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   charliekane said, 2 months ago

   Ankle biter.

   (Not you, this time, Nandy).

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   rikoshayrabbit said, 2 months ago

   I guess nobody learned, after the Russians got their butts kicked, that the Afghans don’t welcome invaders. Looks like the Iraqis don’t groove on it either. There’s always a price to pay when you’ve got it in your head that you’re the rightful king of the world. Ask the English. They never know when to leave.

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   cdward said, 2 months ago

   Heard Gates on the radio - appears he doesn’t really know what the objective is. So how do you win a war when you don’t know what winning means?

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   M Henri Day said, 2 months ago

   I suggest that Mr Gates knows very well what the objective of the war in Afghanistan is - establishing and maintaining control of Central Asia - what in earlier times was called «the Great Game» and now is often referred to in terms of «Pipelinestan». But since a candid explanation of why the United States government is devoting enormous resources to killing people in a distant country would likely not, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, wake enthusiasm in a majority of the citizens of the US (who, after all, have to pay for it), other hopefull more publically palatable objectives must be found. Mr Gates fumbling would seem to show that this is no easy task, so he may perhaps be forgiven for not carrying it off terribly well….

   Henri