Member Profile Total number of comments: 4 (since 2013-12-25 04:45:52) Jamie Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 Afghanistan: Washington's Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars Jamie 02/23/2016 at 12:40 pm I think our efforts are more analogous to Britain's wars in Afghanistan as outlined in this book http://www.amazon.com/Return-King-Battle-Afghanistan-1839-42/dp/0307948536 US Scam: Give the Rich Money & and they might Make us Slightly Less Poor (David "The Wire" Simon) Jamie 02/04/2014 at 8:46 pm It's been going on longer than that. The Steel mills in Pittsburgh closed down in the early eighties. FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Jamie 12/24/2013 at 11:29 pm Let's only go to war against existential threats. That'd be a good start. A Story More Important than Debt Limit Kabuki Jamie 07/29/2011 at 2:46 pm Obama has always been lucky in his political opponents. His biggest advantage for reelection is that the GOP will probably have an even less desirable candidate. Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
I think our efforts are more analogous to Britain's wars in Afghanistan as outlined in this book
http://www.amazon.com/Return-King-Battle-Afghanistan-1839-42/dp/0307948536
It's been going on longer than that. The Steel mills in Pittsburgh closed down in the early eighties.
Let's only go to war against existential threats. That'd be a good start.
Obama has always been lucky in his political opponents. His biggest advantage for reelection is that the GOP will probably have an even less desirable candidate.