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I just think we’re worn out.

Enough already.

So I’m going on record.

No more war.

I said this at the beginning of Iraq. Once we’re in, then I tend to be more conservative and support the military.

but I’m opposed to this escalation. We can’t afford it. It looks to me to be a completely losing proposition.

I can’t see it will enhance anything.

But….I also am not about to take on the world’s burden here for women everywhere. That is simply too big for this brain.

This is the emotional expense of globalization, I guess.

Thank God.

It makes me in turns sick to my stomach and angry enough to . . ….

Betrayal of our conscience – and that is what it would be – in this matter will bear bitter fruit indeed. “Progressives” who would counsel Obama to do so should consider the consequences of abandoning peoples, and women and children, to agents of intolerance, suppression, and injustice. Such abandonment projects a lack of conscience and commitment to generous, progressive and liberal ideals that is in direct opposition to the hope that Barack Obama can give us. Let us not try to talk him out of that.

Seattle’s average (annual) rainfall is:

37.1 inches

Hell, it will rain until July here.

Rivers have crested and are coming back down. Most of the levees held so it wasn’t so bad.

They wussed out and cancelled school, though.

Was thinking about you all day. Are you hanging in there? The reports out of WA are awful.

I agree, the woman is going to get the punishment despite the fact that she was probably threatened by the cleric that she better perform or else.
I think we owe it to the Afghanis to get rid of the Taliban. Also think Karzai should go. He’s really corrupt.

I agree with you but we must be very careful that we do not get caught in the quagmire that the former Soviet Union got caught in. What bothers me most of all is that we let Bush go into Iraq with a lie but we were not willing to do anything to improve Afghanistan. RAWA was formed in the late 1990s and smuggled out documentation of the treatment of women in that country yet I didn’t hear a great outcry about the condition of women in Afghanistan. Anything the UN did was ignored by the Taliban and the rest of the world just went along. I started to follow the condition of women in Afghanistan in 1996 but it just never got the coverage that WMD in Iraq did.

As I’ve said before, they won’t do it by razing the poppy fields, which is what we continue to do.

Bush blew it but I agree with Taylor, we have a responsibility to the people of Afghanistan to finish what we started and support their future.

GeoT – I think it’s too late to do anything about Afghanistan. We had our chance but Bush & Co decided to invade Iraq instead with the lies about WMD. Maybe I’m wrong but the Taliban have gotten back in to various regions. I saw “Afghanistan Unveiled” and like you my heart broke too.

But Betsy who will pay for the adultery committed by the cleric? I doubt it will be him, but more likely the woman involved.

Doesn’t surprise me one bit about the cleric. He just got caught on camera. I’m sure all the others are as bad as he is.