re: "Damn, Ogabe Must Be in Need of a Distraction"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") posted with his characteristic frankness and clarity.

Money quote(s):

"Joe on the Taliban:

Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical.

The sound you hear is from thousands of U.S. troops shouting from Afghanistan: “Then who in the holy FUCK are those haji bastards shooting at us, you drooling, dimwitted dickheaded shitbird?”

We don’t know about the rest of you fine citizens (actually we do), but in our book assholes trying to kill U.S. troops are the very textbook definition of “enemies”"

Perhaps this will refresh the memory. I'm fairly certain the VP was in the room, if not as VP, when this speech was given.

"(Y)et another pretzel of illogic:

If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.

Enough of a “problem” to qualify as an enemy and threat to our interests which, if we remember correctly, count among them “not having the fundamentalist swine who harbored bin Laden while he plotted to murder 3,000 of our countrymen and refused to hand him over afterwards become the government of Afghanistan again?”

Because, and once again correct us if we’re wrong, that is their declared goal and exactly what they’ve been trying to do every fucking last day since we kicked them out of government.

So let’s see if we get this straight: The Taliban are not our enemy unless they continue to do what they’ve been doing for the last ten years and show no signs of stopping to do ever, but right now, while they’re doing just that, they’re not the enemy?" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

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