He shoulda stuck with funny


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We ordinary Real Americans, far from such centers of heathen unbelief as the Brookings Institution, get the drift of a deeply religious polity.

Fixed!
/and fark you, PJ

EvilEgg: They did send a few people over here to start some shiat.

The Taliban sheltered an organization who sent some people over to start some shiat with us. In response, we provided military aid and occupying troops in support of the Northern Alliance, a disparate group of tribes, ethnicities and political interests that would have been killing each other if it weren't for the fact that the Taliban was killing all of them.

Since then, we have insisted on treating Afghanistan as a cohesive, singular political entity, completely against all evidence to the contrary. We use military force on behalf of the Mayor of Kabul, who has become the most hated figure in the region, prop up various warlords against other warlords in the hopes that that will somehow result in less violence, and do no lasting damage to the Taliban, despite our asstons of drone strikes and super-advanced weaponry.

We are fighting a protracted campaign in a place that they call the "Graveyard of Empires", which as recently as the 1980s was a giant clusterfark for the Soviet Union. The only strategic goal we have (a functioning central government that is also a US puppet state) is impossible.

To even say "they did something" in reference to what you imagine to be a central Afghan political authority is to completely misunderstand the situation.

"We ordinary Americans, far from such centers of heathen unbelief as the Brookings Institution, get the drift of a deeply religious polity."

So do we. That's why we don't want you in power

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Why don't they just adhere to the Bush model of corruption? Hire a bunch of graduates fresh out of the Afghan equivalent of Liberty U. and put them in high level positions of power so that they can sell the entire country to the highest corporate bidder and then invade Lesotho because that's where they make all the sand that blankets Afghanistan and sand is the number 1 threat to the Afghan way of life and if you disagree you hate Afghanistan and support sand terror. Then Hamid Karzai can do absolutely nothing in his last two years in office as the country's economy circles the toilet drain.

That would be a serious win/win for Afghanistan, just like it was for Real America and Real Americans.

mitchcumstein1: T

Conservatives don't have a monopoly on anger. They're just louder about it.

More, we've been putting up with the Hate Speech Industry for a long, long, time


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The_Sponge: mitchcumstein1: The only person on this planet that I want to beat the ever-living-shiat out of worse than John Bolton, is P.J. O'Rourke.

Seriously, fark P.J. O'Rourke.


Angry liberal is angry.

That was quite pithy and cerebral. I believe I recognize the debating style; is it from Dr. Alistair Fitz-Wembley's debate class at Dartmouth?

mitchcumstein1: I don't hate him, I just think he's an arrogant prick.

Same reason some people like him.

Lionel Mandrake: I don't get it. I must not have a sense of humor.

Watch "An American Carol" fifteen times in a row. You will then be brain-damaged enough to find such things amusing.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: hehe

Ok, now that funny.

Tis the Chicago way...

Some Richard Daley style corruption is just what they need.

sigdiamond2000: patrick767: Fixed!
/and fark you, PJ

That, to me, is the most disappointing thing about P.J. O'Rourke. He's bought into this Real America/Fake America bullsh*t. Well, maybe not bought into it, but he's certainly playing the game.

You sound like a fake American.

The_Sponge: mitchcumstein1: I don't hate him, I just think he's an arrogant prick.


Funny....I feel the same way about Obama.

You are upset because Obama is smarter than you?