The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Afghanistan 4-Evuh!!! War on Drugs!!!

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 11:48am |

    Well, I blew it - I thought with the number of green-on-blue attacks and the complete collapse of our efforts there, plus the pointlessness after getting OBL in Pakistan - that we'd start cutting and running right after election day.

    Boy was I wrong. Now we're negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement to stay there after 2014, and did I mention Drugs! DRuGs!! DRUGS!!! That's right, Afghanistan is once again essential to our War on Drugs, which has had greater longevity than our War on Terror.

    (I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out the Afghanis are growing poppies on the sly)

    So there it is - we have to stop the Taliban from drugging our children, it's a point of national security, and that means more soldiers and drones and, well, stuff. And to pay for this, we'll need to cut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid - hope y'all don't mind.

    Glad we won that election - Romney would have done worse.

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    Glad we won that election - Romney would have done worse.

    I do not have any idea or defense for why we are still in this hell hole!

    It pisses me off.

    I WANT OUT AND I WANT OUT RIGHT NOW!

    I have not read the entire file and neither have you!

    And whether you like it or not I hereby render unto Peracles The Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, render to all of you from all of me. hahahaha

    WE HAVE TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE, NOW!

     

     


    by Richard Day on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 6:09pm

    Honored. And chastened. But not chaste.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 6:17pm

      Yep, it should have ended after Bin Laden was killed--if it ever should have started, about which I'm conflicted.


    by Aaron Carine on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 8:15am

    Harder to maintain a siege when you completely abandon a whopping big section of it. Then there is the security TAPI pipeline to consider.  The war on drugs covers a lot of military and paramilitary activity, no?

     


    by EmmaZahn on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 1:48pm

    Yep, could be 1000 years before we're ready to leave.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 2:05pm