Rolling Stone:

In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America’s failing strategy in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and top military brass were trying to make the president an offer he couldn’t refuse. They wanted the president to escalate the war — go all in by committing 40,000 more troops and another trillion dollars to a Vietnam-like quagmire — or face a full-scale mutiny by his generals.

Obama knew that if he rebuffed the military’s pressure, several senior officers — including Gen. David Petraeus, the ambitious head of U.S. Central Command, who is rumored to be eyeing a presidential bid of his own in 2012 — could break ranks and join forces with hawks in the Republican Party. GOP leaders and conservative media outlets wasted no time in warning Obama that if he refused to back the troop escalation being demanded by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander overseeing the eight-year-old war, he’d be putting U.S. soldiers’ lives at risk and inviting Al Qaeda to launch new assaults on the homeland. The president, it seems, is battling two insurgencies: one in Afghanistan and one cooked up by his own generals.

Yes, by all means, Barry, let the GOP — with its stellar history of success in Central Asia — continue to dictate the terms of the War on (Some) Terror. That won’t blow up in your face at all! Why should you simply relieve those generals who won’t follow orders of duty when you can kowtow to them, Mr. Commander (sortofmaybeifthegeneralsdon’tmind) in Chief.

Descendiente de una familia escocesa, Seth MacFarlane es el creador del mundo representado en Padre de Familia.

Nació en Connecticut (EEUU) en 1973, y tras graduarse en el instituto, estudió en la Escuela de Diseño de Rhode Island, etapa en la que creó su primera animación. Tras empezar con proyectos como Johnny Bravo, pero fue una secuela de su serie La Vida de Larry la que le condujo a firmar un contrato con la Fox, y que le permitió dar cabida a Padre de Familia.

Dibujante, guionista, productor, director y doblador de voces,  un personaje completo que se ha labrado su carrera en el mundo de la televisión y el cine. Como doblador de voces, interpreta a personajes de su serie como Peter, Brian, Stewei, Quagmire o el periodista Tom Tucker, además de variados personajes que pasan por Quahog.

Tras el éxito que le ha supuesto ser el autor de Padre de Familia, Seth MacFarlane ha trabajado en la elaboración de otros proyectos, como American Dad, Clevlan Show, además de aparecer como artista invitado en numerosas series (Las chicas Gilmore, Bones…)

Seth MacFarlane vive conjuntamente su profesión como creador de dibujos y de humorista y su afición a la bebida, que como el mismo bromea, le salvo la vida, pues debería de haber cogido uno de los aviones siniestrados en el 11-S, pero cuenta que la resaca del día anterior consiguió hacerle llegar tarde al aeropuerto. Este afán por el alcohol se ve representado en el personaje de Padre de Familia, Brian, que comparte su forma de pensar y su forma de ser.

Does anyone else do this?

 I think I forget sometimes that television is fictional and not real life. Even if it’s a reality show a lot of the situations are scripted. I very often find myself watching TV and yelling at the screen.

 A recent example: I’m a Family Guy fanatic. I personally believe some of the best television is animated shows, but that’s for another blog. Well anyway on Sunday’s show we learned that Quagmire doesn’t like Brian.  HATES HIM!! I mean he can’t freakin’ stand him. Who knew? So the whole episode Brian is trying to win over Quagmire by engaging him conversation, surprising him and taking him out to dinner. Quagmire’s not impressed. Finally Brian just asks him, why does he hate him so much. Quagmire lays into him, watch below:

Brian is my favorite character, but Quagmire is right about him. He’s definitely flawed. My only issue is Quagmire you hate Brian for hitting on Lois all the time, aren’t you the one who slept with your best friend Cleveland’s wife Loretta. Are you really in a position to be judging anyone?

