Officials: U.S. plans major push into Kandahar
Marjah called a ‘prelude’ to offensive in Afghanistan's second largest city
***Why haven't we learned to stop announcing our invasions?
By the way guys, we'll be attacking your city at O800 hrs on thursday around noon......unless there is a sandstorm in that case we'll wait till friday morning.
ah blessed patriotism......how it keeps us all so quiet.
In the 40s we fought a war of necessity because we are humans like everyone else and we needed to fight to survive. we stood next to stalin on the german border and patted each other on the back for our ingenuity and joint resolve.
Maybe it's true if we don't take "the war" to the "terrorist's" doorstep we'll find them right here blowing up our schools and grocery stores. I say it's coming anyway. Terrorists are born and bred right here and in the future as technology catches up with rebellion we will see ever growing and ever deadly attacks pulled off on our soil and by our own people.
What is a terrorist and how do we define him? During the revolutionary war here in the Usa in 1776 the brits surely thought of us as terrorists. We've all been raised to look back on them as freedom fighters and the honored founding fathers of this grand empire of hot dogs and apple pie.
The first thing we did was oppress the native americans. like the Israeli nation we forgot that quick what oppression is like.
General Washington would have flown a cessna into the royal palace if he could have and maybe 200 years later we would have praised his effort. personally I love everything british and wish we would have kept more than we did.
When I read the "Stack manifesto" I couldn't help but agree with a large portion of what he was on about.
Is the Gov't corrupt? Isn't every Gov't corrupt?
Are we really a free people or are we slaves of the giant corporate industrial monster of unchecked capitalism?
The only mistake was flying a plane into a building. It made every word he wrote worthless.
And the man he killed by doing so didn't deserve to die for it. So his words will pass away and be lost in the endless throng of dissidence that's either raked over the hot coals of patriotism or swept under the wet carpet of media suppression.
In a country of patriots it's dangerous to voice an "against the grain" opinion or to voice agreement with someone else's. What they do is pull you out of line and focus the lens eye on you and make you recant your opinions for all to hear. And yes that sounds eerily like an inquisition to me.
we're a greedy nation of lynch mobs and witch hunters.
Of course by writing this I too become the target of the inquisition. That's ok, I'm ranxid and they expect it of me. I been on the "wrong" side of capitalist culture since I was a pup in high school. Yes I do agree with some socialist ideals and to bible belt america that makes me the evil red menace.
A menace who thinks no child should starve in america while fat aristocrats sit in the halls of congress belching panera bread in their crisp clothes dutifully ironed by their immigrant housemaids.
That a hospital should try and save the lives of all who enter regardless of their monetary status or that a 911 call shouldn't come with an attached bill meant to swell the pockets of state and city "officials"
That we should all be taxed according to how much we make from the lowest wage to the highest. It shouldn't be ' the more you make the less you pay"
A menace who thinks there just shouldn't be an "American royalty" class living high in their glass mansions built on the backs of the poor working class.
These greed filled and gout growing pseudo ceasers should not be allowed to take the food from my children's mouths. That was the true ideal this country was founded on....freedom from oppression.
Not the freedom of the all powerful dollar. Make all you can, grab as much as you can carry and step on the backs of children to get there.
We voted for change.
The words sounded good and I listened. truth is you can't get "real" change by endless discussions and filibustered cocktail parties. you need to stand strong at the helm and tell the crew we are turning to starboard. Without the strength of true leadership the crew pulls the ship in every direction.
I call what we need "socialistic democracy"
and I'm sure I'll be burned at the stake for saying it.
Someday in the future we will have no choice but to change and evolve our forms of Gov't to fit a dying planet with ever dwindling resources. The fanatic minds who cling to the "power at all cost" mentality will wither and die from their inability to accept that the world is changing. The survivors will be the ones who share their panera bread with the neighbor's kids.
