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  • #676
    Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

    Some sobering news for Dick Cheney.

    I suspect "willfully causing the deaths of over 100,000 people by lying to pad your bank balance" is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
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    • #677
      Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

      Funny. Scary, but funny.
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      • #678
        Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        When you nuke people they get weird.

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        • #679
          Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

          Overdue and still just symbolic and even then it seems like we almost had to be kicked off...but I'll take it:

          U.S.-Japan deal withdraws 9,000 Marines from Okinawa

          Roughly half the U.S. Marines on Okinawa will be transferred under an agreement announced Thursday that will reduce the military footprint in Japan, easing local resentments over the amount of land being used by American forces.
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          • #680
            Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

            Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
            Roughly half the U.S. Marines on Okinawa will be transferred under an agreement announced Thursday that will reduce the military footprint in Japan, easing local resentments over the amount of land being used by American forces.
            The rapey-rapey stuff didn't help our image, either.

            Did they wind up in Guam? My wife was working on that issue for a while and there was a big controversy among the locals -- half of them wanted the business and half of them had 16 year old daughters, too.
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            • #681
              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              The rapey-rapey stuff didn't help our image, either.

              Did they wind up in Guam? My wife was working on that issue for a while and there was a big controversy among the locals -- half of them wanted the business and half of them had 16 year old daughters, too.
              Guam, Hawaii, Australia.

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              • #682
                Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                Originally posted by WeWantMore View Post
                Guam, Hawaii, Australia.
                My hope is that they keep getting pushed off to some base in South Carolina. When they're all sitting in one base with astronomical amounts of hardware, it should be frightfully clear that 3 million (or whatever) soldiers is too many.
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                • #683
                  Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                  Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                  My hope is that they keep getting pushed off to some base in South Carolina. When they're all sitting in one base with astronomical amounts of hardware, it should be frightfully clear that 3 million (or whatever) soldiers is too many.
                  I would just prefer to bring them home. I suspect they would prefer that, too.

                  But good luck getting us out of East Asia. We're going to be stuck there for all our lifetimes, barring some WW2-UK empire-ending event.
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                  • #684
                    Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                    Panetta is talking about how there's no silver bullet for Al Queda.

                    Don't think that's news to anyone. But there is a better way here. Some think in terms of irradicating AQ and bring strategies to do that. IMO that's a mistake. It needs to be approached as though its a herpes outbreak.

                    You start by not alarming everyone by talking about it constantly (just like telling everyone you have herpes) which is a big improvment in the current strategy. Then its the reach/outcomes or symptoms of AQ that need to be addressed with the hope that it burns itself out. With that, policy will be much more effective.
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                    • #685
                      Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                      Ironically buried in an article called 'Analysis: Obama falls short of meteoric expectations abroad'...is a survey of international opinion of US leadership in global affairs. And although the 'analysis' seems to have missed it, Obama did extremely well:

                      A poll released last week by Gallup and conducted across 136 countries showed 46 percent of respondents had a positive view of U.S. global leadership. That has fallen gradually from 49 percent in 2009 immediately after Obama's election, the highest since Gallup began polling on the issue in 2005. It remains well above the 34 percent recorded in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration.

                      That is exceptional in that its nearly within the statistical margin of error...and is being compared with the starry eyed days immediately after an election. Very few presidents can hold serve throughout there presidency...globally the president has done that.
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                      • #686
                        Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                        Foreign policy is the Dems' strong suit in this election. It's a different world.

                        The tracking polls over at PollingReport have the election running around 50-50. So even though the environment has changed, the political IDs are still sunk in concrete.
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                        • #687
                          Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                          Not often you read good news out of Africa.
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                          • #688
                            Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                            Nice timing.
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                            • #689
                              Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                              man,what was he thinking...you don't go taunting bomb-building fanatics, especially on the eve of their greatest humiliation....

                              yeah, right, one of the apologists will tell me it's actually a shrewd move to egg them out of hiding....

                              funny how the intelligence apparatus that found and killed Osama was already in place when Obama took office, yet this is the only thing that isn't Bush's fault.

                              Monty Python meets US 21st century politics.....
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                              • #690
                                Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

                                Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                                man,what was he thinking...you don't go taunting bomb-building fanatics, especially on the eve of their greatest humiliation....

                                yeah, right, one of the apologists will tell me it's actually a shrewd move to egg them out of hiding....

                                funny how the intelligence apparatus that found and killed Osama was already in place when Obama took office, yet this is the only thing that isn't Bush's fault.

                                Monty Python meets US 21st century politics.....
                                Must take a crappy leader to call out the enemy.

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