Comments (31) Jump to Comments Form

1. 

   Ken Warren said, 18 days ago

   Actually I am happy this is over, they have elected President, the country is “united”, Democracy has worked, lets go home, and let them fight out the details among themselves.

2. 

   toasteroven said, 18 days ago

   Come on, Ken. He only won after his primary opponent withdrew, and that was because he felt the election could never be fair. People are only accepting the results because they want to avoid the violence and death that seem to inevitably follow elections. Even if Karzai won the majority of votes, it’s hardly a victory for democracy.

3. 

   Ken Warren said, 18 days ago

   I guess I should have put quotation marks ” ” around Democracy.

   There is no Democracy there, there is no Victory there, there is no THERE, it is not a nation, or even a country, it is a collection of war-lords, Karzai was put into power by Cheney/Bush, who also started this war.

   There is no need for us to be there, let’s get out while we can. Staying there will only draw resources and lives from the real terrorist - who are in oil rich nations in the gulf not Afghanistan.

4. 

   toasteroven said, 18 days ago

   Hmm… while I think I disagree with you on the no nation thing, I suppose I did misunderstand what you said about democracy.

   But how do you propose to deal with deal with those oil rich nations like Saudi Arabia, when we need them so much? Yeah, they support terrorists, but we’re pretty connected to those in Saudi Arabia, whether we like it or not*. Do you think it will be easy to sever those ties?

   *Fun fact! When I was in college, I lived in a house with a couple of guys from Saudi Arabia. They were immensely rich, but they still lived in the US because, A: An American education is worth quite a lot, and B: American citizenship is worth even more. Someone with dual Saudi-American citizenship can get away with quite a lot in their home country. Find a way to deal with that, if you please.

5. 

   ANandy said, 18 days ago

   BozOTUS must now concoct another excuse to reverse himself from the “right war”, one the US must win rhetoric. BozOTUS is famous for shooting from the hip in order to gain a momentary political advantage without regard for the reality of the policy he is advocating.

6. 

   Craig Linder said, 17 days ago

   I’ve come to the conclusion that ANandy is really just a computer algorithm linked to a database of catch phrases. Mindless is the only way to describe his/her unthinking, contentless repetition.

7. 

   Tigger said, 17 days ago

   Hey, ANandy, you have the WRONG PREZ! You need to direct this toward Idiot Bush who took Troops from Afgahn and Invaded the WRONG Country! Before you start on but Saddam had to be stopped beaue he was killing Iraqis, Guess What, Saddam was kiling Iraqis duirng the 12 years 2 Republian Presidents support Sddam 10% from 1981-1993! Why are you not Blasting RR and HWB for supporting 2 Terrorists for 12 years? Yes, they also Supported Osama! Hey Anandy, why do you support Repubians Supporting Terrorism?

8. 

   MurphyHerself said, 17 days ago

   You can always flag him.

9. 

   JDG said, 17 days ago

   “Him” is a “Her”

10. 

    churchillwasright said, 17 days ago

    What are the libs picking on ANANDY for? What he said is absolutely correct. Obama ran on rhetoric that Afghanistan was the correct and moral war. No surprise that libs are so willing to forget that FACT in their desire to withdraw.

    I spelled this out with a similar analysis on Benson three days ago, and except for OMQ, who said my points were interesting, not one of you mealy mouths had a word of rebuttal, because you know what I said was absolutely true.

    So instead of debating what ANANDY (or I) said, we got one person saying “shut up”, two people calling him/her stupid, and another saying to flag. How about I flag for changing the topic from Afghanistan to Iraq?

11. 

    dtroutma said, 17 days ago

    church, going after Al Qaeda was the right “effort”, not the “war”. I can’t say attacking the whole country (to build a pipeline) was either moral, or correct, but we were already there and walked out without doing the job the first time around. The Taliban is an organization of jerks, but most Afghans, and Pakistanis, and other “moderate” Muslims, don’t buy their line, but we essentially put them in power when the Russians left.

