Sunday, February 07, 2010
Agreed-on lie #9709090
Candy Crowley, interviewing Hillary this morning: "We can't pull our troops out of Afghanistan until the government there is stable. When is that going to happen?"
Hillary responded with some typical meaningless diplomatic crap, but the automatic assumption in the question is the interesting part.
Why is that the only way we can pull our troops out? Are they being held in place, transfixed by a voodoo spell that will only be released when Hamid Karzai has developed an American-style democracy? Karzai currently has a government elected by fraud, obeying the orders of criminal syndicates, and spending non-existent money on projects that accomplish nothing except to spend money. In other words, he already has an American-style democracy. So why are we still there?
Satire aside, why the hell can't we simply pull out because the whole job is pointless? Why must we all agree on the weird delusion that "failed states are the sole source of terrorism?" When will we figure out that the Army of Allah is training more soldiers in Britain and America than in those other failed states? ¶ 6:11 AM
Hillary responded with some typical meaningless diplomatic crap, but the automatic assumption in the question is the interesting part.
Why is that the only way we can pull our troops out? Are they being held in place, transfixed by a voodoo spell that will only be released when Hamid Karzai has developed an American-style democracy? Karzai currently has a government elected by fraud, obeying the orders of criminal syndicates, and spending non-existent money on projects that accomplish nothing except to spend money. In other words, he already has an American-style democracy. So why are we still there?
Satire aside, why the hell can't we simply pull out because the whole job is pointless? Why must we all agree on the weird delusion that "failed states are the sole source of terrorism?" When will we figure out that the Army of Allah is training more soldiers in Britain and America than in those other failed states? ¶ 6:11 AM
