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2012-04-01 Afghanistan

Afghanistan wants answers on long-term US military bases

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Posted by Steve White 2012-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 High price for what? Look Inside at home for the real answer!

Posted by Shitch Glomonter3410 2012-04-01 07:51|| 2012-04-01 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Anybody know about a group of Federal government workers at all levels that believe in Nostradamus and are communists if not just brain dead and want to topple the country?

Posted by Hupomons Sneating9582 2012-04-01 07:53|| 2012-04-01 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 "Ultimately, it is we who are responsible for our security.

Have at it you goat buggering SOB's!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-04-01 08:12|| 2012-04-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 translation: keep the troops, but send the cash. lots of cash.
and we probably will.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-04-01 11:31|| 2012-04-01 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, that sounds about right.

Posted by tu3031 2012-04-01 11:39|| 2012-04-01 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Graveyard of Empires....but the other ones were at least aware when they left that it was a sucking sump of 9th century tribalism and a fetis swamp of Islamic lunacy. We on the other hand, will leave and continue to send these people money we borrow from the Chinese because we really are that stupid inside the beltway where our leaders exist in some kind of Twighlight Zone altered reality.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2012-04-01 12:16|| 2012-04-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I vote for no bases after we leave, and we will just commute from Diego Garcia.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2012-04-01 19:35|| 2012-04-01 19:35|| Front Page Top

#8 at least we have an environmentally safe weapons disposal area now....

Posted by Frank G 2012-04-01 20:01|| 2012-04-01 20:01|| Front Page Top

#9 As per FREEREPUBLIC, the CPUSA is suing the Democratic Party for ideo + agenda theft.

OOOOOOOO, you just know you'll need to bring extra extra Popcorn to the Ninth Court.

LOL.

As for AFGHANISTAN ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REOPENING NATO SUPPLY ROUTES: US READY TO OFFER MORE COMPENSATION, + to pay more Taxes, to Islamabad.

ARTIC > US OFFICIAL [IIUC = paraph] = COST(S) QUESTIONS are beside the point because the Supply Routes thru Pakistan remain the most effective + cheapest for the US-NATO, ESPEC AS PER US-NATO SUPPORT + MAINTENANCE OF AGHANISTAN'S SECURITY.

versus

* SAME > CHINA AND PAKISTAN TO STAND BY EACH OTHER.

Gilani reiterates that "CHINA'S ENEMY IS PAKISTAN'S ENEMY".

* IIRC SAME > INDIA-PAKISTAN NUCLEAR EXCHANGE STILL POSSIBLE IFF PAKISTAN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT MILITANTS, i.e. MilTerr activities agz India.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-04-01 20:20|| 2012-04-01 20:20|| Front Page Top

#10 at least we have an environmentally safe weapons disposal area now....

Plus a great lab for testing autonomous killbots in the air and on land.

Posted by SteveS 2012-04-01 21:10|| 2012-04-01 21:10|| Front Page Top

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