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Then it'll play to the Bin

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 03 May 2016 20:50:31 +0000

In reply to "...we seem to be able more

Then it'll play to the Bin Laden curse - you get to fight those you support, or be careful who your friends of convenience are. Even though fighting Bin Laden was a sweetheart deal compared to fighting the Russian army in 1979.

"...we seem to be able more

Michael Maiello — Tue, 03 May 2016 20:41:22 +0000

In reply to Obama's Smart War?

"...we seem to be able more and more to rely on others to actually fight and get results."

Obama proved a lot better at this than Bush was. But that but about other people fighting... I do wonder if we'll be fighting them in 15 years. Actually, I expect it.

Yeah, okay, but T-Rump claims

Richard Day — Tue, 03 May 2016 19:29:25 +0000

In reply to Obama's Smart War?

Yeah, okay, but T-Rump claims he will be the best killer of ISIS that ever lived.

Besides all this, T-Rump claims that he will build the bestest wall ever perceived by man?

And T-Rump will make more jobs than anyone else in history.

.....

People are not only strange, but idiots.

Is it raining?

Could be blind luck instead.

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:02:22 +0000

In reply to You're on a roll.

Could be blind luck instead. In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed knight is king. Or at least makes a lot of dough in escort services. Except for Cassandra who no one listens to anyway.

You're on a roll.

Oxy Mora — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:46:06 +0000

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You're on a roll.

Well, maybe dumb luck. We had a kind of balance when Hussein (the Iraqi) had Iran in check. Then Bush, then Arab Spring. Have we reached a new form of containment---that is, the mideast states among themselves---without our ground troops. And the death of even one American, as reported today, reminds us of how repugnant it is to put American troops at risk.

Gets back to the old play book---Obama as cautious, leading from behind. I'd like to believe some of that and some dumb luck.

If someone thinks Hillary isn't learning from this, then they think she's too rigid and small minded to be President---which is the opposite of what her detractors are saying about her.

As for Trump, I think he would go for the most militaristic path offered by the Pentagon---because that's just who he is.

Good reading, PP