| Jackson50 said: Violating a nation's sovereignty-especially a West Asian nation- to kill a few terrorists is tantamount to the lernaean hydra; we may kill one, but two more will replace the one that was killed. I hope the next president will abolish this foolish strategy. |
Exactly. People think terrorist leaders are different than other terrorists. They aren't! They are just crazier and their lives have probably been more fucked up by invading forces, which is what made them so pissed off. You destroy people's lives and they will retaliate against you.
New leaders will rise up to replace the old leaders if we keep waging the war on terrorism in the same way.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