 I know this is TV, but that really irritated me. Like on General Hospital there is a character loosely based on Vogue editor Anna Wintour named Kate Howard. Kate grew up as Connie Falconeri  in the hoods of Bensonhurst, but escaped the ghetto, changed her name and identity to reflect a fictional uppercrust Connecticut upbringing. She became super rich and wildly successful. Fast forward to now, it turns out her cousin Olivia got pregnant as a teenager by mob boss Sonny Corinthos (swoon, ok sorry). Olivia never told Sonny or her son about each other.  Olivia and Sonny’s son is now an undercover cop who’s infiltrated Sonny’s  mob family in an attempt to bring down the father he never knew he had.

 Here’s what irritates me. Kate is the main one telling Olivia not to keep secrets and  to tell the truth. Chick, your whole life is based on a lie.  Your WHOLE life. Shut up who are you to tell someone not to keep secrets. I guess its okay for you to do it, but no one else. Get out of here.

 Then my favorite is Maury Povich and his paternity tests. People get on there and actually say “I’m 100% sure I’m not the baby’s father.” Did you use a condom? “No, but I’m 100% sure.” Ok idiot, if you slept with her without a condom there is a chance its your baby. It may be a small chance but its a chance.

The only thing worse than that to me is people who say I’m 1000% sure. How can you be 1000% sure. That’s not even possible.

 I know, I know I watch too much TV but really guys come on.

Is finally released today in theatres! So make sure you go see the sequel to Blue Harvest.

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This is perhaps just a little on-the-nose for me. It’s Quagmire from the most recent Family Guy explaining to Brian exactly why he dislikes him so much.

“You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend’s wife. The man pays for your food and rescued you from certain death, and this is how you repay him? And to add insult to injury, you defecate all over his yard. And you’re such a sponge. You pay for nothing. You always say, ‘Oh, I’ll get you later,’ but later never comes! And what really bothers me, is you pretend you’re this deep guy who loves women for their souls when all you do is date bimbos. Yeah, I date women for their bodies, but at least I’m honest about it. I don’t buy them a copy of Catcher in the Rye and then lecture them with some seventh grade interpretation of how Holden Caulfield is some profound intellectual. He wasn’t. He was a spoiled brat. And that’s why you like him so much—he’s you. God, you’re pretentious! And you delude yourself by thinking you’re some great writer, even though you’re terrible. You know, I should have known Cheryl Tiegs didn’t write me that note. She would have known there’s no ‘A’ in the word ‘definite.’ And I think what I hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda, how we should ‘legalize pot, man,’ how big business is crushing the underclass, how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America. Well, what have you done to help? I work down at the soup kitchen, Brian. Never seen you down there. You want to help? Grab a ladle! And, by the way, driving a Prius doesn’t make you Jesus Christ. Oh, wait, you don’t believe in Jesus Christ, or any religion for that matter, because ‘religion is for idiots.’ Well, who the hell are you to talk down to anyone? You failed college twice, which isn’t nearly as bad as your failure as a father. How’s that son of yours you never see? But you know what? I could forgive all that, all of it, if you weren’t such a bore. That’s the worst of it, Brian. You’re just a big, sad, alcoholic bore. I’ll see you Brian. Thanks for the fucking steak.”

Ouch, indeed.

To be fair, I’ve never tried to seduce one of my friend’s wives (girlfriend or boyfriend, maybe, but does it count if me and he and she have a threeway?), and I’ve never read Catcher in the Rye. Oh, also, I don’t have a Prius. As for yard defecation… well…

*shuffles feet, looks awkward*

I do hope I’m at least not a bore.

Miss Jolie-Pitt

Aren’t those like the sexiest lips ever?!!! I’m an African, and luckily we are blessed with luscious, full lips, even better looking than hers sometimes lol but I still cannot help but covet her lips.

Sometimes when I’m watching a movie or when I drool at random caucasian men, can’t help but notice how some of them barely have lips, it’s like a line was cut on their face just to permit them to eat, talk etc. I can’t imagine how kissing someone with thin lips like those would feel.

