Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 09, 2014

Get a manicure also, you deserve it.

Just more obviously victims than the ones at home.

The “narco” part of the “corrupt, failed narco-state” had virtually been extinguished by the Taliban. Afghanistan’s poppy farming industry practically began de novo again in 2002. (So did the corruption, actually. The Taliban were brutal, semiliterate tribal mullahs, but they were not corrupt, and this is one major reason they had a LOT of early support; kind of like Pol Pot initially had in Cambodia, come to think of it.)

@dukedougYep, and you’ve probably heard the old saying: “War is good business; invest your sons and daughters.”

@ Joliet JakeAs a Viet vet, I’m grateful to the antiwar protesters. Otherwise we may still be fighting over there. And then there was Dubya who replied when asked on his visit to Vietnam if there was a lesson to be learned, “Stay the course.”

what was the real quote on Gates-Obama? Did Obama really admit his Afghanistan stand was all political? Hmmm.

Where do you get that? The poverty level is lower.

@Joliet JakeI knew a guy who spent two and a half years in high school as a senior just to avoid the draft. Smart.

Just remember, they’re fighting “for America.” Which nowadays means they’re fighting because an American told them to.

Gates didn’t say Obama’s stand on Afghanistan was “political”. He said it was focused on getting us out. And this was bad…why?.If Gates was so opposed to everything Obama and Biden did, it makes me wonder why he stayed on so long.Very disappointing, I thought Gates was better than a tattletale book during the Administration he served.

Re: Viet Nam and that era, I finally got around to reading a Sept. 29, 2013 book review, and it was chilling: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/the-blood-telegram-by-gary-j-bass.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/F/Filkins,%20Dexter?ref=dexterfilkins&_r=0

Why would a Doonesbury character need a pedicure? They don’t have feet.

The draft ended my sr. yr. in hs

It’s already been going on for more than 1,000 it’s just that you haven’t noticed.

Still, a time over territory graph of the Uma over the last 100 years in particular shows gains almost unprecedented despite the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Not that I believe anything from the Moonie News, but that’s what happens after recessions: the poverty rate goes up.I guess the President was supposed to fix that on inauguration day, but the Grand Old Boat Anchor Party had other plans.

I wonder if her sidekick is dating over there since she’s at least an 8 by lowered expectations over there!!!! The lucky girl must get advances from both genders!!!

“Draft and deploy Miley Cyrus and the Kardashian clan, if that’s the only way to get America’s attention.”-Plus, two or three twerks from now, the Taliban would be headed back home to Pakistan where they belong.-Still, it seems like cruel punishment and we HAVE committed to ENDING use of torture.

“If John McCain had been elected President, it would have lasted a hundred years.”-I could be wrong, but the way I took it, Senator McCain meant we would likely still have a presence, not that we would be fighting. I didn’t vote for him but not because of that misunderstanding.We are still in Germany for reasons beyond my understanding, but we aren’t fighting there.

McCain’s comment was actually about Iraq – remember those good old days?In either case, what makes us think the indigenous peoples would let us stay there and not fight? They (the average people) really didn’t care for us to be there, as opposed to the rulers, who would love to have us prop them up.

“The Plutocrats have been busy since 1980 to drive our economy into the ground and eliminate the Middle Class which first appeared here in 1945.”-So you think al-Qaida is composed of Plutocrats?

Actually, I do remember hearing that one of al-Quaeda’s goals was to destroy our economy. bush fell right into the trap.

“So why do you bring a non-sequitur into it?”-How can it be a non-sequitur when they claim to wish to do what you say the Plutocrats are trying to do?The only reasonable explanation is that you believe all Plutocrats are al-Qaida and vice versa.

“The President responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks is President Ronald Reagan, had he not supplied Osama with more bullets in 1985, Russia would have killed Osama when he ran out of bullets and September 11, 2001 never would have happened.”-True.-However, by extention, whichever President didn’t assassinate Osama’s great-great grandmother is actually responsible, because that would have stopped it too.

“We are also still in Korea near the North/South Korean Border.”-Yep, my father was on the south side of that line. Placed there so he would be killed in the event of an invasion. The plan was that it would force American to get in the fight. The same was true for our presence in West Germany; if the USSR invaded, Americans would be killed and join in the fight to oppose them.-Politicians, gotta love ’em.

As a great armchair strategist what would you have done on 9/12/2001?

I guess more soldiers have to die before anyone will care that we are still there

“Too bad Justin Bieber is Canadian.” As a Canadian, I have to agree

And I guess the PLUTOCRATS are workaholics as they devote their everything to controlling us?

Jen is a true American feminist. “We don’t do these things because they are hard, we do them because they are easy and cheap.”