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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Thanks James Cook! Holocaust Reminder
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving
Irena Sendler
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize .. She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Powerful message, especially the "cartoon." Let us never forget!
63 years later
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
Please read the little cartoon carefully, it's powerful. Then read the comments
at the end.
I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider
doing the same.
In Memoriam
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.
Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Please don't just delete it.
It will only take you a minute to pass this along. Thanks!
Irena Sendler
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize .. She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Powerful message, especially the "cartoon." Let us never forget!
63 years later
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
Please read the little cartoon carefully, it's powerful. Then read the comments
at the end.
I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider
doing the same.
In Memoriam
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.
Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Please don't just delete it.
It will only take you a minute to pass this along. Thanks!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Facts about the Human Body
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Subject: Cool facts
Cool Facts about the Human Body
-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
-You use 200 muscles to take one step.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.
-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the
liver than men with hair.
-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single
cell.
-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.
-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they
do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
At this very moment I know well you are putting this last fact to the
test...!
...now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends
you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as
well.
Laughter is like jogging on the inside. Exercise your 'innards' every
day..
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the
bones."
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
Subject: Cool facts
Cool Facts about the Human Body
-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
-You use 200 muscles to take one step.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.
-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the
liver than men with hair.
-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single
cell.
-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.
-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they
do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
At this very moment I know well you are putting this last fact to the
test...!
...now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends
you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as
well.
Laughter is like jogging on the inside. Exercise your 'innards' every
day..
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the
bones."
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
Obama backs off a little
For Immediate Release
September 2, 2009
Contact: Katie Gordon
(850) 339-7087
Greer Leads the Charge – White House Backs Down
Department of Education Revises Biased Teaching Materials
Tallahassee–Yesterday, Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer released a statement condemning the Obama Administration’s attempt to indoctrinate American children to his liberal ideology through the use of biased teaching materials surrounding the President’s address to school children scheduled for early next week. Today, the White House told the Associated Press that Chairman Greer had nothing to worry about, but Chairman Greer kept the heat on, and late tonight the Obama Administration backed down, withdrawing a controversial portion of the teaching plan and issuing revised materials via the Department of Education.
See below for news coverage of today’s events.
Washington Times: WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama
The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might "help the president" as part of a classroom assignment.
The decision came after conservative critics attacked20the plan by federal education officials that teachers supplement the speech with a special curriculum that was designed in concert with the White House.
…
"While I support educating our children to respect both the office of the American President and the value of community service, I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda," said Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer.
CNN: Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children
The chairman of the Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday issued a statement to "condemn President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."
Jim Greer also accused President Obama of "using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda."
The state party chair issued the statement in response to a White House announcement that Obama would appear in a nationally broadcast address to primary school students around the country. The White House has said the president would be urging students to “(take) responsibility for their success in school.”
"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," Greer said.
The Department of Education has released documents that list suggested questions for students to consider during the speech, and activities that teachers can use to guide discussion afterward. Activities listed include creating posters out
lining their personal and academic goals, and “(writing) letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”
ABC News: WH, Dept of Education Revise Language on Students Outlining How they Can “Help the President"
In an acknowledgment that the Department of Education provided lesson plans written somewhat inartfully, surrounding the President Obama’s speech to students next Tuesday, the White House today announced that it had rewritten one of the sections in question.
…
Today, after Republicans accused the White House of trying to indoctrinate school children with liberal propaganda the White House and the Department of Education changed the section to now read, "Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short‐term and long‐term education goals.”
…
Yesterday, the Florida Republican Party sent out a press release portraying the address as more of a policy speech rather than a specific educational address to children.
AP: Fla. GOP: Obama to spread socialism in schools
Florida's Republican Party chairman is objecting to President Barack Obama's plans to give a back-to-school address next week, saying Obama's real motive is to indoctrinate students with his "socialist ideology."
Obama plans to address students across the nation on Tuesday with a message about staying in school, working hard and achieving educational goals.
Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer issued a press release Tuesday slamming the pla
n. The release quotes Greer saying he is "absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology" and "liberal propaganda."
The White House said Greer has nothing to worry about. Spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama has no plans to give a policy speech to school children.
Paid for by the Republican Party of Florida. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. www.rpof.org
September 2, 2009
Contact: Katie Gordon
(850) 339-7087
Greer Leads the Charge – White House Backs Down
Department of Education Revises Biased Teaching Materials
Tallahassee–Yesterday, Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer released a statement condemning the Obama Administration’s attempt to indoctrinate American children to his liberal ideology through the use of biased teaching materials surrounding the President’s address to school children scheduled for early next week. Today, the White House told the Associated Press that Chairman Greer had nothing to worry about, but Chairman Greer kept the heat on, and late tonight the Obama Administration backed down, withdrawing a controversial portion of the teaching plan and issuing revised materials via the Department of Education.
