Charlie Rose

doodah  06/22/2011 08:01 PM Report

So Ole Lugar Dick is still kickin'!?!! :)

robdverity  06/22/2011 05:14 PM Report

Shark - 0*. The MI complex is why Af-Pak will continue beyond 2014. Obama couldn't stop it if he wanted; which he doesn't. He's as big a whore as any Republican. He's embedded with MI and finance. A nation destroying combination.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  06/21/2011 09:36 PM Report

So Senator Lugar says we have spent half a billion dollars just on Tomahawk missles in LIBYA. That is enough to fund a school district with about 90,000 students for a year.

How many degrees of separation are there between the order givers and our friends at Raytheon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_%28missile%29

SharkswithfrikingLazers  06/21/2011 12:41 PM Report

So ten years later we are now seriously talking about a military force sized for anti-terrorism in Afghanistan.

Why am I angry this wasn't the first choice a decade ago before we spilled all the blood and lost all the treasure?

REMant  06/21/2011 12:01 PM Report

One has the impression that counterinsurgency is going the way of Keynesianism. Those who are invested in it will no doubt make the same sort of argument, that it has at least prevented catastrophe. But the question is moot. I am with him on Libya, too, and admired his recent op-ed in the Post. Syria is hard to make judgments about. Israel may well want to keep the status quo despite the danger of more Iranian involvement. Ill-considered actions could escalate the situation into a more general Sunni-Shiite conflict. The Syrian army I think holds the key, and they can't all be Shiites.