Charlie Sweet
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In a war against the Taiiban almost anything is game. Now personally I'd choose no war but the idea any western power could go into the mountains of Afghanistan and play Queensbury rules is for the birds.
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In a war against the Taiiban almost anything is game. Now personally I'd choose no war but the idea any western power could go into the mountains of Afghanistan and play Queensbury rules is for the birds.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Think you are getting her confused with Johnson when sleaze is discussed in Parliament Pete
, saw her at the infrastructure bill signing this week for instance.
Martin Alvito
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The three most powerful countries in the last century and a half all fought there with the gloves off. All of them lost.
Martin Alvito
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Reporting suggests that Biden and Harris don't get on, and that it's worse between their staffs.
She wouldn't be the first VP to be rendered irrelevant for that reason.
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No Bosnia, Turkey and Hungary
tsubaki
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TBF none of them did go in there with the gloves off, not really.
Even the Soviets (who did some absolutely horrific things there, even by the standards of horrific things done in Afghanistan) devoted a fraction of their destructive ability to the region. They (and the British Empire, and certainly the US) could have gone in there and done what the Romans would have done (or what Alexander did when he took over there) ie: just killed everyone.
Martin Alvito
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If your definition of "gloves off" is total warfare with mass mobilization, then sure. I don't think that's a good way to think about things in the superpower era. Competition for influence elsewhere, as well as the credible threat of a conventional war, checked both the US and USSR's worst impulses.
In the time period when the British Empire was off on its Afghanistan adventures, it's best to think of power projection capability as diminishing according to the inverse square law. The logistics, as well as the risks associated with committing that much military might that far from home, precluded total war at a distance.
Zatara
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Joe Biden's election was meant to launch a decade of liberal rule
ANDREW NEIL: The Big Apple is on the slide once more. The pandemic has scarred the city much more than London. Signs of decay and dereliction are everywhere, even in the affluent parts.
coollino
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Joe Biden's election was meant to launch a decade of liberal rule
ANDREW NEIL: The Big Apple is on the slide once more. The pandemic has scarred the city much more than London. Signs of decay and dereliction are everywhere, even in the affluent parts.www.dailymail.co.uk
Why do you keep linking daily mail articles? I thought you don't like the main stream media?
tsubaki
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Joe Biden's election was meant to launch a decade of liberal rule
ANDREW NEIL: The Big Apple is on the slide once more. The pandemic has scarred the city much more than London. Signs of decay and dereliction are everywhere, even in the affluent parts.
is that the same Andrew Neil who left GB News because he was a serious journalist?
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Did either of you read the actual article as opposed to where or from whom it came ?……..
coollino
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Yes, why?
The point was more how he attempts to talk to about you can't trust the mainstream media but then posts an article from the most popular news website in the world
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Just that your comments reflected nothing from the points raised in the article…..
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