On Jun 22, 6:00*pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
On 6/20/2010 9:08 AM,AndrewVK3BFAwrote:



On Jun 20, 2:43 am, Jim *wrote:
On Jun 19, 3:59 *wrote:

* I aint a Communist, it was tried, didn't work, so why bother with
that particular doctrine anymore. *Eastern Europe etc has gone back to
be warring tribes, dont think we have to worry too much about any of
them. The Russians have got their hands full anyway with all the
ethnic tension stuff. And ****ing themselves with laughter at what we
are doing in Afghanistan - pretty much a parallel situation, NATO/
control Kabul (sort of) and can go outside if heavily armed *and that
they sleep in fortified encampments otherwise they all get killed. As
did the Russians.

Except that so far we've lost a total of 1047 in ten years and they lost
more than 14,000.

So, is that 1047 guys that wont come home. Pity about their families,
too And 14000 Afghanis - do they count? - nah, .

Has the war turned into a "Who can **** further" contest?

No one has conquered that place for 2,000 years - cut your losses,
pull out, save your (and my country) troops lives, and let the Afghans
fight it out amongst themselves. (Which is what they do when theres no
Foreign Infidel Invader to fight with)

Thats the trouble with ideologies/dogma - if you can convince enough
people its a good one, (insert name of preffered one here) then it
will just rumble along under its own inertia. Their will be repeated
episodes of it not working, but a good ideology/dogma will carry you
through. It was obvious with Communism, a rotten system that collapsed
under its own contradictions. But it had a good run for a while.

And no citizenry will see the // to their own system, their own lives,
their own "choices"...

Andrew VK3BFA.