On Dec 7, 11:30*pm, harry wrote:
On Dec 8, 12:15*am, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 12/7/2010 10:44 AM DGDevin spake thus:
"harry" *wrote in message
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BTW now the war in Afghanistan is coming to a close (ie another
country the USA has completely f***d up)
Afghanistan has been a pit of strife as long as it has existed, ask
Alexander the Great, or the former British Empire, or the former Soviet
Union. *To depict it as a place the USA ****ed up (we're all big kids here,
you can spell it out) is really reaching. *America is just the latest actor
on that sad stage.
I'll buy that (your response), on the grounds that the wise, prudent and
long-range thing to do would to have never set foot in that place in the
first place.
But now, of course, Obama has made it *his* war. It's no longer Bush's
folly.
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Well, he could hardly just walk away from it in all fairness.
Are you trying to transferr the blame for the Bush war to Obama now as
well as the Bush recession? * Short memory you Yanks have.- Hide quoted text -
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Many years ago I was brazing a four inch brass fitting in a two
hundred unit building that I had the water turned-off to. I finished
and when I turned the water back on I found that the fitting was still
leaking. So I turned the water back off, drained the line again and re-
brazed. I finished and when I turned the water back on I found the
fitting was still leaking. This went on about half a dozen times. I
couldn’t figure out how a solid brass fitting could simply leak; it
just didn’t make sense. I had started in the morning and now it was
close to midnight. The residents were complaining and angry. I knew I
was licked. I hung my head low in shame, gathered up my courage, went
to the building manager and told her that I had failed and to call
some other plumber. The manager called another plumbing company. The
other plumber did the same thing that I did with the same results.
Fortunately the other plumber was more experienced than I was and
found the problem. The four inch brass fitting was defective. He
explained that while it was cast it had been contaminated by sand and
had been made porous. I had to let this fitting leak, order another
fitting, cut out the defective fitting and re-do the whole job. It
wasn’t my fault after all. There was no way I could have known that
the fitting that I had used was defective but at least I had the
courage to simply give-up and admit that I had failed. Sometimes you
have to simply say you failed.