Comments on: A Collect Call From Reality

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:35:06 +0000

It doesn’t work because it’s a terrible idea that has never worked, and yet they continue to try it. apparently believing that the last group that did it, didn’t know how — except these are the same people who funded the anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan, and who kept supplying Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war.

This is the third time, not counting the side trips in South and Central America with right wing death squads.

By: whig

whig — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:18:06 +0000

And if you are a weapons manufacturer, you want to arm everyone.

By: whig

whig — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:17:18 +0000

Blowback is good if your policy is endless war for its own sake.

War, glorious war.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:20:03 +0000

It’s their version of the world, Fallenmonk. Policies don’t fail because they are bad policies, there’s always another excuse. Normally you learn more from your failures than your successes, but these people refuse to learn anything.

CD, you’re right. We should listen to them and just do the opposite, because they seem to be total incompetents, so total that is can’t be a random event – they have to be planning on failing.

By: cat daddy and dr squeeky

cat daddy and dr squeeky — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:16:47 +0000

Like George in Sienfeld… He became successful when he began doing exactly the opposite of what his first instinct to do was… It worked for that George, maybe it’ll work for W.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:54:00 +0000

The ridiculous thing is that they are surprised at the results each time. Like my grandfather used to say “Like throwing rocks down a sinkhole.” You would think that there would someone at these high level strategy sessions that would ask the question as why everyone thinks it will work this time.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:17:48 +0000

Good catch from Donna, Whig, it slipped my mind about our assistance in multiple forms to Saddam when I slipped into thinking about insurgents.

I hope Gordon Brown gets your people out of the south as soon as possible, Jams, because things are going to get nasty and the Basra area will take a heavy hit. The Shi’ia are not going to be happy about the US arming Sunnis.

I sometimes think “blow back” is our foreign policy.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:07:25 +0000

Why does the expression blow back come to mind?

By: whig

whig — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:03:48 +0000

And I don't know why she swallowed that camel...