Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 07, 2014

If it isn’t on Twitter, it doesn’t exist.

Seems like the war just ain’t worth fighting anymore.

Are we back to repeats?

GT is back. Afghanistan war continues.

“You’re nobodyuntill somebody Tweets you..You’re nobodyIf nobody cares.”?Was THAT how the song went?

Re: yesterdayThere is such a thing as a small explosion in which something catches fire, such as a match igniting. The trouble is that those small fires can become big fires. I once witnessed a fire which involved a tiny spark at first. Hence, one of the dangers of fracking. When one sees fire after turning on a tap, this is not a benign situation. Another big problem involves birth defects from the water after the water has been exposed to fracking. Independent analysis of these problems has been done.

scienceblogs.com/significantfigures/index.php/2013/6/27/the-growing-evidence-of-the-threat-of-fracking-to-the-nations-groundwater/

www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/15/us-fracking-water-analysis-idUSBRE96E0ML20130715

Afghanistan should legalize marijuana. Or get the Duck Dynasty guys to go there.

As with Iraq, as with Vietnam, the war ends when the US declares victory, goes home, and the Afghans fight it out amongst themselves. Hamid Karzai, one of the most corrupt kleptocrats on the planet, should be on his own and off of our teat.

Well, excuse me, Stipple. I am not the first person on this thread to reply to something from the day before.

Some of us have lives outside of commenting on this thread. Hence, we are “slow” by a whole day in replying to someone from the night before.

This is the good war according to Obama.

Replying to an earlier day’s comment is a whole lot better than dropping by a strip you never contribute to, just to leave a rude comment.

> That is scary yet very realistic.

That is GT being actually funny.

Americans are (generally) hilarious if you pay attention.

“The first world war came and its cost was laid on the people.The second world war — the third — what will be the cost.And will it repay the people for what they pay?…The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,‘What are those?’‘Soldiers.’‘What are soldiers?’‘They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can.’The girl held still and studied.‘Do you know … I know something?’‘Yes, what is it you know?’‘Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.’

-Carl Sandberg from “The People, Yes”

Where’s t-bagger sarge and his nutty diatribes?

When Bush was no longer President the anti-war people just decided to pack it in.

“You mean legalize opium? But that would cost them dearly in money. Its illegality ups the price and therefor puts more money to a chronically poor Afghanistan.”

Actually, where does BigPharma get it’s opium? Hasn’t Afghanistan been their source, for lo! these many decades ..?

Could be wrong … but heroin use doesn’t seem enough to run the economy even of Afghanistan. I think their poppy crop mostly belongs to BigPharma. THAT’S why we’re dealing with Karzai … he’s willing to perpetuate the arrangement.

YMMV, but BigPharma is getting their materials from somewhere.

Oh, hey, Mel … the US government can repeal the laws of physics any time they want, so you could be anywhere at all! You must have missed the intel!

As someone who has voted for the current Commander-in-Chief twice and worked for his campaign, I ask how can you continue this war when you no longer believe in your strategy? BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!-http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/world/asia/obama-lost-faith-in-his-afghan-strategy-memoir-asserts.html?hp=

Ill drink to that.

So, do you want to go back to 1880? Without fuel, we would be there with much fewer people. We stopped manufacturing as a country and that has got us selling fast food to one another. We need to produce things and we do NOT need to spend our money to make a desert country on the other side of the world rich. We can refine only so much with the existing refineries, we haven’t built new in 40 years – our infrastructure is falling apart and everyone says, “so what?” when you have to watch your grandchildren freeze in the dark, maybe you will change your mind about fracking

When your house burns down when you turn on the tap and your grandchildren are born with birth defects, maybe you will change your mind about fracking.

VoteOutTheElephants!

Well, I see Trey Radel, the republican cocaine congressman is going back to Congress. Good thing he’s not a poor black kid, he’d rot in jail and never vote again. He’s going back to “do what I was elected to do.” Raise money and vote to take food and healthcare from down-and-out Americans.

A comment I read yesterday: “Republicanism – the philosophy that the poor have too much money and the rich have too little.”

“Under the Taliban the cut in opium production was so prodigious that the US govt gave Afghanistan 34 billion dollars. Then 4-5 years later and suddenly they are on the USA’s hit list. (Bad idea allowing Al Qaida to set up camps on their territory.)”

There is a rather strong policy out there limiting effective pain meds a physician can prescribe. Perhaps that’s on the Taliban too - you can’t grow poppies here.

I remember Korean war and Vietnam all over the news every night! We need to remind the media that we are at war!

A feminist group was asked if they had anyone to help women in Afghanistan; the spokeswomen replied, “Why?”