Posted on 10/12/2009 9:44:51 AM PDT by Crush
We are soooo screwed..paying off your enemies worked so well for the Byzantines *snorts*.
He being a good Kenyan-born, illegal alien, devout muslim, why are we surprised. Can’t wait to find out in a tell-all book about his muslim prayer rug. What a POS!
Recall Chamberlain and Hitler and notice the outcome.
The outcome will be similiar or worse. Obama may happily BAIL THEM OUT with our tax dollars of ocurse, and they can use the money to drop a bomb on all of us. How nice!
Same with Chamberlain and Hitler ... .
There does our debt, AGAIN!
What happens when the Taliban ups the payment to $30 per day? Will we jump in with $40?
Maybe this is the way obama plans to handle crime, too - pay the perps to not murder, cheat, and steal.
With the removal of the defense missiles in Poland, your statement takes on a new level of truth.
God help us all.
Gee, what if King George had thought of this? We all know that the Patriots were totally lacking in faith in the cause and were in it just for the money.
BHO has no clue what so ever, at least that guy does. The Taliban are an ideologically/religiously driven movement. No way money will “buy” them at least not for long. Maybe our Nobel laureate can put the bidding up on Ebay for transparency purposes./s It would be ironic if the Taliban refused dollars and wanted other currencies just like the Saudis are talking about doing with their oil transactions.
Ah sheesh! Who gave this ahole a blank check? Get him out before it’s too late. VOTE against the person that isn’t Bush.
Let’s give them Massachusetts, but they have to take Barney Frank or no deal.
Apparently, while Neville Chamberlain and his predecessor, Baldwin, were appeasing the Germans, the Brits were developing the Hurricane and Spitfire, the radar system and the doctrine that defended the UK and won the Battle of Britain. In fact, this may be very reason he was “appeasing” the Nazis. So, he wasn't all bad.
Unlike Obama.
Of course, Bush did it too by paying off the insurgents.
They’re probably now gonna want to be paid in EUROs, since ZERO is letting the Dollar drop down to same!
That’s funny...I must have missed the insurgents flying planes into buildings. Paying them to turn on the mullahs and turn in those our troops were hunting for isn’t what BJ Clinton was doing.
Nice try though.
They'll take our money and pull the trigger anyway.
While I don’t think it is a good idea here, the Byzantine reference is a poor example. The Byzantines used this tactic, along with others for a thousand years and survived through numerous enemies. It was only when the West completely turned their backs on them that the Byzantines were overcome.
The Pashtun Taliban also did not fly planes into buildings. Those were Arab Sunni members of Al Qaeda from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In case you weren’t reading the papers, the insurgents bribed by Bush were the same ones killing Americans and civilians with suicide bombers allied with the Arab Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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