Comments on: An Afghan Circle I Would Like Squared http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Joshua Foust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13175 Joshua Foust Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:40:18 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13175 <p>Spencer, we don’t underestimate anything. It’s just transparent to us. We’re so used to things working that we have a hard time conceiving of a mindset where they don’t.</p> Spencer, we don’t underestimate anything. It’s just transparent to us. We’re so used to things working that we have a hard time conceiving of a mindset where they don’t.

]]> By: DrZen http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13162 DrZen Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:11:36 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13162 <p>Spencer have a think about why the Islamists found a lot of support in Somalia. They weren’t all that great at building roads either.</p> Spencer have a think about why the Islamists found a lot of support in Somalia. They weren’t all that great at building roads either.

]]> By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13161 macaquerman Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:40:52 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13161 <p>David, old stick, I did go and read a large bunch of Save the Children documents, as I indicated in comment 44 and then pointed out to you.</p> <p>I also followed the one link that you actually <em>did</em> provide and then mentioned in the same comment that it did not say anything like what you claimed.<br /> If you won’t or can’t put something on this post to back up all your bullshit, then I must insist that you’re done with me and suggest you take yourself and all your hoard of knowledge to other places, preferable one where it ain’t shining.</p> David, old stick, I did go and read a large bunch of Save the Children documents, as I indicated in comment 44 and then pointed out to you.

I also followed the one link that you actually did provide and then mentioned in the same comment that it did not say anything like what you claimed.
If you won’t or can’t put something on this post to back up all your bullshit, then I must insist that you’re done with me and suggest you take yourself and all your hoard of knowledge to other places, preferable one where it ain’t shining.

]]> By: DavidByron http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13160 DavidByron Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:31:49 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13160 <p>You’re like a birther. Even if I linked to a copy of Obama’s birth certificate it would only prove how right your little fantasies were.</p> <p>I suggested you could search the 1990’s UN archives of reports from Afghanistan for references to the SCA’s schools. Did you do that you little punk? No. Because that would be like “work” wouldn’t it. </p> <p>I suggested you write to the SCA and ask them. Did you do that? No. That would require interaction with a human being. Far better to sit on you fat ass and insult someone who obviously knows more than you do.</p> <p>Well in the words of Barbara Bush, “I’m done with you”.</p> You’re like a birther. Even if I linked to a copy of Obama’s birth certificate it would only prove how right your little fantasies were.

I suggested you could search the 1990’s UN archives of reports from Afghanistan for references to the SCA’s schools. Did you do that you little punk? No. Because that would be like “work” wouldn’t it.

I suggested you write to the SCA and ask them. Did you do that? No. That would require interaction with a human being. Far better to sit on you fat ass and insult someone who obviously knows more than you do.

Well in the words of Barbara Bush, “I’m done with you”.

]]> By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13159 macaquerman Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:13:27 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13159 <p>I can operate Google. I did. You are seriously full of —- yourself.</p> I can operate Google. I did. You are seriously full of —- yourself.

]]> By: DavidByron http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13158 DavidByron Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:09:15 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13158 <p>Do you need help operating Google?</p> <p>Do you think I give a crap if you believe me or not? Was I talking to you? No. I’ve already given enough of a lead to anyone seriously interested. You are not.</p> Do you need help operating Google?

Do you think I give a crap if you believe me or not? Was I talking to you? No. I’ve already given enough of a lead to anyone seriously interested. You are not.

]]> By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13157 macaquerman Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:04:37 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13157 <p>Tell you what. Show some facts about the glorious education for girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.<br /> Your link to the swedishcommittee.org doesn’t show anything about girl’s schooling under the Taliban.<br /> Everything I’ve read from Save the Children says that the majority of children in Afghanistan pre-9/11 didn’t attend school at all.<br /> They give nothing indicating the sex of the children that did attend.<br /> Save the Children also says that the schools in Afghanistan were built before the taliban assumed control and, under Taliban control, were crumbling and unheated.</p> <p>After you do that, we’ll talk about your failure to understand why it was that poppy cultivation declined under Taliban governance.</p> Tell you what. Show some facts about the glorious education for girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.
Your link to the swedishcommittee.org doesn’t show anything about girl’s schooling under the Taliban.
Everything I’ve read from Save the Children says that the majority of children in Afghanistan pre-9/11 didn’t attend school at all.
They give nothing indicating the sex of the children that did attend.
Save the Children also says that the schools in Afghanistan were built before the taliban assumed control and, under Taliban control, were crumbling and unheated.

After you do that, we’ll talk about your failure to understand why it was that poppy cultivation declined under Taliban governance.

]]> By: DavidByron http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13156 DavidByron Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:52:10 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13156 <p>I cannot tell you how shocked I am to meet someone who believes war time propaganda about an official state enemy.</p> I cannot tell you how shocked I am to meet someone who believes war time propaganda about an official state enemy.

]]> By: DavidByron http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13155 DavidByron Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:50:53 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13155 <p>OK, so I just checked the Peter Bergen site. Bingo. He repeats the classic lie about girls’ schools. I’m afraid he is deliberately lying to his audience there. If he really was in Afghanistan in the 90s he knows what he’s saying is false. But if you don’t believe me just write to the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and ask them if they had schools for girls in the 90s under the Taliban and with their co-operation (and obviously with their full knowledge).</p> <p><a href="http://www.swedishcommittee.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swedishcommittee.org/</a></p> <p>The UN dispatches from Afghanistan used to mention the girls’ schools every now and then so there might be some mention of them on-line. I couldn’t find them on the SCA site last I looked but I put that down to it just being such a long time ago now (rather than anything more sinister!)</p> <p>Obvious his statement, “You were more likely to be murdered in the United States in 1991 than an Afghan civilian is to be killed in the war today.” is fiction too but anyone with an ounce of skepticism can see that.</p> OK, so I just checked the Peter Bergen site. Bingo. He repeats the classic lie about girls’ schools. I’m afraid he is deliberately lying to his audience there. If he really was in Afghanistan in the 90s he knows what he’s saying is false. But if you don’t believe me just write to the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and ask them if they had schools for girls in the 90s under the Taliban and with their co-operation (and obviously with their full knowledge).

http://www.swedishcommittee.org/

The UN dispatches from Afghanistan used to mention the girls’ schools every now and then so there might be some mention of them on-line. I couldn’t find them on the SCA site last I looked but I put that down to it just being such a long time ago now (rather than anything more sinister!)

Obvious his statement, “You were more likely to be murdered in the United States in 1991 than an Afghan civilian is to be killed in the war today.” is fiction too but anyone with an ounce of skepticism can see that.

]]> By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13154 macaquerman Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:40:39 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/an-afghan-circle-i-would-like-squared/#comment-13154 <p>Total fiction </p> <p>Was the only paragraph that wasn’t.</p> Total fiction

Was the only paragraph that wasn’t.

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