On the other hand, African men miro’s have the fullest lips, and I was also wondering how it would feel to kiss a man with really big lips. I remember there was this one guy I kissed who has averagely sized lips, but when I kissed him, it seemed like his lips were so big, still dunno why it felt that way, but there has never been a round two.

Anyhuuu my weekend was grande awesomous, my friends birthday rocked though she refused to down her tequilas lol. I met some cool new people as well so i’m looking forward to getting to know them better. Now I am even more excited about December!!

I also found out that I was fed wrong information about someone, which actually affected my relationship with him. So now I really have to dig deep and figure out whether that information was the problem, or if he was himself.

I also discovered that I can summon people with my mind lol!! When I least expect it. I was very stoked boredom is bad for your health and your pride but now I just really have to be strong and try not to break and hola at him

Although I feel like crap today price to pay for my weekend shenanigans I do not have the monday blues yet..fingers crossed they do not strike

Have a great day everyone!!

xxx V xxx

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan

John Nichols 11/21/2009

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/499437/bill_moyers_tells_a_tale_of_two_quagmires_vietnam_afghanistan

Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, used his experience to speak Friday night to President Barack Obama about what could be an equally disastrous decision to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that is Afghanistan.

“Our country wonders this weekend what is on President Obama’s mind,” Moyers began, at the opening of a remarkable hour of television. “He is apparently, about to bring months of deliberation to a close and answer General Stanley McChrystal’s request for more troops in Afghanistan. When he finally announces how many, why, and at what cost, he will most likely have defined his presidency, for the consequences will be far-reaching and unpredictable. As I read and listen and wait with all of you for answers, I have been thinking about the mind of another president, Lyndon B. Johnson.”

The presidential adviser turned journalist, who will retire his “Bill Moyers Journal” television program in April, then turned to decades old tapes that were recorded as Johnson was making the decision to surge hundreds of thousands of additional soldiers into a war that would kill almost 60,000 Americans and more than a million Vietnamese.

One point of the program, he explained, was to offer viewers “an insight into the mind of one president facing the choice of whether or not to send more and more American soldiers to fight in a far-away and strange place.”….

*Bill Moyers will be sorely missed, his has been the voice of reason for many years now, and we all would be smart to listen to his words, I can think of no one currently who can take his place, and I thank him for being there when we were and still are wandering in the wilderness….

Este episodio de Padre de Familia supone una parodia caricaturesca de la mítica película de George Lucas StarWars, en concreto del Episodio IV, “La Nueva Esperanza”.

En esta versión, los personajes de la serie de Seth MacFarlane encarnan a los mundialmente conocidos Luck Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princesa Leia o Chewbacca.

Chris encarna al personaje de Luck, que recibe un mensaje oculto en el androide R2D2, representado por Clevlan, y siempre acompañado Quagmire, que actúa en el papel de C3PO. En ese mensaje, al igual que en la película original, la Princesa Leia (Lois) pide que la rescaten de la Estrella de la Muerte, la tenebrosa estación espacial del lado oscuro, cuyos malévolos planes están encabezados por Stewei, que como no podía ser de otra manera, hace de Darth Vader.

El capítulo transcurre de acuerdo al guión de la versión original, pero siempre con toques de humor absurdo y con reseñas a la sociedad actual.

Chris es llevado a la cantina por Obi-Wan Kenobi, encarnado por el abuelo que intenta beneficiarse a Cris en algunos capítulos de la serie. En esta cantina se puede ver la clásica imagen de StarWars en la que, con una canción bien conocida por todos de fondo, contratan los servicios de Hans Solo (Peter) y Chewbacca (Brian), tripulantes y dueños del Halcón Milenario.

La historia se desarrolla como la conocemos todos, pero los toques críticos del Seth MacFarlane son dignos de mención.

 Problemas con el sofá

Esto es un absurdo tremendo en el que el autor paraliza la historia real y crea una situación rocambolesca en medio de un escenario de acción y tensión. Es algo que le ha pasado a todo el mundo, algo típico cuando mueves algún mueble y no pasa por la puerta, algo que supone un toque gracioso en una historia como esta.

