Here’s a point of view in favor of leaving Afghanistan that I haven’t yet encountered. But before presenting it let’s first ask why would we even consider leaving a country in which we have so much blood and treasure already invested? The short answer is that success there is highly unlikely, and things could very [...]
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In support of our leaving Afghanistan
October 4, 2009Idle, Idle Thoughts, 2.0
October 4, 2009I’ve never understood why the far right talk show demagogues, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and any number of others, along with their followers, the ditto-heads, call President Obama a socialist. Have you? For don’t we know, haven’t we known for a long time, that modern, developed nations including the United States are all in good part [...]