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Biden's visit to Afghanistan follows his trip to neighboring Pakistan, where he met with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

It's not everyday you get to meet all three triple point scrabble scores.

I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Obama can't get American grunts there fast enough for my happiness.

Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

That's a +1 right thur

Least Effective Vice-President Elect EVER!!

If Joe Biden got lost in Afghanistan, would anyone even notice?

tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

Well I have a Neighbor who is flying a combat chopper around over there and a Cousin in Law who is a big wig in Army intel and a Liason to the afghan Government..and I just hired a kid who was driving a tank around in Iraq..so I am getting big kick out of these replies..... Wait there were like only 7 replies.....WTF is that guy talking about theres nothing to get a kick out of yet......

tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

But I'm not....

tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

Win.

tonesskin: Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine coreCorp.

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Biden's hair plugs must be receding again, so he's over there to check out the Afghan rugs.

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tonesskin: Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine coreCorp.

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Yeah, but in honor of, I think it was FLYNAVY but I might be mistaken, on Fark it will forever be the Marine Core. And it will consist of Marine core Soldiers, not marines. And everything dumb is done when your wife types with your log in.

The more you know....

tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

Is being in the Marine core like when you kill a marine, hollow him out, and climb inside to stave off freezing to death?

I'm currently on an Amtrak train, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

schatzie: Yeah, but in honor of, I think it was FLYNAVYTheConvincingSavant but I might be mistaken, on Fark it will forever be the Marine Core. And it will consist of Marine core Soldiers, not marines. And everything dumb is done when your wife types with your log in.

FTFY

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He's probably over there to help the RIAA fight the copyright trespassers pirates IP Terrorists.

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/this could get ugly

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Well, we're losing Bush, but we're getting Biden. I think it's a good trade -- all the comedy, without the power of the supreme executive position!

/actually likes Biden

coordman: /this could get ugly

Whatevah! eye do waht eye want.

who is this guy and why do I care?

archichris: Least Effective Vice-President Elect EVER!!

Of course, all of Cheney's trips in support of......hehehe, support of the Amer..... hahahahaha.... dammit, sorry...
no way to contain the sarcasm levels.......

Your troll efforts: 1.5/10

"Thousands of new American troops will be joining the battle against the Taliban this year, and Biden's visit is a sign that Obama plans to make the region an immediate priority."

Good, They should send the whole Army over there, Frankly I don't want those losers coming back over here. They lost in Iraq and now have to spend the next few years in the asshole of the earth Afghanistan good luck guys: ) No, I shouldn't say "they" lost, they have been payed handsomly for pretending to be U.S. soldiers, more like the American and Iraqi people lost.

It's the crusades all over again, have to send these assholes somewhere. Too bad the kill ratio isn't higher.

This tends to be ignored. FTFA:Compounding the problem, the region is also the world's largest drug producing area, and hundreds of millions of dollars from the trade finance the insurgency.

That's why I've said since we first went to Afghanistan,"Agent Orange the crap out of the place". No Opium...no "insurgents".

archichris: Least Effective Vice-President Elect EVER!!

Your newsletter, show it to me. +1

Death to America: "Thousands of new American troops will be joining the battle against the Taliban this year, and Biden's visit is a sign that Obama plans to make the region an immediate priority."

Good, They should send the whole Army over there, Frankly I don't want those losers coming back over here. They lost in Iraq and now have to spend the next few years in the asshole of the earth Afghanistan good luck guys: ) No, I shouldn't say "they" lost, they have been payed handsomly for pretending to be U.S. soldiers, more like the American and Iraqi people lost.

It's the crusades all over again, have to send these assholes somewhere. Too bad the kill ratio isn't higher.

Its kind of like the crusades, except replace Christiandom with Democratic Liberalism and the Islamic forces can no longer fight with any courage or resolve. Saladin would weeping if he was around to see this.

TicTacSir: Biden's hair plugs must be receding again, so he's over there to check out the Afghan rugs.