Canción del ascensor de La Estrella de la Muerte

En esta ocasión, los protagonistas cogen el ascensor para dirigirse a la celda de la Princesa Leia y rescatarla. dentro del ascensor, mientras suben, suena la música de StarWars pero como una típica melodía de ascensor, que no es más que sonido ambiente.

Japoneses en las naves del Imperio

A bordo del Halcón Milenario, las naves del Imperio les siguen y en una de ellas va pilotando un kamikaze japones, digna imagen del piloto de Cero kamikaze de la II Guerra Mundial, incluso con su cinta en la frente.

Public opinion is split on Afghanistan: slightly over half the population thinks it’s a bad idea to send more troops to Afghanistan; the rest were on Twitter posting pictures of themselves puking in a trashcan and never finished the survey. A select few – who I like to call the No Fucking Ways – actually believe the following: 1) That we are in a “war” against something or somebody 2) That we can “win” this war 3) That John Wayne could fly – and 4) That democrats want to turn tail and quit like a bunch of pansies… Unfortunately this group is either in Congress or on Fox News.

It’s not going to happen. The Afghans will never have Starbucks and malls and millions of mindless drones that go to work and go home and watch television and drink beer and watch football. It’s not going to happen.

Don’t believe me? Well I’m going to prove it with this here analogy:

Let’s say – and this could totally happen, and I frankly would encourage it – a big and mighty superpower, like China or the old scary Russia or, considering the current state of affairs, Estonia – demanded that we turn Rush Limbaugh over to an International tribunal of intellectuals for crimes against the global good. But we refused, claiming he was a United States citizen and the U.S. didn’t turn over it’s citizens – even Texans! – no matter how flatulent they were. Then, let’s say China bombed Texas and invaded it. Then let’s say they tried to instill Communism on Texans and make it illegal to hunt rattlesnakes or execute innocent people. Then let’s say, if they refused to cooperate, they were rounded up and forced to live in Oklahoma and watch Sooner games.

Wouldn’t work, would it? Shit no it wouldn’t! Sunburned would-be cowboys in wife-beaters – driving pick up trucks and wielding shotguns and swinging lariats – would come out of the woodwork to fight back – Republicans and Democrats alike! – banding together to fight against an occupation by communists. (Rush Limbaugh, for his part, would be safely ensconced in Idaho – a state long partial to bigots and hypocrites and potatoes.) Patriots from other states would sneak across the border with molotov cocktails and propaganda (Sarah Palin memoir); weapons from the United States that were smuggled into Mexico to fight U.S. drug enforcement agents would be smuggled back; insurgencies of all stripes – both big and small – would crop up everywhere – most of whom, if cornered in a bar, would freely admit to a palpable loathing of the man who started the whole thing.

Well, that’s Afghanistan: it’s Texas without the TEXAS-SIZE FLY SWATTERS! No amount of money and lives and political careers and fiercely lobbied privatized mercenary forces and torture chambers is going to turn the Middle East into Las Vegas. After all, that’s what Las Vegas is for.

Changes everything, doesn’t it? Probably not. Otherwise I wouldn’t be building a bunker. With the No Fucking Ways in charge of things, it might just be too little too late.

Sin lugar a dudas es una de las series más revolucionarias de los últimos tiempos. La serie fue creada por Seth MacFarlane, un absoluto genio de los dibujos animados, que dota a su creación de un humor absurdo que la hace tan peculiar y divertida.

