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jimdoze6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Spade, you are hereby nominated to infiltrate the Taliban and capture or kill Bin Laden. You now have it in your hands to save us from the scourge of bin Laden and thereby obviate the need for the U.S. to maintain a military.

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  Spadecaller6 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  Run scared jim... run scared. What do you know about special operations?
  
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    jimdoze6 months, 2 weeks ago
    
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    "What do you know about special operations?"
    
    Quite a lot, Spade. Thank you.
    
    "The best way to defeat a terrorist organization is to win the support of the people that they must exploit."
    
    That's a very nice thought, Spade. A job for the Peace Corps, perhaps?
    However, I suspect, one week of terror applied to a family, village, town or city can undo a decade of niceness.
    
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      Spadecaller6 months, 2 weeks ago
      
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      After the past 8 years of failure, you would recommend the same course.
      
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        jimdoze6 months, 2 weeks ago
        
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        Even though you and yours take great satisfaction in ascribing failure to things that haven't failed and misappropriating causation to things that have, the last 8 years particularly in the Middle East have not been failures, Spade.
        
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      gamahuche6 months, 2 weeks ago
      
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      "However, I suspect, one week of terror applied to a family, village, town or city can undo a decade of niceness."
      
      Indeed! And it doesn't matter who is the perpetrator of the perceived terror. Ask the citizens of Fallujah, for example..
      
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