tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post5989994477864335896..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Peace ProcessSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-2978804249256173832009-11-28T18:16:22.152-06:002009-11-28T18:16:22.152-06:00"Now it sounds depressingly like he's abo..."Now it sounds depressingly like he's about to assume ownership."<br /><br />Not "about". He owns it. And it is time to stop thinking of this president as FDR and start thinking of him as LBJ because he does not have the faintest ghost of a chance to get those troops back out once he has capitulated to the right wing hysterics and the pentagon macho mentality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-42425695740349005652009-11-28T17:42:04.591-06:002009-11-28T17:42:04.591-06:00I have yet to lose a moment of sleep over Iran'...I have yet to lose a moment of sleep over Iran's nuclear program, but I usually have trouble sleeping after reading nitwits like Mona Charen or Charles Krauthammer blatting on about the need to start bombing Iran so Israel doesn't have to. <br /><br />On Afghanistan; every time I hear some pundit expounding at length on what wonderful fighters the Afghans are, I start to wonder: if the average Joe Afghan wants his daughter to go to school, why isn't he willing to pick up a gun and defend the school from Taliban threats to blow it up? And I'm generally a pretty pacific guy, but I'd be sorely tempted to put a round between the eyes of anyone threatening to throw acid in my daughter's face. And if the Taliban are so unpopular, why is it like pulling teeth to get the aforementioned Joe Afghan to even tell U.S. troops where the IEDs are planted? Early on, Obama had a real chance to get out from under Bush's wars, but during the campaign, he seemed to think he couldn't get elected without promising to keep at least one war going, so he started beating McCain over the head with Afghanistan. Now it sounds depressingly like he's about to assume ownership.satchnoreply@blogger.com