[Peace-discuss] Taliban responds to US/NATO invasion

[John W.]

Rhetoric is a marvelous tool, isn't it, Carl?  Your desires are "needs",
while my needs are mere "desires".  When I lose my job it's a "recession",
but when you lose your job it's a "depression".  Oh, wait...you can't lose
your job, can you?



On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

They issued the following statement;
>
> "...the simple and principled pursuit of liberty and opportunity shamed
> those who relied on the power of tanks and arms to put down the will of a
> people..."
>
> Oops, no: that was BHO describing the shaming of the Russians who moved
> into Czechoslovakia 40 years ago (killing far fewer people that the US/NATO
> have killed in Afghanistan).
>
> ===
>
> "We are helping the Afghan people take responsibility for their future,"
> said Obama today, in a wonderful bit of colonialist persiflage.
>
> Of course, the Russians could have said -- did say -- the same thing about
> the Czechs 40 years ago...
>
> --CGE
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