See below for news coverage of today’s events.
Washington Times: WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama
The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might "help the president" as part of a classroom assignment.
The decision came after conservative critics attacked20the plan by federal education officials that teachers supplement the speech with a special curriculum that was designed in concert with the White House.
…
"While I support educating our children to respect both the office of the American President and the value of community service, I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda," said Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer.
CNN: Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children
The chairman of the Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday issued a statement to "condemn President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."
Jim Greer also accused President Obama of "using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda."
The state party chair issued the statement in response to a White House announcement that Obama would appear in a nationally broadcast address to primary school students around the country. The White House has said the president would be urging students to “(take) responsibility for their success in school.”
"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," Greer said.
The Department of Education has released documents that list suggested questions for students to consider during the speech, and activities that teachers can use to guide discussion afterward. Activities listed include creating posters out
lining their personal and academic goals, and “(writing) letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”
ABC News: WH, Dept of Education Revise Language on Students Outlining How they Can “Help the President"
In an acknowledgment that the Department of Education provided lesson plans written somewhat inartfully, surrounding the President Obama’s speech to students next Tuesday, the White House today announced that it had rewritten one of the sections in question.
…
Today, after Republicans accused the White House of trying to indoctrinate school children with liberal propaganda the White House and the Department of Education changed the section to now read, "Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short‐term and long‐term education goals.”
…
Yesterday, the Florida Republican Party sent out a press release portraying the address as more of a policy speech rather than a specific educational address to children.
AP: Fla. GOP: Obama to spread socialism in schools
Florida's Republican Party chairman is objecting to President Barack Obama's plans to give a back-to-school address next week, saying Obama's real motive is to indoctrinate students with his "socialist ideology."
Obama plans to address students across the nation on Tuesday with a message about staying in school, working hard and achieving educational goals.
Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer issued a press release Tuesday slamming the pla
n. The release quotes Greer saying he is "absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology" and "liberal propaganda."
The White House said Greer has nothing to worry about. Spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama has no plans to give a policy speech to school children.
Paid for by the Republican Party of Florida. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. www.rpof.org
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Just a few thoughts of a Christian Rightist
It is my blog and I reserve the right to publish my list. I may not have the right much longer under the current administration.
Sam Kegley
Just a Few
Hopes and Dreams
of a Christian Rightist
My List- Any may add or detract
Executive:
Our administrator and representatives back off in supporting obamacare
Our government fully supports our military
National security is reinforced not challenged by the administration
Assure administration officials are qualified for office- natural birth, country loyalty, etc.
Admission of the USA’s Christian heritage by the administration
Less rock star showings and more substantial leadership by our president
Terminate all appointed czars
Terminate the Stimulous inititative in favor of more solvency
Move towards financial stability for the USA
No more apologies but no need to brag
Support our constitution
Legislative:
No new taxes- Do more with less but more effective things
One term limits for all elected offices
No legislative body may vote themselves raises
Elected officials receive security scrutiny as many citizens do before they assume jobs
End antagonistic efforts of elected officials towards the citizens of the USA- Be our representatives!
Freedom of all press and open speech assured
Keep government control of private businesses out of it- try support without ownership
Reinforce our Bill of Rights- do not weaken
Energy:
Full Governmental backing for new oil fields in the Dakotas and Alaska
Pool USA resources for energy independence
Utilize wind, coal, gas, electricity all to best advantage of each
Hybrid cars, hydrogen cars, water driven cars, whatever is best
Expect something and get it out of the Energy Department
Health:
Tort reform
Doctor, hospital, and government joint efforts to put Medicare and Medicaid and the entire health system (Non-governmentally controlled) in financial stability
No tax money for abortions
Put incentives into medical schools to train more and better professionals
Media:
More objective journalism schools
Evening out the media ownership
Keeping God references on our money in our schools and in our courts
Allowing prayers and Christian meetings in schools
I realize this would require miracles, but I believe that God remains in control of all things and therefore these things are possible.
America has been going the wrong direction for too long. We are not yet Soddom or Gomorrah or Corinth, but we have gone a long way wrong.
Paul said to the Church at Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 13:13-Faith, hope, and charity and the greatest of these is Charity.
This nation is at its best as a strong, but charitable, nation. We have been that throughout our existence, until very recently.
Sam Kegley
Just a Few
Hopes and Dreams
of a Christian Rightist
My List- Any may add or detract
Executive:
Our administrator and representatives back off in supporting obamacare
Our government fully supports our military
National security is reinforced not challenged by the administration
Assure administration officials are qualified for office- natural birth, country loyalty, etc.
