Jon Stewart says, why does the media ignore Ron Paul

[Hoosier]

When a foreign organization kills 3000 Americans and your response is "Well I wouldn't do nothin' 'bout that" you lose. Period.

I hadn't heard that, and had to go look it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...e_and_reprisal

Says go after the terrorists, kill the people who did it. Hey that sounds like a nuanced approach that I'm OK with. The idea of an outside force building a national government in Afghanistan would take 100 years and 100 trillion dollars, a total change in their way of life that would take generations to implement. It's cheaper and easier to punish them when they permit terrorists groups inside their borders, while directly attacking the terrorists. We just don't need to foot the bill to give them a proper nation, when they can't hack it themselves.

H.

[tmleadr03]

I hadn't heard that, and had to go look it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...e_and_reprisal

Says go after the terrorists, kill the people who did it. Hey that sounds like a nuanced approach that I'm OK with. The idea of an outside force building a national government in Afghanistan would take 100 years and 100 trillion dollars, a total change in their way of life that would take generations to implement. It's cheaper and easier to punish them when they permit terrorists groups inside their borders, while directly attacking the terrorists. We just don't need to foot the bill to give them a proper nation, when they can't hack it themselves.

H.

Can't say how much I like that proposal. I would be very ok with getting a letter of marque to go hunting Somali pirates. Or terrorists.

I have been saying for quite a while now that the way to have handled Afghanistan was to go in with a shit ton of firepower/boots on the ground. Kill every terrorist we could find, destroy all the camps and caves we came across, salt the earth in the poppy fields, declare victory and leave.

With the Somali pirates I figured a BN of Marines on a search a destroy mission for a few months. "Marines, go kill some pirates. It is open season and there is no bag limit" would have been a totally ok way to go.


But his Marque and Reprisal is very nice as well.