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Originally Posted by Christo888
Does the hunt for ‘Al Qaida’ now have a second connotation???? Does ‘America’ mean tptw?
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I read that as the hunt for AI Qaida, like artificial intelligence qaida. I really think there's some kind of issue with that, all the spicing and dicing and programming. I seem to pick it up peripherally, not a direct line on it.
If America is TPTW, in some ways it's OK with me, because as another national, you've got to admit there's a lot of bullying, tromping, imposing will on other countries. It's frustrating. It's cloaked as democracy and a superman suit, e.g. Vietnam, Chile, Iraq, the central Americas, on and on. It's also a bastion of kick ass citizens, who I sometimes don't know help or hinder that swagger.
On the other hand, if it means the big-
big PTW want to take out NY and Lady Liberty with a private nuke job,
hhmmmmm....
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Originally Posted by Christo888
Anyone care to take a stab at the symbolic meaning of Afghanistan??? Obama’s prime motivation!!!!
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I've been thinking a lot about Afghanistan. Canada's been fighting that war, pret' much alone with the USA, since the beginning 9/11. We've traditionally been an international peace keeping force, i.e. aiding development efforts or an army to try to enforce negotiated peace agreements, so this is the first time in a while (Korea?) it's been combat. It was a Canadian UN Force Commander in Rwanda trying to get help in - and watching the whole thing unfold. Bill Clinton says he still regrets doing nothing.
Symbolic Afghanistan?? Don't know besides the pipelines, buttressing Russia (geopolitically with its own NATO peeps), .... everyone always says it's futile to invade Afghanistan - they never have it (historically: Britain, USSR, now this). I think Obama's in a tight squeeze, maybe. During the election he talked de-escalation, development, and getting the hell out. I noticed today and it doesn't seem like a good sign:
US suffers deadliest month in Afghanistan as eight soldiers killed
Deaths come as newspaper reports
senior diplomat's resignation over growing conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...stan-resign-us
Americans don't know why they're there either, I think.
AND, to his credit, though he seems a bit of a warlord (and CIA drug lord), Karzai has held steady on how obnoxious he finds the aerial bombing and civilian deaths. Some of Canada's first deaths of soldiers in Afghanistan was by American pilots.