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"Indians failed Brits failed Russians failed Americans are failing Chinese will fail Have a Shot"

there, i fixed it for you

6/17/2010 5:38:22 PM

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"Maybe they will. I dunno, the governments of Germany and Japan have worked pretty good for the past 65 years or so."

Iran and Guatemala, not so much.

6/21/2010 10:44:09 PM

I'm just saying, we don't have a 0% success record. Obviously we have failures. But we don't have utterly consistent failures.

6/22/2010 1:38:59 AM

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Iraq, Libya

The fact of the matter is we aren't trying to help these countries. It's all to protect our own interests, under the guise of good will, and at the expense of innocent lives.

6/22/2010 10:49:52 AM

That's hardly a fact. It's more like a crackpot delusion.

6/23/2010 9:03:47 AM

“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”

6/23/2010 11:06:01 AM

Fun fact: we have soldiers in every country bordering Iran. All 7 of them, 11 if you count the ones across the Persian Gulf.

6/24/2010 11:31:39 AM

What's your point?

6/24/2010 12:09:13 PM

6/30/2010 9:00:02 AM

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"Fun fact: we have soldiers in every country bordering Iran."

Another fun fact: we have soldiers stationed in nearly every country in the world.

6/30/2010 12:54:25 PM

^
Uhh, what is your definition of "nearly"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_military_bases_in_the_world-1.svg

6/30/2010 6:37:37 PM

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"As of March 31, 2008, U.S. armed forces were stationed at more than 820 installations in at least 135 countries. Some of the largest contingents are the 151,000 military personnel deployed in Iraq, the 71,000 in Afghanistan, the 52,440 in Germany (see list), the 35,688 in Japan (USFJ), the 28,500 in Republic of Korea (USFK), and the 9,660 in Italy and the 9,015 in the United Kingdom respectively. These numbers change frequently due to the regular recall and deployment of units. Altogether, 77,917 military personnel are located in Europe, 141 in the former Soviet Union, 47,236 in East Asia and the Pacific, 3,362 in North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia, 1,355 are in sub-Saharan Africa with 1,941 in the Western Hemisphere excepting the United States itself."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces#Overseas

6/30/2010 6:45:41 PM

and there are about 195 countries in the world

so we have military personnel stationed in about 70% of the world's countries. not too shabby.


[Edited on June 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM. Reason : .]

6/30/2010 7:05:05 PM

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"Uhh, what is your definition of "nearly"?"

My definition of 'nearly' directly coincides with the number of countries that we have diplomatic relations with (+plus a few others).

7/1/2010 9:05:18 AM

The Democrats Give Notice on Afghanistan
July 27, 2010

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"The House of Representatives approved $33 billion in new spending for the war in Afghanistan this evening, but in the process President Obama received a sharp rebuke from members of his own party. More than 100 Democrats voted against the spending, in particular criticizing plans to add 30,000 troops to the conflict."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2010/07/the-democrats-give-notice-on-afghanistan.html

This used to be the "good" war (when Democrats were using it to beat Bush over the head about Iraq--you remember, right?) What happened?

7/28/2010 3:09:02 AM

^ They finally bothered to start reading up on Afghanistan and now realize how incredibly dificult any semblance of victory in that country will be.

7/28/2010 8:56:46 AM

Then they gave them the money anyway.

More money and lives down the drain, oh well.

7/28/2010 12:11:42 PM

In that case let's go with the Taliban because they cost less.

[Edited on July 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM. Reason : ]

7/28/2010 12:15:00 PM

Taliban now or taliban later. They're savages, they deserve a conservative religious government.

7/28/2010 1:14:28 PM

Netherlands have withdrawn from Afghanistan, Canada, Poland and the UK soon to follow. The war is over, time to retreat.

8/1/2010 1:03:56 PM

After nearly a century, a modern Afghan railroad is under construction
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/27/afghanistan.first.railroad/index.html?hpt=C2

Cool.

9/27/2010 9:53:37 PM

A roadsiderailside bomber's dream. This is money that could have been spent flying soldiers home.

9/27/2010 10:01:01 PM

War now officially extended until 2014 at least.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1116/Afghanistan-Is-2014-the-new-2011-for-Pentagon-war-planners

11/16/2010 7:15:58 PM

I fear for our military when they have to invade North Korea. They are are a real enemy. They don't wear sandals.

11/25/2010 1:23:00 PM

^

1) You underestimate the amount of planning / training the US Military has done to prepare for Korea.
2) You ignore the fact that warfare against a conventional enemy is precisely what we're equipped for and, until very recently, trained for.
3) You underestimate the ROK Army.


Also,

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"The fact of the matter is we aren't trying to help these countries. It's all to protect our own interests"

I'll agree that we only act in our own interest, but the two are not mutually exclusive.


Don't get me wrong it'll be serious shit. The DPRK is already a pariah, so the use of CBRN is almost a given and casualties will be much higher than Iraq and Afghanistan, but fear mongering is unnecessary.

[Edited on November 25, 2010 at 3:57 PM. Reason : edit.]

11/25/2010 3:55:15 PM

Afghanistan is making us weak and unable to protect the country.

11/26/2010 11:24:33 PM