[PhilDragoo]

This is a complex bill of many parts.

Focussing on Afghanistan, we went in and quickly kicked ass and took names.

Now a section of this bill provides for building some things.

AFGHANISTAN

SEC. 523. Of the funds appropriated by titles II and III of this Act, not less than $600,000,000 shall be made available for humanitarian, reconstruction, and related assistance for Afghanistan: Provided, That of the funds made available pursuant to this section, not less than $150,000,000 should be from funds appropriated under the heading `Economic Support Fund'.

This could be a good thing, and the key is in the administration.

To adopt a laissez faire attitude let's us get back to the big-screen teevee, but the news might be more 911 oh shit.

I have always deplored diplomacy and would immediately close the State Department, moving all the money to DOD and all the people onto an ice floe towed to a sunny clime.

But we are wise to help those who help us, and also wise to dump them like a box of rocks if they bite us.

This is the carrot to the shock and awe stick.

Used wisely it will serve us, and unwisely, it will drain us.

Be advised China is everywhere, in every hemisphere, gobbling up "allies" [satellites] to use against us, the great hegemon, the main enemy.

War is inevitable, the sooner the better.

Note the many clauses excluding countries and providing presidential waiver.

This is a weapon.

[Stew Padasso]

"Be advised China is everywhere, in every hemisphere, gobbling up "allies" [satellites] to use against us, the great hegemon, the main enemy."

Someone better tell the Bush administration to halt trade with the enemy.

[BOBTHENAILER]

But we are wise to help those who help us, and also wise to dump them like a box of rocks if they bite us. This is the carrot to the shock and awe stick. Used wisely it will serve us, and unwisely, it will drain us.

Good point and hopefully the adults in charge will do just that.

I agree about China, it's coming and the sooner the better.