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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-10 03:05 PM
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16. Yes, you're right. He should have staged a Tiananmen Square solution in Berlin.
He didn't "lose" "his" empire. He made a decision between acknowledging reality and building a higher wall.
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  -Gorbachev: Victory 'Impossible' In Afghanistan CountAllVotes  Oct-28-10 01:07 PM   #0 
  - Indeed. So let's stop BUILDING NEW BASES  ixion   Oct-28-10 01:13 PM   #1 
  - Afghanistan is a losing proposition  CountAllVotes   Oct-28-10 01:18 PM   #3 
  - i wouldn't ask the person who lost his empire  pitohui   Oct-28-10 01:15 PM   #2 
  - Sure, because, unlike the Soviets, we're doing so well in Afghanistan.  Bette Noir   Oct-28-10 01:22 PM   #5 
  - pitohui  Diclotican   Oct-28-10 02:13 PM   #9 
  - And add to that the fact that NO ONE has ever done well in Afghanistan.  arbusto_baboso   Oct-28-10 02:45 PM   #12 
  - Yes, you're right. He should have staged a Tiananmen Square solution in Berlin.  JackRiddler   Oct-28-10 03:05 PM   #16 
  - Ummm....Hello? He knows from Afghanistan.  WinkyDink   Oct-28-10 03:14 PM   #22 
  - Amazing...  ProudDad   Oct-28-10 06:02 PM   #26 
  - this just in, water is wet...  awoke_in_2003   Oct-28-10 01:22 PM   #4 
  - If we would only study our history and literature  texastoast   Oct-28-10 01:23 PM   #6 
  - I am still amazed that the anti-perpetual war  pjt7   Oct-28-10 01:38 PM   #7 
  - When you're wounded and lay on Afghanistan's plains...  arbusto_baboso   Oct-28-10 03:07 PM   #17 
  - They are a very old people  texastoast   Oct-28-10 03:11 PM   #19 
     - Yep. And it's their home, so they literally have nothing to lose.  arbusto_baboso   Oct-28-10 03:12 PM   #20 
  - Never hustle a hustler.  WinkyDink   Oct-28-10 03:15 PM   #23 
  - Day 3,342 Approaching  Kennah   Oct-28-10 01:39 PM   #8 
  - CountAllVotes  Diclotican   Oct-28-10 02:21 PM   #10 
  - agree Diclotican  CountAllVotes   Oct-28-10 02:42 PM   #11 
     - CountAllVotes  Diclotican   Oct-28-10 11:42 PM   #31 
  - Unlike Gorbachev, our politicians lack the guts to admit to a lost war.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Oct-28-10 02:50 PM   #13 
  - Anyone with any knowledge of history in that region  walldude   Oct-28-10 02:56 PM   #14 
  - Right.  H2O Man   Oct-28-10 02:58 PM   #15 
  - this "war" should have never started so ...  CountAllVotes   Oct-28-10 03:08 PM   #18 
  - Called "Stating the Obvious."  WinkyDink   Oct-28-10 03:13 PM   #21 
  - K&R (n/t)  ProudDad   Oct-28-10 05:54 PM   #24 
  - sounds like a bet. sounds like a dare..  mdmc   Oct-28-10 05:58 PM   #25 
  - You're kidding, right?  ProudDad   Oct-28-10 06:04 PM   #28 
     - Of course  mdmc   Oct-28-10 06:19 PM   #29 
        - Or when the money runs out  ProudDad   Oct-28-10 11:35 PM   #30 
  - Aren't most occupations impossible to 'win'?  xor   Oct-28-10 06:04 PM   #27 
 

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