Comments on: Rethinking Afghanistan http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/ Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:01:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jojobo1 http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153726 jojobo1 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:45:06 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153726 Barbara Thank you so much i don't know how I missed Bill Clinton's speech.I was waiting for him to say something on health care.He was just great. I think we need to get out of both Iraq and Afghanistan but we need a secure way to get out and IMO boy do we have to worry about Pakistan.My thought is if we left Afghanistan would it give al qaeda room to take over Pakistan more than it has ,would they be more rash than they now are if we were not there? I don't think we can make another country become what we are or believe as we do and we should not force our beliefs on them.Seems we have enough of that going on in our own country right now.If you were not saved,so to speak you are not christian according to some religions LOL Not mine My God is a loving God and a forgiving God. Barbara Thank you so much i don’t know how I missed Bill Clinton’s speech.I was waiting for him to say something on health care.He was just great.
I think we need to get out of both Iraq and Afghanistan but we need a secure way to get out and IMO boy do we have to worry about Pakistan.My thought is if we left Afghanistan would it give al qaeda room to take over Pakistan more than it has ,would they be more rash than they now are if we were not there? I don’t think we can make another country become what we are or believe as we do and we should not force our beliefs on them.Seems we have enough of that going on in our own country right now.If you were not saved,so to speak you are not christian according to some religions LOL Not mine My God is a loving God and a forgiving God.

]]> By: Krystal Light http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153622 Krystal Light Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:45 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153622 Please support our troops and veterans. Oppose the medical device safety act, which would remove FDA protection from device inventors and force companies to go under. Please support our troops and veterans. Oppose the medical device safety act, which would remove FDA protection from device inventors and force companies to go under.

]]> By: polarbear http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153536 polarbear Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:17:58 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153536 Obama better have one heck of a plan. Obama better have one heck of a plan.

]]> By: Barbara Snowberger http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153398 Barbara Snowberger Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:32:24 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153398 http://www.vibincblog.com/?p=1528 Please listen to words of Wisdom from President Clinton as he spoke at a Jefferson/Jackson Dinner in Nashville in August. Especially Progressives, who aren't happy with many of Obama's decisions, and he warned us that we wouldn't be. Thanks. http://www.vibincblog.com/?p=1528 Please listen to words of Wisdom from President Clinton as he spoke at a Jefferson/Jackson Dinner in Nashville in August. Especially Progressives, who aren’t happy with many of Obama’s decisions, and he warned us that we wouldn’t be. Thanks.

]]> By: M. Paul http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153394 M. Paul Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:43:47 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153394 AKM I posted this over at my TPM Cafe blog, hope you do not mind. AKM
I posted this over at my TPM Cafe blog, hope you do not mind.

]]> By: M. Paul http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153391 M. Paul Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:36:35 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153391 I watched the first segment of the rethinking Afghanistan video and the one figure that i can not get out of my head was that the USSR had five hundred thousand troops in Afghanistan; 500,000. How many does the US have, 60-80,000. I am afraid history has already proved my fear for our soldiers as well as the so called collateral damage the people are sustaining; and all this as we sit at our computers typing away. I wish I really had more to offer, some solution that protects all Americans, all our American soldiers, all Afghanis, and of course all Afghani Women... M. Paul I watched the first segment of the rethinking Afghanistan video and the one figure that i can not get out of my head was that the USSR had five hundred thousand troops in Afghanistan; 500,000. How many does the US have, 60-80,000. I am afraid history has already proved my fear for our soldiers as well as the so called collateral damage the people are sustaining; and all this as we sit at our computers typing away.

I wish I really had more to offer, some solution that protects all Americans, all our American soldiers, all Afghanis, and of course all Afghani Women…

M. Paul

]]> By: nswfm CA http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153384 nswfm CA Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:18:02 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153384 Hope no one interpreted from what I wrote that I support war. I was just trying to say the people who have gone in our name can come back to do great things as many have. You don't always get to hear about them, though. Hope no one interpreted from what I wrote that I support war. I was just trying to say the people who have gone in our name can come back to do great things as many have. You don’t always get to hear about them, though.

]]> By: lettersfromeurope http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153373 lettersfromeurope Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:49:49 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153373 After watching the remastered "All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)" On its release, Variety magazine wrote:The League of Nations could make no better investment than to buy up the master-print, reproduce it in every language, to be shown in all the nations until the word "war" is taken out of the dictionaries. Go to Bill Moyers and find LBJohnsons taped conversation about the war in Vietnam. Tapes from 1964. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/profile.html I want them all to come home. More informed people than I have applied their mind to Afghanistan and they say it cannot be stopped with more war. After watching the remastered “All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)” On its release, Variety magazine wrote:The League of Nations could make no better investment than to buy up the master-print, reproduce it in every language, to be shown in all the nations until the word “war” is taken out of the dictionaries.

Go to Bill Moyers and find LBJohnsons taped conversation about the war in Vietnam. Tapes from 1964.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/profile.html

I want them all to come home. More informed people than I have applied their mind to Afghanistan and they say it cannot be stopped with more war.

]]> By: Marnie http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153372 Marnie Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:44:20 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153372 Bottom line is all empires in history have failed. They fail because wars, especially foreign ones never pay for themselves. If they did Spain would still be the richest and most powerful nation in the world. They stole literally ship loads of gold, silver, copper, precious and semiprecious stones, along with furs, meat, lumber, slaves ..... just from South America. But the over head of shipping, military occupation etc ate up all the profit and them some. Every single empire has failed, the cost of perpetual war is unsustainable. God hasn't made a seperate set of rules for the US, not matter what the bible thumpers say. Bottom line is all empires in history have failed. They fail because wars, especially foreign ones never pay for themselves.

If they did Spain would still be the richest and most powerful nation in the world. They stole literally ship loads of gold, silver, copper, precious and semiprecious stones, along with furs, meat, lumber, slaves ….. just from South America. But the over head of shipping, military occupation etc ate up all the profit and them some.

Every single empire has failed, the cost of perpetual war is unsustainable. God hasn’t made a seperate set of rules for the US, not matter what the bible thumpers say.

]]> By: tigerwine http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/28/rethinking-afghanistan/#comment-153364 tigerwine Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:59:47 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=8413#comment-153364 So sorry about post #20 - Thought I was posting under the Open Thread. My bad and dumbness! So sorry about post #20 – Thought I was posting under the Open Thread. My bad and dumbness!

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