Bernie Sanders On This Week: Afghanistan Too Expensive To Support

[cal04]

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[tomm2thumbs]

1. thought he'd be more vocal than 'have a real problem with it'

guess I was mistaken

[freedom fighter jh]

2. I'm guessing he knows something we don't.

He says Afghanistan and Pakistan are important, but doesn't really say why. I doubt that it's just the same old this-is-where-Al-Qaeda-is, because I don't think Bernie would fall for that. The Senate may be privy to information they can't share.

[clear eye]

4. I don't think it's a secret. The area's a powder keg w/ Islamic Extremists in Pakistan

getting stronger by the minute. The danger is if they seize power in that country, they will be able to blackmail the world w/ their nuclear bomb. They might even ally w/ the much wealthier Iran and share nuclear weapons technology w/ them.

The only reason these groups have as much support as they do, and are as focused on violent confrontation w/ the West, rather than just on imposing sharia law on their own people, is that we invaded Iraq w/o provocation. Worked out very well, didn't it, Dick Cheney?

[debbierlus]

3. PAY ATTENTION: Lindsey Graham SUPPORTS Obama's Policy -

Sanders, not so much.

Whom do you trust?

What does this say about Obama's strategy?

[pansypoo53219]

5. um,

WHERE WAS THIS DISCUSSION ON IWAQ????

[bulloney]

6. The MSM gerbils had too much manpower covering Tiger Woods and his crisis.

They don't want to waste our beautiful minds on something as insignificant as Iraq.

[PDJane]

7. Afghanistan and Pakistan are important.

Energy supplies will have to pass through Afghanistan from the baltic states to be shipped to America. Pakistan can prevent that, and neither country is fond of the drones that kill "extremists" nor of the occupation of Afghanistan.

Islamic extremists aren't the problem; the US founded, funded and armed the Taliban and was allied to Bin Laden right up until 9/11. This is a fairy tale told to the gullible, and it is working.