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Silovik: Islamic forces can no longer fight with any courage or resolve. Saladin would weeping if he was around to see this.

I wouldn't call the the tribal illiterates of Afghanistan the warrior elites of Islam but I see what you are trying to say. If the U.S. and NATO forces were not there they would probably be fighting each other as they always do. I just don't like that the government i was born into has launched such a shameful exercise in M.I.C. profitability and sacrificed our media and resources on the fear that some tribal peasants in a wasteland will somehow bring tribal Islamic customs to 1st world countries. It is rediculous.

Silovik: Islamic forces can no longer fight with any courage or resolve.

I disagree, There are Trillion dollar armies sitting on Muslim land(In fact one of the poorest countries on earth) and yet the Resistance remains now and will remain when they leave. I am no fan of suicide bombings or targeting civilians and I think they are just as cowardly as using spy drone attacks, and in fact I denounce them both. In the future the U.S. will look back and wonder why they spent their most affluent years "bravely" battling peasents on the other side of the world especially when it is not the peasent countries they will have to worry about real soon.

Death to America: Silovik: Islamic forces can no longer fight with any courage or resolve. Saladin would weeping if he was around to see this.

I wouldn't call the the tribal illiterates of Afghanistan the warrior elites of Islam but I see what you are trying to say. If the U.S. and NATO forces were not there they would probably be fighting each other as they always do. I just don't like that the government i was born into has launched such a shameful exercise in M.I.C. profitability and sacrificed our media and resources on the fear that some tribal peasants in a wasteland will somehow bring tribal Islamic customs to 1st world countries. It is rediculous.

The idea of the Ummah as a serious political idea died with the Ottoman empire. There really is no Islamic force in the political sense; it is simply a romantic idea that draws in a lot of support from the uneducated or unemployed in various parts of the world.

Unfortunately, the parties that employ the idea of pan-Islam have the advantage of the 21st century technology. Could al-qaeda deliver a nuclear device into Europe? I would say damn near impossible at this point, and I don't lose any sleep because of terrorism. Yet, on the other hand, 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere' has always been an axiom worth following. Afghanistan needs stability, jobs, rights etc. Having a developing economy there means a little bit of safety for us, but a whole lot of safety for them. The best example of action working might be the Korean war and the resulting division of those we helped and what they might have lived under.

Of course, all this is staked on the fact that I am not a moral relativist. Democratic liberalism is the best form of thought, and I have yet to see otherwise. Come to think of it, Saladin was a Kurd, and Islam didn't do much for his people. He might have agreed with me.

My dad works for Amtrak so I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

Sharing Artist's Boobies: schatzie: Yeah, but in honor of, I think it was TheConvincingSavant but I might be mistaken, on Fark it will forever be the Marine Core. And it will consist of Marine core Soldiers, not marines. And everything dumb is done when your wife types with your log in.


And who was it that had a GED in Law?

Silovik: The idea of the Ummah as a serious political idea died with the Ottoman empire. There really is no Islamic force in the political sense; it is simply a romantic idea that draws in a lot of support from the uneducated or unemployed in various parts of the world.

Sadly you are correct. The leaders of the Muslim Countries are shameful at this point(except Iran) but as you said a lot of those poor uneducated people are living in the past where people associate with Religion rather than Nation states. I see this trend continueing though so I wouldn't count out the Emergence of a new Islamic State. Al-Qaeda tried in Iraq, but trust me when I say this; they will not stop trying: )

Silovik: Of course, all this is staked on the fact that I am not a moral relativist. Democratic liberalism is the best form of thought, and I have yet to see otherwise. Come to think of it, Saladin was a Kurd, and Islam didn't do much for his people. He might have agreed with me.

Islam has a huge number of problems ATM(Allah guide us), and I personally think the True Monotheist in the more advanced countries are the future to bringing about change for the better on a global scale, not the tribal backwood sects.

Argh2: And who was it that had a GED in Law?

The epic failure known as SkinnyHead.

InspiredTedium: tonesskin: Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine coreCorp.

