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2016-05-24 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2016-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1 Five years since the late Osama bin Laden
was killed in Abbottabad, and less than a year since it was revealed, though never conclusively proved, that Mullah Omar too had died on Pak soil, Mullah Mansour’s reported death in Pakistain is not altogether surprising.

It would be surprising if they had died anywhere else.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-05-24 11:48|| 2016-05-24 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Are there really any new twists when it comes to that elusive Afghan peace?

Posted by Mortimer Braille, Esq. 2016-05-24 12:28|| 2016-05-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't "Afghan peace" an oxymoron?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-24 16:13|| 2016-05-24 16:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Not really g(r), it's kinda like my last job bringing the plant up. Every day I'd drive down there, tell myself this was gonna be the day we'd drain the swamp... and every day, by mid morning, I'd be up to my ass in alligators. Finally I had a brainstorm, and when the guy who had the HR hat (among many others) was next there, I asked him: maybe we could hire less alligators?

I hear they eventually filled my position with a herpetologist from the local university working part time.

Anyway, to make a long story short, having Pakistan as your peace partner means you're never short on alligators in the marshes of Afghanistan. We'd be better off not hiring them to begin with.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-05-24 18:40|| 2016-05-24 18:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Thing, look up history of Afghanistan - start with Alexander.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-24 20:41|| 2016-05-24 20:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I know a lot about that, and it used to be a different kind of place .

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-05-24 23:43|| 2016-05-24 23:43|| Front Page Top

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