La population locale appelle 'les pots de chambres' les autorités (afghanes) mises en place par les Occidentaux... The local population call the (Afghan) authorities set up by the Westerners "the chamber pots". Avons-nous vocation à être des cibles au service des 'pots de chambre'? Is it our job to be targets in the service of "chamber pots"?
The local population call the (Afghan) authorities set up by the Westerners "the chamber pots".
Avons-nous vocation à être des cibles au service des 'pots de chambre'?
Is it our job to be targets in the service of "chamber pots"?
The accounts in the report somehow place greater perspective on what actually happens when we 'send troops in' and wasting so many lives with incompetence like that is appalling. Ad astra per aspera
If you don't believe it, listen to the good Dr Kissinger.
Can you remind me why we are going after Afghanistan?
Too bad the Pakistani tribal areas are just next door... Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
the usa is hostage to rapturist wingnut arms merchants and fossil fool perviders, the business of america is business, any one don't like it, well you oughta bought more hardware, pussies.
the rest of the world has little choice in the matter, it appears. what has me in a grim fascination is how long the american public is going to put up with being lied to in such a prolonged and unimaginative way.
it's never a good thing to realise you've been made a fool of, but there has to come a time of reduced returns on erroneous beliefs, and no thread is unsnappable.
oh well, it's just the fate of one small planet among many...
time to reincarnate as some jovian dust, maybe. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
The aims you state are indeed the putative aims of American policy, but (as you say) the democracy angle is a most unlikely one, and, as Starvid says elsewhere on this thread, the "terrorists" are safe in the tribal territories of Pakistan (and, indeed, in adjoining mountainous territory in Afghanistan). In my view this is thin cover for a policy of maintaining influence in Central Asia and the Middle East (and energy resources), policy which considers Afghanistan as the frontier to hold, right up against China.
