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Afghanistan Still Costing Us $45B / Year
Started By LFC, Feb 06 2018 05:09 PM
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Posted 06 February 2018 - 05:09 PM
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Posted 06 February 2018 - 05:17 PM
To put things in perspective, that's over 2x Afghanistan's GDP!
https://en.wikipedia..._of_Afghanistan
Just sending money would be more cost effective, to say nothing of the US casualties.
https://en.wikipedia..._of_Afghanistan
Just sending money would be more cost effective, to say nothing of the US casualties.
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Posted 07 February 2018 - 06:46 PM
baw1064, on 06 February 2018 - 05:17 PM, said:
Just sending money would be more cost effective, to say nothing of the US casualties.
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Posted 07 February 2018 - 08:48 PM
pnwguy, on 07 February 2018 - 06:46 PM, said:
That reminds me of a friend after his divorce. "Next time I'm just going to find a woman who hates me, and buy her a house. It would be more efficient"
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If you've got public schools paid for by taxpayers, you're in a socialist nation. If you have public roads paid for by taxpayers, socialist nation. If you've got public defense (police, fire, military, coast guard) paid for by tax dollars, socialist nation. If you're in a nation that has nationalized or localized delivery of services that are not paid for by users alone, you're in a socialist nation- the only question is how socialist. As I see it, we pay the military pay to protect the shipping lanes for our fuel needs which makes us very socialist. In a capitalist nation, the people supplying the oil would pay for their own defense force.
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I get it. They had a guy ratf**k the post office. They filled the courts with hacks. They spent a ton of money. They filed so many lawsuits. They even started a riot ! It’s so unfair that they went to all that trouble and still lost. Anonymous
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If you've got public schools paid for by taxpayers, you're in a socialist nation. If you have public roads paid for by taxpayers, socialist nation. If you've got public defense (police, fire, military, coast guard) paid for by tax dollars, socialist nation. If you're in a nation that has nationalized or localized delivery of services that are not paid for by users alone, you're in a socialist nation- the only question is how socialist. As I see it, we pay the military pay to protect the shipping lanes for our fuel needs which makes us very socialist. In a capitalist nation, the people supplying the oil would pay for their own defense force.
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"I can't go out because of the virus" sounds whiny and boring. I'm going with: "I've sworn an oath of solitude until the pestilence is purged from the lands." because it sounds more valiant and heroic. As a bonus, people might think you're carrying a sword.
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I get it. They had a guy ratf**k the post office. They filled the courts with hacks. They spent a ton of money. They filed so many lawsuits. They even started a riot ! It’s so unfair that they went to all that trouble and still lost. Anonymous
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Someone needs to tell Trump there's his wall money.
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Posted 08 February 2018 - 12:51 PM
andydp, on 07 February 2018 - 08:48 PM, said:
In McClintock ! Chill Wills asks Wayne if alimony is when you pay a woman not to live with you ? Wayne responds with pretty much. Wills then says: some women I knowed would have been worth it.
LOVE that movie.
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"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
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Posted 08 February 2018 - 04:53 PM
pnwguy, on 07 February 2018 - 06:46 PM, said:
That reminds me of a friend after his divorce. "Next time I'm just going to find a woman who hates me, and buy her a house. It would be more efficient"
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Posted 09 February 2018 - 12:49 PM
pnwguy, on 07 February 2018 - 06:46 PM, said:
That reminds me of a friend after his divorce. "Next time I'm just going to find a woman who hates me, and buy her a house. It would be more efficient"
Someone made a comparison between Paul McCartney's second marriage and divorce costs to hiring an escort for every night he was married. Turns out it would have been cheaper for McCartney to go the escort route.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
Obamacare took my guns away and put me in a FEMA reeducation camp
Anonymous
If you've got public schools paid for by taxpayers, you're in a socialist nation. If you have public roads paid for by taxpayers, socialist nation. If you've got public defense (police, fire, military, coast guard) paid for by tax dollars, socialist nation. If you're in a nation that has nationalized or localized delivery of services that are not paid for by users alone, you're in a socialist nation- the only question is how socialist. As I see it, we pay the military pay to protect the shipping lanes for our fuel needs which makes us very socialist. In a capitalist nation, the people supplying the oil would pay for their own defense force.
DC Coronata
"... I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better."