Admission of the USA’s Christian heritage by the administration
Less rock star showings and more substantial leadership by our president
Terminate all appointed czars
Terminate the Stimulous inititative in favor of more solvency
Move towards financial stability for the USA
No more apologies but no need to brag
Support our constitution
Legislative:
No new taxes- Do more with less but more effective things
One term limits for all elected offices
No legislative body may vote themselves raises
Elected officials receive security scrutiny as many citizens do before they assume jobs
End antagonistic efforts of elected officials towards the citizens of the USA- Be our representatives!
Freedom of all press and open speech assured
Keep government control of private businesses out of it- try support without ownership
Reinforce our Bill of Rights- do not weaken
Energy:
Full Governmental backing for new oil fields in the Dakotas and Alaska
Pool USA resources for energy independence
Utilize wind, coal, gas, electricity all to best advantage of each
Hybrid cars, hydrogen cars, water driven cars, whatever is best
Expect something and get it out of the Energy Department
Health:
Tort reform
Doctor, hospital, and government joint efforts to put Medicare and Medicaid and the entire health system (Non-governmentally controlled) in financial stability
No tax money for abortions
Put incentives into medical schools to train more and better professionals
Media:
More objective journalism schools
Evening out the media ownership
Keeping God references on our money in our schools and in our courts
Allowing prayers and Christian meetings in schools
I realize this would require miracles, but I believe that God remains in control of all things and therefore these things are possible.
America has been going the wrong direction for too long. We are not yet Soddom or Gomorrah or Corinth, but we have gone a long way wrong.
Paul said to the Church at Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 13:13-Faith, hope, and charity and the greatest of these is Charity.
This nation is at its best as a strong, but charitable, nation. We have been that throughout our existence, until very recently.
George Will- Afganistan- Get out now
Publication:The Columbus Dispatch; Date:Sep 1, 2009; Section:Forum; Page Number:A9
U.S. should rethink Afghanistan policy, get out
George F. Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. georgewill@washpost.com
“Yesterday,” reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, “I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine’s) pressure plate and lost both legs.” Then “another Marine with a bullet wound to the head was brought in. Both Marines died this morning.”
“I’m sorry about the drama,” writes Allen, an enthusiastic infantryman willing to die “so that each of you may grow old.” He says: “I put everything in God’s hands.”
Allen and others of America’s finest are also in Washington’s hands. This city should keep faith with them by rapidly reversing the trajectory of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.
U.S. strategy — protecting the population — is increasingly troopintensive while Americans are increasingly impatient about “deteriorating” (says Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) conditions. The war already is nearly 50 percent longer than the combined U.S. involvements in two world wars, and NATO assistance is reluctant and often risible.
U.S. strategy is “clear, hold and build.” Clear? Taliban forces can evaporate and then return, confident that U.S. forces will forever be too few to hold gains. Hence nationbuilding would be impossible even if we knew how, and even if Afghanistan were not the secondworst place to try: The Brookings Institution ranks Somalia as the only nation with a weaker state.
Military historian Max Hastings says Kabul controls only about a third of the country — control is an elastic concept — and “ ‘our’ Afghans may prove no more viable than were ‘our’ Vietnamese, the Saigon regime.” Just 4,000 Marines are contesting control of Helmand province, which is the size of West Virginia. The New York Times reports a Helmand official saying he has only “police officers who steal and a small group of Afghan soldiers who say they are here for ‘vacation.’ ”
Afghanistan’s $23 billion gross domestic product is the size of Boise’s. Counterinsurgency doctrine teaches, not very helpfully, that development depends on security, and that security depends on development. Three-quarters of Afghanistan’s poppy production for opium comes from Helmand. In what should be called Operation Sisyphus, U.S. officials are urging farmers to grow other crops. Endive, perhaps?
Even though violence exploded across Iraq after, and partly because of, three elections, Afghanistan’s recent elections were called “crucial.” To what? They came, they went, they altered no fundamentals, all of which militate against American “success,” whatever that might mean. Creation of an effective central government? Afghanistan has never had one. U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry hopes for a “renewal of trust” of the Afghan people in the government, but The Economist describes President Hamid Karzai’s government — his vice presidential running mate is a drug trafficker — as so “inept, corrupt and predatory” that people sometimes yearn for restoration of the warlords.
Adm. Mullen speaks of combating Afghanistan’s “culture of poverty.” But that took decades in just a few square miles of the South Bronx. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, thinks jobs programs and local government services might entice many “accidental guerrillas” to leave the Taliban. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaida bases — evidently there are none now — must there be nation-building invasions of Somalia, Yemen and other sovereignty vacuums?
U.S. forces are being increased by 21,000 to 68,000, bringing the coalition total to 110,000. About 9,000 are from Britain, where support for the war is waning. Counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and the ratio of forces required to protect the population indicates that, nationwide, Afghanistan would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, perhaps for a decade or more. That is inconceivable.
So, instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small special-forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.
