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TheMadMonk

(6,187 posts)
13. What you get when you use "some are more equal...
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 07:24 PM
Jan 2013

...than others" type phraseology straight out of Animal Farm.

And it has nothing to do with where you'd rather live, or who's laws you'd rather live under. FFS I wouldn't recommend Afghanistan for Sara Palin. I wouldn't recommend it for it's own bloody inhabitants.

Straight up however, outside intervention of the type that's happening in Afghanistan is making life an even/ever greater hell for the vast majority of women in that country. We rescue one girl, ten others are made to suffer for her good fortune.

Sadly we don't have much choice but to wait for them to get their own house in order, because the alternatives don't really bear thinking about. Kidnap at gunpoint every woman and child, and "reeducate them", or kill virtually every male over the age of 12, then do it all over again as soon as the survivors are old enough to start taking revenge.

I'll take my chances in NYC leftynyc Jan 2013 #1
Care to take a look at the gangland culture... TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #5
Crips and bloods are California leftynyc Jan 2013 #6
Western familiy honour has been protected just as jealously... TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #8
You think an anonymous poster leftynyc Jan 2013 #9
What you get when you use "some are more equal... TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #13
You been up on Steubenville? Ash_F Jan 2013 #10
Seriously? leftynyc Jan 2013 #11
You guess at my priorities... Ash_F Jan 2013 #12
this heaven05 Jan 2013 #2
Probably a combination Mz Pip Jan 2013 #3
Back to the Future formercia Jan 2013 #4
Barbarians, fucking barbarians. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #7
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