Why don't we just bulldoze the Himalayas between Pakistan & Afghanistan?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

That is the Himalayas, right? It's just sitting in the way of everything.
Bulldoze it.

That'd take away all the Taliban hiding places so we could harden up
that border & train us up some good Afghan security guard forces & install a semi-democratic semi-government. It'd only take, what, a couple weeks and cost a few million or so, plus employ a lot of otherwise heroin farmers. But now just watch, a bunch of wayward naysayers and environ-ists will make fun of that, too, geesh, okay. :*

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I think a gigantic "freakin' lazer" would take care of that. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

3. I never thought of that.

There wasn't nothing about lasers in that speech neither.

[WCGreen]

2. More between China and India...

But K 2 is on the western edge of the range and is in Pakistan...

[AndyA]

4. Or just nuke the hell out of the area. Kill everything and everyone around.

That's sure to get 'em.

Cheaper, faster, and more effective.

[Junkdrawer]

7. The most frightening book I ever read was by a nutcase in the late '40s....

who talked about using nukes to perform "geoengineering".

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[OneTenthofOnePercent]

5. I vote for the "Glass Parking Lot Strategy"

At the very least, squabbling in afghanistan would come to an abrupt halt.

[guitar man]

6. Now that would be a big effing bulldozer!!

:crazy:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. How much does a bulldozer cost?

Five thousand? If we used ten, that's $50,000.
Cheaper than 90 billion or whatever? Hmm.
Who really uses those mountains, except the Taliban?
For the environo-ists, do they make solar bulldozers?

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. I realize (or rather hope) you are being a bit tongue-in-cheek

but five grand won't buy you a "bulldozer".

It barely buys you one of these;

[A-Schwarzenegger]

22. It'll take a month to move the Himalayas with that.

But it'll still be quicker than 2011.

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. A month. At least. With overtime.

Dig like a motherfucker with that little dude and you're likely to be done in a month. Sure.

[rug]

8. No, some might escape. Let's seed the clouds with anthrax.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Geography, it does a mind good. Himalayas are between India and China, a little bit in Pakistan.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

16. Too much science clogs the thinking pores.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. Bulldoze the Rockies!

That would be about as effective.

[berni_mccoy]

13. DIG BABY DIG!

[elehhhhna]

12. it's called mountaintop mining and it's ecologically wonderful AND pretty

[A-Schwarzenegger]

17. And will give an unobstructed view all the way to the Indian Ocean

when tourism picks up in 2011.

[elehhhhna]

19. they can see Russia!!11

[madinmaryland]

14. Hmmm. The Freepers want to make it all a glass parking lot.

mmmkay.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. This is absolutely INSANE.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

18. Let's at least try it first, naysayer.

Just keep the dirt in boxes and put it back if it doesn't work.

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[myrna minx]

24. I'd say a plan like that is going to cost at *least* $50,000.

I think we should consult William Kristol about this - because his thoughts would afford us the true road map on this endeavor. I think he may like this idea. :hi:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. My Uncle Ludwig will do it for 38 grand.

He's got his own backhoe, and he says, "Himalayas? What are they good for? Hunh! Absolutely nothin'!"

[myrna minx]

43. Well, if Uncle Ludwig, as an amateur backhoe contractor, is up to the job, I say yea.

The price is right, and if he goes over budget by say 1 trillion give or take, I say plow West, er, or East, young (or older) man. What could possibly go wrong?

[AsahinaKimi]

25. I bet

Macgyver could figure it out!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

29. He could flatten the Himalayas with a hairpin

& be home by Christmas.

[Thickasabrick]

26. Well....because we don't own the fucking world or the Himalayas nt

[Starry Messenger]

27. That would free up space for a lot of condos, too.

That's a lot of real estate just sitting there doing nothing.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

30. That's the spirit.

If you can't make money off real estate and war,
you can't make money.

[Starry Messenger]

31. Will we be able to run wifi in there?

They're going to need HBO too. Maybe we could leave one Himalaya up to put a dish on. We could make it tasteful.

[TK421]

35. Fuck Colorado! Let's get some REAL mountain views!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

32. Hmm, that might be too big a job for bulldozers...how about just bombing it flat?

They we can put all the Afghan people to work sorting out the rubble and exporting it for fill dirt. Not to mention all the work created right here at home making those bunker buster bombs!

It's a win-win situation!

[arcadian]

33. It's actually the Hindu Kush, not the Himalayas.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

36. Hindu Kush doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Himalayas.

When we win, we'll change the name to something more American,
as a gift from them to us, although by then they won't be there
anymore. Can't win for losin'.

[arcadian]

38. Are you kidding? The Hindu Kush sounds way cooler

More exotic.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. Also, Iraqi oil could pay for the bulldozing.

[redwitch]

37. I say we send in Chuck Norris, John Rambo

and Steven Seagal. Oh, and Eric Cartman.

The mountains can stay but won't be much else left.

[varelse]

39. Tough crowd

No imagination, these folks. It takes a plain speaking citizen like yourself to point the way to a simple, cost effective solution to the whole Afghanistan shebang, but do they get it? Nothing but unrecs from this group of sourpusses.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

41. Sometimes words are hard to figure out what they're getting at.

You look at it one way, and it looks preposterous.
You look at it another way, and it looks ridiculous.
That's why I always believe, unrecs are some peoples'
way of saying, Oops.

[Fuzz]

40. Just fake reports that there's TONS of gold and diamonds in the mountains.

The corporations will fund the war, right?

[varelse]

45. Those rumors aren't fake

the treasure is real!!!!1!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

47. "For where your treasure is, there your war will be also."

Or wait, no, that's not right, is it?

[varelse]

48. Close enough for government work

or something like that.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

49. I'm starting to almost like the way you think

or something like that.

[tekisui]

42. Wouldn't it take a bit longer to bull doze Mt. Everest?

It's up there somewhere.

[myrna minx]

44. Nah, George Mallory deemed it to be a silly place and people lost interest.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

46. Could we move Mt. Everest to Kansas where it would stand out more?

And then get Christo to put a curtain around it and charge
people to go inside the curtain and look at it, and pay
for the war that way. I think we're beginning to really simplify
things here and get some reason into this Afghanistan project
at long last.