Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (234173)	5/23/2005 6:54:16 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576884

re: I see a lot of chaos. I see the government slowly getting more powerful but too slowly to support itself if it wasn't supported by foreign forces. I see an insurgency that is becoming less popular, but is still very hard to stamp out, and that might not ever be 100% stamped out, at least not in my life time, but which possibly can be brought down to manageable levels (but not very quickly). I see a government that is not as secure as it would like to be but that is more secure than South Vietnam was after we pulled because it is unlikely to face a powerful foreign invasion, and I also think it is unlikely to face total abandonment (to the point of stopping military aid) by its current foreign supporters while the insurgency continues. I see a situation that is improving slowly but its 20 steps back for every 21 forward. I would disagree that the government is getting stronger and that the insurgency is getting weaker, but that's conjecture on both our parts. On the whole, we agree. Ultimately, what I see is a "quagmire", with no logical end in sight. It could easily get much worse but I can't foresee how it could get much better. John