Ted Rall for November 21, 2009
Transcript:
Barack Obama: $1,000,000? It cost $1,000,000 a year to keep a soldier in Afghanistan? Man: Yes, Mr. President. Barack Obama: Wait: We could give half the unemployed $25,000-a year jobs for what we're paying for Afghanistan and Iraq? Man: That's right. Barack Obama: Wow... I'm obviously crazy. Crazy... yet incredibly calm... Man: And generous, sir.
List of countries that we have fought against or defended and are now our Allies: Germany Japan South Korea
List of countries that have rejected the “American way of life”: North Korea Vietnam Cuba Iran
Anyone see a pattern there? If Afghanistan is ‘lost’ does anyone honestly think it will improve in any way, shape or form once we are gone? The fact is that no matter how evil the posters here what to make us seem, we are fortunate and our allies are fortunate.