Mission Accomplished!

[Fenian_Bastard]

What, again?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/31/alqaeda.death/

Middle management in al Qaeda is hell.

 

[poindexter]

So far we've killed eleventeen 2nd-in-commands and 26 3rd-in-commands.

 

[sportschick]

 

[poindexter]

What, again?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/31/alqaeda.death/

Middle management in al Qaeda is hell.

That's funny.

 

[hockeybeat]

How about the guy who is in command? We get him yet?

 

[Dangerous_K]

Hey, it must be the same as Cal, Boston College, Kansas, USC, Oregon, West Virginia getting beaten as the No. 2 in college football this season, right? The voters got to put someone into the second slot!

 

[Beaker]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

 

[hockeybeat]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Shh. We're on the side of angels! We're doing God's work!

 

[Dangerous_K]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

 

[BYH]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

I thought it was Freedom Force.

 

[zimbabwe]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

Contra...what an awesome game.

I will spend the next half-hour of work trying to find an online version to play surreptitiously in the ensuing half-hour.

 

[Diabeetus]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

Contra...what an awesome game.

I will spend the next half-hour of work trying to find an online version to play surreptitiously in the ensuing half-hour.

http://www.virtualnes.com/

 

[Beaker]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

Contra...what an awesome game.

I will spend the next half-hour of work trying to find an online version to play surreptitiously in the ensuing half-hour.

I still have Contra Force (the second one) lying around somewhere for my old nintendo (which still works after some gentle bashing). I don't think Dubya could handle it.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Wouldn't ya like to be a Contra, too?

 

[heyabbott]

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

You noticed that dynamic?

Glad somebody did.

Therein lies the problem with having a Commander in Chief who got his diplomacy and foreign affair concepts from playing Contra on the Nintendo.

I thought it was Freedom Force.

UNO

 

[old_tony]

Once again, good news for us, bad news to Fenian. Why does that always seem to be the case?

 

[Dangerous_K]

Once again, good news for us, bad news to Fenian. Why does that always seem to be the case?

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

That is why. Getting rid of Al Qaeda is a good thing, but how much of a victory is it philosophical roots that make Al Qaeda grow are not being dealt with? Think of it like the Hydra in Greek mythology: cut off one head, more grow in its place until Hercules fought smarter.

 

[old_tony]

Once again, good news for us, bad news to Fenian. Why does that always seem to be the case?

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

That is why. Getting rid of Al Qaeda is a good thing, but how much of a victory is it philosophical roots that make Al Qaeda grow are not being dealt with? Think of it like the Hydra in Greek mythology: cut off one head, more grow in its place until Hercules fought smarter.

That's only if you accept Beaker's premise, which I don't. If you do accept it, then the only smart thing to do, it would appear, is to lay down and die for the terrorists.

 

[Dangerous_K]

Once again, good news for us, bad news to Fenian. Why does that always seem to be the case?

And of course the futility of it all is we kill one of these guys, and someone bloodthirstier takes his spot.

That is why. Getting rid of Al Qaeda is a good thing, but how much of a victory is it philosophical roots that make Al Qaeda grow are not being dealt with? Think of it like the Hydra in Greek mythology: cut off one head, more grow in its place until Hercules fought smarter.

That's only if you accept Beaker's premise, which I don't. If you do accept it, then the only smart thing to do, it would appear, is to lay down and die for the terrorists.

There has to be more to combating an enemy than "kill them all." There has to be a plan to keep from creating new enemies, while battling those existing. Example: World War II. The US didn't just drop bombs on the Japanese and Germans without plans on winning the hearts and minds of the citizens. But it also didn't "lay down and die" for them. You can do both. If you don't take that into consideration, you're just percipitating the mindset that creates Nazis, or terrorists in modern times.