Gingrich to Afghanistan: ‘Figure Out How to Live Your Own Miserable Life’

[kpete]

Gingrich to Afghanistan: ‘Figure Out How to Live Your Own Miserable Life’

NASHVILLE — Newt Gingrich said it is impossible to “fix” Afghanistan and suggested the U.S. should to tell Afghan citizens to “figure out how to live your own miserable life.”

Speaking at a business luncheon here on Monday, Mr. Gingrich amped up his criticism of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan after a string of attacks by Afghan soldiers on American troops. ”We’re not going to fix Afghanistan,” the former House speaker said. “It’s not possible.”

His prescription:”What you have to do is say, ‘You know, you’re going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life… Because you clearly don’t want to learn from me how to be unmiserable.’”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/02/27/gingrich-to-afghanistan-figure-out-how-to-live-your-own-miserable-life/?mod=e2tw

[saras]

1. Sure thing. Give us back everything you destroyed, and we'll start fixing. Or we'll start taking.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. You're the most miserable of all newt.

[RKP5637]

3. Such a gapping ass. n/t

[gratuitous]

4. Attaboy, Newt!

Boy, I'll tell ya, those Afghans are an ungrateful bunch. After everything we've done to them, they still hate us with what appears to be the white-hot hatred of a thousand nuns. Maybe next time the United States goes barking mad, we won't launch an invasion of their country, killing civilians and "militants" with equal abandon. Let's see how they like that!

[RevStPatrick]

5. "...the white-hot hatred of a thousand nuns."

I kinda like that one!

[unkachuck]

6. "figure out how to live your own miserable life."

....like you've figured out yours?....are you and your fascist puke buds giving up so soon?....it's only been ten years....is there no more blood to suck from this war?

"...you clearly don’t want to learn from me..."

....nope, nobody wants to learn from fascists like you, not even the Afghans....

[jmowreader]

7. He's right. They DON'T want to learn that from Newt Gingrich

The way Newt Gingrich becomes unmiserable is to either commit adultery or shut down the government. The Afghans can figure that out on their own.

[Fool Count]

8. Not a bad idea to apply the same philosophy not just to Afghanistan, but to all other countries

in the world as well. Would do wonders to US standing and image in the world.

[MisterP]

9. is he ripping off Walt Rostow or Herman Kahn or another guy who held that the non-whites of the

world lived in perpetual ignorance and misery until Mighty Whitey came along with gifts of quinine and battleships?

yes. yes, he is.

[0rganism]

10. surreal... really quite bizarre.

I don't want to click the link tho, cos I know there will be a discussion thread filled with neo-cons agreeing with Ol' 3 Wives, babbling about how we should drop a nuke on them after withdrawing.