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To: unclewest who wrote (305533)	5/17/2009 10:26:55 PM
From: alanrs	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 793879

"I can tell you were not a drug addict." Except alcohol is a drug, so even Bill might quibble with that. Not that I have any intention of starting that conversation again, it's just one of my pet peeves that the phrase 'drugs and alcohol' is misleading and makes as much sense as 'drugs and heroin', or 'drugs and amphetamines'. Anyway, I couldn't come up with an answer as to the surge in Afghanistan having any rational. In fact, I was surprised when it was announced. My thinking is a little fuzzy on this (so what's new), but if a surge worked in Iraq in a PR sense here in the states (aside from any realities on the ground), it makes some sense to do another 'surge' somewhere from a political point of view. So 'surge' enters the lexicon as a way to show how tough The One is. Just as 'war on drugs', 'war on crime', 'war on poverty' have all been used to convey a comforting feeling that our various fearless leaders are on the job. Just a thought. With a little political correctness in these Orwellian times we may live to see the surge on drugs or the surge on poverty. ARS

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