Comments on: All Bad Choices http://jaydedapper.com/2009/12/02/all-bad-choices/ Facts matter. Question everything. Wed, 05 May 2010 03:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hugh http://jaydedapper.com/2009/12/02/all-bad-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 Hugh Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:42:30 +0000 http://jaydedapper.com/?p=1287#comment-1348 I have to disagree. Obama is more of a puppet than a leader. Cenk Uygur came to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/why-i-changed-my-mind-on_b_374937.html" rel="nofollow">realize</a> what I've thought (and the Russians realized after 10 years) all along. Afghanistan is mostly an ungovernable hodgepodge of valley tribes and the main reason the Iraq surge was a modest success is that we were able to entice former insurgents with profit-sharing in oil deals set up by the West. Afghanistan's main treasure is opium poppies. Rachel Maddow also <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34232450#34232450" rel="nofollow"> pointed out</a> the absurdity of continuing the "Bush doctrine." Fighting intangible threats before they are real threats is a fool's errand -- wasteful imperialist posturing -- on its face. (Meanwhile, the CIA's secret military is fighting in Pakistan...) It's like trying to hold the corners in <i>The Wire.</i> We're spreading more (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOF6ZeUvgXs" rel="nofollow">suck on this</a>) war amongst more people. Sorry for all the links. :) I have to disagree. Obama is more of a puppet than a leader. Cenk Uygur came to realize what I’ve thought (and the Russians realized after 10 years) all along. Afghanistan is mostly an ungovernable hodgepodge of valley tribes and the main reason the Iraq surge was a modest success is that we were able to entice former insurgents with profit-sharing in oil deals set up by the West. Afghanistan’s main treasure is opium poppies. Rachel Maddow also pointed out the absurdity of continuing the “Bush doctrine.” Fighting intangible threats before they are real threats is a fool’s errand — wasteful imperialist posturing — on its face. (Meanwhile, the CIA’s secret military is fighting in Pakistan…) It’s like trying to hold the corners in The Wire. We’re spreading more (suck on this) war amongst more people. Sorry for all the links. :)

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