So the Dutch are pulling out,
Canada is starting its pullout and it will be complete next summer?
US is there until 2017 or something - any other bets on who will leave and when?
PS no Osama, no Mullah Omar??? What gives? Or maybe that would of ended the war earlier and people in certain places didn't want that. Al Qaeda went from a backyard mostly unknown organization to world spanning terrorist Empire. What did the war accomplish other than way tighter security in the US and abroad?
Mar-07-2010 22:02
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
yeah, they're deliberately not catching osama because they want to stay there, due to the inordinate amount of success the war is having, and how wonderfully cheap its been to wage.
this is why people with severe mental conditions don't formulate foreign policy.
Mar-08-2010 00:38
Comrade Stalin
Uncle Joe
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Purging Traitors
I really wish Obama hadn't upped the ante in Afghanistan. It's like mortgaging your house so you can help the homeless hobo on the street become a banker. It ain't happening.
Mar-08-2010 03:41
Spam
OMG Hai2U!
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
quote:
Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
I really wish Obama hadn't upped the ante in Afghanistan. It's like mortgaging your house so you can help the homeless hobo on the street become a banker. It ain't happening.
Much better to just tax the house and give the proceeds to the hobo to buy more booze.
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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.
Mar-08-2010 03:47
Zharen
Put down the plate
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: On a spit of sand we call Earth
quote:
Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
I really wish Obama hadn't upped the ante in Afghanistan. It's like mortgaging your house so you can help the homeless hobo on the street become a banker. It ain't happening.
If Obama rescinds on his decision to pull all troops out from Iraq by end of 2011, I'll actually vote Republican.
Mar-08-2010 07:20
Comrade Stalin
Uncle Joe
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Purging Traitors
quote:
Originally posted by Zharen
If Obama rescinds on his decision to pull all troops out from Iraq by end of 2011, I'll actually vote Republican.
Well, he reiterated his promise during his speech for Iraq's second Parliamentary election this week. So I think we're still still good on that
Mar-08-2010 08:33
D-res
Hangin from Sagan's uvula
Registered: May 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Re: NATO's Withdrawl from Afghanistan
quote:
Originally posted by ********
What did the war accomplish other than way tighter security in the US and abroad?
We may have a strangle-hold on much of the world but occupying countless nation-states doesn't usually lead to friendship. If anything, having more enemies means we're much less secure.
