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[ebonlock]

I think my overall reaction to Obama's speech last night is somewhat similar to that of the Medium Lobster over at Fafblog:

Let us never forget just what's at stake in the war in Afghanistan: nothing less than the success of the war in Afghanistan. This war may be a mistake, a blood-soaked blunder, an unholy charnel house mindlessly consuming the bodies and souls of untold thousands, an open sore on the pockmarked face of history and an abomination before the sight of God and men, but it is first and foremost a war, and wars must be won. If the United States doesn't win this war, then will it not lose it? And if the United States loses this war, then won't the Unites States have lost it? And if the United States has lost this war, will that not then make the United States a kind of thing that loses wars? And then where would we be?

And just as America can't afford to abandon this war, surely it can't afford to abandon the Afghan people, who without the American military would be left to the savage whims of their hated enemy, the Afghan people. Indeed, it remains America's solemn duty as the leader of the free world to bring freedom and security to the Afghan people by hunting down and eliminating the Afghan people. Nor can America forget its own national security, and the dire threat posed by the Afghan people to our war against the Afghan people.

*sigh*

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[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

And yet? Reppies and Libertarians in my larger circle watched the same speech and started talking about how it scared them and made them want to get a valid passport for surely we are on our way to Socialism. WTF?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I think they live in a different universe from the rest of us, it's really the only explanation.

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's one that intersects with our own plane of existence. Can't they bugger off to another universe where we don't ever have to see them at all? Or would that make too great a cosmic imbalance of the wheel?