Displaying 91 To 120 Of 255 Comments 30,000 Reasons to Leave Afghanistan Mi arboreo es su arboreo! 🙂 » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:39 pm 😎 » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:34 pm All I am trying is to bring some people to put of their rose-coloured glasses, when looking at president Obama. All i can see is, that Obama is making his own life – as well as the lives of tens of millons of other people at home and abroad – miserable without necessity. Much – REALLY much! – of this sorry mess America is sticking in actually, could have been avoided, if president Obama had chosen his advisors ,as well as his political goals, with more common sense than he did. His “learning on the job” is costing people all over the world dearly – up to their lives, to be precise. And I don’t think that this is something to be proud of. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:28 pm Excellent post. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:22 pm See below, my friend, see below. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:17 pm M dear friend KQuark – thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine: I notice, that you are recycling a Huffy post, just like I did myself down below… 😉 But let’s check your points one by one: KQuark: So Mo what superpower is funding the Taliban like the Soviets did in Vietnam? Mo: Taliban and Afghan insurgents don’t need no bigger funding, than they already have. A Kalashnikov and 100 rounds of ammo cost 300 Dollar appprox. on any farmers’ market In the ME. The Afghan Opium Trade last year raised 6 billion Dollar. That’s 20 million Kalashnikovs with 100 rounds of ammo (in case one needed that many AK’s). KQuark: What major city in Afghanistan does NATO not control? Mo: NATO controls all 6 big cities in Afghanistan – while the Taliban and Afghan Insurgents control all the rest of the country. The USA made the same mistake, to hold the cities for the whole country, back in Vietnam, already. Outcome known. KQuark: Where are the 2 million NVA troops since the Taliban has 20,000 troops? 20,000 Taliban – and add another 5 million furious and determined Afghan Insurgents. Distinguishing between Taliban and insurgents is completely acadamical. The bullet fired by a Kalashnikov doesn’t mind one bit, if it was a Taliban or an Insurgent, who pulled the trigger. KQuark: What impenetrable cities do the Taliban control where NATO jets cannot even think to fly over? NATO owns the sky, but the insurgents own the ground. NATO owns the cities, but the Insurgents own the countryside. NATO owns the day, but the insurgents own the night. NATO owns the supplylines and the trucks laden with goods and fuel – but the insurgents own the IED’s to blow them to smithereens at will. Have you ever seen “Lawrence of Arabia”? KQuark: This is pure opinion and has nothing to do with a sober comparison of both conflicts. It » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 2:16 pm Hi, javaz! Reminding ourselves that we are all standing on the same side, you still don’t have to believe me. Instead, believe him: Vietnam-lite is unveiled President Obama took pains in his strategy speech on Tuesday to distance his new Afghan policy from the traumas of the Vietnam War, but there are signs that his “war of necessity” is inviting history to repeat itself. Costing trillions of dollars, the surge will see occupation troops next year reach the peak level of the Soviet occupation. Still, it’s great news for the Pentagon and its agenda of full spectrum dominance. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL03Df04.html » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 1:41 pm All the countries you mention are either still run by leftover Neocons (Brown, Sarkosy, Merkel to an extend) or are helping NATO – read: the USA – out with grinding teeth because of USA’s armtwisting in the background. Merkel especially will feel the heat in the coming state-elections in NRW (one of the more left-leaning german states) which had been run by a conservative CDU government recently – but only for the last social-democratic administration’s political blunders and embezzlement – but may fall back to the Social Democrat Party SPD in May next year, thus completely turning the political landscape in Germany upside down again. The air raid at Kunduz, which cost approximately 150 Afghan lives after a faulty reccon and a miserably elaborated order of attack by a german Colonel, is beginning to hang around “Angie’s” neck like the proverbial Albatross. The dispute in Germany about the german participation in Afghanistan is far from settled yet. In fact, it has only just begun, and it’s outcome is still fully undisclosed yet. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 1:36 pm On Vietnamization (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization#Vietnamization.2C_1969.E2.80.931975 ) Vietnamization, 1969 » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 1:27 pm Okay – take this one from a 48-year-old german cynical, who lived through all of Vietnam as his first news experience in life, and who was absolutely stunned, once the Vietnam war was finally over, because he just couldn’t positively think of any other occurrence in the world worth airing in the TV-news instead of the Vietnam war: This Afghanistan experience – Or should I rather say: experiment? – will end absolutely badly. All the writing indicating this is on the wall already: That the USA finally leaving Afghanistan will evolve to yet-another Saigon-rooftop-departure, while Taliban-warriors are already roaming the streets of Kabul in american-made tanks they have seized from, or were handed over by the Afghan army, which dissolved into the population after the first Taliban will have launched his rocket into Kabul from the city outskirts in 2013. Compared to the NATO-pullout of Kabul, the soviet russian withdrawal from Afghanistan back in 1989 will look like a decent, well-planned and honourable military parade. There’s nothing – NOTHING! – to win in Afghanistan for the american people – but EVERYTHING to lose. And yes: I am a staunch pacifist. How did you know? » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 1:20 pm Questinia – do you have a place for a german 300 pound-gorilla left on your “Cynical Tree”…??? » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 12:48 pm Hi, there. In case you notice that I used this following quote at Huffy already: Yes, I did. My bad. But the fact as such remains the same. Therefore I want to give you the opportunity to read, what the leading political magazine of my home country thinks about president Obama’s Afghanistan surge: From the leading german political news-magazine “DER SPIEGEL” – “Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic” Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric — and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 2, 2009 @ 12:44 pm Drooling Dick Cheney belongs to be courtmartialled and shot for high treason in office. That’s alll I have to say about Drooling Dick Cheney. