http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/06/ex-pakistan-spy-chief-afghanistan-war-lost-cause/
Why is your mind sealed from the obvious and apparent truth?
I read your link. What truth are you talking about? Some guy in Pakistan doesn’t think that Osama was involved in 9-11? Or that we should negotiate with the Taliban who Pakistan supports? That India is destabilizing Pakistan (rather than the other way round, which is far more plausible)?
The utterly obvious truth as to why we are in Afghanistan is because of Osama and the Taliban supporting him. Any other reason is one you are trying to make to fit your warped world view. Stop being so paranoid and thinking everyone is evil who, A: is in government, and B: works for a corporation. Stop attributing to malice what can be easily attributed to incompetence.
Do you actually dress yourself?
Still waiting for your response to Gen Butler Smedley Butler - Wikipedia
Sorry, it took me a while to stop laughing at that one. For something nearer the truth check out this recent article from the London Sunday Times.
If you want to go directly to the discussion of our Pakistan/Afghanistan difficulties, it starts at about 3:00.
Some guy= former Pakistani Intelligence Chief
He says what is well known, Pakistan military supports Al Qeada. He says our intelligence in Afghanistan is bad. That is also well known. He says supply lines are shaky. That should be obvious. He says Karzai is a puppet. Hard to argue with that.
People fighting to protect their homeland, fighting on their own turf have a lot going for them. They have been warring for generations. They have honeycombed the land with havens and munition stashes. They are fighting soldiers who come from far away and don’t really know what they are fighting for. It is a fools errand.
Supported only by profiteers and fools.
Still dead after 70 years? Or, Zombie Butler has knowledge of Afghanistan?
Uzi, one of these days, you (and a good many other minds-stuffed-with-stuff) will choose to open your mind.
When that happens, you will find you have a Conscience.
And, you will have learned to dance.
Tada.
Mission Accomplished.
Apologies to W.
Smedley Butler on Interventionism Here is a Smedley Butler page explaining that we intervene in other countries for corporations. He was in charge of doing the dirty deeds. Some rich fucks tried to get him to lead an army to ovetrhrow the duly elected American government.
My pirate crew and I tried to take over the American Government last weekend, but since I was the only one who could travel down there at that time (I got some nice surveillance pics), we had to settle for trying to take an American vessel on Wednesday when it came up here. With our pirate hats firmly on our heads, we paddled over to the Bounty, but unfortunately, a severe thunderstorm swept through so we had to return to our pier before we had an opportunity to take the American ship.
A good, but all too brief, time was had by all, and we look forward to our next raid in our ongoing efforts to overthrow the American government, for we be the Pirates of the North Shore. Arrrrggh!
Let me guess that Uzi’s response will be. Afghanistan?
Come on bra, give it up to reality.
Yeah, sure.
But if you would PM me your local gps reading, I can do something for you or to you. Your choice.
ETA Arrrrggh!
Wars have lots of reasons as to why they happen. Some wars are due to differing ideologies, some due to religion, some due to acquiring power, some for greed. The one in Afghanistan is because of people flying planes into our buildings. Now maybe some people are trying to profit from that for their own purposes, but it doesn’t change the main reason it happened. You’re the one with the closed mind.
Mohammad Mosaddegh - Wikipedia Iran is a huge problem isn’t it. In 1951 Mosaddeqh was a democratically elected president of iran. He was going to take over the oil companies because Iran was getting jobbed by BP. The US via the CIA overthrew the government at a request from British MI6. We installed the Shah who was a horrible dictator that made Saddam look like a choir boy. He was in charge for a long time running a reign of terror from the Peacock Throne. It was America at its worst, working for corporations .
I think it is nice that some adults can still keep the childish" America wouldn’t do that 'their whole lives. It proves that propaganda does work and we are not wasting all that money.
I never said that America wouldn’t do that. I said, and I’ll repeat it for the deaf and blind among you, that Afghanistan was about planes flying into buildings. It is you idiots who seem to think that it is about something else and are showing as proof issues that happened over 50+ years ago.
It is interesting that in your other links that when American sent in troops to forward its ‘corporate’ interests it actually resulted in benefits to America. Maybe they should have invaded Afghanistan for the same reasons as history seems to prove, at least according to your links, that they are successful when they do so.
So, Gonzo, it’s been a pleasure sharing cites with you. Uzi lives in his own world and seems to have taken up residence here.
So, I’m moving on and will make it a point never again endeavor to teach him to dance, no matter where he shows up. Would calling him a bore be too harsh for the Pit?
Please, don’t answer.
Over and out.
I have said that Afghanistan is about Osama and flying planes into building in New York. You have said it is about building pipelines. I can prove that people flew planes into buildings in New York, that there were a whole lot of politicians talking about Osama, the Taliban, and going into Afghanistan to get him. Can you prove that there is a pipeline, that Unocal, or any other American company is building it, or that it had anything to do with invading Afghanistan? No, you can’t. Sorry, you lose.
And the reason you can’t teach a pig to dance is because you’re the pig. You have no idea how to dance and are actually attempting to sing. So, put up some actual proof, not vague allegations and wackjob conspiracy theories, or shut the hell up.
I’m at 48°17’42.8"N,89°23’21.2"W , but we paddle out of Pier 1 at the marina downtown. It’s the yellow forty-footer.
We bring snacks on our excursions, so welcome aboard.