SL gets loose with: Barman's windy post can be boiled down to:
--The hatred of the US by the sickos who murder indiscrimately is fueled by US' immoral behavior [of trying to stop them from murdering indiscriminately].....
Bar: Nope...Not according to me. In fact, just as OBLaden told us in Sept 2001, the attacks on 9/11/01 were in response to the U.S. military's continued and unwarranted occupation in Islamic-based countries of the Mideast. All attacks on U.S. millitary since that date have been in response to the further and even more violent military invasions and forcible occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
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SL: --That the terorists who hijacked the planes and rammed them into our buildings were braver than the U.S. military who carried out Shock 'n Awe bombing....because those soldiers fight from 20,000 feet in the air.
Bar: On this one, you correctly recite my honest, personal opinion, though I have modified your statement (with the italicized words) to more accurately reflect my personal opinion. I also overlook in friendly fashion the absurdity of describing bomb-dropping from 20,000 feet onto major population centers as "fighting". Fighting presumes that the target has the ability to at least hit back.
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SL --Barman's tax dollars are funding the war
Bar: As noted with self-deprecating honesty on numerous occasions, a portion of my federal tax dollars do in fact fund the U.S. military occupations in the Mideast, but we fully acknowledge that our personal share is probably only sufficient to buy a few cases of those candy bars which soldiers give to little Afghani and Iraqi children after their parents have been killed during U.S. firefights with "insurgents".
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SL --It took OBL 10 years to have a single success. Here, Barman ignores the fact that we have no idea how many plots were thwarted pre and post 9/11
Bar: You're right. We don't know. But if it gives you increased muster for your bluster (on this particular Utter Speculation) then I'll concede that it's probably lots and lots....
I bet various arms of DHS are stopping mass-killings of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil by Evil Muslins on a virtual daily basis. One day soon, the Pentagon and DHS will publish a giant coffee-table sized book that lists the hundreds, maybe even thousand times that they have SAVED US ALL.
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SL: Only a few hundred terrorists are in Afghanistan. Here Bar ignores how many more will subsequently arrive from across the border if we leave now, and the message a US defeat would send to the ideological brothers of the muhjahadeen zealots all over the world.
Bar: Actually close to accurate in how I feel if "more terrorists" choose to enter the countries of Afghanistan and/or Iraq were my preference for a complete U.S. military exit to occur. Once our military is out of there, I frankly don't care how many assemble in whichever country. If the citizens of those countries don't want them there, it's their (the citizens) job to deal with them. Should they fall into outright civil war and slaughter each other by the thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, that's on them.
At least my fellow American brothers and sisters will be back home in the USA where they can work to actively protect and serve the U.S. homeland instead of serving as mercenaries for constantly changing factions within foreign governments in some sandpit meatgrinder.