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 1, 2009 @ 1:55 pm AdLib – 70 percent of all americans are in favor of pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan ASAP. I say, it’s high time to lock horns with the rightwing-nuts and once and for all deny them air superiority over mainstream America. Sending 30,000 troops more to Afghanistan is nothing but an appeasement-offer towards the enemy within by Ombama: It’s a kowtow to the Neocons, to the religious right and to the war-mongers on the pay roll of the military-industrial-political complex (courtesy former president and four-star-general Dwight D. Eisenhower). What appeasement earns you, the world has learned in 1938 much to it’s chagrin. Therefore, it’s time now to consider Neocons, rightwing nuts and MIC-appointees as much enemies of democracy as Adolf Hitler was finally considered the enemy of the free world during WWII. No more appeasement. No more concessions. We KNOW, the right is WRONG. I will go not one step further back. They won’t achieve one foot of ground more of me, whatever kind of fear-, smear-, scare- or bullying-tactics they may try. Enough with the soft-spoken words of bipartisanship. Sometimes it takes a big stick, to teach a bully a lesson he won’t ever forget. And the time for the big stick is NOW. » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 1, 2009 @ 11:56 am Un(der)reported News—Friday Edition Aaaaah – THIS one is my personal “News du Jour”: “Wall Street » Posted By Mogamboguru On December 4, 2009 @ 1:14 pm Go back to the dashboard of an earlier post of your’s and take note of what Nellie did to the pic, to make it show up, Kev. it’s really easy. When I write a new blogpost, I always open an earlier one of mine besides it, and use it’s dashboard as a template, to always remember, what I want to do. It works! » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 30, 2009 @ 3:08 pm Yes, they can be good films. but it looks like they are not being taken seriously anymore – not even by the performing artists themselves. When Gene Kelly, Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers or eve nfrank Sinatra made a musical film, they were deadly serious about making ART. But even through “Mama Mia” I think one could always sense the irony the actors were performing under. They were doing great – but they seemed to be acting out, rather than acting. When Fred, Gene and Ginger played a role in their musicals, they WERE the role they played. But Pierce and Meryl remained to be Pierce and Meryl all through Mama Mia. My two cents. » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 30, 2009 @ 3:16 pm The days of good, well-made films in Holiwood ended, when big money detected the big screen as an amplifier for advertisements, the box office as ATM-machine and the audience as gullible, ready-to-milk cash-cows. The only good films made nowadays are independent films. Screw Hollywood. All they can do is blowing up things in computer animation and advertise plastic-toys made in China for sale at McDonalds, Wal Mart and Toys “R” Us. » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 30, 2009 @ 2:23 pm Hi, choicelady. To keep myself warm in the cold, I would wear a sleeping bag upside down, after I cut holes for my head and my arms into it, to keep myself warm, if I were you. But I leave it up to you to decide, if you prefer to wear the zipper at the front or, rather, at the rear, to further improve your convenience… 😉 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 30, 2009 @ 2:10 pm Hi, BigDogMom! In indian legends, bears are but another human tribe. Yes, sometimes bears act and behave so human-like, that it is difficult to see any differences between them and us – except, that we wage war at one another, but bears don’t. So who of the two tribes is, in fact, the smarter one? » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 30, 2009 @ 2:06 pm VegasBabe – ALL real men can cook! 😉 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 29, 2009 @ 10:24 am L.O.L! 😎 .I. .a.l.w.a.y.s. .f.i.n.d. .m.y.s.e.l.f. .t.e.m.p.t.e.d. .t.o. .w.r.i.t.i.n.g. .i.n. .t.o.n.g.u.e.s., .s.t.i.l.l… » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 28, 2009 @ 11:23 am Doggonnit, Rabiddog! 😎 Hi, old friend! Nice to have you here. Most people here are still out of house, running errands and shopping and stuff. But this place will soon pick up speed and will be humming with activity, when evening comes. Stay tuned for good discussions, good music and fun! » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 28, 2009 @ 9:08 am The Earworms Are Coming! (Friday music thread!) Option: Grow a fur yourself and leave the job to the two-legged can-openers… 😉 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 28, 2009 @ 8:02 am YESSSS! 🙂 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 6:01 pm I reluctantly agree… 😉 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 5:45 pm Me too… (All of it…) » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 5:29 pm KQuark – I can counter you with a shocking example of another earworm-song, too: Dragostea Din Tei – wait for the first 30 seconds to pass, before you start cringing:
(A tip: They sing in Romanian…) » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 5:27 pm Hahahahahah! I love it! 😎 » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 5:22 pm Aaaaah – sweet memories! Rod Steward – Sailing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2-_01i48w First love! Sigh… » Posted By Mogamboguru On November 27, 2009 @ 5:18 pmComments Posted By Mogamboguru
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