Being utterly bereft of words, I can only respond in pictures. Here's a few, for instance, of the oil and mineral rich Niger Delta:A Hopeful Discovery in Afghanistan
"Let Afghanistan become the indispensable source of laptop batteries. That is so much more hopeful than the source of heroin. "
~Pwogman!
Now, my only question for Pwogman! and his cloistered little bunch of pampered merit school cronies is - does this look fucking hopeful to you?
(Update: Displaying a breadth and depth of naivete that utterly defies my ability to describe in mere human terms - Pwogman! chides his commenters for daring to be criticize the good intentions of international corporations. No, really. I'm not kidding.)
The tribes don't like each other now, wait till they start fighting it out over mineral deposits!
ReplyDeleteTribal infighting over mining concessions is going to be the very least of the their worries. Srsly.
ReplyDeleteJesus H. Bicycle-Riding CHRIST. What a goddamn' toadie. Pardon me while I laugh until I piss myself.
ReplyDeleteAt least the commenters over there are continuing to kick his ass clear into next week.
You should've caught his weak-assed challenge to us to choose between feudal warlords and modern hospitals. Oh, how I laughed.
I've come to expect the missionary mindset from the generation that grew up listening to FDR on the radio, but there's really no excuse for such imbecility post Cold War. Ignorance of such a scale today is clearly self-inflicted.
ReplyDeleteOh, but goodness gracious golly-gee-whilickers, Mike! Our benevolent corporate overlords are sure to shower the grateful Afghanis will lollypops and ipods in exchange for their mineral wealth. It's either that or they're children will be impaled. You don't want that, do you Mike? Well do you?
ReplyDeleteWillful ignorance one of Pwogman's many super-pwoggie powers, Spartacus.
ReplyDeleteI want to know what kinds of drugs Pwogman takes. If he doesn't do any he should start.
ReplyDeleteBeing an anarcho-libertarian, the pwoggies may be right when they say I'm naive in my belief of living without the State. But Jeebus Christus. At least I'm not retarded enough to export my stupidity at gunpoint, as an excuse to rape a bunch of brown people out of their shit.
Please please please check out The McEwan's take on it. She's excitascared for Afghanistan, and just flat scared for us. Because this is naturally going to result in Afghanistan invading the US and slaughtering us by the millions.
ReplyDeleteIt looks hopeful to pwoggies because their existence is inconceivable without the cheap goods made by brown people, ruled over by tyrants, elewhere.
ReplyDeleteSame for conservatives, but the conniebots are at least willing to make a creed out of it, while the gliberals hide behind fictions.
Does this mean that I'll finally get my Bluetooth and my Blackberry? I have no idea what they are or what they do, but I know that everyone else has them and so I want them, too!
ReplyDeleteBombs away!
I think Pwogman! would view the few thousand dead from predator drone Hellfire missiles as acceptable losses so long as the price of consumer electronics were reduced by .05%. I'm sure he'd view that as reasonable incremental change for the better.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a Bluetooth, anyway?
We're never leaving that country...
ReplyDeleteAlan Smithee asks:
ReplyDeleteWhat is a Bluetooth, anyway?
Bluetooth is a wireless data-transmission protocol which makes possible those stupid-looking clunky earpieces with little blue lights on them that make people look like a cross between a Borg servant and Lieutenant Uhura.
I see these people on the Metro every day. They probably think they look über-hip, but actually they just look like dorks, thanks to Bluetooth.
Oh yeah! I've seen those. They're offensively geeky.
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