Let's rewrite it your way: You can organize the meter: If I maxed you out, it's because I'm a Leftist/Islamist anti-American traitor. That works for you. And for me at this point. I was listening to a discussion last night on Somalia. Al Qaeda is in Somalia, is entrenched now in Somalia, because Somalia has been without a government, in total chaos for 15 years. The CIA, which is to say the administration, sided with the iron fisted warlords in trying to impose order through control. Al Qaeda went in there and used the soft touch, and helped the people. Al Qaeda thrives on two things: sanctuary, such as they got in Afghanistan, and now in Iraq, and now in Somalia, and on civil war, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. The more war we spread, the more sanctuary and civil war there is for al Qaeda to grow in. Somalia is basically secular. The people just wanted relief from the chaos. The U.S. doesn't get that. All they want to do is bomb everybody into submission, and it backfires big time, destroying us, inflaming opposition around the world. One guy called it the DOD that ate Washington. The U.S. also sees Somalia as beneath them, not important enough to worry, they're just Africa. Al Qaeda sees sanctuary and opportunity to dig in somewhere. Whatever. Go back into your epithet-laden, haiku decorated coma. Democracy is on the march, we're winning in Iraq, there is a Santa Claus, I'm a Leftist/Islamist anti-American traitor and that's all you need to know. > [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 8/21/2006 1:49:44 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] A Haiku on Two Sentences by Andy > > > > Haiku on Two Sentences by Andy > > > If I maxed you out, > it's because you can't handle > facts. That works for me. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html