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 [...]
Archive for October 2009
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 [...]
Idle, Idle thoughts, 1.0
October 3, 2009We moved to Tampa about one year ago. “About,” because we moved in stages while waiting for our possessions to make their trip south, actually four of them, down from Massachusetts, and during the move we were living off and on in our son’s home in Tampa while the house we had purchased, now just [...]
