[lbo-talk] The Afghan War as a "Loss Leader"

[Mycos]

Chris Doss wrote:
> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> The finest training ground for all warriors --
> soldiers, guerrillas, and terrorists -- is war itself.
>  The real thing beats a simulacrum of it.  Terrorists
> now get better training in Afghanistan than under the
> Taliban, as US and other troops provide live targets
> for practice.
> 
> --
> 
> Give me one instance of a terrorist attack being
> planned in Afghanistan in the last four years. Any
> mass suicide bombing campaign going on there?
> 
> Really, this Americocentrism gets infuriating. Who
> cares what Afghanistan's neighbors think!
> 
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> 
> _________________

I'm at a loss as to why you would think that speaking of an
American-led war against groups who oppose US foreign policy,
something both sides themselves readily admit to, is an example of
ethnocentrism.  I mean, they are at the center of it, so...???

Gary --- Canadian btw
-- 

Gary Williams

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the
individual is sovereign."   - John Stuart Mill

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