tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7936445345384123694..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Grand Opening... ISIS in Egypt..!The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62002574879823263902016-02-16T13:43:46.634-08:002016-02-16T13:43:46.634-08:00The question ought to be "how" not why.The question ought to be "how" not why.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86140014773724003752016-02-16T13:01:10.432-08:002016-02-16T13:01:10.432-08:00Mound, I think your second paragraph is closer to ...Mound, I think your second paragraph is closer to the problem. As to "we", you and I and Owen and most who post here aren't included. The powers that be have certainly been told that a great many people don't agree with the perpetual whack-a-mole foreign policy but they ignore us. I think it is simply easier to keep playing the American game than to do as you suggest. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41141545044094940902016-02-16T12:21:17.736-08:002016-02-16T12:21:17.736-08:00Toby, you ask why. It's pretty simple. We keep...Toby, you ask why. It's pretty simple. We keep doing the same thing over and over because we refuse to have an honest conversation with ourselves about what's so routinely going wrong. We're like a national automaton that keeps driving into walls. We have come to accept PermaWar without regard for whether we have the will or the means to win. We don't even know what victory might look like much less how to grasp when we've lost.<br /><br />There's a general failure of both political and military leadership and now they're accustomed to it. It's their normal.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30404602509839816782016-02-16T11:24:13.967-08:002016-02-16T11:24:13.967-08:00Owen is right, we keep feeding the termites. Why?...Owen is right, we keep feeding the termites. Why? Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45137213856047411682016-02-16T10:07:29.560-08:002016-02-16T10:07:29.560-08:00Like termites, they find new holes to occupy and w...Like termites, they find new holes to occupy and we keep feeding them, Mound.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com