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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (64923)	11/12/2009 5:16:48 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

You are correct. The war in Afghanistan did not bring down the Soviet Union. if so, why are they so able to keep up such an expensive decades long war in Chechnea? (sp?) that bs suits people as much as comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam. give reasons to get out of Afghanistan, fine... but when will we age beyond the days of the 60's and refighting Vietnam? the two do not equate and there is fine writing by people on why they do not. they are utterly dissimiliar wars. people who are younger than 60 can hardly wait to stop fighting the 'wars' of the sixties. and... there is something to bringing back a king. a unifying figure. it actually worked for Spain, which is now one the largest economies in the world and a vibrant country. he is mostly a figurehead, but a uniter. you might be onto something, Chinu.