Elizabeth say it ain't so

 Right below A forum for reasonable discussion among reasonable people is a search box.  If you want to find a former post you can just enter a word or two or best of all, a phrase you remember using to find that post.  Generally when I disagree with you, it is not over the content of some source but with your interpretation of the material from that source.

I think those districts that Britain gave to Pakistan (then part of India) are what we now call the tribal territories, particularly the Waziristans, North and South, just like the Dakotas, for no apparent reason.  I say that because I really don't know much about them.  John McCain, if I remember correctly, made a big deal in his campaign about having been to South Waziristan and therefore having a greater grasp of world politics than of his opponent who I believe was Obama, or maybe the inhabitants of that ship of fools which constituted the 2008 republican primary (all of whom I might add, were statesmen compared to their 2016 candidate).

These provinces were probably never really under the control of an Afghani govt, nor are they now under the control of the Pakis, they are full of guys in the hills with guns who nobody fucks with because they fuck right back, and there is really nothing there worth fucking with.  Well that is my interpretation.  

But look at this: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1449352/john-mccain-led-us-team-visits-south-waziristan-praises-pak-armys-efforts

Note that this is a link you can just click on without having to copy and paste into that box on the top of the screen.  Also that it has been tested and it does work, also I am not just saying look at this I am commenting on the link and why I put it there.  For somebody who prided himself as a hard-headed guy who never saw a war he did not like, he seems awfully addled about those freedom-loving Pakis and tribal guys, who they got a full measure of by flying high over,  certainly above weapon range of their mountain redoubts.

But wait a minute.  As I was scanning down that article I came across that photograph at the bottom and I had to wonder who's that girl.  And it turns out that she is my favorite candidate in the 2020 primary, Elizabeth Warren.  I wonder if during the primary debates she had casually dropped the info that she was the only one among the candidates who had been to South Waziristan if she might be prez today.

We may disagree about if having a big army is the main reason for having a government, but even if I were to allow for that it still doesn't explain why our well-fed generals have not done anything that made the USA safer in the last seventy years.

Yeah, run on sentences and sentence fragments, I kind of consider them my style.  My hero, Big Bill Faulkner, when questioned about whether, when he wrote those run-on sentences that went on for pages, he was drunk, replied, "Not always."

But I am glad that Beagles is more or less still following it.  Is he getting any yucks?