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John H[_2_]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:08:54 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:34:09 -0800, wrote:

And Obama is coming up on 2 years with no progress.
When we finally leave it is going to still be a **** hole ...
dominated by a stronger Taliban than there is now.
Every innocent person we kill results in dozens of new Taliban
members. Everyone in their extended family.
We have become the Soviets to them.

Two years of no progress because Bush left such a mess. We haven't
become the soviets... we might become them, but not so far.

I don't see any different policies or timetables coming out of this
administration. It is fun to blame Bush for everything but some ideas
are just fundamentally wrong, no matter who is doing it.
Our man in Kabul is negotiating with the Taliban as we speak so I
think the whole mission was a waste of time.
We keep fighting terrorism like it was a central government endeavor.
There is no central character or even a central organization. We are
fighting an idea and the next attack is as likely to come from
Indonesia or Africa as Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Today I heard there is an idea floating of doing away with the TSA. Probably be
the smartest thing we've done lately.
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Hope you're having a great day!

John H