[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: A good friend of mine from school was Italian, and his grandfather was from Italy, and had grown up in Napoli during the 1930s and early 1940s. His recollections of Mussolini were fairly benign, and I think he sort of viewed him as somewhat comical. He mentioned the trains running on time as well.

I spent 3 years as a military advisor in Central America in the 1980s, and got to see some of those self-same f****d up Third World countries firsthand. I have opined more than once that as bad as Somoza was, Ortega and the Sandinistas were worse. Same with Batista and Castro. Of course, this doesn’t play well with the more liberally inclined among us, but it is a very different world down there.

Mission creep. Yeah, it is a bitch. Start out protecting Western Europe from the Soviets, and the next thing you know we are tending an empire! How’s that for mission creep?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: A good friend of mine from school was Italian, and his grandfather was from Italy, and had grown up in Napoli during the 1930s and early 1940s. His recollections of Mussolini were fairly benign, and I think he sort of viewed him as somewhat comical. He mentioned the trains running on time as well.

I spent 3 years as a military advisor in Central America in the 1980s, and got to see some of those self-same f****d up Third World countries firsthand. I have opined more than once that as bad as Somoza was, Ortega and the Sandinistas were worse. Same with Batista and Castro. Of course, this doesn’t play well with the more liberally inclined among us, but it is a very different world down there.

Mission creep. Yeah, it is a bitch. Start out protecting Western Europe from the Soviets, and the next thing you know we are tending an empire! How’s that for mission creep?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: A good friend of mine from school was Italian, and his grandfather was from Italy, and had grown up in Napoli during the 1930s and early 1940s. His recollections of Mussolini were fairly benign, and I think he sort of viewed him as somewhat comical. He mentioned the trains running on time as well.

I spent 3 years as a military advisor in Central America in the 1980s, and got to see some of those self-same f****d up Third World countries firsthand. I have opined more than once that as bad as Somoza was, Ortega and the Sandinistas were worse. Same with Batista and Castro. Of course, this doesn’t play well with the more liberally inclined among us, but it is a very different world down there.

Mission creep. Yeah, it is a bitch. Start out protecting Western Europe from the Soviets, and the next thing you know we are tending an empire! How’s that for mission creep?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: A good friend of mine from school was Italian, and his grandfather was from Italy, and had grown up in Napoli during the 1930s and early 1940s. His recollections of Mussolini were fairly benign, and I think he sort of viewed him as somewhat comical. He mentioned the trains running on time as well.

I spent 3 years as a military advisor in Central America in the 1980s, and got to see some of those self-same f****d up Third World countries firsthand. I have opined more than once that as bad as Somoza was, Ortega and the Sandinistas were worse. Same with Batista and Castro. Of course, this doesn’t play well with the more liberally inclined among us, but it is a very different world down there.

Mission creep. Yeah, it is a bitch. Start out protecting Western Europe from the Soviets, and the next thing you know we are tending an empire! How’s that for mission creep?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

coop: Bush is a sitting (or lame) duck right now. He is going to be catching hell for everything from Iraq II, to the housing debacle, to global warming. Some of it is undoubtedly justified, but we are also in an election year, so anything goes.

How many members of the media do you think really understand the roles of the legislature, judiciary and executive branch? For that matter, how many members of Congress do?

A good buddy of mine spent some time at Bear Stearns in M&A. The things he described that went on there were truly frightening. I worked for a large market insurance brokerage and the nonsense that happened on a daily basis would have been laughable if it wasn’t so alarming. Whether it’s Dick and Jane or a Fortune 500 corporation, it is always about the money.

Much like sex, when confronted with the opportunity to make a buttload of money, common sense and reason generally go right out the window (along with your morals).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

coop: Bush is a sitting (or lame) duck right now. He is going to be catching hell for everything from Iraq II, to the housing debacle, to global warming. Some of it is undoubtedly justified, but we are also in an election year, so anything goes.

How many members of the media do you think really understand the roles of the legislature, judiciary and executive branch? For that matter, how many members of Congress do?

A good buddy of mine spent some time at Bear Stearns in M&A. The things he described that went on there were truly frightening. I worked for a large market insurance brokerage and the nonsense that happened on a daily basis would have been laughable if it wasn’t so alarming. Whether it’s Dick and Jane or a Fortune 500 corporation, it is always about the money.

Much like sex, when confronted with the opportunity to make a buttload of money, common sense and reason generally go right out the window (along with your morals).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

coop: Bush is a sitting (or lame) duck right now. He is going to be catching hell for everything from Iraq II, to the housing debacle, to global warming. Some of it is undoubtedly justified, but we are also in an election year, so anything goes.

