tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post2582837595749720995..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Let's have a divorceAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-65491410382121887922013-05-14T03:46:17.067-05:002013-05-14T03:46:17.067-05:00Ugh. My comment above should read "Karzai,&q...Ugh. My comment above should read "Karzai," not "Karmai." I've got to stop fixing dinner while I'm in the middle of typing a comment.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-62968578758279127592013-05-13T19:24:34.441-05:002013-05-13T19:24:34.441-05:00Too early, we haven't destabilized Pakistan.Too early, we haven't destabilized Pakistan.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-31556998262350873152013-05-13T19:20:08.886-05:002013-05-13T19:20:08.886-05:00BRING THEM HOME-
let the pagans continue to be pa...BRING THEM HOME- <br />let the pagans continue to be pagan and kill each other instead killing our BEST!!!<br /><br />Carol-CSchristian soldierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04781627688988991192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-20165840971403717412013-05-13T15:50:01.141-05:002013-05-13T15:50:01.141-05:00Karmai, like most Afghanis, has a tribal mentality...Karmai, like most Afghanis, has a tribal mentality. As with tribal mentalities, alliances are made and broken according to parameters which are tribal -- not nation state -- in orientation. To expect Karzai to govern or to behave differently has been the height of foolishness. Charisma exuded doesn't mean that tribal mentality has been abandoned.<br /><br />Take an objective look at the history of Afghanistan. These people have always been fiercely independent, and most of them (especially those who have eschewed immigrating to the West) really do not want to have a nation state in the sense that the West wants to believe. Indeed, many Afghanis actually pride themselves on what we in the West would term "political corruption."Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-15201926824225276752013-05-13T15:40:30.884-05:002013-05-13T15:40:30.884-05:00I couldn't agree more. Some of us have been ca...I couldn't agree more. Some of us have been calling for this since early 2002, as our invasion has taken our eye off of al Qaeda and sqaurley into nation building. Since Karzai's 'election', we have been violating a fundamental tenet of counter-insurgency - having a legitimate host nation government in place.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-9900685514265940252013-05-13T11:57:07.042-05:002013-05-13T11:57:07.042-05:00Elected Americans bring no honor to their country ...Elected Americans bring no honor to their country by consorting with scum like Karzai. Now I have heard it said that sometimes, in our country’s national interest, it is necessary to lay down with low vermin. Two points: my grandmother said that whoever lies down with dogs has to put up with their fleas. Second issue, no one has ever shown me how nation building in Afghanistan or Iraq was in our national interests. My gut reaction to such claims is that someone is full of crap … and it isn’t me. If American diplomacy is so willing to give up its morality, then we are no different from the scum with whom we are willing to lie. And we haven’t even gotten to this immoral waste of the taxpayer’s money yet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01230399044647334018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-57247097147245940552013-05-13T11:11:25.404-05:002013-05-13T11:11:25.404-05:00Free Thinke, I agree with most of what you wrote, ...Free Thinke, I agree with most of what you wrote, but take a major issue with your unfortunate and erroneous comment about Israel.<br /><br />Stogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852841950131130696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-67889880787974230392013-05-13T09:59:10.408-05:002013-05-13T09:59:10.408-05:00It's time to pull OUT of the Middle East and l...It's time to pull OUT of the Middle East and let the barbarians willingly cut each others' throats.<br /><br />Obama, however, has proven time and again that he doesn't mind sucking up CONFLICT OIL when, instead, he could be taking the oil -- MASSIVE RESERVES -- under our very feet. Hence, kicking CONFLICT OIL to the curb and letting cousins kill cousins and brothers kill brothers, as barbarians are wont to do. <br /><br />MP154Milepost 154https://www.blogger.com/profile/05844522510412100574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60124358924308070252013-05-13T09:53:35.346-05:002013-05-13T09:53:35.346-05:00Jack said......
"On the serious note, I thin...Jack said......<br /><br />"On the serious note, I think it is long past the time we brought our troops home"<br /><br />Yes! Since our presence there has, apparently, not fulfilled our objectives (whatever they were), by this time, it never will. Afganistan is a "throwback", even by Middle Eastern standards and a "cesspool" which will remain as such for time immemorial! JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-59019399327793885782013-05-13T09:43:44.993-05:002013-05-13T09:43:44.993-05:00After September 11, 2001, we all wanted something ...After September 11, 2001, we all wanted something done, some retaliation against those that attacked this nation. Looking back, I think Iraq and Afghanistan were a bad idea, at least the spreading Democracy part, winning hearts and minds, spending blood and money by the ton, literally, on people who hate us.<br /><br />We need to turn off the flow of money, like the suitcases of cash that Karzi depends on, and do it now.<br /><br />Debbie<br />Right Truth<br />http://www.righttruth.typepad.com<br /><br />Right Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-44836310316235639162013-05-13T09:32:29.952-05:002013-05-13T09:32:29.952-05:00My three point plan. Let's leave, let the Tali...My three point plan. Let's leave, let the Taliban come in, and then turn the whole thing to glass.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-11866624781940519602013-05-13T09:26:54.250-05:002013-05-13T09:26:54.250-05:00" Let us resolve to return American soldiers ..." Let us resolve to return American soldiers home; the Afghans can go to hell. "<br /><br />You have my vote, Sam!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-24734674451704176572013-05-13T08:58:56.474-05:002013-05-13T08:58:56.474-05:00We had NO BUSINESS going in there in the FIRST PLA...We had NO BUSINESS going in there in the FIRST PLACE.<br /><br />BUSH TWO was every bit as idiotic as his critics have said, but OBAMA is far WORSE. Obama is like BUSH on SPEED.<br /><br />How many more young Americans will be callously expected to DIE for a MISTAKE?<br /><br />How much longer will legitimate, red-blooded American Americans tolerate being <i>used</i> and <i>sacrificed</i> as a CAT'S PAW for ISRAEL?FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-90640926179384538832013-05-13T07:40:09.833-05:002013-05-13T07:40:09.833-05:00Reader’s digest used to have a section dedicated t...Reader’s digest used to have a section dedicated to “Laughter in Uniform.” Among those of us who served in uniform, most of the stories were amusing. Among those who have not, the anecdotes left them wondering <br /><br />On the serious note, I think it is long past the time we brought our troops home; Karzai won’t last long beyond that.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945887384596946397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79168273158104290802013-05-13T07:21:39.320-05:002013-05-13T07:21:39.320-05:00We should have cut loose Ali Baba Karzai and his 4...We should have cut loose Ali Baba Karzai and his 40,000 thieves years ago. We are funneling billions to him, his cronies, and the Taliban, and it's past time to stop it.<br /><br />And I served there.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.com