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I have no doubt that we will leave Afghanistan as losers in their war. A very wrong turn.
Posted to Fighting Words by david wayne osedach on July 18, 2009
Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law
International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009
UN is Cover for Foreign Intrusion in Somalia
Somalia has oil. More accurately, American firms have 'force de majeure' over Somalia oil rights since the presidency of Siad Barre. These underlying facts provide the pretext not only for the first Bush intervention supposedly to prevent mass starvation, but for the second Bush intervention by proxy of Ethiopian overthrow of the United Islamic ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on February 17, 2009
Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008
Re: Declare war on Pakistan
GreenwichJ: . The Pashtun up in the North West see Punjabi government in Islamabad as almost as foreign as Nato forces in Afghanistan, and will happily kill Punjabis with impunity. Not to belabour a cliche, but violence really is the only language they understand. To beat the Taliban we need to pour troops over the border, clear and burn the ...
Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on September 23, 2008
Let's Escape Afghanistan and Iraq
3,000 Americans have been killed by terrorism in ten years. We've invested a trillion dollars in various wars here in the last 8 years. We've lost 4000 soldiers in those wars. Contrast this with 600,000 dead of infections in hospitals. We took 2,600 FBI who were prosecuting normal crime to fighting terrorism. The murder rate is way up. We took 5 ...
Posted to War Stories by bb_me on September 22, 2008
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
Why bother?
Why should we fight in either Afghanistan or Iraq, when Bush has said--publically, on the record--that Bin Laden doesn't concern him anymore? ''Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Wordman on July 15, 2008
Dear God
I am sorry to have to bother you, but after receiving no response from Santa -even after repeated attempts- and thereafter Jesus, who apparently snubbed all of my letters (not taking the time to respond even once), I felt it was necessary to forward my letter to you. Sorry to usurp your time. I am writing to inform you of what I would like ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Bezdomny on December 4, 2007
Re: Hitchens Iraq delusions continue
On the AlQaeda in Iraq point, it should be mentioned that even ahead of the US-led invasion, some authoritative (although not so mainstream media) commentators and analysts were pointing out that one of the possible hopes in the event of an Iraq invasion was that it would move the likely arena for AlQaeda attacks to Iraq -- and thus well outside ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ex-reader on August 28, 2007

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