One more thing -- We hear a lot of propaganda by our leaders, about how every conflict we initiate, is a quest to uplift humanity. I remember that dork, the last president Bush, repeating, "They hate us because we are free". No, asshole, they hate us, because whoever survived the last missile attack, is just a little bit pissed off, that his children were killed, instead, and there isn't enough left of them, for him to bury.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, We can thank the West for that. Whenever we destabilize a country, obviously, or covertly, we leave the door open to zealots, who have been victims of this heavy-handed quest for resources and political influence. The Taliban and Al Qaida are the shadows we leave behind, after bombing the shit out of some country, or using silent, deadly drones to violently dismember a family, or ten. Fucking over third world countries used to work so efficiently; a puppet government in our pocket and we were off to the races, citizenry be damned. Unfortunately, IEDs, cell phones and the Internet changed all that. Now, things are at a point where we will spend $400 Billion (yes, with a 'B') on a stealth fighter, that is already over a decade late (F-35), instead of using that money to directly help ourselves. We keep hoping that if we pour enough of our weapons into the world, we can somehow return to the good old bad days, of 'might is right'. ---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote: What a shit-hole Afghanistan has become. It used to be a hippie haven a long, long time ago. Check out these pictures of women in Afghanistan pre-Taliban . . . http://dangerousminds.net/comments/it_didnt_always_suck_to_be_a_woman_in_afghanistan http://dangerousminds.net/comments/it_didnt_always_suck_to_be_a_woman_in_afghanistan
