Hi again,

On Wed 2037-May-27 15:47, Dan Ceppa (1:138/666) wrote to Richard Webb:

 DC> That's the problem of not knowing your enemy or even your friends.
 DC> There  was no solid plan as to the aftermath of the war.  In the
 DC> case of  Afghanistan, the main goal was put on hold to go after the
 DC> straw man  in Iraq. 

 RW> OF course, that and quite a bit of cultural myopia and just
 RW> plain old fashioned greed.  COmbine those three and you've
 RW> got a recipe for disaster.

DC> It was all about oil.  Afghanistan and Al Q'aeda were only the 
DC> excuses to connect Saddam with it  to "justify" an invasion.  I
DC> wonder  how many Americans still make the false connection that
DC> Saddam and bin  Laden were partners?  

Anybody with half a brain knows that was pure bull.  I can't believe they
keep on trotting this dead horse out.

DC> It's ugly.  The latest I caught is that we're in Afghanistan for at 
DC> least another 10 years.  Such a situation won't fly in the US as
DC> well  as in the Middle East.  

OF course that ain't gonna fly, and it doesn't really matter at this point,
because the TAliban have moved next door and
are taking over.  GIve it a few years we'll have the TAliban running a war
with INdia.  wHO you gonna call for tech
support of your latest microsoft whiz bang gizmotron then?


DC> ... "You need to know your enemy in order to defeat him." -- Sun Tzu
An adage that Bush cheney and the rest of the "Axis of
ignorant" as I call them forgot.

Regards,
           Richard
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