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Tace

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 08:37 PM Jun 2014

Heads, You Lose | James Howard Kunstler



James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

June 16, 2014

Obama Pushes Iraqis to Mend Sectarian Rifts

-- Headline, The New York Times

Have they tried diversity training? I doubt it. That’s not how things are done in the Shithole Formerly Known as Iraq (SFKI).

They’re headhunters now. For the moment the ISIS hasn’t had the inclination to shrink any of their trophies. Their method for preserving the memory of all that is the smart phone video of decapitation posted on the Internet. So let’s skip the part where both sides talk about their feelings.

It all happened pretty quickly last week, but in case you haven’t noticed, Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall over there. The bonehead American news media affects to be too stunned to even ask the pertinent questions, starting with: is that all it took to undo eight years and -- what? -- maybe $2 trillion in U.S.-sponsored nation-building? Oh, plus 4,000 U.S. dead and 50,000 wounded.

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Heads, You Lose | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post) Tace Jun 2014 OP
And, of course Stryst Jun 2014 #1

Stryst

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1. And, of course
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 12:59 AM
Jun 2014

half a million dead civilians. Plus the 22 suicides a DAY of vets and active duty military.

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