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    If you aren't even willing to admit that different parts of Afghanistan are in fact different, you're just demonstrating your…
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    • Uh, that's really not a debatable statement. US cities have much higher crime rates than cities in other developed countries,…
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    • Drone attacks? Kabul? I think you're lost the thread a bit.  We're not talking about Afghanistan as a whole.  We're…
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    • We're seeing the same sloppy thinking we've become used to. Because people used to make the bogus assertion that Baghdad…
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    • LBJ never announced a withdrawal from Vietnam. Being able to form a sentence that equates something to Vietnam doesn't actually…
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    • The organized, armed insurgency has succeeded in making some places in Afghanistan more dangerous than, say, New Orleans. At this…
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    • No, no, Kabul must be as dangerous as Tikrit in 2005, because my ideology tells me so! Orientalism is the…
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    • Name an administration that was more transparent than this one. Go ahead.  Since it's such a hilarious punch line to…
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    • Fighting back because you got really angry is not self-defense, even if you were being attacked.
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    • It will not necessarily be the same 33,000 troops coming out.  I would guess that, since they're transitioning from a…
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    • Then you remember them wrong. Apparently, you don't remember the peer-to-peer contacts between our  military officers and their counterparts in…
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    • It was good, the timeline is good as far as it goes...but the speech was a little light on the…
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    • Wouldn't that have been awesome? NATO: "Oh, no, we'd better change our mind, so we can get the crazy, corrupt…
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    • Sadly, that wasn't actually the job Bush started all those years ago.  It looked like he was there to do…
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    • There are those naysayers who raised the point I mentioned sincerely, and others who did so merely as a pretext…
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    • Oh, right. NATO is engaged in hostilities but the USA is not. Got it. There's actually nothing implausible about such…
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    • Italy has had "cold feet" from the beginning.  Berscoloni threatened to resign over the UN declaration: Berlusconi also said he…
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    •  "apparently even the international diplomatic community has completely bought into the Pentagon view of how-the-world-works." Well, that's one theory.  How…
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    • Wait a second, when did Bush ever withdraw anybody? Never, that's when. If you don't see a difference, that's your…
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    • Ditto.  I remember reading about his management in northern Iraq when he was commanding the 101st.  Getting to know the…
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