Post #2010754
2026-03-26 03:36 UTC
To whose advantage is stringing out the war? Ah-ha! I remember that other Middle East saying about conflicts and negotiations. We’ve got the watch, but they’ve got the time. How did our 20 years in Afghanistan work out for us? The Taliban was running things in 2001 when we first attacked. They’re still running things in 2026, 25 years later. They’ve even got all the weapons and vehicles we gave to the so-called “Afghan army” to help us fight the Taliban when we were still there.
You walk into the shop of the rug merchant in the market, and you spend some time looking at rugs, and maybe you decide to buy one and you haggle over a price that’s acceptable to you – and which I can assure you delights him, because he’s not going to sell you a rug for less money than he bought it for – and you walk out.
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@orrickle@sfba.social 2026-03-26 03:37
The rug shop is still there. The rug merchant is still there, waiting for the next customer like you to walk in and be dazzled enough by his wares that you will fork over enough money to make the next couple of payments on his new Toyota Camry. But you don’t know that. You don’t know that he’s even got a Toyota Camry, because all you know is that there is a rug shop in the market and a guy running it whom you bought a rug from.