La familia Griffin es un auténtico despropósito. El cabeza de familia, Peter, es un barrigudo y divertido personaje que apenas tiene algo de sentido común, holgazán como el que más, se sienta horas delante del televisor o va a beber junto a sus amigos a La Almeja Borracha, bar que frecuenta a diario. Su esposa Lois, una atractiva mujer que proviene de una familia adinerada, ama de casa ejemplar, que saca tiempo de donde sea para atender las necesidades del hogar, es la cabeza elocuente de la familia. Tiene tres hijos, Meg, una adolescente que lucha desaforadamente por ser aceptadaza entre los chicos más selectos de su instituto, es el blanco de todas las mofas y broma, sobre todo cuando es su padre el que la deja en ridículo. El hijo mediano, Chris, es un grandote chico un tanto inepto que apenas tiene amigos y que se vive temeroso de un mono malvado se aloja en su armario. Stewie, es un bebe de un año, que vive obsesionado con la idea de matar a su madre, pero su máxima es conquistar el mundo y someter a la civilización, por lo que se pasa el transcurso de la serie ideando planes diabólicos y creando maquiavelas armas para llevarlos a cabo. Por último esta el perro de la familia, Brian, un erudito que habla y aconseja a Peter en todo momento, ya que son grandes amigos, pero le pierde la bebida.

Junto a todo esto están los amigos de la familia Griffin, Quagmire, un obseso sexual que es piloto de aviones, Clevlan, un negro con un pasado hippie que no hace daño a nadie y que acompaña a Peter en sus tragos en La Almeja, y Joe, un policía que quedó discapacitado tras luchar con el Grinch cuando robaba los regalos de Navidad.

Todos estos personajes y muchos más, crean la vida de la ciudad de Quahog, siempre con una ironía y humor que hacen imprevisibles cualquier capítulo, además de una incesante introducción de figuras famosas y conocidas, siempre con un tono crítico.

En Youtube podeis ver un video con la canción de la serie.

So, how’s that little battle with Fox News going, you might ask? (Click on the image to embiggen!)

Update:   Related?

Updater:  The People’s Cube, as always, does it better.

…another student uses the word “quagmire” in an email to you.

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Dave Eggers, reviewing a collection of early Kurt Vonnegut stories, offers the obiter dictum that “Vonnegut left the planet just about the time we, as a nation, were crawling toward the light again.” Well, I wonder.

For me, it’s difficult to choose the greater disaster unwinding in this new enlightened phase in our history. Is it the health care debacle? Obama’s ongoing one-upping of Bush era Constitutional transgressions? The fact that our economy has fallen down and can’t get up? Or is it the war that nobody sees or cares about?  Every day one of these becomes the leading contender. For today, arbitrarily, I’ll choose Afghanistan, mainly because of this typically insightful Tomdispatch essay, Afghanistan as a bailout state.

The state of affairs, as Englehardt writes, is dire:

Here’s a partial rundown of news from that devolving conflict: In the last week, Nuristan, a province on the Pakistani border, essentially fell to the Taliban after the U.S. withdrew its forces from four key bases. Similarly in Khost, another eastern province bordering Pakistan where U.S. forces once registered much-publicized gains (and which Richard Holbrooke, now President Obama’s special envoy to the region, termed “an American success story”), the Taliban is largely in control. It is, according to Yochi Dreazen and Anand Gopal of the Wall Street Journal, now “one of the most dangerous provinces” in the country. Similarly, the Taliban insurgency, once largely restricted to the Pashtun south, has recently spread fiercely to the west and north. At the same time, neighboring Pakistan is an increasingly destabilized country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government and military.

Meanwhile, the U.S. command in Afghanistan is considering a strategy that involves pulling back from the countryside and focusing on protecting more heavily populated areas (which might be called, with the first U.S. Afghan War of the 1980s in mind, the Soviet strategy). The underpopulated parts of the countryside would then undoubtedly be left to Hellfire missile-armed American drone aircraft. In the last week, three U.S. helicopters — the only practical way to get around a mountainous country with a crude, heavily mined system of roads — went down under questionable circumstances (another potential sign of an impending Soviet-style disaster). Across the country, Taliban attacks are up; deadly roadside bombs or IEDs are fast on the rise (a 350% jump since 2007); U.S. deaths are at a record high and the numbers of wounded are rising rapidly; European allies are ever less willing to send more troops; and Taliban raids in the capital, Kabul, are on the increase. All this despite a theoretical 12-1 edge U.S., NATO, and Afghan troops have over the Taliban insurgents and their allies.

