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End the war on terror and save billions
The Washington Post ^
| 6 December 2012
| Fareed Zakaria
Posted on 12/06/2012 8:07:13 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jonty30
To: The Right wing Infidel
To: Jonty30
End the War on Poverty. End the war on drugs.
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posted on
12/07/2012 2:31:28 AM PST
by
winkadink
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
To: Tublecane
There are plenty of advocates for re-establishing the Ottoman Empire around ~ and some of them imagine that we are the successor state to the Hapsburgs and Brits ~ the folks who beat them into the ground.
That means they intend to use whatever weapons they can to get it back. So, no, he's not insane ~ just practical.
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:13:57 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: MinorityRepublican
I thought he had ended the war on terror - Al-Quedai was crushed into oblivion long ago, when Muzzies blow up stuff on our soil, it is not terror, but some sort of grievance being carried out as a “natural reaction” to what ever grieved the person. Where does the Muzzie author see any signs of a WOT?
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:29:40 AM PST
by
trebb
(Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Time to dismantled Homeland Insecurity, too, fire all the TSA robots, put an end to domestic drones, outlaw imprisonment without trial - for ANYONE anywhere, and reduce the IRS budget by 20%.
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:43:44 AM PST
by
gotribe
To: The Right wing Infidel
Apparently conservatives approve of the Zapp Brannigan plan.
Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage.
-Zapp Brannigan
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posted on
12/07/2012 4:35:34 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Idiot Fareed gets this right, The Big Fake War on “Terror” has been a failure as it morphed into trying to spread the BS of “Democracy” to 3rd world Islam. BS when the Rino Globalist like GWBush-Trotsky does it or when NWO Bolshevik Obama does it. Get the hell out of the ME, S. Korea, NATO, Africa, etc.
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posted on
12/07/2012 4:45:14 AM PST
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: MinorityRepublican
Whatthehell................Give Barry a break!
HE’S SURRENDERING AS FAST AS HE CAN!
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posted on
12/07/2012 4:47:31 AM PST
by
Flintlock
(PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Whatthehell................Give Barry a break!
HE’S SURRENDERING AS FAST AS HE CAN!
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posted on
12/07/2012 4:47:46 AM PST
by
Flintlock
(PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
To: iopscusa
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
-James Madison
We're fighting an endless war that has become pointless under the idiocy of "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here" without bothering to protect our own borders. I'm also fine with standing to defend Israel but there are far more cost effective methods of doing so than providing targets elsewhere.
It seems to me that the world is using Reagan's strategy against us. The whole world is breaking us because they know we can't resist an expensive fight whether we need it or not.
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posted on
12/07/2012 5:03:24 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: MinorityRepublican
But, he argued, There will come a tipping point . . . at which so many of the leaders and operatives of al-Qaeda and its affiliates have been killed or captured, and the group is no longer able to attempt or launch a strategic attack against the United States, such that al-Qaeda as we know it, the organization that our Congress authorized the military to pursue in 2001, has been effectively destroyed. At that point, our efforts should no longer be considered an armed conflict.I think this argument, as far as it goes, is indisputable.
The problem, of course, is defining and knowing when we have reached the "tipping point."
To: nathanbedford
That is a superb post, Genl. Forrest. I trust you will repeat it in future threads where confronted by the willful stupidity of the “nation builders”.
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posted on
12/07/2012 5:45:45 AM PST
by
Notary Sojac
(Only liberals believe that people can be made virtuous via legislative enactment.)
To: MinorityRepublican
It strikes me that the War on Terror has a good deal in common with the War on Drugs.
Everybody agrees that the tactics used are not very effective, but we continue on apparently because we believe we have to “do something,” even it if isn’t working.
Which makes both operations more or less a form of theater, indulged in not to achieve a goal but to project an image.
To: MinorityRepublican
Yeah, it isn’t like we have had an embasy attacked by AQ or anything....
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posted on
12/07/2012 6:41:57 AM PST
by
CSM
(Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: nathanbedford
I was originally a supporter those wars and have come to regret that position. Most feel the same way, surely. I liken the Iraq war to the Doolittle raid of WWII. America was "punched in the eye" by the Imperial Japanese and wanted to punch back. The raid was risky and suicidal yet it was some sort of vindication by bombing the Japenese city of Tokyo.
And 9/11 was a "punch in the eye" but the location of a capital city to bomb was nonexistent. So America largely settled for the nearest and related scumbag dictator's country. Well, we got what we asked for and then some.
We should have blasted our troops through a few other countries, including Iran, before ending up in Iraq, or not gone in the first place. It is what it is.
Iran will get the bomb and Obamacare will not be repealed. Have a nice day NB.
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posted on
12/07/2012 6:57:40 AM PST
by
VRW Conspirator
(We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
To: Sherman Logan
It strikes me that the War on Terror has a good deal in common with the War on Drugs.As it does the "War on Poverty".
America historically has done fine when we declare war on another country.
Not nearly so well when we declare war on an abstract concept!!
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posted on
12/07/2012 7:07:45 AM PST
by
Notary Sojac
(Only liberals believe that people can be made virtuous via legislative enactment.)
To: The Right wing Infidel
Actually, one non-nuke MOAB pinpointed at 21.4225°N 39.8262°E might be sufficient to shatter Islamism for good and all.
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posted on
12/07/2012 7:13:57 AM PST
by
Notary Sojac
(Only liberals believe that people can be made virtuous via legislative enactment.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Peace in our time!
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posted on
12/07/2012 7:22:04 AM PST
by
McGruff
(No New RINOs!)
To: Notary Sojac
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