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• [1] Shudra Smaimki from Queens November 11, 2008 - 11:11AM

  How long will it take OBama to drop some bombs?

  
  
• [2] Gerry from Soho November 11, 2008 - 11:22AM

  Is Obama bound to the Saudi Royal family and the Carlyle Group as Bush and Clinton are?

  
  
• [3] RC November 11, 2008 - 11:23AM

  Can Mr. Burns answer if we can count on NATO for any support. I read in a book by Ahmed Rashid that they couldn't even muster up a few helicopters for Afganistan.

  And, what about Pakistan? It seems that the new "pakistan taliban" wants to overthrow Islamabad.

  Do we need to break up the whole area Afgansitan, Pakistan into mini ethnic states? And, make sure that the nukes are in the Punjab or Sindhi part of Pakistan?

  
  
• [4] YVAN from NEW YORK , NY November 11, 2008 - 11:23AM

  A MANIFESTO PUBLISHED YESTERDAY IN FRANCE

  SUBTITLED "OUI NOUS POUVONS", TRANSLATED FROM

  OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN "YES WE CAN".THE WIFE OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY SAID IN THE PAPER THAT SHE HOPED THAT THE "OBAMA EFFECT

  WOULD RESHAPE FRENCH SOCIETY...IS THERE SUCH

  MOVEMENT GOING ON IN LONDON ?...

  
  
• [5] JEFF from NYC November 11, 2008 - 11:24AM

  I stumbled over this little morsel of apropos information.......

  "The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits."

  Friedrich Engels, On Afghanistan (1857)

  Vietnam redux......We cannot leave that country soon enough!

  Jeff Catanzarita, NYC

  
  
• [6] steve from nyc November 11, 2008 - 11:25AM

  The concept to wage a "war on terrorism" is incorrect, mostly because terrorists, in almost all cases, do not represent a county. Attacking Iraq or even Afghanistan to kill terrorists is similar to invading the UK because its the home of the IRA.

  
  
• [7] Marco from Manhattan November 11, 2008 - 11:26AM

  The literacy rate among male Afghanis is about 30%...it's only 5% among women. This truly is a hopeless country and not really worth the lives of our soldiers. I certainly wouldn't send my kids there.