What If No Iraq Invasion ? by Jongsstraw

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What If No Iraq Invasion ?

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Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:56 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Have you ever heard of "blowback"? I can point to many instances where we promoted tyranny only to have it bite us in the *ss later.

Yes, actually, I have heard that term. And I agree with you fully that serious complications can result from thoughtless heavy-handedness. What I support is any course of action that mitigates current and future threats (because mitigation is all we really can do. There is always someone out there who will hate us to the point of violent action, and there always will be, whether we enslave the world or turn into every nation's compliant little bitch). Like I said, whether it's done with a light touch or a heavy hand, I don't care what the required action is. Morality means nothing to me, except in how it can be used to further our ends.

What irritates me to no end is how our leaders always pander to all the pathetic, whining little moralists on both sides of the political spectrum, and end up fucking up whatever we set out to do because of it. This has been the growing trend with U.S. foreign policy. Unless the operation is kept secret from the public, all the little activist groups start shouting over one another to be heard, and the next thing you know, what should have been a simple, practical mission turns into a dozen petty little crusades that, when they're all pursued at once, turn out to be nearly impossible to pull off. And then we end up where we are now.

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"O' course, ya couldn't buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle, but luckily I got my hands on a couple."

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Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:08 PM

BIGDAMNNOBODY

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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Their mission failed.

So no one was killed in the attack?

Their mission was to kill Karzai or another high ranking governmnet member. So yes, their mission failed.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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I've heard most farmers grow poppies instead of food because poppies are much more lucrative.

You've HEARD. Is that opinion or substantiated fact? Please provide a link for this assertion.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19336834
Mohammad, a tenant farmer outside Kandahar City, spends nine hours a day filtering cannabis leaves and then kneading the residue into clumps of hashish.

He earns $30 a day — five times as much as he earns from harvesting wheat.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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Is Afghanistan doing well really that hard for you to take or are you simply being a contrarian?

Is this opinion or fact? Please provide links to prove that Afghanistan is doing well.

Women's rights,
http://feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
Rebuilding efforts,
http://www.usaid.gov/stories/afghanistan/ss_afghan_irrigationdrip.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/the_afghanistan_success_story_1
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Schooling,
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SHIG-7DYEKP?OpenDocument

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Sunday, September 17, 2023 5:55 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Economically not sure but I think it would have been much better without Iraq

The Parallel Failures of Obama's and Bush's Foreign Policy Doctrines
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/72791/parallel-failures-obamas-bushs
-foreign-policy-doctrines

Biden claims he was at Ground Zero day after 9/11 — but his own book puts him in DC
https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/biden-claims-he-was-at-ground-zero-day-a
fter-9-11-but-his-own-book-puts-him-in-dc/

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