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2010-09-04 Afghanistan

German general criticises Afghan president

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 09-04 Afghanistan
German general ~~criticises~~ circumcises Afghan president

Posted by Skidmark 2010-09-04 01:04|| 2010-09-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The president was too busy throwing coins at his dancing boys to respond.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-09-04 13:04|| 2010-09-04 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Karzai and a majority of the Afghan/Pashtun people might indeed work out some deal with the Taliban.

The big problem is that the US and NATO are in Afghanistan because of 9/11.

The original goal was to eliminate the Taliban, not because the Taliban mistreated the Afghans and the Afghans wanted them gone but because the Taliban sheltered Al Qaida.

Has the US officially forgiven the Taliban?

Is Bush's statement to a Joint Session of Congress (given 9/20/2001) inoperative?

Should a (potential) adversary of the US take threats by the President seriously?

Some say a future nuclear Iran can be deterred and contained like the Soviet Union was. But the failure to defeat and punish Afghanistan, and the Taliban in particular makes this proposition absurd.

After "Enduring Freedom" why should a nuclear armed Iran expect any sort of retaliation for sponsoring attacks on the west?

/rant

Posted by Large Fleaper8859 2010-09-04 16:45|| 2010-09-04 16:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess the Germans are must be coming to the end for their rope to actually publically say some thing like this.

@Fleaper:
1. Forgive? I would hazard a guess that Obama just thinks their misunderstood people. After all Jihad is just to purify, right? Oops, I wasn't supposed to post that while Obama is in office.

2. Contain like Russia? I wish people wouldn't say idiotic things like that. Iran is not Russia. They do not have the same culture, society, or governement. That's like people saying the past repeats itself. Well, I got news for them, it can't. If some thing happened in the past, it's in the past, not the present. Current circumstances may be similar, but the past can't come back unless some one builds a time machine or time becomes circular. I prefer the linear approach to time myself. If avoids all those causality problems.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-09-04 20:22|| 2010-09-04 20:22|| Front Page Top

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