The UK wants to send depleted uranium munitions...
Yeah.... The use of depleted uranium munitions in US repulsion of Iraq from Kuwait is the one aspect of that quick, efficient war that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Otherwise, I view Bush Sr.'s quick invasion and retreat from Kuwait and the south of Iraq as the single rare military success the USA has enjoyed in the postwar period.
Better yet, do you think you have what it takes to steal into the night to augment your shitpile from your neighbours' shitpile in order to ensure you have enough shit to reach quota?
Are you game enough for that?
F*&k me, mate - you really are a miserable cur, even for a Commie.
Have you ever created a single beautiful thing for the rest of the world to enjoy?
Painted or sketched a picture perhaps, or written a song or a poem about anything other than the shallow and senseless hope to one day straighten from swinging your mattock to wave your copy of the little red book at some passing dignitary?
Tell me that you can roast a sublime lamb shank and have a secret recipe for oxtail stew?
Do you have children that you inspire or who look up to you? Are you responsible for anyone other than yourself?
For whom are you a role model or a hero?
Can you make a baby stop crying, or even just laugh?
Do you seriously believe that you have what it takes to survive in the world you are trying to create?
Hmmm?
Are you game enough to stay awake night after night, ready to defend, with mattock, unto death, your family shitpile from nefarious neighbours, lest you turn in a lower than quota amount of shit?
Better yet, do you think you have what it takes to steal into the night to augment your shitpile from your neighbours' shitpile in order to ensure you have enough shit to reach quota?
Are you game enough for that?
What beautiful thing have you done or created?
What is your purpose on this earth besides shilling for Commies?
If I met you in person what one thing would I like about you?
BTW - You have never acknowledged receiving the two bricks of supersticky Buffalo grass I mailed you, oh...about 19 years ago.
Did you ever get them?
A combination of grotesque inequality and feckless profligacy goes a long way toward explaining why such an immense and richly endowed country finds itself unable to contend with dysfunction at home and crises abroad. Military might cannot compensate for an absence of internal cohesion and governmental self-discipline. Unless the United States gets its house in order, it has little hope of exercising global leadershipâmuch less prevailing in a mostly imaginary competition pitting democracy against autocracy. (...)
In 1947, in perhaps the most famous essay ever to appear in Foreign Affairs, Kennan, using the byline âX,â wrote that âto avoid destruction the United States need only measure up to its own best traditions and prove itself worthy of preservation as a great nation.â Today, those traditions may be in tatters, but Kennanâs counsel has lost none of its salience. The chimera of another righteous military triumph cannot fix what ails the United States.
