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Sanity -> RE: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it (12/13/2009 12:56:57 PM)


While there may occasionally be a sliver of truth in some of what you write, I believe that your glass will always be half empty in this regard, Spinner. America can never do anything thats good, proper, or right in your eyes.


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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

Of course, the people we are working with as the "rightful" government is a repressive, corrupt administration that is so inefficient it makes the US government look like Wallmart. And that is just the offical government. Add the warlords who control large areas of the country and the idea of "restoring the rightful people to power" is pretty laughable.

We aren't liberating Afghanistan. We are occupying it. And the people of Afghanistan know it. That's why the Taliban has no problem gaining recruits




SpinnerofTales -> RE: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it (12/13/2009 2:21:30 PM)

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While there may occasionally be a sliver of truth in some of what you write, I believe that your glass will always be half empty in this regard, Spinner. America can never do anything thats good, proper, or right in your eyes.
ORIGINAL: Sanity



Please, sanity. Don't even go there. I love this country as much as you do if not more. To suggest that I do not think America can do anything right or proper is an offensive tactic at the best, an out an out lie told to advance your agenda at it's worst.

Going into Afghanistan to find the mastermind behind an attack on our soil was something I considered right and proper. Trying to do nation building in Afghanistan is not.

Trying to enforce the stability of a government such as they have in Afghanistan is not "a glass half empty or half full" situation. It's more a case of filling the glass with urine and hoping that if enough men with guns tell them it's lemonade, the local populace will start drinking it.





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