A rational person, or nation, would see such a state of affairs and declare that it’s time to cut one’s losses. But that ain’t gonna happen with a president who only wants to please. As Englehardt has written, the only options he’s contemplating include the word “more.” This invokes comparisons to, er, a previous military engagement that didn’t end well. But even that might not convey the scale of catastrophe we’re courting:

In the Vietnam era, there was a shorthand word for this: “quagmire.” We were, as the antiwar song then went, “waist deep in the Big Muddy” and still wading in. If Vietnam was, in fact, a quagmire, however, it was so only because we made it so. Similarly, in changed circumstances, Afghanistan today has become the AIG of American foreign policy and Obama’s team so many foreign policy equivalents of Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. And as with the economy, so with the expanding Af/Pak war: at the end of the day, it’s the American taxpayer who will be left holding the bag.

Let’s think about what this means for a moment: According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, the cost of keeping a single American soldier in Afghanistan is $1.3 million per year. According to Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post, it costs the Pentagon about $1 billion per year to station 1,000 U.S. troops in that country. It’s fair to assume that this estimate doesn’t include, among other things, long-term care for wounded soldiers or the cost of replacing destroyed or overused equipment. Nor do these figures include any civilian funds being spent on the war effort via the State Department, nor undoubtedly the funds being spent by the Pentagon to upgrade bases and facilities throughout the country. In other words, just about any decision by the president, including one simply focused on training Afghan soldiers and police, will involve an outlay of further multi-billions of dollars. Whatever choice the president makes, the U.S. will bleed money.
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The United States lived through all the phases of escalation, withdrawal, and defeat in Vietnam without suffering great post-war losses of any sort. This time we may not be so lucky. The United States is itself no longer too big to fail — and if we should do so, remind me: Who exactly will bail us out?

Crawling toward the light? I’ll agree with the crawling part…..

Yahoo Answers

Dumbass, Google.com would give you better answers.

Just look at her, she looks so free, without a care in the world. Thats what I want for myself starting from today.
I’m done with worrying about stupid things like if he will get mad if I do not hola. Or wondering why he came back and never bothered to tell me but shiyet he was looking so fwyne!!
Yes I am taking a break from men. I do not need that drama, I prefer my life stress free thank you!! I thought having options was fun, but I think I bit off more than I could chew. The current situation is, one guy’s girlfriend psycho stalker sent me a message telling me how she’s not threatened by me who is she kidding?!. Anyway she should know she’s only ‘with him’ because I’ve not even tried to get with him. I never will!

The other guy is not speaking to me what nerve!! I’m not talking to him either, he has really really disappointed me, but good thing is I really did not invest much in any of them. But thank God the quagmire is officially over!
I am really trying not to generalise, and categorise all men as punks, but it is really hard. Reading Pedestal Patty made me realise how it really isn’t fair just judging men on the onset of meeting them without actually giving them a chance.
But right now I just do not feel like giving anyone a chance. I’m tired of searching for men to give chances to, I just want to focus on me. I want to go out just to have fun with my friends, not to attract men and get hit on or whatever.
I am tired of getting my hopes up, just for them to crush and burn. I’m sick of feeling obligated to do stuff, not because I honestly want to, but to avoid drama and feeling guilty.
I just want to be free. Free to dress badly when I go out, free to dance without some guy invading my personal space, free to plan my calendar the way I want without having to factor you in, free from hoping that I will here from you today, or that I will see you, free from trying to figure out corky, funny things to say to you. Puuhh I am done!
I just wanna continue living my life with no goals, without focusing on anything, just taking things one step at a time, with no obligations to anyone but myself, and of course my first love, my TV!
So here’s to the next phase of my life! cheers!

