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Hey Obama: Afghanistan is lost too - blame Bush, not Europeans | 139 comments (139 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 1)

Starvid:

But the more we meddle with their domestic affairs, the smaller is the chance that will happen.

Starvid:

Keeping al-Qaida and the Taliban down is the best we can hope for.

Aren't these two statements contradictory?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:38:51 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 0)

Not really. Keeping al-Qaida distracted is a bigger priority.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:51:16 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (4.00 / 2)

Distracted? now that's an interesting usage.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 04:07:41 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 0)

Well, Bush and his tame monkeys don't seem to want to annihilate them, so I guess this is the second best.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 05:42:10 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 1)

Can you explain, what you think would Bush do, if he wanted to annihilate them? Nuclear carpet bombing?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 06:36:04 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 0)

Focus all effort on Afghanistan instead of having everything bogged down in Iraq.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 at 09:26:36 AM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 1)

All in all that's a rather pathetic war aim isn't it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 07:19:29 PM EST
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