Genius, said de Gaulle, recalling Bismarck’s decision to halt German forces short of Paris in 1870, sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Genius is not required to recognize that in Afghanistan, when means now, before more American valor, such as Allen’s, is squandered.
GEORGE F. WILL
U.S. should rethink Afghanistan policy, get out
George F. Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. georgewill@washpost.com
“Yesterday,” reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, “I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine’s) pressure plate and lost both legs.” Then “another Marine with a bullet wound to the head was brought in. Both Marines died this morning.”
“I’m sorry about the drama,” writes Allen, an enthusiastic infantryman willing to die “so that each of you may grow old.” He says: “I put everything in God’s hands.”
Allen and others of America’s finest are also in Washington’s hands. This city should keep faith with them by rapidly reversing the trajectory of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.
U.S. strategy — protecting the population — is increasingly troopintensive while Americans are increasingly impatient about “deteriorating” (says Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) conditions. The war already is nearly 50 percent longer than the combined U.S. involvements in two world wars, and NATO assistance is reluctant and often risible.
U.S. strategy is “clear, hold and build.” Clear? Taliban forces can evaporate and then return, confident that U.S. forces will forever be too few to hold gains. Hence nationbuilding would be impossible even if we knew how, and even if Afghanistan were not the secondworst place to try: The Brookings Institution ranks Somalia as the only nation with a weaker state.
Military historian Max Hastings says Kabul controls only about a third of the country — control is an elastic concept — and “ ‘our’ Afghans may prove no more viable than were ‘our’ Vietnamese, the Saigon regime.” Just 4,000 Marines are contesting control of Helmand province, which is the size of West Virginia. The New York Times reports a Helmand official saying he has only “police officers who steal and a small group of Afghan soldiers who say they are here for ‘vacation.’ ”
Afghanistan’s $23 billion gross domestic product is the size of Boise’s. Counterinsurgency doctrine teaches, not very helpfully, that development depends on security, and that security depends on development. Three-quarters of Afghanistan’s poppy production for opium comes from Helmand. In what should be called Operation Sisyphus, U.S. officials are urging farmers to grow other crops. Endive, perhaps?
Even though violence exploded across Iraq after, and partly because of, three elections, Afghanistan’s recent elections were called “crucial.” To what? They came, they went, they altered no fundamentals, all of which militate against American “success,” whatever that might mean. Creation of an effective central government? Afghanistan has never had one. U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry hopes for a “renewal of trust” of the Afghan people in the government, but The Economist describes President Hamid Karzai’s government — his vice presidential running mate is a drug trafficker — as so “inept, corrupt and predatory” that people sometimes yearn for restoration of the warlords.
Adm. Mullen speaks of combating Afghanistan’s “culture of poverty.” But that took decades in just a few square miles of the South Bronx. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, thinks jobs programs and local government services might entice many “accidental guerrillas” to leave the Taliban. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaida bases — evidently there are none now — must there be nation-building invasions of Somalia, Yemen and other sovereignty vacuums?
U.S. forces are being increased by 21,000 to 68,000, bringing the coalition total to 110,000. About 9,000 are from Britain, where support for the war is waning. Counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and the ratio of forces required to protect the population indicates that, nationwide, Afghanistan would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, perhaps for a decade or more. That is inconceivable.
So, instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small special-forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.
Genius, said de Gaulle, recalling Bismarck’s decision to halt German forces short of Paris in 1870, sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Genius is not required to recognize that in Afghanistan, when means now, before more American valor, such as Allen’s, is squandered.
GEORGE F. WILL
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Teresa Ruby- Clay Softball and the Flood Wall
----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Vice
To: Sam "Kat " Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: STAR ON THE WALL
HEY SAM , I AM SURE YOU KNOW BY NOW THAT TERESA RUBY IS GOING TO GET THE OPPORTUNITY THIS YEAR TO SIGN THE FLOOD WALL. I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT LAST FRIDAY. I HADN'T HEARD YOU SAY ANY THING ABOUT IT AND JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW.
CLAY
That is great, Clay and Carol!
Please congratulate Teresa for Jeanie and me
The Vice legacy in outstanding Portsmouth Area and Ohio softball lives on and on and on...
Bring on the grandkids!
Sam
From: Clay Vice
To: Sam "Kat " Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: STAR ON THE WALL
HEY SAM , I AM SURE YOU KNOW BY NOW THAT TERESA RUBY IS GOING TO GET THE OPPORTUNITY THIS YEAR TO SIGN THE FLOOD WALL. I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT LAST FRIDAY. I HADN'T HEARD YOU SAY ANY THING ABOUT IT AND JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW.
CLAY
That is great, Clay and Carol!
Please congratulate Teresa for Jeanie and me
The Vice legacy in outstanding Portsmouth Area and Ohio softball lives on and on and on...
Bring on the grandkids!
Sam
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