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| quote: | Originally posted by Atmos
Understand that after we completed those objectives, others lay before us. Leaving a country poor, with very little leadership, and a weak government gives al-Qaeda and the Taliban an incredible chance to jump in and manipulate the people, perhaps even set up a huge safe haven or worse.
That would have eventually resulted in another trip back to Iraq later on.
Look at it like this: If you go into a store and you break something, the right thing to do is to buy it. You can't just leave the store. |
Or to put it in Bush and the neocon terms - you're a keystone cop who goes into the store with a fake search warrant because you think the store has been hiding something illegal, break everything you see, pretend that it wasn't you who broke it but that it was kinda like that in the first place, or that the dirty evildoer neighbor actually broke it all instead, then you pay your evildoing neighbors to put the pieces back together with their spit instead of actually fixing the pieces with glue or replacing them altogether, continue to pretend it wasn't you who broke it and continue to pretend that things were never broken and terrific the whole entire fucking time, all the while moving the objectives around of what actually needs to be fixed (everything) and pretending those goalposts/objectives were never being moved in the first place, and then having the fucking audacity to mock and yell names at the kid across the street who told you that your search warrant was bullshit in the first place, that the whole time it was you who fucking broke everything, and how much of a ridiculous mess you created and are pretending to "fix" things while actually setting things up for an even bigger mess later.
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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