Pres Donald J Trump, Joint Base Andrews 1/20/21
I get it. They had a guy ratf**k the post office. They filled the courts with hacks. They spent a ton of money. They filed so many lawsuits. They even started a riot ! It’s so unfair that they went to all that trouble and still lost. Anonymous
Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
Obamacare took my guns away and put me in a FEMA reeducation camp
Anonymous
If you've got public schools paid for by taxpayers, you're in a socialist nation. If you have public roads paid for by taxpayers, socialist nation. If you've got public defense (police, fire, military, coast guard) paid for by tax dollars, socialist nation. If you're in a nation that has nationalized or localized delivery of services that are not paid for by users alone, you're in a socialist nation- the only question is how socialist. As I see it, we pay the military pay to protect the shipping lanes for our fuel needs which makes us very socialist. In a capitalist nation, the people supplying the oil would pay for their own defense force.
DC Coronata
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
Margaret Thatcher
(Select anyone who gets blind loyalty from followers/voters) "...is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."(Manchurian candidate)
"I can't go out because of the virus" sounds whiny and boring. I'm going with: "I've sworn an oath of solitude until the pestilence is purged from the lands." because it sounds more valiant and heroic. As a bonus, people might think you're carrying a sword.
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Its theorized if you put enough monkeys together with typewriters, eventually they'll write Shakespeare. But first, they write Trump speeches.
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Donald Trump"... I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better."
Pres Donald J Trump, Joint Base Andrews 1/20/21
I get it. They had a guy ratf**k the post office. They filled the courts with hacks. They spent a ton of money. They filed so many lawsuits. They even started a riot ! It’s so unfair that they went to all that trouble and still lost. Anonymous
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andydp, on 09 February 2018 - 12:49 PM, said:
Someone made a comparison between Paul McCartney's second marriage and divorce costs to hiring an escort for every night he was married. Turns out it would have been cheaper for McCartney to go the escort route.
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 17 February 2018 - 05:21 PM
pnwguy, on 13 February 2018 - 05:53 AM, said:
I think they were married about 4.5 years, and he settled on 38.5 million. That over $20K a night. I would imagine it would be possible to find a classy escort for less than that.
I dunno, Trump seems to be paying a lot more than that. Well, his lawyer is paying a lot more, and apparently getting stiffed by Trump on the reimbursement.
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Posted 17 February 2018 - 08:17 PM
baw1064, on 17 February 2018 - 05:21 PM, said:
Well, his lawyer is paying a lot more, and apparently getting stiffed by Trump on the reimbursement.
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"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 17 February 2018 - 09:54 PM
pnwguy, on 17 February 2018 - 08:17 PM, said:
But when Karen McDougal got Stiffed by Trump, he was at least ready to pay on the spot....
Sound like he was being a softie! He might have taken the Red Pill and not the Blue Pill.
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Having the prettiest dancing boy confers great status among tthe warlords, but they are expensive and wear out quickly.
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Posted 03 May 2018 - 12:47 PM
The money is bad enough, but we're getting less than nothing for it.
Afghan Futility and the Not-So-Curious Case of Lieutenant Jordan Rich
Afghan Futility and the Not-So-Curious Case of Lieutenant Jordan Rich
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MSheridan, on 03 May 2018 - 12:47 PM, said:
The money is bad enough, but we're getting less than nothing for it.
Afghan Futility and the Not-So-Curious Case of Lieutenant Jordan Rich
Afghan Futility and the Not-So-Curious Case of Lieutenant Jordan Rich
Interesting, and thanks for getting this thread back on track.
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"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
And there was much rejoicing. Yay.
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HockeyDon, on 04 May 2018 - 09:18 AM, said:
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Attila the Hun would disagree but then he'd also disagree with our tactics in that land war. Time to send over a million troops, the American horde if you will, and conquer everything in sight. If they resist then just kill them and take their women. All hail the glory of Emperor Trump!
" 'Individual conscience' means that women only get contraceptives if their employers, their physicians, their pharmacists, their husbands and/or fathers, pastors, and possibly their mayors, Governors, State Secretaries of Health, Congressmen, Senators, and President all agree that in that particular case they're justifiable." --D.C. Sessions
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
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"Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Attila the Hun? Morons."
And there was much rejoicing. Yay.
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How can I be expected to distinguish BS from reality when so much of my reality is utter BS?!
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LFC, on 04 May 2018 - 09:42 AM, said:
Attila the Hun would disagree but then he'd also disagree with our tactics in that land war. Time to send over a million troops, the American horde if you will, and conquer everything in sight. If they resist then just kill them and take their women. All hail the glory of Emperor Trump!
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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LFC, on 04 May 2018 - 09:42 AM, said:
Attila the Hun would disagree but then he'd also disagree with our tactics in that land war. Time to send over a million troops, the American horde if you will, and conquer everything in sight. If they resist then just kill them and take their women. All hail the glory of Emperor Trump!
The ultimate wag the dog?
“Trump’s a stupid man’s idea of a smart person, a poor man’s idea of a rich person & a weak man’s idea of a strong man.”
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— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
— Fran Lebowitz
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
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