Comments on: Afghanistan Escalation Bootstrapping: Seabees to Afghanistan

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:21:50 +0000

The number of people killed in the bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki war roughly equal to the number killed over the night we firebombed Tokyo.

By: oldoilfieldhand

oldoilfieldhand — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:58:49 +0000

And then there was Hiroshima and Nagasaki… we seemed pretty serious about killing then

By: oldoilfieldhand

oldoilfieldhand — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:54:33 +0000

With friends like that, (you win the lottery, those friends are bought) who needs enemies…

By: UserLoser

UserLoser — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:35:25 +0000

If you control the border you control the country.

By: reddog

reddog — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:24:25 +0000

Actually, the American ”adventure” in the Philippines was far more complicated than your statement makes it. For a concise and well written treatise on the history of the country and the U.S. place in its modern history download ”The Swish of the Kris” here:

http://www.bakbakan.org/swishkb.html

It is a facinating read.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:40:11 +0000

Thanks for the giggle. Yeah, well, the final battle isn’t over yet and I for one, have no damned desire to be part of the Manifest Destiny. In other words, your White House can take the NAU and stick it where the sun don’t shine.

Manifest Destiny, jingoistic tenet holding that territorial expansion of the United States is not only inevitable but divinely ordained. The phrase was first used by the American journalist and diplomat John Louis O’Sullivan, in an editorial supporting annexation of Texas, in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, a magazine that featured literature and nationalist opinion. The phrase was later used by expansionists in all political parties to justify the acquisition of California, the Oregon Territory, and Alaska. By the end of the 19th century the doctrine was being applied to the proposed annexation of various islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

http://ca.encarta.msn.com/ency.....stiny.html

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:34:47 +0000

I’d not heard the name Savak before, so wiki provided. It is so vital that the true history be learned. With the internet, it is finely possible to cut through the propaganda that is taught in text books, schools, etc.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:21:21 +0000

Now, bb, if you chaps had just surrendered peaceful-like you too coulda been part of the greatest empuh ever. But you chose to stick with Jolly Olde and then, their sun set and their empuh went away.

Wasn’t ’til the Beatles arrived on the scene (and as few ‘trad’ Brit sports cars, MG, Triumph, Jaguar etc. and some nice bikes) that the Brits could do anything, and then they got Maggot and, more recently, Blair poodled …

All in all, youse guys did alright, but as I told Petrocelli, y’all think you’re ‘above’ us … and damned if the maps don’t back ya up.

;~DW

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:12:17 +0000

Oh yes, and the little matter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It is so easy to overlook such minor details.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:05:08 +0000

A little problem up here in Canada in 1812…’g’

http://www.historycentral.com/1812/Index.html