Rising Hegemon
Ten members of a medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday...
...Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press that they killed the foreigners because they were "spying for the Americans" and "preaching Christianity."
Naturally this demands at least six-more months of war -- and some more stupid bigotry in kind.
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This is too reminiscent of that scene in Apocalypse Now where Kurtz describes the hacked-off innoculated childrens' arms.
Get us out.
how do we get rid of this talistupid?
pansypoo
Naturally this demands at least six-more months of war -- and some more stupid bigotry in kind.
Wrong on both counts, Attaturk.
We (the US military and Western liberal principles) will be occupying Afghanistan much, much longer than six months. Think in terms of your great grandchildren's children.
And the very reason for that occupation is the bigotry of Islamism that has women as less value than farm animal stock with both you and I as dirty infidels.
pfft.
nay, at least five friedman units.
Ah, yes, O&A continues to defend the indefensible.
I eagerly anticipate his comments when another country occupies this out-of-control country of ours.
BTW, dickhead, our occupation of Afghanistan has got nothing to do with protecting the rights of women. It's about simple imperial force projection.
If it did, we wouldn't be killing nearly so goddamned many of them and then lying about it. Worse goes on every day in Saudi Arabia, with the approval of the monarchy there and its religious police, and we're not bombing them, are we?
Or maybe you just haven't seen the video of the Saudis hacking off the heads of women as punishment for adultery....
O&A, you're such a useful idiot.
When will thickheads realize Afgundownislam is NOT our land, the Afguns are NOT our subjects, Islamists tend to be satisfied with their religion and DON'T want to be converted.
So why not get the hell out? Vox
Worse goes on every day in Saudi Arabia, with the approval of the monarchy there and its religious police, and we're not bombing them, are we?
Montag,
As you might guess, I'm fully aware that Saudi Arabia is several measures worse than Afghanistan was or the taliban was before we invaded and occupied that country.
Here's the thing, though...
First, Afghanistan (taliban) was admittedly harboring OBL in the time after the 9/11 atrocities, and so the initial invasion had to take place there. And yes, I'm also aware that 15 of the 19 perpetrators on 9/11 were of Saudi origin.
Secondly, and perhaps more important is that the US gov't had to consider the repercussions of invading Saudi Arabia and whether or not that would have served OBL's ends moreso than it would have the US' interests. (ie OBL wins if oil flow is from the M.E. is halted and the world economy subsequently goes in the dumper)
......your same base argument is faulty because it doesn't take any of the bigger picture into account.
For instance, you could also argue that if the US attacked Saddam Hussein's Iraq they should also have also have attacked a worse threat such as lil' Kim in North Korea.
Montag. Let's suppose that you and I are playing a friendly game of chess and I'm winning (like I always do here at the blog) ;)
You, in your (usual) losing position complain in your shrill manner that I should have attacked your rook before I had attacked your bishop. The rook represents the larger threat and therefore should have been attacked beforehand, you say! .....I respond by gently explaining that I see the larger picture much clearer than you do (the reason I always win) and was able to see the strategic value of eliminating your bishop first, before your rook, and eventually your king.
They don't call it The Graveyard of Empires for nothing.
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O&A: It's not chess, asshole.
O&A: Even if you still think it's chess, the only person who thinks you're winning is you.
O&A: You're evading (pathetically, I might add) the obvious contradictions you tried to previously defend, so, you lose.
O&A: Your argument is specious. And silly. And stupid. But, I make considerations. You're a carbon-copy right-winger with the rhetorical skills of brain-damaged lab rat. The only person you're impressing is yourself.
But, keep it up. It's mildly entertaining.
Lessee: the Taliban is a product of the Mujahedeen, which was a CIA construct to counter the USSR is the 'Grand Game'; so, they were once our buddies and now they're fighting us and regressing to fundamentalism. US foreign policy created this mess. Our CIA trained OBL. (OBL probably met enough assholes like Olives and Arrows to turn on his paymasters in Langley). OnA tells us he's willing to send future generations of other people's children to fight a wars with other people's tax money (convenient) to fight a religious war?
To what effect? If the past is any indicator of future effects, more OBLs.
Yea for OnAs MicStock!
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