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  1. RussellNash

    RussellNash said, about 1 month ago

    In a place where the average lifespan is under 30 years, 8 years is a long time. The real chance to do something was back in the first year.

  2. cdward

    cdward said, about 1 month ago

    Call a Loya Jirga and let the chieftains decide whether they want us to stay.

  3. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I propose sending 1,000 teachers and 1,000 Peace Corps. volunteers to spend two years establishing 50 Peace Camps where we give the Afgan people what the want and need.
    The military will provide security. A SPecial Forces will be available to find Al Qaeda. The Rest of the military and private war contractors must leave at once!

  4. iamthelorax

    iamthelorax said, about 1 month ago

    Bob:Canada has been doing similar things for a while. As soon as the military leaves the Taliban comes in, burns the new school and beats on the residents into submission.

    So I like your idea, except that the Taliban needs to be hunted as much as Al Qaeda.

  5. charlie555

    charlie555 said, about 1 month ago

    Logical Fallacy: circumstantial ad hominem

    a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest.

  6. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    DUMP THEM ALL AND START OVER

  7. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Next panel: … until the 2010 election campaigns begin then we’ll attack Dems for getting us into a Vietnam-like quagmire.

  8. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Why the Elephant? Not one Republican vote is necessary for anything…
    Pull our forces out and let the people of Afghanistan have a refresher course in what there trying to decide between…Then we might get more cooperation.

  9. rekam

    rekamGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    TheophilusPup, as long as the Taliban don’t come back in and destroy everything again.

  10. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

    Too late, they already control everything but the American forts.

  11. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, about 1 month ago

    If you want Afghanistan to be right do it the way Charlie Wilson did it. Hire rebels to take out the Taliban and THIS TIME build schools to teach them to be civilians again.

    But of course what they’ll do instead is drop bomb after bomb, send in soldiers to try and kill these guys as well as their civilians and we’ll end up with another Vietnam.

  12. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

    To dream….the impossible dream…..