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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:19 PM Original message |
Robert Fisk: 'This strategy has been tried before – without success' |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Fisk has been in Pakistan several times--he was there when the US invaded in 2001 |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And he's lived in Beirut for 30 years, so he knows the 'region' better than most. |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. The most obvious difference of course is that a substantial part of the |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Interesting. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Only a person with a Messianic complex would think he can win in Afghanistan |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. What an idtiotic response ..I don't listen to you on anything bc |
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Baltoman991 (869 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Just another one |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. The poster I responded to thinks that Obama do in 2-years what no one has been able to do |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. That is out of bounds, IndianaGreen |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Afghanistan is not called the graveyard of empires for nothing |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 12:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Agreed, but Messiah complex? |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 12:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. consider to whom I was replying to, and the context of the OP |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Perhaps that is the disconnect for me |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. how tea baggerish of you. n/t |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. The only good thing this time is that not one person thinks it will succeed |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. You might as well go outside |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Obama will learn the lesson, but our troops will pay the ultimate prize |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. That's a great argument for late 2001 |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. 'young black American President' |
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