Should America ditch Pakistan for India?

[KrazyHorse]

Drake, we get pissed when people mistake us for Yanks, not Limeys.

Opposite of Aussies.

[Kitschum]

On topic, this was an interesting article to put the economic/logistical situation in perspective,

The White House has settled on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon must grapple with another thorny problem: how to support them once they get there.

For Ashton Carter, the top Pentagon official in charge of weapons purchases, that has meant focusing on the concrete -- literally. Basic materials for building bases are in short supply or nonexistent in Afghanistan, so U.S. officials must search for staples like concrete next door in Pakistan.

"As you transition operations to Afghanistan, you find that the cost of doing business is two to three times as expensive as Iraq," said Dakota Wood, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. According to the think tank, the annual cost of a U.S. soldier is about $1 million in Afghanistan, with fuel costs associated with supporting that soldier accounting for between $200,000 to $350,000 of the total.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126075201256889955.html

[Drake Tungsten]

Seriously though, the British got an entire country hooked on smack so they could buy ****ing tea and porcelain and they don't even feel a bit of guilt about it. **** them...

Drake, we get pissed when people mistake us for Yanks, not Limeys.

You're not American, though. You have the lame-ass Queen on your money, not a hedonistic genius bad-ass like Ben Franklin.

[KrazyHorse]

Even better, they fought TWO WARS to force them to smoke the ****.



They're like a caricature of a blaxplotiation baddie. They kick in your door in the middle of the night, rape your wife, stick a needle in your kid's arm, shoot your dog and then get a medal from the mayor

[Drake Tungsten]

How lucky are the Brits that the Germans came along with their Final Solution and improbably knocked the Limeys out of first place for Most Evil ****ers of All-Time?

[Wezil]

It wasn't just the Germans. Empires are expensive as you guys are currently discovering.

[KrazyHorse]

Seriously though, the British got an entire country hooked on smack so they could buy ****ing tea and porcelain and they don't even feel a bit of guilt about it. **** them...

Drake, we get pissed when people mistake us for Yanks, not Limeys.

You're not American, though. You have the lame-ass Queen on your money, not a hedonistic genius bad-ass like Ben Franklin.

We also have:

1) An incurable drunk
2) An anti-semite who spoke to his dead dog
3) 5 people who aren't people (figure that one out, *******!)

[KrazyHorse]

How lucky are the Brits that the Germans came along with their Final Solution and improbably knocked the Limeys out of first place for Most Evil ****ers of All-Time?

The Limeys were never going to go down as the bad guys. The French, the Spaniards and even the ****ing Dutch and Belgians were worse.

[Drake Tungsten]

1) An incurable drunk

Don't know this one. Could be any public figure of Irish descent.

2) An anti-semite who spoke to his dead dog

I'll guess Mackenzie King.

3) 5 people who aren't people (figure that one out, *******!)

They're French-Canadians?

[Drake Tungsten]

The French, the Spaniards and even the ****ing Dutch and Belgians were worse.

No ****ing way, dude; only the Spaniards come close. The Belgians were even nastier, I admit, but ****ing up one country doesn't compete with ****ing up half the globe.

[KrazyHorse]

1) An incurable drunk

Don't know this one. Could be any public figure of Irish descent.

Nope.

2) An anti-semite who spoke to his dead dog

I'll guess Mackenzie King.

That one's a gimme

3) 5 people who aren't people (figure that one out, *******!)

They're French-Canadians?

No, they would have had better sense than to have spoken up if they were.

[Wezil]

No ****ing way, dude; only the Spaniards come close. The Belgians were even nastier, I admit, but ****ing up one country doesn't compete with ****ing up half the globe.

I think you have the Commonwealth confused with the Francophonie.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Internet really does have everything...

The Evil Empire: 101 Ways that England Ruined the World

[KrazyHorse]

The story is that the drunk once vomited on stage while in a political debate.

[Drake Tungsten]

The only thing I remember about Canadian money is that one of the bills (or maybe all of them?) has weird Pacific Coast Indian totem **** all over it, kind of like the symbol on the Seattle Seahawks' helmets. I remember because it struck me as a really gay attempt to be PC and inclusive, and also greatly inferior to all the cool Masonic/Illuminati **** hidden on American bills.