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- Why does the US have military bases in any foreign country? Would the US stand for Chinese or Russian bases on US soil if one of those countries had a beef with Mexico or Canada?
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- I hope this is the beginning of the end of the US involvement in Afghanistan! It did not take the invasion and occupation of the country to take down the 9/11 'terrorists'! The longer the US stays, the more enemies it makes. 10 + years and the end is not in sight. Pakistan and all other countries can do without our military and financial aid, the US taxpayers need our money at home, not it the pockets of corrupt politicians (the US congress) and arms dealers.
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- Pakistan must say these things for internal politics.
Of e two sides involved, NATO has surveillance video, records and documentation to back up why they bombed anything. Pakistan has non of that.
So, this will all go away. Soon. - Reply to this comment
- Who is Major Down?
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- Unless the picture has been reversed, the speaker is insulting everyone present by waving his left hand -- the hand Arabs use to wipe their bottoms after going to the toilet. He really, really hates the US!
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- it's all on obama. he has been potus over two years and as commander-in-chief could have ordered withdrawal of troops on day one certainly the day bin laden was assassinated. he could also have halved or completely stopped all financial aide to pakistan. on the other hand, obama could have ordered the systematic carpet bombing of all of afghanistan on day one. it's all on obama, the buck stops with him.
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- ["We don't know numbers," he said, "we don't know the magnitude of the incident..."]
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c'mon ... you have the whole thing on high definition video w/ the complete audio of the communications between the pilots and any ground forces ... just like you do for all these engagements.
let's see the video ... surely it won't take more than a few minutes to tally up the casualties ... or has that been pre-classified already. - Reply to this comment
- The ironic thing is that it took Pakistan to move us to shut down a base and start saving billions of wasted tax dollars in that miserable part of the world. And this is one more major failure for President Obama's agenda as he stacks up failure after failure of leadership in the national and international scene. As our country continues to be disgraced around the world, it is a time for new leadership.
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- If another nation did this to us, we'd declare war on them.
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- It's easy to toss of a comment, as OnThe Road01 did, that the U.S. has been "trying to help bring peace" to the Middle East for decades. Demonstrating it is another matter. Infiltrating the area with CIA, Special Forces, MI-5 and Mossad to destabilize nations and foment insurrections is not "trying to help bring peace". Instituting vicious dictatorial regimes like Reza Pahlavi and General Suharto, who can have up to 1 million people as victims between them, is not "trying to help bring peace". Ignoring the plight of the Palestinians who land was stolen by a criminally devised charter of complicit nations, leaving them at the mercy of an inherently bigoted regime in Israel is not "trying to help bring peace". And, yes, to call themselves "The Chosen People" simply because they are Jewish, to say that they are favored by God only because of their cultural background, to say that others, no matter how decent, are not considered a\as favored in The Lord';s eyes as they, no matter what abominations they commit, is bigoted in the extreme. In fact, there are many definitions of peace, and they can depend on how it is attained. There is the peace of a completely militarily cowed populace, forced to do the masters' bidding without complaint and there is the peace of no disturbances because everone, absolutely everyone, is treated fairly. Yu can spout off about the U.S. wanting peace, but you have to prove how they went about it, and what form of "peace" they want!
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