
Shocking though it might be, kosher is not the only Jewish "law."
Nor is New York's Muslim population impressive enough to earn specially-carved districts to get them their own legislators the way NYC finally did for Chinatown.
You will get your "halal" protection laws when the growing Muslim population is strong enough to make it an issue.
Or do you believe Muslims shouldn't have the same journey as every other immigrant group?
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