I'm as anti-war as the next guy, but if you cause a problem, the righteous solution is not to say, "I don't like dealing with this anymore, I'm walking away from it and gonna leave the problem more messy than I found it."

A recent author had some very profound "big picture" words on Afghanistan when he wrote:

"That the incredible military power of NATO, ISAF, and America, along with its collective economic might, couldn’t tame Afghanistan to the point that it became a functioning state, and the failure came about simply because the citizens of the West didn’t have the will to stick it out. The implications of that reality are staggering long term … simply staggering. It means that the survival of our civilization in times of conflict rests only in our ability to utterly destroy an enemy … his cities, economy, and people … but not in assisting him in building a civil society. It means that the West is not willing to suffer long term but limited pain, in order to prevent potentially cataclysmic confrontations in the future. It means that the West would rather lay waste to a land, than raise it up. It means, that little has changed in several thousands years of Western dominance."

If you make a mess, you'd better damn well clean it up!

Tune it tonight to see what Obama is going to do. Prime time, all the networks. He's speaking to us, his people, on this very momentous occasion. Be an informed citizen.... or shut the hell up and go watch more cartoons!

Please, oh leader of mine, don't fuck this up!

EVERYONE! Tune in tonight, primetime to hear which direction your president is going to take! This is one for the future history text books!

It is NOT 1965 all over again! It is not! It is not! It is not!

I just received my first 'friend' request in AGES on tribe! I think there is hope dear friends. Its is slowly rising from the dead! YAY FOR TRIBE!