pawnman

Ironic how quickly the people who lament the lack of integrity in senior leadership start engaging in the same behavior once it benefits them.

I guess I hadn't accounted for the lack of integrity in objecting to the vaccine.

Sounds great until the airlines also require vaccines for employees.

Yours sparked a memory about his song - Carbon Leaf, The War Was In Color

That's gonna improve my experience a lot.

You don't have to fill one out, period. Just like an OPR, this is your boss's problem, not yours.

Well, there's this one, there's Gen Milley wearing make-up, there's the convoluted one about the Fed, there's the one from Robert E Lee...it's just starting to add up.

Amen!

Is there some far-right website where these are collected, or do you just have a whole folder of these memes and infographics on your computer?

I'm sure they'll be more brutal and a little more free with their weapons...but I don't see them defending a 500 mile oil pipeline through the heart of Afghanistan successfully. A couple motivated jihadis with AK-47s and an IED could disrupt the pipeline at any point.

They won't be the first to think that way, and they likely won't be the last. Again...I wish them all the success we had there. I don't see them "conquering" Afghanistan short of killing every man, woman, and child in the country and moving Chinese citizens in.

I wonder if the Taliban is training their pilots with VR headsets...

I think I'd ORM out of every sortie into country after that.

State's rights to do...what? I'll find you some of the articles of secession when I'm at my computer...not even subtle. Edit: Found a whole list - And from the declarations of secession: South Carolina - " “These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor. “We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign [sic] the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection." Mississippi - "“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin." Texas - “In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color – a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States." Virginia - “The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States.” So again...all about state's rights TO OWN HUMAN BEINGS.

Context is important. Lee is warning about government having the power to free the slaves.

Decent military leader, but not someone I care about when it comes to American government. George Washington sure was a traitor...to England. Not to America. And if I lived in the Confederate States of America and owned some black folks, maybe I'd think Lee was a swell guy. All I see is someone who fought for the right to own human beings.

I think they might be surprised to learn Christmas is a religious holiday.

Not sure I'm looking to take advice about governance from a traitor.

I wish I could say that they're wrong.

I would wager that they have the capacity. They lack the will.

They know Christmas is a religious holiday, right?

For being the guy in the chair when the music stopped? Not sure I agree.

I wish them the same success we had.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/how-america-failed-afghanistan/619740/

How did he feel about going to Iraq for "WMDs"?