    Our “foreign policy” under Cheney/Bush was if we saw a splinter in someone’s toe, we amputated the leg. We also seemed to pay off a lot of malpractice lawyers to handle the consequences.

12. 

    wbr said, 17 days ago

    karzai learn from best – bho and acorn

13. 

    longtimecomicsfan said, 17 days ago

    Make that GWB and the SCOTUS

14. 

    annamargaret1866 said, 17 days ago

    I’m not sure it would be any worse if we pulled out and let them squabble amongst themselves.

15. 

    DrCanuck said, 17 days ago

    The moment America pulls out, Karzai and his people will be butchered.

    It’s very dangerous to be an enemy of the U.S.

    It’s even worse to be a friend.

16. 

    Corosive Frog said, 17 days ago

    Obama was right when he said Afghanistan was the right war. The question is, can it be won now?

17. 

    Tecolote said, 17 days ago

    Who are we to teach democracy to a place where it has not existed for centuries? Has God given us the task of teaching or enforcing democracy to others? In short, lets get out of there and other many countries where we are doing the same and focus in our own problems. Our children, our erderly and our poor are paying dearly for this stupid endeavour. Lets allocate the billions we stupidly spend to reinforce our own safety inside the US. Our country will again be the greatest in the world.

18. 

    HUMPHRIES said, 17 days ago

    Gotta just love the ANandy, churchy waltz. Never a boring day with these two around.

19. 

    Ken Warren said, 17 days ago

    I’m new at this so what the hell is a “FLAG?”

20. 

    churchillwasright said, 17 days ago

    TROUT: Thank you for your reply. You didn’t really tackle the fact that Obama, who is as much an idealogical dove as you, ran as a pro-Afghan war hawk in an effort to sway independents who worried he was weak on defense, but at least you gave it an effort.

    As compared to:

    HUMPHRIES, whose debating skills can use some work.

21. 

    benbrilling said, 17 days ago

    Anandy, you know the more you repeat your inane misspelling of the president’s name/title, the more stupid you appear (not that your words aren’t sufficient}. It isn’t clever and it never was.

22. 

    Pacejv said, 17 days ago

    I’m with Ken…what is a flag and why does post and that other thing stick around on my stuff?

23. 

    Pacejv said, 17 days ago

    OH…I m meaning edit Comment and delete…why does it stick?

24. 

    ahab said, 17 days ago

    Ken, the flag shows up under each post once you have signed on. The Flag is used for flagrant language or content. Children do see this website and some inappropriate comments dust the posts unfortunately. Trolls drop some real road apples! Clicking on the flag should alert UCLICK to a remark considered beyond the pale.

25. 

    churchillwasright said, 17 days ago

    And others would misuse it as a form of censorship, as MURPHYHERSELF would.

26. 

    4uk4ata said, 16 days ago

    Well, afaik flagging simply brings a post to the attention of the mods, whoever they are. If they think something is inappropriate, they can remove it.

    I flagged two posts once after people started being exceedingly impolite to each other. I think family members were involved.

27. 

    HARVIN GWIN said, 16 days ago

    Flagging anything is cowardly and shameful…like scotty boy freitas.

28. 

    straytski said, 16 days ago

    Poor Prez Obama, “He’s just like me….”

29. 

    cdward said, 16 days ago

    Harvin, I disagree that flagging is cowardly and shameful. If someone is abusing the site, there needs to be a mechanism for stopping the abuse. And some folks have been beyond the pale.

30. 

    comYics said, 15 days ago

    I didnt really understand that “Yes we can” speech anyway. Im thinking it was only for support. Thats kinda pathetic.

    “Yes we can”! Stop paying taxes?
    “Yes we can”! Stop giving jobs to foreign countries so that Americans can work?

31. 

    M Henri Day said, 13 days ago

    I find this cartoon a tad self-serving, in that Mr Auth - not for the first time - ignores the painful but obvious fact that Mr Karzai would never have become «president» of Afghanistan, had not the United States government/military placed him in that position. What all this has to do with the ancient Greek concept of «democracy» is beyond my grasp….

    Henri