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Originally posted by Ramo
Touting success regarding AQI is absurd.
Touting success regarding AQI is absurd.
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Setting up somebody to take on the mantle of AQ and then defeating them isn't such a bad way to discredit AQ. There may be other, better ways to discredit AQ, of course. But I don't think it would be accurate to say that AQ will take no hits from AQI being defeated.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
Was that a self-parody?"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Nope.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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What, morale isn't a significant factor?Originally posted by Ramo
Was that a self-parody?Comment
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It's an utterly preposterous idea. If you don't think that the war hasn't been a boon to Salafi militants, you're fooling yourself. We've reinforced the idea of a Crusade by invading a Muslim country on very tenuous grounds, devoted fewer resources to the areas in which they need to be dealt with - Afghanistan and the Pakistani NWFP, as well as given them graduate degrees in insurgency tactics.
Not only that, but of course there are better ways to discredit AQ. We do that by giving Indonesia tsunami relief. There's a UN program that I like to bring up habitually - the Global Campaign for Education. The idea is that with an American contribution of $3 billion over the next 4 years, we can make primary school education universal. Note that's less than 1% of our Iraq War spending rate. That's how we discredit AQ.Last edited by Ramo; March 9, 2008, 02:38."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Even DanS openly admitted that there are other better ways to discredit AQ. All the wording of his post said was "look on the bright side, at least X," so now it's you after the straw man of the hour. Give it my best!Originally posted by Ramo
It's an utterly preposterous idea. If you don't think that the war hasn't been a boon to Salafi militants, you're fooling yourself. We've reinforced the idea of a Crusade by invading a Muslim country on very tenuous grounds, devoted fewer resources to the areas in which they need to be dealt with - Afghanistan and the Pakistani NWFP, as well as given them graduate degrees in insurgency tactics.
Not only that, but of course there are better ways to discredit AQ. We do that by giving Indonesia tsunami relief. There's a UN program that I like to bring up habitually - the Global Campaign for Education. The idea is that with an American contribution of $3 billion over the next 4 years, we can make primary school education universal. Note that's less than 1% of our Iraq War spending rate. That's how we discredit AQ.
As I was saying, pure self-parody.Comment
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1. You ignore the first paragraph of my response.
2. The second paragraph was directed specifically at "may be."
Speaking of straw men..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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It doesn't have enough people named Tagg.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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I'm further disappointed with the dearth of Tang.
Then again there is an abundance of 'tang, so on balance it ain't so bad.Last edited by Darius871; March 9, 2008, 03:06.Comment
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I wonder about the value of those graduate degrees. Right now, it appears that we're learning faster than they are.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Nixon was an excellent presidentOriginally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Nah, but he's probably bottom five. In chronological order: Buchanan, Grant, Harding, Nixon, W. At best, he's vying with Pierce, Andy Johnson, and Hayes for that 5th-worst slot.
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If Iraq turns around, I don't think so many historians will call the decision to go in a mistake, even if someone else gets the credit for actually winning it.Comment
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I AM SICK of the whiners. GRANT. NIXON. HARDING. McKinley, HARRISON Garfield, FILMORE, Van Buren, BUCHANANAN, HOOVER. AND YOU RANK BUSH BELOW THEM? MADISON GOT THE ****ING WHITE HOUSE BURNED DOWN FOR CHRISTS SAKE. THE NEXT PERSON WHO RANKS BUSH IN THE BOTTOM 5 WILL MAKE ME **** MYSELF IN ANGER 
Reagan launched pre emptive strikes, as did McKinley, and Polk, and others GET BENT PEOPLE, JUST BECAUSE HE IS PRESIDENT NOW DOESNT MEAN HE'S UNIQUELY THE WORST EVAR And Lincoln wiretapped and was insulted at the Gettysburg address and look at him now, the whiners have been crapped upon.
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Bush
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Satan
Jesus Christ
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