Sep 25 2009

Killing Afghanis

Ok so I am sick, and I am a guy so I feel sorry for myself when I am sick, and when I feel sorry for myself, I don’t want (Mommy to make me) write. But, I also keep wanting to write shorter essays….that always turn into longer essays as I write them and find new devastatingly brilliant points to make and hidden wrinkles to point out. So maybe today I can write a short essay, although writing this long intro to why i am writing a short essay kinda fucks that whole thing up, doesn’t it?

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There is only one reason to send more TROOPS to AfPak…to kill more people.

Killing more people was cutting edge warfare in 1940. Decimate you enemies ability to fight by killing his army and you win. But here is a cluemail for the Pentagon…it is not 1940, and this enemy doesn’t have “an army.”

Killing enough Afghanis to get them to stop fighting and surrender is impossible. Unless you kill all the Afghanis who are pissed at you for….trying to kill all the Afghanis. < deadpan >That could take a while < /deadpan >

The only way to ‘win’ in Afghanistan is to get Afghanis to reject the Taliban. (If they reject the Taliban, they reject Al Qaeda)

They say it will take 400,000 troops to kill enough Afghanis to win. How much do 400,000 troops cost?

Of course we won’t send 400,000 troops, we will send 10% of that and instead of killing enough Afghanis to ‘win’ we will just kill enough to send more people into the arms of the Taliban.

How much does 40,000 troops to kill just enough Afghanis to drive them into the arms of the Taliban cost? Long term?

How much does it cost to put a school, a clinic, and a vocational training center to teach people to build and staff a school, a clinic and a vocational center in each medium size town?

Which is more likely to get Afghanis to reject the Taliban?

Killing more Afghanis?

Or helping more Afghanis?

And why is this equation so hard to understand?

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    Since I couldn’t find a picture of a guy cutting his nose off.

    • Edger on September 25, 2009 at 19:47
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    How in the hell are we going to continue to have a Great War on Terror Overseas  Contingency OperationsTMwithout doing everything possible to make new Terrorists    Contingencies?

    Besides, the pipeline is the great prize, and we win it or the empire goes bust.

    And besides that, they’re only Afghanis. It’s not like they’re real people, right? 🙁

    • TMC on September 25, 2009 at 19:56
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    to send those prisoners from Guantanamo that they can’t try or release. We need Bahgram

  4. Eat some chickenhawk soup and call me in the morning.

    And why is this equation so hard to understand?

    Cause it makes sense to sane people, silly! Insanity rules the world right now.  

  5. Because THAT is the story of MY life and writing…

    Nevermind.

    Oh, and the killing brown people in other lands, when WILL we stop it? Just stop it?

    Hello, Obama? Rahm? Generals? Please just:

    Stop, stop stop stop stop stop

    stop stop stop stop

    stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop

    the

    KILLING.

    START START START START START START START

    START START START START START

    START START START START START START

    START START START START!!!!!!!

    with the HELPING.

    The helping.

    The constructing, reconstructing, all the nice things that people can do for each other.

    Thanks for listening Rahm, Obama, and Generals. I can’t wait to see your revised, HELPFUL ideas.

  6. This really links in Toque’s essay on money too, because none of this happens if the MIC wasn’t making billions out of Afghanistan, and paying off our leadership so that they can keep doing so.  

  7. currency of Afghanistan..I bet you can call an Afghan Afghani, but it sounds little bit confusing..but then what do I know 😉

  8. huzzah!

    So maybe today I can write a short essay, although writing this long intro to why i am writing a short essay kinda fucks that whole thing up, doesn’t it?

    apparently not. maybe you have stumbled onto something…!

    so sorry you’re still sick. you gotta quit that. whenever you go awol, buhdy, we get a little rambunctious round here. 😉

    thank you for the afghan war cliff notes, just my speed. My new mantra, i guess, same as I have for health care reform… SHUT UP already with all the nuance and devilish details and just fucking Do It and Do It Right the first time!!! … fuckin wankers.

    Next up: climate change.

    well, after everyone sees the new MM movie next week re Capitalism. Polish up the pitchforks.

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