Get the F out and put these guys on the border. Set up a system of tactical nuke options to deal with any future Taliban operations. Our boys get killed for nothing while the Chinese just laugh, make money and hoard oil and resources. They are playing “Risk” while we are just playing “Chump”.
Keep saying that.
Posters on this board would rather pretend China doesn’t exist.
China growing, and growing, and growing from what used to be American factories and American jobs. China building a space program. China building an equivalent to our own (canceled) F-22. China fields an aircraft carrier.
China growing. Is too uncomfortable for a lot to even talk about.
So we pretend they don’t exist. Too many preconceived notions are invested in the “free trade” cult. Sending American jobs to a communist nation is *good*, you see.
Cognitive dissonance it’s called - any uncomfortable new information contradicting strongly held views, is simply rejected.
As if it doesn’t exist. Holding hands over ears, “la la la la la I can’t heeeear you!”
Wonder if this is what it was like, in 1935. As the world stood by, not noticing.
I now think the surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan served a three-fold purpose:
1. It bleeds out our patriotic troops, money, and ammunition.
2. It provides an opportunity for the Islamist media to use our troops to inflame the Islamists and provide an ultimate excuse for both Pakistan and Afghanistan to reverse their alliance with the US (based on Rumsfeld’s cooperate-or-become-a-glass-parking-lot ultimatum) and instead go full sharia - just like all the other ME countries the Obama regime has supported in their move from being non-sharia US allies to becoming Muslim Brotherhood/Salafist countries who are instituting sharia including annihilation of “infidels” such as Christians. The Egyptian ambassador said on Arab TV that Obama had privately told him (presumably in January of 2010) that he was and still is a Muslim who supports the Muslim agenda. The Muslim agenda - which all branches of Islam agree on - is the destruction of the US and Israel and the institution of worldwide sharia.
3. It ensures that we don’t have enough troops to defend the homeland when the doo-doo hits the fan here - whether that is by black riots pushed by the union heads, by a Hezbollah/Hamas coup following an Iranian EMP attack, by riots following another run on the bank to collapse capitalism and the world economy, or by any other scenario. Obama has said different things that suggest he believes nobody can get him out of office. Which suggests to me that he intends there not to be a 2012 election if it looks like he won’t win it.