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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 05:36 PM Original message |
I don't why we should stay in Afghanistan if we've lost the moral high ground |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Agreed. |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. +1000 |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. most people agree the time to make this work was 8 years ago |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why? Because war is a racket and there are Billions of dollars to be made. |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. What does it mean to have "lost the moral high ground"? |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Who originally armed those thugs and bandits? |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. What is MIC? |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Exactly, "Charlie Wilson's War" should be required viewing... |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yes, war is indeed a racket. |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Speak of the devil... |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Eesh. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 10:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Go watch this interview with a lady from RAWA today: |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It is not ours to turn over. |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Obviously not. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I like "if you are breaking it, stop breaking it." It was also broke |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That is quite true. However, we did go there for a good reason. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. If you think anything we do in Afghanistan |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Nationbuilding efforts only really started when Obama took office. |
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Prometheus Bound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Do you have any evidence for saying that? |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Maybe I have conflated more than one incident. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. They douse women with kerosene and set them on fire in India. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. RAWA is for a pullout as per an interview on DemocracyNow! today. n/t |
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Toasterlad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. "Lost"? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Amy's whole show today was on Afghanistan. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
25. The whole idea that al Qaida can be stopped by invading Afghanistan |
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