Comments on: Gareth Porter

By: Mechanized

Mechanized — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Unfortunately, the extreme cost of the all-volunteer force is enforced by coercion on pain of imprisonment at best.

By: omop

omop — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:59:18 +0000

Its been said that "the farther backwards one can look, the farther forward one is able to see".

Using the eventual collapse of Imperial Rome by ,,,according to most historians by "barbarians" it becomes rather evident that in time ( personal progno. 2027) is when the USA will vacate Afghanistan and the other some 150 millitary bases/countries it presently occupies.

Until then we all can enjoy and celebrate, as long as one is still alive, the Fourth (4) of every July.

By: 987

987 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:44:45 +0000

You would be amazed to see how resourceful the people that are trained and overseen by the CIA are. How about Egyptian intelligence that in order to plant a spy inside Ayman Zarqawi's organization lured one of the member's kids into a hotel, drugged him and had him sodomized all night. And later showed pictures of the act, threatening to show them to his father if he did not plant microphones at home and tell them their meeting habits.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:33:02 +0000

Thanks, Scott and Gareth.

I know we all try to make sense of the continued occupation and consequent death and destruction in Afghanistan.

The one idea I try to keep in mind is a lesson learned from G. Edward Griffin in his book The Creature from Jekyll Island. In it, we learn that the stated goals of the Federal Reserve System is to maintain price stability and full employment. It has failed miserably at achieving its stated goals. So what is its true purpose? He answers that question nicely.

Apply this lesson to the U.S. Government's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Now, I don't know what the stated goals have been nor what has been communicated recently. On the other hand, what is being accomplished by continuing the invasion and occupation?

The Unites States Government is the greatest threat to all peaceful, freedom-loving people that just want to build a life for themselves and their families – anywhere in the world.

One day we are going to look in awe at the Afghanistan people that stood up to the world's largest collection of mass-murderers in order to defend their homes, leaving the country that provided a safe haven for the barbarians broke and in decline.

We will see those defenders as examples of the courage and resolve needed to live freely.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:10:31 +0000

Starship Troopers, would you like to know more?

By: Al Hass

Al Hass — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:25:12 +0000

Nice for President Obama to send 30 000 soldiers (other People's children to Afganistan) will he ever send his DAUGHTERS to defend the US ? WE ALL know that this is an UNWINNING War, tried /FAILED before, by the British and Russians., and sooner THE U S A .
Tthe Afgans are wating for the USA to get out before they go for their FINAL MATCH, in the mean time as The Chief of staff say, we will be loosing (wasting, my word) more of our soldiers.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:41:57 +0000

It is one thing to recruit someone for a suicide mission, another thing altogether to recruit someone for a FALSE FLAG suicide mission. People will die to strike at the enemy and be revered by their own, they will not die to strike at their own and be cursed by them.

By: mike mason

mike mason — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:47:50 +0000

come on dude. you know obama is scared to death of palin and only trying to appease to get re-elected for 2012 while showing he is not a patsy liberal but a neoconned war monger like his and bushes alltime hero lincoln.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:55 +0000

A U.S. foreign legion?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:24 +0000

Dying isn't much of a living.