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2010-04-26 Afghanistan

Afghanistan & the Eliot Spitzer law of love - Ralph Peters

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...a frustrated British general, deep into his evening port, must have asked, "Can't these primitives understand the advantages we offer them?"

The Brits of the time were territorial imperialist who wanted to run the place that they had 'marked' as theirs through a series of wars. The intent was to reestablish control and rule over the subjects. Further, I don't recall the American colonies being a sympathetic region from which was launched a devastating attack that killed thousands of Londoners prior to the hostilities.

The Americans have no real desire to 'run' the place and it has nothing of value other than to be denied as a base of operation for those who already have demonstrated their propensity to kill. We just have to take down the problem to a level where other natural predators in the region will keep the parties too busy to bother us again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-26 12:03|| 2010-04-26 12:03|| Front Page Top

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