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This is why I don't follow Archaeology or Anthropology. Money is involved in financing digs, and often the financier has an agenda for which the money is to be applied. Even though I might be sympathetic in this case, it's still wrong, and Archaeology will suffer because of it.
If we are going to cut and run in a year why not do it now and avoid the inevitable casualties that will come in a another year? Like my dad always told me, "If you are going to do something, do it right or not at all".
Okay you talked me into it. Let's pullout.
The Tennets (primarily Gilbert Tennent) were involved in the Presbyterian contribution to the Great Awakening. The Presbyterians broke into two camps — Old Sides and New Sides which paralleled the Old Lights and New Lights of the Congregational churches. The Baptists don't really get involved until just before the Revolution and their splits occur during the Second Great Awakening as fallout from the Abolition Movement and the rise of the Campbellites (aka Disciples of Christ).
Now that was unfair--foul!Stalin was one of the most amoral wretches that I ever read about. He was loutish, crude and totallywithout compassion for anyone.Yet--he is revered by many Russians because he saved them from the fascists--he really did. The historyof Russia is, as we all know, very different than that of most European nations--scratch a Russian, find a Tartar! Russians liked, loved, hated, loathed, cursed and prayed to him depending upon their situation. For a long time I read the whole of the Gulag Archipelago every year. No, he was not my hero and should have been strangled at birth.
Glad to get that out of the way. 🙂
Spawn of Satan! WoWStalin was a seminarian before he became a bank robber, bolshevik bureaucrat and Red Tsar. Ithink you are going to have a problem showing that he was related to Lucifer who, according to Milton's version, was a far far better creature than our former good friend--Uncle Joe.
So he's a hero of yours I take it?
Like I said, give Afghanistan one more year, and then pull out. In the meantime, let's ratchet up our offensive and do as much damage as possible before we cut and run (hate the phrase but that's what we would be doing). Afghanization must commence now. We can give Karzai money and weapons to defend his government, but if he fails, that's on him not us.
yeah i agree but there is a HUGE differance in a corps comander and the comander of an army
Meade was comfortable in the former role; not the latter.
I think the guillotine is the most dramatically effective way to execute criminals. It must be good as a deterrent. It's also pretty efficient (so long as the blade is kept sharp and the executioner knows how to finish the job if the blade fails to). But then again, I think we should go back to stoning people to death instead. For the deterrent factor of course. 🙂
We invaded Afghanistan because of 911. We invaded Iraq because we were tired of Saddam (and probably other reasons). I'm glad we removed Saddam, but we screwed up the aftermath royally. Afghanistan is just a place for American indignation to be vented. We've vented long enough, it's time to move on.
Willy, I edited your post to put your response outside of the quote field. This puts the chain of responses in the proper order and is easier to read.
Lincoln's presidency was the most stressful one in American history. I'd be throwing fits everyday if I had armies within cannon distance of me, spies all around, a crazy wife (did I say crazy?…yeah I did anyhoo), incompetent generals who can't cut the mustard against Bobby Lee and his rag tags, copperheads and defeatists pushing for my job, and moralists clamoring for me to free slaves. How many of you guys could keep your cool without blowing your top every now and then? This from someone who isn't a Lincoln apologist.
Meade was no fool, but he was not assertive enough for Lincoln's taste, and I don't think Meade relished being top dog. He was arguably one of the Union's best Corps commanders of the war though.
