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2007-10-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2007-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Thanks to Ashdown, Bosnia has a 43.7% unemployment rate. I think we need this guy to do for Afghanistan what he has done for Bosnia. Not.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-10-18 00:14|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-10-18 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 ION, as per IRAN, FREEREPUBLIC > WHAT IRAN HAS TO FEAR IF HILLARY WINS THE PRESIDENCY. Hillary is the one that said "all options are on the table" and that if need be, she will "bomb Iran". WND.com > HUCKABEE > WAR ON TERROR CAN NOT + WILL NOT END IN A DRAW. IOW, USA + Amer Way wins, or it dies. LUCIANNE > A CLINTON TO REBUILD THE MILITARY. POTUS Bill killed it, POTUS Hillary may build it back up. Finally, also from LUCIANNE > JOHN KERRY'S TIME MAY HAVE COME AGAIN. The GOP has McCain and Ron Paul, the Dems KERRY and the GOREACLE, and thats not counting the Babe Wars [ THE GIRL FACTOR/GIRL WARS/GIRL FACTOR articles]. NO WORD YET ON THE STATUS OF EDWARDS aka so-called "SILKY/BRECK GIRL"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-18 02:54|| 2007-10-18 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 If we armed the Tadjiks and Uzbeks to wipe out the Pashtoons and carry off their women, would that be considered a win? Or would that be too ethnic for Lord Paddy?

Posted by ed 2007-10-18 07:22|| 2007-10-18 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Paddy Ashdown was the titular head of the Liberal Party in the UK for many years. And one might say that he is an expert on failure, having dragged the party down on many an election night. However, I say he's a leftist on a par with the defeatocrat-appeasing 'RATs in this country.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Shins1195 2007-10-18 07:47|| 2007-10-18 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I seem to remember exactly the same talk immediately before the USAF, US special forces and a bunch of guys on horseback drove out the dreaded Talibunnies in, what, four weeks? Kipling take note.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-10-18 08:56|| 2007-10-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I suppose we can file this with the 'Dire Warning'[tm] issued by 'experts' who predicted mass starvation if the US invaded Afghanistan to being with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-18 08:57|| 2007-10-18 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Not a word about the Dread Afghan Winter?

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-18 09:57|| 2007-10-18 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Some people refer to the First and Second World Wars as European civil wars and I think a similar regional civil war could be initiated by this (failure) to match this magnitude, Ashdown added.

Really? Who might those "some people" be?
UN, EU, Brussels think tank. There's a friggin hat trick.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-18 10:47|| 2007-10-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 To paraphrase a certain Roman, "We can make a solitude & call it victory".

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-18 10:49|| 2007-10-18 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Imagine, if you can, a world wherein the top "international" posts are filled by intelligent, sane, morally unconfused people.

I know, it's hard.

Only the spectacular success of free markets, open political systems, and the valor and skill of the armed forces of free countries has made a world possible in which we have this endless, infuriating supply of worthless nitwits like Ashdown. Enough already.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-10-18 13:43|| 2007-10-18 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 " Imagine, if you can, a world wherein the top "international" posts are filled by intelligent, sane, morally unconfused people. "

It's not hard, the world of most novels and movies are filled with these types of people.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-18 17:06|| 2007-10-18 17:06|| Front Page Top

#12 All those in favor of trusting a Dhimmi with a gay name like Paddy,,,

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-10-18 17:23|| 2007-10-18 17:23|| Front Page Top

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