tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post7859320646529339777..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: AfghanistanFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86209424328441890412022-08-24T01:02:26.019+01:002022-08-24T01:02:26.019+01:00The war in Afghanistan also cost the lives of 128 ...The war in Afghanistan also cost the lives of 128 Canadian Forces members. Father, as a Canadian Forces veteran I think it just fine for you to opine on these matters. The Contrarian certainly demonstrates ample fidelity to his nom de guerre (as I suspect do I mine, without, I pray, the smarmy arrogance). God bless you.John the Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899858119936750764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-44597974702164532242022-08-22T15:12:06.835+01:002022-08-22T15:12:06.835+01:00Anyone justifying the foolhardy, even criminal &qu...Anyone justifying the foolhardy, even criminal "interventions" of the USA in the Middle East must be either culpably uninformed or in moral agreement with the evil-doers who are the Bush family, John Bolton, and Dick Cheney---to name the principal criminals. As Catholics, we should also be aware of the monstrous actions against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (cities with the largercoradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43538822446641632492022-08-22T11:18:48.376+01:002022-08-22T11:18:48.376+01:00Michael Ortiz, Russian attempts or successes in im...Michael Ortiz, Russian attempts or successes in implementing regime change or supporting illiberal regimes which have lost their mandate: Libya, Syria, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Moldova, Chechnya. That's 8 off the top of my head. Plus operations of the Wagner group in Africa. In every instance typified by complete indifference to human suffering or even the accepted rules Farmer's boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617758580644095560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30956872092433152102022-08-22T04:51:39.219+01:002022-08-22T04:51:39.219+01:00Hear, hear, Father! Thank you, Armyarty.Hear, hear, Father! Thank you, Armyarty.Vidi_Aquamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620870885697290860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65199381953196372312022-08-21T19:44:59.660+01:002022-08-21T19:44:59.660+01:00Quick quiz: How many regime-changes does Russia ha...<br />Quick quiz: How many regime-changes does Russia have in the last 25 years? <br /><br />Answer: ZERO.<br /><br />How many regime-changes does the USA have in the last 25 years? <br /><br />Answer: Four, if you count the coup in 2014 in Kiev. Five, if count the Serbs in the 1990s. <br /><br />As John Bolton recently said, it's a lot of work pulling off a coup. <br /><br />Unfortunately, Michael Ortizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12823627318269572922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-53300488443289252812022-08-21T09:52:07.695+01:002022-08-21T09:52:07.695+01:00My reply of above was in response to The Contraria...My reply of above was in response to The Contrarian.<br /><br />AvB.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26733722038944721452022-08-21T03:48:11.583+01:002022-08-21T03:48:11.583+01:00Extreme pro-US naivety. If you believe that, you&...Extreme pro-US naivety. If you believe that, you'll believe anything. It sounds like you need to read some John Rao.<br /><br />AvB.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-77726526091958592942022-08-21T03:20:45.815+01:002022-08-21T03:20:45.815+01:00Oh,Contrarian-how wrong you are!
The United State...Oh,Contrarian-how wrong you are!<br /><br />The United States never had any reason to send in an invading army into Afghanistan. We had the ability to send in small military units to grab Bin Ladin. We could have- but we did not.<br /><br />We intentionally let Bin Laden get away, exactly so that we could engage in nation building in Afghanistan. It was the pet project of Laura Bush.<br /><br />armyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41585912974118987632022-08-21T02:00:16.784+01:002022-08-21T02:00:16.784+01:00What laughable arrogance, what condescending poppy...What laughable arrogance, what condescending poppycock from The Contrarian. On his own blog, Father Hunwicke is perfectly entitled to 'inflict' whatever view he wishes on anyone who choses to read it. Anyone who doesn't like it can bloody well bugger off and write his own blog.Deimaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102371264192841637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11723328121010602772022-08-20T18:28:06.865+01:002022-08-20T18:28:06.865+01:00Harold Macmillan said he had only two political pr...Harold Macmillan said he had only two political principles:<br /><br />1 Never invade Afghanistan<br />2 Never mess with the Catholic Churchvetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72047588496955267252022-08-20T14:52:30.796+01:002022-08-20T14:52:30.796+01:00Magister Johannes,
The savages - not the barbaria...Magister Johannes,<br /><br />The savages - not the barbarians, who were tractable - have triumphed (temporarily).<br /><br />There must be a supernatural intervention.<br /><br />Avb.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60606448096183284582022-08-20T14:11:07.470+01:002022-08-20T14:11:07.470+01:00Profoundly stupid in one respect: the US had every...Profoundly stupid in one respect: the US had every need to be in Afghanistan to ensure as much as possible any further attacks on its homeland at the hands of terrorists who have shown themselves highly competent at their wicked trade. The US never sought to rule it; though commendably it did its best to help women's wretched lot in a society alas dedicated to fettering and treating them in THE CONTRARIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07407080299151161665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38737503098975605442022-08-20T14:03:28.216+01:002022-08-20T14:03:28.216+01:00It seems to me thst, for the most parr, each count...It seems to me thst, for the most parr, each country and culture should be allowed to develop at its own pace. As for uor"western" educational model, it has largely collapsed. In Holland, where i live, the educational system was "democratised" in the 1980's, then dechristianised, declassisised, and finally allowed to become either islamised or liberal-neo- marxistised. Albertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236817196746609901noreply@blogger.com