And your point is ("the wiping off the map" aside which was rebutted on this site alone several times)?

Very good article, as usual. And sad. Let's hope the EU monstrousity is not going to last.

They're not merely hypocrites, they're far worse.

I thought dems and reps ARE a single entity. Go figure!

So there's a chance the "infidel" "crusaders" could land in the immediate neighbourhood of Saudi Arabia. The fire getting closer to Islam's holiest shrines. Bin Laden probably thinks his prayers have been answered.

It really doesn't matter what is the reasoning behind this new stunt, the effects will almost certainly be unexpected.

True. The "manmade global warming" is an institutionalized lie. More defining of the moral fall of today politicians and scientists than anything else. The average Earth temperature is at least stable in the last 10 years, but there are surveys, violently rejected by the AGW inquisition that report the average temperature is dropping in the last 6-7 years. The infamous google click action could prove to be a good start for verifying the above.
Political ecology is such a disgusting tool for trying to delay upcomers to reach the riches table and herd the western sheeple into heavier taxation and submission to the bureacratic incompetent elite.

I see your point clearly.

I don't say "they" (globalists, transnationals, etc) are shy in trying to use America's resources and people to achieve goals that bring no benefits to the Americans. Or that "they" are not going to use the US political structures for "their" benefit. I simply think "they" can't succesfully lie indefinitely and reality will cacth up with more and more Americans, faster if the costs imposed on them are clearly increasing (I understand we can forget talking about benefits already).

Maybe, but the Empire troops are American troops. No "ally" or mercenaries army can wage war with the US military efficiency. If this situation continues, no amount of spin could persuade the "Kansans" indefinitely they have but to gain from an existing American Empire if the Empire doesn't "deliver". It doesn't seem to me it is good at that.
Not to mention the vortex the cost of Empire and associated bad management is creating. Vortex which is begining to drag into it's whirl the rest of the world. Globalist empire at the expense of American people? Doubtful. Global suicide triggered by the globalist ambitions? Possible, but the rest of the world is quite big and very probable unwilling to join US suicidal drive. And I give "Kansans" the same credit I give Afghans, no "cultural revolution" can brainwash them to such extent.

"In which case, the Afghan war is an exercise in futility." - J.R.

The Afghan war surely is an exercise in futiliy. The only limit "tested" there is how far on the road to barbarism the politicians and/or the military commanders of the conquering country are willing to travel. Short of extermination of the natives and/or a massive and permanent dsplacement of population, the occupier hopes to initiate and control some radical cultural change which eventually could lead to its acceptance/integration into Afghan society's "psyche" are as slim as America converting to islam. If not slimmer..

What's left of America ?

Straight to the point, congrats!

Indeed, "trivialities" like ownership and the means to ensure a decent present or like the questions who controls these means or who should draft the strategy for the future are no concern of "natives", minor "savages" unable to understand the modern society because of their history and petty traditions (such a drag!). Strangely enough (but not in the Bizzaro world) the same "savages" are always thirsty for "civil societies" and "freedom of choice" and "independent media".

Hail the "peace maker" Holbrooke, hail his infinite wisdom and unwavering determination, hail the unselfish sacrifice for the natives' well being and their undoubtedly happy future! People of Afghanistan and Pakistan who are now under his loving guidance: Rejoyce!