The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Feelings Journal Update: A really cool webcomic with surprising inteligence that sometimes goes right over my head. Great artwork and creativity. Also, feeling a little depwessed for injury related reasons. 🙁 Also x2, I am now a transhumanist.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Feelings Journal Update: A really cool webcomic with surprising inteligence that sometimes goes right over my head. Great artwork and creativity. Also, feeling a little depwessed for injury related reasons. 🙁 Also x2, I am now a transhumanist.

You get as many 👆 s as can fit into the internet.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Feelings Journal Update: A really cool webcomic with surprising inteligence that sometimes goes right over my head. Great artwork and creativity. Also, feeling a little depwessed for injury related reasons. 🙁 Also x2, I am now a transhumanist.

Do you like... need a hug?

Because I'm sure someone else here will give one.

not me.

Hugs don't tend to help with Wankers Cramp, the deadliest of british diseases. cough cough

DS and TJ, read this, and then let's all laugh at how big of a public-relations nightmare would ensue if there was a "cease fire" offered to the Taliban. (Particularly if it came from Obama.) Also, why would insurgents not use the extra money to shoot the now-occupied-with-helping-civilians troops? Long story short, lets commit the billion dollars to aid, but keep the Taliban from plunging the region back into the Dark ages.

I was halfway through this mess before I realized it was Aljazeera.net. Rofl

If the US has pledged itself, according to top counterterrorism official John Brennan, to a "multigenerational" campaign against al-Qaeda, would it not be wise to also pledge a multigenerational campaign against poverty, inequality, authoritarianism and corruption?

I don't really understand this logic at all.

I don't really understand this logic at all.

Imagine how Pakistanis would respond if, instead of competing with the Taliban or al-Qaeda via drones, missiles and IEDs, the US was clearly at the forefront of a massive relief and rebuilding effort.

I guarantee they would still hate us. We have done NOTHING but the bolded portion in Afghanistand and Iraq for years, and they still hate us. I used to think the hearts and minds thing would work, but sadly I'm starting to think the people over there only understand violence.

Didn't we carpet bomb their capital? That seems like something that sticks with people for a few years.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Didn't we carpet bomb their capital? That seems like something that sticks with people for a few years.

who? Pakistans? I don't think so....

Pakistan, Iraq, that... other one we started a war with, they're all the same. Is it the same Taliban group thingy at least?

definitly the taliban. the same taliban that just lined 11 doctors up and shot them. I posted that link. cease-fire because of a crisis? ha. You can't reason with animals.

Maybe we spend the money on aid, fine, who cares? its not real money anyway, everything we spend is borrowed from China anyway.

but what the heck would be the point of a cease-fire as well? That's what this article doesn't explain. So it reads really well till you realize part of its ulterior motive is to have the US stop killing Taliban scum.

Originally posted by truejedi
definitly the taliban. the same taliban that just lined 11 doctors up and shot them. I posted that link. cease-fire because of a crisis? ha. You can't reason with animals.

Maybe we spend the money on aid, fine, who cares? its not real money anyway, everything we spend is borrowed from China anyway.

but what the heck would be the point of a cease-fire as well? That's what this article doesn't explain. So it reads really well till you realize part of its ulterior motive is to have the US stop killing Taliban scum.

I really don't see a true cease fire happening because it doesn't benefit us, nor the Taliban. I'm not sure how we can afford to spend money on aid though. We're already well beyond our capacity so it's either spend money for aid, or continue killing off terrorists and I'm all for the latter.

i'm really serious when I point out that it doesn't really matter how much money we spend. We are already beyond that even horizon where any hope of ever paying off the debt is dead forever.

Originally posted by truejedi
i'm really serious when I point out that it doesn't really matter how much money we spend. We are already beyond that even horizon where any hope of ever paying off the debt is dead forever.

haha, considering the politician, that is something else that wouldn't bother me all that much.

Why would the Taliban be interested in talking? This is a great situation for them. They don't have to destroy the US forces in Afghanistan, they just have to survive until the American public gets tired of it.

The floods can only work in their favor, ruining the US' image in a country that already hates us.

If Command and Conquer: Generals is any indication (and it is), the GLA Taliban will opt for peace talks in the middle of Kazakhstan, but ambush the UN ambassador.

Originally posted by truejedi
yeah.... i totally reported you. For being weird.