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The tool of WHICH president?
We shall see soon enough, won't we?
Are the Afghanis calling the shots in Kabul....or is the White House and the State Department?
A faux democracy is better than none, I suppose. Whatever it takes to dupe the voters---here, not there.
george
The tool of WHICH president?
We shall see soon enough, won't we?
Are the Afghanis calling the shots in Kabul....or is the White House and the State Department?
A faux democracy is better than none, I suppose. Whatever it takes to dupe the voters---here, not there.
george
It's widely seen as a tool of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, as he appointed its members and it returns the results he want, even when that conflicts with the US president's goals. Saying we'll "see soon enough" is nonsense, if you haven't seen enough to make up your mind by now then you aren't paying enough attention to ever decide.
It's widely seen as a tool of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, as he appointed its members and it returns the results he want, even when that conflicts with the US president's goals. Saying we'll "see soon enough" is nonsense, if you haven't seen enough to make up your mind by now then you aren't paying enough attention to ever decide.
"Saying we'll 'see soon enough' is nonsense, if you haven't seen enough to make up your mind by now then you aren't paying enough attention to ever decide.
george:
Well, it's nonsense if you take your own narrative as...necessarily...more serious than I'll ever take mine. After all, I'll be the first to admit the gap between what I read in the media about Afghanistan [and Pakistan] and what is is actually going on over there instead may well make the grand canyon look like a crack in the sidewalk. Or, perhaps, the other way around?
Instead, I always ask myself, "what truly motivates American foreign policy around the globe?" And it sure as shit ain't democracy. And even the bit about "national ... view full comment
"Saying we'll 'see soon enough' is nonsense, if you haven't seen enough to make up your mind by now then you aren't paying enough attention to ever decide.
george:
Well, it's nonsense if you take your own narrative as...necessarily...more serious than I'll ever take mine. After all, I'll be the first to admit the gap between what I read in the media about Afghanistan [and Pakistan] and what is is actually going on over there instead may well make the grand canyon look like a crack in the sidewalk. Or, perhaps, the other way around?
Instead, I always ask myself, "what truly motivates American foreign policy around the globe?" And it sure as shit ain't democracy. And even the bit about "national security" almost always starts and stops on Wall Street.
That is why it was so satisfying to read that no less a warrior than Colin Powell clearly recognizes the role the "terrorist industrial complex" plays...in both Washington and New York...as Obama goes through the motions of pretending that has nothing to do with it at all.
george