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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Rust never sleeps.

On 9/18/2010 10:12 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> "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.
>>
>> ****
>>
>> http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175294/tomgram%3A_engelhardt_and_turse%2C_the_wacky_world_of_american_war/#more
>>
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