Jackson50 said:
I disagree in regards to Afghanistan. I understand invading Afghanistan was a politically popular response, but I believe it was a strategic error. Anyways, I do not wish to derail this thread.
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You're preaching to the converted in this case. I'm about as anti-war as you can get. Although I was far more upset about the decision to invade Iraq than the decision to invade Afghanistan.
We should have a reverse draft, where we send the oldest and whitest people to war first. If that were the case, war would be a thing of the past in the US.
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
