The US fans Afghanistan flames

Asia Times ^ | March 1, 2012 | Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse

[combat_boots]

Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting - and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view?

Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity. In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state of panic, horror, and confusion. Even as an anxious US commander withdrew American and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) advisers from Afghan ministries around Kabul last weekend - approximately 300, military spokesman James Williams tells TomDispatch - the ability of American soldiers to remain on giant fortified bases eating pizza and fried chicken into the distant future is not in doubt.

No set of Taliban guerrillas, suicide bombers, or armed Afghan

[combat_boots]

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[John O]

Which of course teaches us that teh next time we need to go into a moslem country we should just nuke it out of existence.

Very quickly islam is showing us that the only good moslem is a dead moslem.

[zeugma]

Very quickly islam is showing us that the only good moslem is a dead moslem.

It has ever been thus. Thomas Jefferson spoke of it.

Winston Churchill appeared to be of the opinion that muslims are a blight upon the planet without redeeming qualities.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-——It has ever been thus. Thomas Jefferson spoke of it.——

And before that, there were those mean Crusaders.

[mikrofon]

Perhaps, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has outlived its usefulness -- or a least, involved way beyond its scope.