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War Against Some Terrorists
 [read more] thanks to the bitter shack of resentment ----------- The evildoers are coming. Again. No really, they are. This time we really mean it. Those last 17 times we only partially meant it but this time we really really mean it and look even pallid and barely animate VP Cheney is muttering through the scary side of his disquieting mouth that fresh terrorist attacks on the US are "almost a certainty."
And you know he'd never lie about a thing like that, because he's too honest and pure and despite all contrary evidence doesn't actually adore war like Oprah adores cheesecake. thanks to jp @ American Samizdat ---------- Iraq invasion would be error to rival Hitler's attack on Russia THE defeat of the Taleban and al-Qaeda armies in Afghanistan, which presented an old-fashioned, conventional opposition to the US-led forces, was quick and without undue casualties.
But as Wellington said after the British Army had occupied Kabul in 1839, virtually without opposition, “the difficulties begin where the military successes have ended”. Eight months after US forces entered Afghanistan there is little sign that the allies’ strategy has sufficiently acknowledged that the nature of the conflict has radically changed and that kinetic energy weapon systems — however smart — cannot defeat guerrillas or suppress terrorism. thanks to SmirkingChimp.com |