Leaving Afghanistan

[giblets]

What the ****? I ****ing explained the problem:



What the **** do YOU not understand?

What exactly makes such an economy unsustainable? The fact that they can choose to grow opium poppies instead of grain? It's still an economy based on labor-intensive agriculture.

[Al B. Sure!]

What exactly makes such an economy unsustainable? The fact that they can choose to grow opium poppies instead of grain? It's still an economy based on labor-intensive agriculture.

To unite the country peacefully and disincentivize warlord-ism would require a transition to an urban economy centered on industry, if European history is a guide.

[giblets]

To unite the country peacefully and disincentivize warlord-ism would require a transition to an urban economy centered on industry, if European history is a guide.

Why are we using European history as a guide? Why is it any of our business if Afghanistan has a strong central authority or not?

[Al B. Sure!]

Why are we using European history as a guide? Why is it any of our business if Afghanistan has a strong central authority or not?

I'm making the ****ing argument that there's nothing inherently savage about the Afghan people or their culture. Do you want to take up that mantle erected by Oerdin?

[giblets]

I don't think there's anything inherently European about Afghanistan either, so why is European history relevant?

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't think there's anything inherently European about Afghanistan either, so why is European history relevant?

Our species is fundamentally the same. Our cultures are not static and are shaped in predictable ways by our physical environments and conditions.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hey, geniuses, do you think agriculture is virtually the only industry in the US and Canada? Do you think 78.6% of the Canadian and US labor force works in agriculture?

You said it was barren wasteland. This is not so.

[Ben Kenobi]

So for the IED's, I'm going with the Belarussians but the Irish and Vietnamese developed the practice.

So why then don't we see Belarussians suicide bombing Afghanistan.

Here's a clue, Albert. It's muslims!

Why is it that the resident Palestinian cannot admit that muslims are the ones that are suicide bombing Afghanistan civilians?

Could it be that he's muslim too? I think so!

[giblets]

Our species is fundamentally the same. Our cultures are not static and are shaped in predictable ways by our physical environments and conditions.

OMG, I think Al is a marxist!

[Al B. Sure!]

OMG, I think Al is a marxist!

Even if I subscribed to Marxist historiography (to which, I can see the connection), that doesn't imply that I favor communism as a political outlook.

[giblets]

Even if I subscribed to Marxist historiography (to which, I can see the connection), that doesn't imply that I favor communism as a political outlook.

You're just saying that to gain our trust. You filthy commie.

[Al B. Sure!]

So why then don't we see Belarussians suicide bombing Afghanistan.

Here's a clue, Albert. It's muslims!

Why is it that the resident Palestinian cannot admit that muslims are the ones that are suicide bombing Afghanistan civilians?

Could it be that he's muslim too? I think so!

I don't believe in God. How can I be a Muslim?

[giblets]

I don't believe in God. How can I be a Muslim?

Of course you don't believe in God, you're a filthy commie!

[C0ckney]

So you'd rather give up than press on.

yes. i think i very clearly explained why in my post.

Why are they lumping in age deaths?

1) what are you talking about?
2) are you denying that civilian casualties have increased since 2006 and are continuing to do so?

Seems to me that the same old gang of mijiheeden idiots are still killing people. Probably because they figure that the harder they push, that Obama's not going doo crap all. And they are right.

some facts:

1) troop numbers have increased dramatically since obama became president. and yet;
2) civilians casualties have increased.
3) fighting has spread to previously quiet regions.
4) the afghan army is almost useless. the afghan government is worse than useless.

by any reasonable measure things have gotten worse and not better.

If you're going to intervene then the obligation is to fix things up before you leave. You just don't bail after intervention.

Yes, it is expensive, but then that should have beeen decided before going in. I believe I wasn the only realist who said that the US would be there for a long time. As in 50 years.

we have been there for 10 years. we are not making progress towards our goals (such as they are). things are in fact getting worse. what we are doing at the moment is not working. what on earth makes you think that staying there any longer will improve things, it beggars belief.

[dannubis]

BK advocating to continue a war which is widely perceived as a crusade against islam... Who whould have thought?

Poor Texas to have a bigot like this misform their children.