For how long could you tolerate this if it were happening in your home? How many more Afghans have to die before the Forever War fizzles out?
Miscalculation is when trumpâs last conversation about what to do in Iran is with some loose nut like Hannity, Guliani, Huckabee or his shoeshine guy.
The shoeshine guy is probably our best bet. âIts a bird! Itâs a plane! Itâs a frog!â
Well, after FOUR suicides in so many months related to a single aircraft carrier. HmmmmâŚ
Dafuq⌠not just living memory but goddamn recent living memory.
for kids in middle school or even high school freshmen it is in the past before they were born. i teach mostly seniors with a few juniors and this year represents the first year a majority of my students were born after 9/11/01. the war in afghanistan has been going on as long as they can remember. very few of them know much about what made al quaeda possible and from what their sense of grievance derived.
i went to high school from 75-79. the vietnam war had winded down while i was a freshman and the war itself had been going on my whole life. the pentagon papers came out while i was in intermediate and middle school. most of my cohort knew nothing about the causes of the vietnam war, very few knew about the atrocities and war crimes we had participated in. todayâs kids arenât any worse than the ones of my generation but they arenât any better either.
This will end well, right?
It wonât. But itâs hard to blame them for making a deal with the devil facing down a threat that would literally like to ethnically cleanse them from the land.
This was not uncommon during the cold war as well. Groups that would have liked to made deals with the US/West were often pushed into alliances with the Soviets. Patrice Lumumba tried to enlist US help and was rebuffed, so he went to the Soviets for backing against a coup. Did not end well for Lumumba, but he had little recourse and the Soviets were willing to help.
Speaking of memory-holed atrocities:
Something, something, battle lines ⌠drawingâŚ
"The concept of collective security in the Persian Gulf was introduced by Moscow in July this year. The concept stipulates organizing an international conference on security and cooperation in the Gulf, which will later lead to creating a security and cooperation organization in the region. "
âChina endorsed that overall concept in July. âWe welcome the Russian initiative,â said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersonâŚ"
Good thing we didnât leave 50 of the damn things lying around when we slammed the panic button to get out of there, thenâŚ
Because Russia didnât have the man power? or Turkey? WTF
'murica: âWeâll keep your oil safe Vlad.â
Vladâs oil? Thatâs Mercan oil! Everyone knows that! /s
Fixed. Itâs a global market and industry. In the end, oil interests transcend national boundaries, resulting in seemingly strange exceptions being made.
