Then be honest about the consequences. As long as we are intervening we should be prepared to sacrifice blood and treasure, to lose large numbers of American civilians and soldiers in retaliation. Because that is what happens in real life.

Deal?

This is all eerily familiar territory. A common Interventionist fallacy. Interveners really need some new material, something besides complexity. A simple foreign policy argument against nonintervention that isn't some absurd platitude.

Why not US Military bases for all?

We're well on our way.

Then we can fix everyone everywhere. For Good.

Obviously, as our success in Afghanistan has shown. And we'd throw in Palestinian right of return since we are all about helping refugees get back home and stuff, and that statistic isn't a peanut in a hurricane of shit. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal for the Palestinians though, the privilege of being liberated and then occupied by the United States for good.

So when do we take over for the Israelis? We could show them how to occupy and fix things the right way the nth time since we are all about doing those things. Why stop at Afghanistan when there are other occupations waiting for fixes?

That sounds situation sounds similar to the situation in Palestine. When does the freedom invasion start?

Since US occupation is so good for returning refugees we should occupy Palestine. There are extremists there that have been preventing Palestinians from returning to their land for decades years. The Palestinians could use a small US Military intervention and occupation to make it safe for the others to return.

We have a lot of good times to look forward to eh?

It's like a clown car accident. All those bloody clown shoes. How did they all fit in those little cars? It's mesmerizing. You can't look away.

regardless of whether we leave tomorrow or in the year 2525.

That's not very optimistic we could find a way to crush their spirit in 516 years time. We could breed them out with that kind a time frame, send in our best and horniest specimens to spread our freedom seed.

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff10282009.html

Brought to You by the CIA

America's Drug Crisis

By DAVE LINDORFF

Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, just imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: “Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work.”

*snip*

The real story here is that where the US goes, the drug trade soon follows, and the leading role in developing and nurturing that trade appears to be played by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Your tax dollars at work.

The issue at this point should not be how many troops the US should add to its total in Afghanistan. It shouldn’t even be over whether the US should up the ante or scale back to a more limited goal of hunting terrorists. It should be about how quickly the US can extricate its forces from Afghanistan, how soon the Congress can start hearings into corruption and drug pushing by the CIA, and how soon the Attorney General’s office will impanel a grand jury to probe CIA drug dealing.

Americans, who for years have supported a stupid, blundering and ineffective “War on Drugs” in this country, and who mindlessly back “zero-tolerance” policies towards drugs in schools and on the job, should demand a “zero-tolerance” policy toward drugs and dealing with drug pushers in government and foreign policy, including the CIA.

I would also recommend informing the IRS and requesting an audit. Something tells me the CIA may not be paying its fair share of taxes.

When I read about Ahmed Karzai the first thing that came to my mind was the relationship between Whitey Bulger and John Connolly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connolly_%28FBI%29

John J. "Zip" Connolly Jr. is a former FBI agent, currently incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for racketeering and obstruction of justice convictions stemming from his relationship with Whitey Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang. He is the brother-in-law of Arthur Gianelli who is married to Mary Ann Moore, the sister of Connolly's wife Elizabeth.

State police and other federal officers had been trying to imprison Whitey Bulger for years, but somehow Bulger always avoided getting caught. As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly (who had grown up in the Old Harbor Housing Project with Bulger) had been protecting them from prosecution by feeding him information about possible attempts to catch them.

Connolly was indicted on December 22, 1999 on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, and accepting bribes. In 2000, he was charged with additional racketeering related offenses. He was convicted on the racketeering charges in 2002 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.[1]

This scandal was the basis for the book Black Mass and served as the inspiration for the setting of 2006 crime thriller film, The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese.[2]

Their relationship gave Bulger other competitive advantages as well, like being to feed his FBI friend information on the competition.

Sending knights in shining armor to rescue distressed damsels isn't Silenced's mission, it is the mission of the teenagers Silenced is encouraging.

And here I thought the longbow brought the death of chivalry, or bombs from the sky in our modern times. Good thing Silenced is around to rekindled the romance.

Wrong. They drank helicopter fuel because it tastes delicious. An Afhgan woman told me so. You should try it some time.

I'll assume by your handle that you really believe that.