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No, it's an old meme making fun of some douche who used to post here who claimed he was in the Marine Core.

Wait, did I just get rotskied?

Death to America: Silovik: The idea of the Ummah as a serious political idea died with the Ottoman empire. There really is no Islamic force in the political sense; it is simply a romantic idea that draws in a lot of support from the uneducated or unemployed in various parts of the world.

Sadly you are correct. The leaders of the Muslim Countries are shameful at this point(except Iran) but as you said a lot of those poor uneducated people are living in the past where people associate with Religion rather than Nation states. I see this trend continueing though so I wouldn't count out the Emergence of a new Islamic State. Al-Qaeda tried in Iraq, but trust me when I say this; they will not stop trying: )

Silovik: Of course, all this is staked on the fact that I am not a moral relativist. Democratic liberalism is the best form of thought, and I have yet to see otherwise. Come to think of it, Saladin was a Kurd, and Islam didn't do much for his people. He might have agreed with me.

Islam has a huge number of problems ATM(Allah guide us), and I personally think the True Monotheist in the more advanced countries are the future to bringing about change for the better on a global scale, not the tribal backwood sects.

I wouldn't say that the absence of a true nationalism within Islam is completely true. Turks, Kurds, Azeri, Pashtun, Tajik, Arab, etc. will trump pan-Islam when the idea of the Western enemy is no longer viable. Despite Nasr's failed nationalist movements, I think the unifying factor in the Middle East will be the modern Arab nationalism in Egypt, Jordan, Syria. It will be Islamic in form, but even the modern Muslim Brotherhood is becoming much more moderate in Egypt. Same rationale with Iran and Persian nationalism. It might even be brought about by Iranian influence in Arab politics in Iraq, despite the Shiite commonality, hard to say.

I am not saying that Islam will not be a guiding factor in the future, but that it will take a more relaxed form. Sharia law for an example will draw from unlikely sources to fit with modernity. Like when the British in India used 'anglo-Muhammadan Law' in colonial Sharia courts, but also differing madhahib communities that discuss legal frameworks for Islam in nationalist democracies.

archichris: tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

Well I have a Neighbor who is flying a combat chopper around over there and a Cousin in Law who is a big wig in Army intel and a Liason to the afghan Government..and I just hired a kid who was driving a tank around in Iraq..so I am getting big kick out of these replies..... Wait there were like only 7 replies.....WTF is that guy talking about theres nothing to get a kick out of yet......

You're only aloud to get a kick by proxy.

Tainted1: No, it's an old meme making fun of some douche who used to post here who claimed he was in the Marine Core.

Wait, did I just get rotskied?

*snicker*

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Well done Subby.

Biden actually visiting the countries first hand that he has criticized for 8 years now? Maybe he'l actually know what he's talking about for a change.

Griswold: This tends to be ignored. FTFA:Compounding the problem, the region is also the world's largest drug producing area, and hundreds of millions of dollars from the trade finance the insurgency.

That's why I've said since we first went to Afghanistan,"Agent Orange the crap out of the place". No Opium...no "insurgents".

Agent Orange... no crops of any kind... no income for the civilian population... increased poverty and starvation... more suffering and more reasons to hate the foreign troops. Maybe you should think of something else to say.

How about: Give the locals the means to turn poppies into morphine and let them sell it to the medical industry. Everybody profits.

shirtsbyeric: archichris: tonesskin: Eaglet1138: I have a friend who is a Royal Marine in southern Afghanistan, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

Uh, having a friend doesn't qualify you to get a kick out of any replies. You should have said you were an American soldier in the Marine core.

Well I have a Neighbor who is flying a combat chopper around over there and a Cousin in Law who is a big wig in Army intel and a Liason to the afghan Government..and I just hired a kid who was driving a tank around in Iraq..so I am getting big kick out of these replies..... Wait there were like only 7 replies.....WTF is that guy talking about theres nothing to get a kick out of yet......

You're only aloudallowed to get a kick by proxy.

Sorry, pet peeve.