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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

   Sometimes reality gets lost in the shuffle and explosions and screams of pain.
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   Richard S. Russell said, 5 months ago

   I’m glad Garry Trudeau is still paying attention to the idiotic war in Afghanistan, because fersher nobody in DC is. Why are we still there? Why were we EVER there? Really, couldn’t we have found a better place to spend a trillion bux?
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   pbarnrob said, 5 months ago

   @Richard S. Russell

   There are ‘US Interests’ that need to get at the Lithium in them thar hills, and the gas and oil pipeline still to be built from the Caspian down toward the coast.
   The Empire has to have that country in full control for any of that to happen, din’tcha know?
   Even if it has to be empty of the tribes that happen to be there now… An old old story retold.
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   thebird55 said, 5 months ago

   @Richard S. Russell

   You would think we would have learned something from the USSR’s experience over there. Who knows, if it weren’t for the expense of that debacle, they might not have given up the idea of countering SDI so quickly.
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   Pacopuddy said, 5 months ago

   @thebird55

   You’d think EVERYBODY would have learn something from Britain’s experience there a couple of centuries ago – mo-one beats the Afghanis on their own ground. Ever.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 5 months ago

   The native Afghanistan army becomes more and more like our own Continental Army at the time of the American Revolution against the Brits.
   

   
   The “graveyard of empires” proves to be the graveyard of the New American Empire. Compliments of Dubya Bush, Dick Cheney, Donny Rumsfeld, Dick Perle, Bob Kagen, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, Douggie Feith, Condi Rice, Scooter Libby, Billyboy Kristol, John John Bolton, etc., etc., etc.
   

   
   But Jeff Redfern, self-seduced by megalomania, rescues everything with THE RED RASCAL.
   

   
   And THE RED RASCAL seduces this doofus-in-the-NAVY-tee into following his own fey imagination off the mental cliff . . . .
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 5 months ago

   Wannabe legend-in-his-own-mind wears a NAVY tee into LANDLOCKED land Afghanistan where no U.S. carrier fleet would ever dare to tread.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 5 months ago

   @Richard S. Russell

   The last US troops are expected to be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2013.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 5 months ago

   If only Afghan WOMEN could rise up en masse and overthrow that bloodthirsty patriarchy!!
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    jeffc42 said, 5 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    There are still Navy people there. Individual Augmentees are assigned to all sorts of landlocked places. Like AF people driving convoys. Also hospital people go there frequently.
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    bawana said, 5 months ago

    It may be the graveyard of empires, but the difference is all the other empires(except the USSR0 didn’t have the ultimate solution at their fingertips……….
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    Larry said, 5 months ago

    @Pacopuddy

    Alexander
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    Larry said, 5 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    I thought we were leaving 30-40,000 behind.
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    Astolat said, 5 months ago

    @Pacopuddy

    Certainly not if they get distracted by attacking Iraq at the same time…
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    Finbar Gurdy said, 5 months ago

    @pbarnrob

    Don’t forget the poppies….
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