Communists (OT)

How's that Iraq thing doing? Must be swell over there since I don't hear anything about it anymore.

The Russians tried to conquer Afghanistan with no regard for civilians, it was an indiscriminate takeover! Of course, the ENTIRE country rallied against them with a little help from their anti-commie friends, U.S.

What we're doing there now is way different, and unlike anything anybody had done before.

In a video distributed Tuesday in Dari and Pashto, the main languages spoken in Afghanistan, the top NATO commander here Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he was sorry to the nation for 27 civilian deaths, after US special forces killed a convoy of Afghan civilians they had mistaken for insurgents. It was the coalition’s deadliest mistake in six months.

While public apologies by NATO have become almost commonplace – this was just one of half a dozen in the past 10 days, and the second by McChrystal himself – the push to admit mistakes and say sorry is unprecedented in NATO’s nine-year intervention in Afghanistan. It fits into McChyrstal’s new strategy that prioritizes winning over the population.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink

Sorry he had to go in the first place. Glad he's coming home.

Gary, we're getting off the the topic here, but re-read what I said. The Russians didn't really have a regard for killing civi's.

some don't really.

Anyone care to discuss Prop 13? How's that working out for California? Who REALLY benefits from that