How many members of the media do you think really understand the roles of the legislature, judiciary and executive branch? For that matter, how many members of Congress do?

A good buddy of mine spent some time at Bear Stearns in M&A. The things he described that went on there were truly frightening. I worked for a large market insurance brokerage and the nonsense that happened on a daily basis would have been laughable if it wasn’t so alarming. Whether it’s Dick and Jane or a Fortune 500 corporation, it is always about the money.

Much like sex, when confronted with the opportunity to make a buttload of money, common sense and reason generally go right out the window (along with your morals).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

coop: Bush is a sitting (or lame) duck right now. He is going to be catching hell for everything from Iraq II, to the housing debacle, to global warming. Some of it is undoubtedly justified, but we are also in an election year, so anything goes.

How many members of the media do you think really understand the roles of the legislature, judiciary and executive branch? For that matter, how many members of Congress do?

A good buddy of mine spent some time at Bear Stearns in M&A. The things he described that went on there were truly frightening. I worked for a large market insurance brokerage and the nonsense that happened on a daily basis would have been laughable if it wasn’t so alarming. Whether it’s Dick and Jane or a Fortune 500 corporation, it is always about the money.

Much like sex, when confronted with the opportunity to make a buttload of money, common sense and reason generally go right out the window (along with your morals).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

coop: Bush is a sitting (or lame) duck right now. He is going to be catching hell for everything from Iraq II, to the housing debacle, to global warming. Some of it is undoubtedly justified, but we are also in an election year, so anything goes.

How many members of the media do you think really understand the roles of the legislature, judiciary and executive branch? For that matter, how many members of Congress do?

A good buddy of mine spent some time at Bear Stearns in M&A. The things he described that went on there were truly frightening. I worked for a large market insurance brokerage and the nonsense that happened on a daily basis would have been laughable if it wasn’t so alarming. Whether it’s Dick and Jane or a Fortune 500 corporation, it is always about the money.

Much like sex, when confronted with the opportunity to make a buttload of money, common sense and reason generally go right out the window (along with your morals).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: Those are SOF for counter-insurgency warfare training. Obama was referring to an actual troop deployment a la Afghanistan.

On a related note: Did you read that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? Man, that place is going to hell in a handbasket. Gotta believe that Musharraf is going to be all over that. Martial law, followed by “special powers”, expanded role for the military, etc.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: Those are SOF for counter-insurgency warfare training. Obama was referring to an actual troop deployment a la Afghanistan.

On a related note: Did you read that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? Man, that place is going to hell in a handbasket. Gotta believe that Musharraf is going to be all over that. Martial law, followed by “special powers”, expanded role for the military, etc.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: Those are SOF for counter-insurgency warfare training. Obama was referring to an actual troop deployment a la Afghanistan.

On a related note: Did you read that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? Man, that place is going to hell in a handbasket. Gotta believe that Musharraf is going to be all over that. Martial law, followed by “special powers”, expanded role for the military, etc.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: Those are SOF for counter-insurgency warfare training. Obama was referring to an actual troop deployment a la Afghanistan.

On a related note: Did you read that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? Man, that place is going to hell in a handbasket. Gotta believe that Musharraf is going to be all over that. Martial law, followed by “special powers”, expanded role for the military, etc.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: Those are SOF for counter-insurgency warfare training. Obama was referring to an actual troop deployment a la Afghanistan.

On a related note: Did you read that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? Man, that place is going to hell in a handbasket. Gotta believe that Musharraf is going to be all over that. Martial law, followed by “special powers”, expanded role for the military, etc.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Sandi: Yup, we (America) have done a fab job when it comes to maintaining a balance of power in the region, as well as picking some real winners in the region over the past 50 years (Shah of Iran, House of Saud, Saddam).

However, Obama’s repeated gaffes, such as advocating putting US troops into Pakistan, opening dialogue with Syria on a peer-to-peer basis, and using European soft power to coerce Iran out of their nuke program, concern me greatly. He really is a newbie at this kind of thing, and if I had to choose between them, I would take Hillary before him. And I think Hillary is as bad as Bill when it comes to waffling on issues of foreign policy and national security (see Clinton policy on Iraq, North Korea and terrorism in general).

Just so we are clear: I think the Bush Administration’s handling of the Iraq war borders on the criminal.

I agree with your comment on citizens owning guns to protect ourselves from the criminals AND the police. I am concerned that marion doesn’t feel that we have the right of self defense, however. I am going to have to dig up my Saint Augustine and bone up on the theories of Self Defense and The Just War.

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