[Peace-discuss] The American Way of WAR Quiz.

[C. G. Estabrook]

  "If it moves, and it shouldn't: duct-tape.  If it doesn't move, and it should: 
WD-40."

I guess that makes Obama case 2...


On 9/17/10 8:53 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> WD-40 is a stranger to friction.
>
> http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175294/tomgram%3A_engelhardt_and_turse%2C_the_wacky_world_of_american_war/#more
>
> *******
>
> *2.* /With President Obama's announced July 2011 drawdown of U.S. troops in 
> Afghanistan in mind, the Pentagon has already:/
>
>     *a.* Begun organizing an orderly early 2011 withdrawal of troops from
>     combat outposts and forward operating bases to larger facilities to
>     facilitate the president's plan.
>
>     *b.* Launched a new U.S. base-building binge in Afghanistan, including
>     contracts for three $100 million facilities not to be completed, no less
>     completely occupied, until late 2011.
>
>     *c.* Announced plans to shut down Kandahar Air Base's covered boardwalk,
>     including a TGI Friday's, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Mamma Mia's
>     Pizzeria, and cancelled the opening of a Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs as part
>     of its preparations for an American drawdown.
>
> Correct answer: b.  According to Walter Pincus of the /Washington Post/, 
> construction is slated to begin on at least three $100 million air base 
> projects 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/22/AR2010082201670_pf.html> 
> -- "a $100 million area at Shindand Air Base for Special Operations 
> helicopters and unmanned intelligence and surveillance aircraft"; another $100 
> million to expand the airfield at Camp Dwyer, a Marine base in Helmand 
> Province, also to support Special Operations forces; and a final $100 million 
> for expanded air facilities at Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan.  None 
> of these projects are to be completed until well after July 2011. "[R]equests 
> for $1.3 billion in additional fiscal 2011 funds for multiyear construction of 
> military facilities in Afghanistan are pending before Congress."   And fear 
> not, there are no indications 
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/kandahar-boardwalk-kaf-of_n_706963.html> 
> that the fast-food joints at Kandahar are going anywhere.
>
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>
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