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originally posted by: Nunyabizisit
Right now under attack from democrats desperate to defend what joe just did.
originally posted by: GravitySucks
There was never going to be any easy way out, no matter who did it or when or how, and the bitch of it all is that we both overreacted and knew this going in.
We could discuss this forever and get nowhere. We can point fingers, criticize, and armchair quarterback until we're blue in the face.
Or, we could have just patiently waited as each president pushed it along to the next, but what would that have bought anyone other than more political fodder and more money for the MIC?
A war on terrorism cannot target a particular country or countries. That's not how it works. But this wasn't really that, was it?
England tried and failed. Russia tried and failed. The U.S. tried and failed. Now Russia's probably going to try again.
No one's real reason was terrorism, the Afghani people, or any other BS excuse they gave us. Nope. It was all about the opportunities world status controlling the pipelines to Asia offered up.
And China, Russia, and Pakistan all lurk in the shadows grinning, all the while pulling the strings that benefit them.
If you decide to stay,I might offer you some milk and cookies!
originally posted by: AndreDoLouro
a reply to: Nyiah
Thanks for the link, and yes Afghanistan has been called the "Graveyard of Empires" with good reason. It will be interesting to see if Russia will have (or want to have) another go at the place, now that they have left for their own hills, rested (at least from Afghanistan), and watched their competitors bloody each other.
originally posted by: AndreDoLouro
a reply to: MonsterGirl
To put my thoughts and questions more concisely:
It is one thing for the Soviets to learn the way of the Afghan as a defensive strategy as the Afghans do it in Afghanistan.
It is another thing for the Soviets (and Russia, now) to lift that defensive strategy, and then to create some kind of offensive strategy from it.
originally posted by: GravitySucks
a reply to: Nunyabizisit
Tell me honestly. If any past president had done this, would the results have been different?
Sometimes there is no easy choice at all.
originally posted by: GravitySucks
originally posted by: Nunyabizisit
Right now under attack from democrats desperate to defend what joe just did.
This is a geopolitical issue that goes far, far beyond the petty American political party squabbles.
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
a reply to: SLAYER69
Slayer brought out all sorts of new posters lol