DISQUS

Silhouette · 7 months ago

There is positively no reason to be involved in AF/Pak. We are only there because the Brits still want India and powerful men in the US have strong alliances to the crown...even still. Unlike India, the US must not have won its freedom from Britain "officially" meanwhile remaining loyal to the crown.

Yes, our presence there is directly related to people there being pissed off about it, thereby fighting about it, thereby burning a young child like the on in the picture. US in places where it has no business always results in pictures like the one above.
DaGoat · 7 months ago

I don't know about the underlying reasons for our being there Sil, but AF/Pak seems to have a lot more quagmire potential than Iraq did. I don't think Obama has articulated the needs and plans for the conflict very well, not that most in the US seem to care.

The relative silence coming from the left about collateral damage now that Obama's in charge seems to confirm what I've always believed, namely that both the GOP and Democrats are OK with dead civilians as long as they're the ones doing the killing.