xxx V xxx

Yesterday a million things were running around in my head that I needed to blog about, but now I’m almost blank almost.
Anyway these thoughts particularly weighed on my mind my grammar is going to the dogs fyi:
I met him, got to know him, and kinda started liking him. Then, communication was reduced to a minimum, and all the deal breakers I had noticed could no longer be ignored. + emotional men scare me. I thought he had also gotten bored just like me, but now all of u sudden, he’s interested again i think telling me all these things, and I’m just shrugging them off kinda because I dunno if I can be more than his friend, and I do not wanna lead him on aaaarrggghhhh If this was happening like last week, before I knew what I know now, then I would have been more excited rather than panicky.
I met another him, cute, sweet, ambitious, and my over active imagination was already going ahead of itself and conjuring up a future for us I never do that usually. So he left the province, haven’t seen him since August, got bored, and thats where I am at now, waiting to see what happens when he comes back. It’s Wednesday now, i’m still not surprised. If he was giving me fake promises of pudding remember that facebook application called superlatives? I will not be amused at all, and will never take anything he says seriously.
So before I had no idea who I was leaning towards, now that I do, it doesn’t seem so feasible bummer
I think some of these things I wish them on myself. It’s easier when I am just dealing with my family and friends. These maneno for boys…..

Peep these shoes i stumbled upon on the net:

President Obama took a little time out of his busy schedule to meet with his commander in the Afghan war, General McChrystal.  It was only the second time they have spoken in the 70 days that General McChrystal has been selected to head up the war effort.  Obama promised us that he would listen to his generals in the field about how to win the war.  It would seem that once again Obama has LIED to the American people.

General McChrystal has asked for another 40,000 soldiers.  He says that time is of the essence, we will lose in Afghanistan if we do not commit the troops and resources needed.  Failure in Afghanistan would have a devastating effect on America.  It was Afghanistan where Al-Qeada hatched and launched the attack on Kobar Towers, the American embassy bombings in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole, and the 9/11 attacks that murdered almost 3,000 of our fellow countrymen.  It was the Taliban in Afghanistan that provided cover for the terrorists of Al-Qeada.  If we lose here, they will return, not only to Afghanistan, but to America as well.

American soldiers in Afghanistan tend to agree with General McChrystal.  They believe that we need more troops, in more places.  While the Democrats play “political generals” and talk about pulling back to the cities where Afghanis “like” the US, soldiers on the ground tend to believe that we need to get troops into the mountainous regions where we can’t drive.  They tell me that those regions are where Al-Qeada and the Taliban are.  Troops would have to be airlifted in to those regions, prepared for a long hard fight.  They would have to be resupplied by airlift.  By taking those regions, and setting up outposts, the American military could establish a relationship with the Afghanis and take still more of the Taliban’s and Al-Qeada’s support. 

The problem with General McChrystal’s and the troops’ assessment of how to win in Afghanistan?  Obama is president.  That and the Democrats have control of both houses of congress.  That currently appears to be a pretty large obstacle, even for General McChrystal and the greatest military power on earth.  Obama won’t listen to his general.  His National Security Advisor, General James Jones, USMC, Retired, claims that McChrystal’s assessment is mere “opinion.”  Obama, even though his hand-picked general says there is no time to waste, is wasting time on the idea that “we don’t want to rush these decisions.”  The Democrats in Congress are pushing for a withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling it a quagmire, the same tactic they used to snatch defeat from the North Vietnamese in the early 1970’s, pushing for a pullout, preventing the US from actually fighting to win, forcing failure and defeat on the American military.  McChrystal’s problem?  He is in charge of a military that doesn’t know how to lose, but has to answer to and depend on  a democratically controlled government that doesn’t want to win, that actually likes to lose, a democratically controlled government that whines about the deaths of military personnel but goes out of its way to prevent our military personnel from surviving and winning. 

McChrystal’s problem, he wants to win, Obama wants to lose.  If we win, we will offend the Taliban and Al-Qeada.  Obama doesn’t want to offend anyone except Conservatives.