From: Eeyore on


John Larkin wrote:

> "T Wake"<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
> >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote
> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >>>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> >Its interesting that the other "non wins" you mention are from almost
> >>>> >200 years ago. We have lost more recent wars as well. We can
> >>>> >compare this to Vietnam, I suppose.
> >>>>
> >>>> Which was a French mess and a continuation of WWII.
> >>>
> >>>It had ZILCH to do with WW2.
> >>>
> >>>Graham
> >>
> >> How could *anything* that happened after WWII have zilch to do with
> >> WWII?
> >
> >Arguing against a semantic mistake with another semantic mistake is not a
> >good idea.
> >
> >Are you saying the US Invasion of Afghanistan was due to WWII?
>
> Certainly.

Good Lord.

In which case it must be due to WW1 too.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

> Jonathan Kirwan wrote:
> >
> > No one ignores the elephant in their midst.
>
> You really do need to stop drinking so much.

He didn't say it was pink !

Graham

From: Eeyore on


lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:

> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote
>
> > How is the US "in your midst?"
>
> I dunno, seems pretty obvious to me that the pathological politics in the
> self-proclaimed world-cop and most powerful nation in the world *is*
> critically important to every other nation on earth, and those other nations
> would be extremely foolish to "ignore ours".

http://imdb.com/title/tt0372588/

World Joke more likely.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


John Larkin wrote:

> Didn't you see the pic I posted?
>
> http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/koreaREU121006_548x700.jpg
>
> That's what this is all about

Bringing electricity to N Korea ?

Graham

From: Eeyore on


lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:

> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote
>
> > It's hard to give up the cop
> > business after doing it for so long.
>
> Yep, therein lies the whole problem, along with the extremely fine
> distinction between legitimately policing world security and bullying.

Part of the problem I suspect is that the USA is now addicted to pushing
foreigners around.

Graham