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Futile: adjective; incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: See Afghanistan

by Bullshit, Lying, War & Politics

‘Peace upon earth!’ was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. — Christmas: 1924, Thomas Hardy (Illustration found here). In shame, the US has become another asshole nation. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the absolute contrary, the NATO/US…

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Afghan War Degenerating — Worse than Vietnam?

by History, War & Politics

There’s a joke I tell people sometimes about my cigarette-smoking habit: “Worse dumb-ass thing I’ve ever done — next to being married twice.” (Illustration found here). Afghanistan has never, ever been any kind of a joke, unless it’s one of those extreme-black swipes at humor. In a report from the BBC, the US Pentagon says…

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