Ah I forgot how we were told stories about how Bin LAden escaped through Bora-Bora even though the best commandos were after him etc. I think that Bin Laden is most likely drinking cocktails on Hawai, unless he died a natural death by now. O.K. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, as it happens, the small Montenegro is now sending troops to > Afghanistan to pacify the things there. I thought that we were told that it > was settled in 2001 ?'' > > O.K. > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Omar: An empire that cannot even control Afghanistan certainly should be >> relieved of its imperial duties. >> >> Ha-ha! Besides the confusion of national response to 9/11 (the CIA >> overthrowing the Taliban) with British imperial ambition, Omar's >> response is funny for the purity of its Nietzschean resentment. >> >> Ha-ha! In other words, "If I cannot condemn the US as empire, I will >> condemn it for failing to be one." The condemning is the point. It's not >> really about empire is it? >> >> EY >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >> > >