OMG. Palin has no brain.

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Registered: 09-06-2008
OMG. Palin has no brain.
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Wed, 10-01-2008 - 8:09pm

Never - ever - have I heard more a vacuous, vapid response to a question from a major candidate for public office:


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/01/eveningnews/main4493062.shtml


Please, people.  Please.  You cannot put this bimbo in the White House.

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Registered: 07-22-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:50am

< "Actually, I think they were aiming at Hussein and the Iraq army."

>>> Not only. The idea was to make a show of US might, in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq.

Pretty effective.

>>> The effort has failed especially spectacularly in Afghanistan. I imagine you caught the comments made a few days ago by the British commander there.

I guess that explains the defeat of the American army and...er...oops...but they weren't defeated, were they?

< "Not really. The deaths of so many Al Qaeda leaders and the dismantling of their organization have dealt them a significant, if not debilitating, blow."

>>> That is where I think you are completely wrong. The US efforts are causing massive radicalization and recruitment for al-Qaeda. Killing a few leaders here and there is not convincing as the action of a superpower.

And yet, the attacks are diminishing...the organization has been broken up into small independent cells...the leadership is killed...the money is drying up...they've been neutered in Iraq...sounds like a good day's work. Sorry, but I just don't see the long lines at the Al Qaeda recruitment center like you apparently wish for...er...sorry...do.

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:06am

The man that he was close enough

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:08am

">>> Not only. The idea was to make a show of US might, in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq.

Pretty effective."

Many people, me included, would differ on that.

The British commander said that the war in Afghanistan can not be won. Call that what you will.

"Sorry, but I just don't see the long lines at the Al Qaeda recruitment center like you apparently wish for...er...sorry...do."

It is not exactly a secret, nor something any reasonable person wishes for. However, increasing radicalization of Muslims appears to be a reality. It is certainly difficult to quantify, but is something that is widely discussed and studied in both academic and diplomatic/intelligence circles in Europe. I would think in the US as well, but perhaps not?

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Registered: 07-22-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:17am

< >>>Not only. The idea was to make a show of US might, in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq.

< Pretty effective."

>>> Many people, me included, would differ on that.

Who cares?

>>> The British commander said that the war in Afghanistan can not be won. Call that what you will.

Wow,,,the British? Really? Those were the kids with such high hopes at Yorktown, weren't they? (said with deference, 'cause I love the British)

< "Sorry, but I just don't see the long lines at the Al Qaeda recruitment center like you apparently wish for...er...sorry...do."

>>> It is not exactly a secret, nor something any reasonable person wishes for.

And yet the left's desire for American defeat is...somehow...well known. I simply don't understand the need for self-flagellation.

>>> However, increasing radicalization of Muslims appears to be a reality. It is certainly difficult to quantify, but is something that is widely discussed and studied in both academic and diplomatic/intelligence circles in Europe. I would think in the US as well, but perhaps not?

Quantify them...know them...and kill them.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:26am

Does that mean that you find it irrelevant what the commander said?

"Quantify them...know them...and kill them."

Obviously you have yet to realize that it really is not that simple. Remember the Hydra?

In case others read as well:

"British commander says war in Afghanistan cannot be won
Sun Oct 5, 2008 11:43am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's commander in Afghanistan has said the war against the Taliban cannot be won, the Sunday Times reported.

It quoted Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith as saying in an interview that if the Taliban were willing to talk, then that might be "precisely the sort of progress" needed to end the insurgency.

"We're not going to win this war. It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army," he said.

He said his forces had "taken the sting out of the Taliban for 2008" but that troops may well leave Afghanistan with there still being a low level of insurgency.

But Afghanistan's Defense Minister expressed his disappointment on Sunday at the commander's statements, maintaining the insurgency had to be defeated.

"I think this is the personal opinion of that commander," Abdul Rahim Wardak told reporters.

"The main objective of the Afghan government and the whole international community is that we have to defeat this war of terror and be successful," he said.

Wardak said success also depended on how British forces were approaching the problems they faced in Helmand but did not say whether their current strategy was the right one.

Asked if the commander's comments came as a disappointment, Wardak said: "Yes, it is disappointing, for sure."

Britain has around 8,000 troops based in Afghanistan, most of them in the volatile southern province of Helmand, where they face daily battles with a growing insurgency.

NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH "INVADERS"

NATO commanders and diplomats have been saying for some time that the Taliban insurgency cannot be defeated by military means alone and that negotiations with the militants will ultimately be needed to bring an end to the conflict.

"If the Taliban were prepared to sit on the other side of the table and talk about a political settlement, then that's precisely the sort of progress that concludes insurgencies like this," Carleton-Smith said. "That shouldn't make people uncomfortable."

But a spokesman for the Taliban said on Sunday there would be no negotiations with foreigners and repeated calls made by Taliban commanders for the unconditional withdrawal of the more than 70,000 international troops from Afghanistan.

"They should know that Taliban will never hold talks with the invaders," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told the Pakistan-based Afghan news agency, AIP.

"What we had said in the past, we also say once again, that foreign forces should leave without any condition," he said.

Violence in Afghanistan has increased to its worst level since 2001, when U.S.-led and Afghan forces overthrew the ruling Taliban following the September 11 attacks on the United States.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said last week he had asked the king of Saudi Arabia to mediate in talks with the insurgents and called on Taliban leader Mullah Omar to return to his homeland and to make peace.

(Writing by Myra MacDonald; additional reporting by Jonathon Burch in Kabul; Editing by Valerie Lee)
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSTRE4940O020081005?sp=true

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:26am

<<There is a difference between a conservative and a neoconservative.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:28am
This is what I am referring to.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-05-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:32am
Your sources are useless.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:32am

Nah...it is good old fashioned BRAINS that can see it for what it is.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:33am

Deflection...yes.

 

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