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2017-10-30 Afghanistan

The Man Who Thought He Could Fix Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-30 07:24|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Link had the title text pasted into it, not the URL.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-10-30 08:24|| 2017-10-30 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks! Still under warranty. NC Herb :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-30 08:40|| 2017-10-30 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Can Trump scrap the state department and rebuild it from scratch?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-10-30 12:11|| 2017-10-30 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Can Trump scrap the state department and rebuild it from scratch?

What about the rest of departments and agencies?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-30 12:20|| 2017-10-30 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 ...got to start somewhere. Focus.

BTW, the last guy to 'fix' Afghanistan was a Mongol. Too many snowflakes today to use the proven methodology.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-30 14:22|| 2017-10-30 14:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Ghani sounds like a typical Third World leader who talks a good game while in academia, then scoops up the filthy lucre with both hands while in power.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-10-30 17:00|| 2017-10-30 17:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The Omsk Canal.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-10-30 19:04|| 2017-10-30 19:04|| Front Page Top

#8 What a barftastic puff piece covering a worthless diplomat in a POS country. Woah, journalist shill please tell me more about the sweat upon his brow during the warm season, and the dust.

F#ck you Scott. F#ck you journalist. Y'all don't represent me. Get real jobs in Oklahoma you tards.

Posted by rammer 2017-10-30 21:54|| 2017-10-30 21:54|| Front Page Top

#9 What a barftastic puff piece covering a worthless diplomat in a POS country. Woah, journalist shill please tell me more about the sweat upon his brow during the warm season, and the dust.

Makes you wonder about some of the analyses and recommendations these experts provide, doesn't it? Sounds like they start out with a square peg and somehow make it fit into whatever shape holes they find. That's why they're in academia - they don't actually have to get anything done outside of filling reams of paper with unintelligible English-like sentences.

Funny thing is that Guggenheim is supposed to have spent decades in Indonesia. Last I heard, Indonesia is way behind China in terms of its economic development despite never having gone communist. Now, foreign development theorists never actually have the power to implement their recommendations if they don't have an occupation army in tow. That excuse went away when he showed up in Afghanistan.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-10-30 22:31|| 2017-10-30 22:31|| Front Page Top

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