Boy, talk about being hoisted by ones own petard...

[Rickster71]

We can't leave now!
Not unlike Bush's war for oil, we now have Obama's war for Minerals.
See NY Times story below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html
U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan.
An internal Pentagon memo, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries.

 

[highfigh]

Sometimes you have to know when to give up ... and that was when they didn't appreciate the US helping them rid themselves of the Russians. Would it be wrong to arm our prison population and drop them off in Kabul?

It could be like a PPV event. We could use the money to pay for Iraq.

Why arm the prison population? Why not just collect all of the gang members and send them over. They already have large arsenals, they think they're ten foot tall and bulletproof, they don't like to take shyte from anyone and a lot of them kinda look a bit like they could be from the area.

 

[gmichael]

Why arm the prison population? Why not just collect all of the gang members and send them over. They already have large arsenals, they think they're ten foot tall and bulletproof, they don't like to take shyte from anyone and a lot of them kinda look a bit like they could be from the area.

With our luck, they'd all join forces and start a new and improved terorist group.