Afghan War to Expand, but with "Endgame"

[jhale667]

I still don't get why the terrain is so tough...
Would it be like invading Texas or Nevada, if Nevada was bigger?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/af.html

Nevada, if you threw in the Appalachian, Ozark and Rocky Mountain ranges combined? With even more ignorant "rednecks"?

Heard on the news the other day 90% of the region is illiterate, and that's a conservative estimate!

[standin]

That's where it is screwed up. How can a 90% illiteracy rate be broken? What a waste.

[jhale667]

That's where it is screwed up. How can a 90% illiteracy rate be broken? What a waste.

It's amazing something like that exists anywhere in the world when it's almost 2010. But it does there by design.

But the Taliban reminds me of Southern Slave owners in our history in regards to the way women are "forbidden" to learn...for the exact same reason too...the powers that be (that have made it through the Farsi equivalent of "The little engine that could") know that knowledge is power and that women (much like the slaves) would soon realize they were at the very least their "captor's" equals....and kick them to the fucking curb.

I forget which comedian it was, but he had a mock-suggestion that was actually brilliant: Use US and NATO forces and airlift EVERY woman and child out of there, and those backward zealot fucks will DIE OUT in a generation! Problem solved!

[standin]

True that, the survival of the species depend on the female.
But at 90% illiteracy rate that is not just woman not knowing how to read
But as our resident trolls point out, it is more than just reading, one has to be able to reason too.
Corruption, making corruption gross would go a longer way than just reading.
Big huge issue.

[FORD]

Nevada, if you threw in the Appalachian, Ozark and Rocky Mountain ranges combined? With even more ignorant "rednecks"?

More ignorant? Have you ever been to Reno?

[jhale667]

They "don't need none o' that 'fancy book-learnin'"!

More ignorant? Have you ever been to Reno?

Nah, just Vegas. So I take it "Reno 911" is only mildly fictitious?
But I did grow up in the armpit of Appalachia, and was - no shit - teased as a kid for NOT quitting school(!), so I have an idea...

[kwame k]

It's amazing something like that exists anywhere in the world when it's almost 2010. But it does there by design.

But the Taliban reminds me of Southern Slave owners in our history in regards to the way women are "forbidden" to learn...for the exact same reason too...the powers that be (that have made it through the Farsi equivalent of "The little engine that could") know that knowledge is power and that women (much like the slaves) would soon realize they were at the very least their "captor's" equals....and kick them to the fucking curb.

I forget which comedian it was, but he had a mock-suggestion that was actually brilliant: Use US and NATO forces and airlift EVERY woman and child out of there, and those backward zealot fucks will DIE OUT in a generation! Problem solved!

Spot on, Jay!

Bill Clinton is involved or endorsing exactly that......educating women and helping them become self sufficient.....http://causewired.com/tag/bill-clinton/



*****I know, easy joke alert******

[kwame k]

But I did grow up in the armpit of Appalachia, and was - no shit - teased as a kid for NOT quitting school(!), so I have an idea...

Wow...just plain Wow!

[standin]

It is not just about woman. Research from the Antarctic isolation has shown that the best most stable communities when isolated are ones that have coupling. Couples that work together. What good is being independent, if you have no one to be independent with. That sounds horribly lonely and odd. And in a culture that emphsises coupling, it would seem even stranger.

[kwame k]

It's not about isolating or taking away couples....it's about educating and finding work for women in 3rd world countries. All studies have shown that the quality of life for all people increase with an educated and employed female population.

[jhale667]

In other words, illiterate, barefoot (under a burka), and pregnant is no way to go through life, ma'am ...

And yes the comedian that made that joke said airlift out all the women and children..as in getting all the little boys out of there before they're polluted by that ignorant mindset too...that way only the dumbfuck adult males are left to die out like the cultural dinosaurs they are.

[standin]

I agree. Finance and education is the way to empower people. I would consider Mississippi in the late 80's early 90's to be one of the more backward areas of the USA. When Casinos were brought in and gave an avenue for the less skilled, for example woman, the divorce rate went up. That is not such a bad thing. It is best if people are paired with suitable mates and not just mates of economic means. In the region, the only real work was male dominated shipbuilding; moreover, it is such skilled hard labor. When given the opportunity to a less taxing labor both male and females benefitted.

I am not advocating casinos as a viable resolution to economic hardship, just one example of how an area reacted to suitable monies.

What is not realized when economies are driven by physically brute focus ability. Such as Afghanistan and ability to be a warlord (or the person that is able to kill for a living.), it creates an environment that not only females but males are not able to thrive.

Most people (male and female) are not able to function in a society that is based on one's ability to police. It takes a unique ability to police and even more unique ability to police without corruption. Actually, it takes a community to police the police.

The point is when Mississippi brought in the casinos family life was disrupted. However, family life was quickly brought back on track by the casinos that catered to their employee stability. Law regulated this stability. By law, solid reputable people were needed to run the casino. This formula need not only be in casinos. Law can regulate reputable people into any business.

Ah, you say, what about me fuck ups. I do not want to be shut out. To this I say, there are avenues, to repair your name. It takes an effort; as well, it should because fuck-ups are not suitable to business. Keep corruption out by law like the casinos and this is a suitable and will achieve results.

[standin]

This was and is a part of my history. I am comfortable speaking on such matters.

[GO-SPURS-GO]

That dinosaur system works, for them. Americans have no room to criticize problems in other country’s, because we have MAJOR problems in our own country. I don’t think there are very many Muslims in the filthy porn industry, their kids don’t have ADD/ADHD and taking Zoloft because they’re depressed because mommy and daddy threw them in daycare because they are too busy working trying to pay off the TV’s with Xbox’s in every room, two or three cars, and other unnecessary stuff. I could be wrong, but there’s not a big problem with sexually transmitted diseases, their kids don’t turn Emo and cut themselves because mommy and daddy didn’t give them something they wanted or never there to show them attention. I can go on and on, but I’ll stop here.

They will be around another thousand years, while our country will only be talked about in history books.

That’s what I think anyway...

[jhale667]

Defending them now, GSG?

That dinosaur system works, for them.

No, it doesn't. Don't (further) fool yourself. That system is completely dysfunctional, but then, you're OK with corrupt zealot theocracies, right?

Americans have no room to criticize problems in other country’s, because we have MAJOR problems in our own country.

Riiiiight. Although that may be true, at least we don't subjugate women and make them wear head-to-toe burlap sacks. You're reaching.

I don’t think there are very many Muslims in the filthy porn industry

Yeah IIRC there's a few girls of muslim descent in the industry. Irrelevant.

...their kids don’t have ADD/ADHD and taking Zoloft because they’re depressed because mommy and daddy threw them in daycare...blah blah

As for the rest of your flawed-logic ramble - Why drag your buddy GAyR's personal life into this?

I could be wrong

You are. It's not just America (rightfully) calling them morons, it's practically every other civilized society in the world...

mommy and daddy didn’t give them something they wanted or never there to show them attention. I can go on and on, but I’ll stop here.

Please do -besides the reaching part, you'll dredge up more childhood memories and hurt GAyR's feelings. And Thermos'.

They will be around another thousand years, while our country will only be talked about in history books.

Will 90% of them still be illiterate?

That’s what I think anyway...

And sorry, but your preceding post proves why you're not paid to...yeah, let's leave them alone and let a bunch of predominantly illiterate religious zealots who want to start a holy war get ahold of Pakistan's nukes...that'd be awesome.