red states rule
07-24-2008, 06:59 AM
The kook left is not happy with the messiah. They see how his shift from the far left, and are shaking their heads in disbelief.
According to the former Mr Jane Fonda, all we have to do is hug and bribe the terrorists, and that will make them stop being terrorists
Obama Wants to Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others
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But Obama's proposals for Afghanistan and Pakistan are far more problematic. They can be described in everyday language as either out of the frying pan and into the fire or attacking needles by burning down haystacks.
The Pentagon paradigm is to defeat Al Qaeda militarily while refusing to address, and thereby worsening, the dire conditions that gave rise to the Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in the first place. In careful prose based on reputable sources, Ahmed Rashid's new Descent into Chaos (Viking, 2008) provides a horrific portrait of Afghanistan:
It is estimated by RAND that $100 per capita is the minimum required to stabilize a country evolving out of war. Bosnia received $679 per capita, Kosovo $526, while Afghanistan received $57 per capita in the key years, 2001-2003.
When the United States installed the Hamid Karzai government, Afghanistan ranked 172nd out of 178 nations on the United Nation's Human Development Index. It has the highest rate of infant mortality in the world, a life expectancy rate of 44-45 years, and the youngest population of any country. In 2005, 95 percent of Kabul's residents were living without electrical power.
Seven hundred civilians were killed in the first five months of 2008 alone, according to the United Nations.
http://www.alternet.org/audits/91645/?ses=9260d41bb1785ea97391ed1ad43abe3e
According to the former Mr Jane Fonda, all we have to do is hug and bribe the terrorists, and that will make them stop being terrorists
Obama Wants to Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others
snip
But Obama's proposals for Afghanistan and Pakistan are far more problematic. They can be described in everyday language as either out of the frying pan and into the fire or attacking needles by burning down haystacks.
The Pentagon paradigm is to defeat Al Qaeda militarily while refusing to address, and thereby worsening, the dire conditions that gave rise to the Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in the first place. In careful prose based on reputable sources, Ahmed Rashid's new Descent into Chaos (Viking, 2008) provides a horrific portrait of Afghanistan:
It is estimated by RAND that $100 per capita is the minimum required to stabilize a country evolving out of war. Bosnia received $679 per capita, Kosovo $526, while Afghanistan received $57 per capita in the key years, 2001-2003.
When the United States installed the Hamid Karzai government, Afghanistan ranked 172nd out of 178 nations on the United Nation's Human Development Index. It has the highest rate of infant mortality in the world, a life expectancy rate of 44-45 years, and the youngest population of any country. In 2005, 95 percent of Kabul's residents were living without electrical power.
Seven hundred civilians were killed in the first five months of 2008 alone, according to the United Nations.
http://www.alternet.org/audits/91645/?ses=9260d41bb1785ea97391ed1ad43abe3e