So it turns out we do negotiate with terrorists

[Jackstack99EMAW]

There has never been such thing as American Exceptionalism.  When you start out as a slave country, and then kick out a native population, you lose any credence to call yourself exceptional.

More idiotic mush. This will be fun. For starters, please define "native population."

lol

[chuckjames]

'Merica . . . get angry at it!!

Not angry at it at all just stating the fact that we have some great moral superiority over the rest world is quite rediculous. I can still be a proud American while believing this, they aren't mutually exclusive.

[chuckjames]

There has never been such thing as American Exceptionalism.  When you start out as a slave country, and then kick out a native population, you lose any credence to call yourself exceptional.

More idiotic mush. This will be fun. For starters, please define "native population."

The "Native Americans" had to steal their land from somebody amiright?   Which then proves my point we stole land like every other nation in the world where is the moral superiority in that?

[Rage Against the McKee]

There has never been such thing as American Exceptionalism.  When you start out as a slave country, and then kick out a native population, you lose any credence to call yourself exceptional.

More idiotic mush. This will be fun. For starters, please define "native population."

The "Native Americans" had to steal their land from somebody amiright?   Which then proves my point we stole land like every other nation in the world where is the moral superiority in that?

Are you saying that there was some ancient race of humans in the Americas before the natives showed up and that they were all killed off by nomadic tribes with stone age technology?

[0.42]

At some point I'm going to stop reading the contents of posts itt and start smashing everyone in here upside the head with a hardcover copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

[chuckjames]

At some point I'm going to stop reading the contents of posts itt and start smashing everyone in here upside the head with a hardcover copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Sounds like that book is Liberal propaganda to me. God ordained Christians to civilize the natives.

[Spracne]

At some point I'm going to stop reading the contents of posts itt and start smashing everyone in here upside the head with a hardcover copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Oh man, great tome.  Someone should make chuckjames read that (if that is, in fact, his real name).

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I like how the "progressives" attempt to demonstrate how culturally sensitive they are by lumping the myriad individual tribes native to the Americas into one blob of people.

[michigancat]

I would have just let him die with the taliban, fwiw.

I'm not really a heartless bastard, but if he turned his back on his platoon, i'm kinda in this boat.

You are both kind of heartless bastards IMO. Have you read this?

http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-prisoner-of-war-20120607

He was kind of a mumped up kid in a mumped up unit waging a mumped up war that Obama was dumb enough to try to escalate. He shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. I also don't think the guys we traded for him present much of a threat to our safety. I mean we've been holding them without cause for like 12 years.

Any comments on the news that he was discharged from the Coast Guard?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/11/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-gets-angry-at-the-weather-guys/?tid=pm_world_pop

He was a mumped up kid that had no business being in a war, even if he volunteered.

[bubbles4ksu]

At some point I'm going to stop reading the contents of posts itt and start smashing everyone in here upside the head with a hardcover copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Oh man, great tome.  Someone should make chuckjames read that (if that is, in fact, his real name).

Everyone should be forced to read GGS.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I would have just let him die with the taliban, fwiw.

I'm not really a heartless bastard, but if he turned his back on his platoon, i'm kinda in this boat.

You are both kind of heartless bastards IMO. Have you read this?

http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-prisoner-of-war-20120607

He was kind of a mumped up kid in a mumped up unit waging a mumped up war that Obama was dumb enough to try to escalate. He shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. I also don't think the guys we traded for him present much of a threat to our safety. I mean we've been holding them without cause for like 12 years.

Any comments on the news that he was discharged from the Coast Guard?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/11/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-gets-angry-at-the-weather-guys/?tid=pm_world_pop

He was a mumped up kid that had no business being in a war, even if he volunteered.

GMAFB 

[420seriouscat69]

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of mumped up kids over there. I know I would be. However, very few go running away from their guys. I'm kinda over this. I'm happy he's back, but man, it's going to be an up hill battle for him from here.

[Emo EMAW]

War is the perfect place for mumped up kids.  The best Marines are usually quite mumped up.

[michigancat]

He was discharged from THE COAST GUARD for psychological reasons.

[420seriouscat69]

So why the eff did we let him go over there?

[michigancat]

So why the eff did we let him go over there?

We shouldn't have sent him. That's my point!

[420seriouscat69]

So why the eff did we let him go over there?

We shouldn't have sent him. That's my point!

THANKS, OBAMA! jk

[Dugout DickStone]

we traded 5 losers for 1 loser.  That's the only bad part.  It's a Dayton Moore-esque trade

[420seriouscat69]

we traded 5 losers for 1 loser.  That's the only bad part.  It's a Dayton Moore-esque trade

The difference is, their losers still want to kill us and our loser has a mushy brain and will be in a psych ward the rest of his life.

[Dugout DickStone]

we traded 5 losers for 1 loser.  That's the only bad part.  It's a Dayton Moore-esque trade

The difference is, their losers still want to kill us and our loser has a mushy brain and will be in a psych ward the rest of his life.

We know where their losers are at all times.  they will get droned sooner or later.  they sure as crap aren't hopping a plane to Miami

[420seriouscat69]

 

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

we traded 5 losers for 1 loser.  That's the only bad part.  It's a Dayton Moore-esque trade

The difference is, their losers still want to kill us and our loser has a mushy brain and will be in a psych ward the rest of his life.

We know where their losers are at all times.  they will get droned sooner or later.

Do you really think we're that competent? What makes you think we're that competent? I have zero confidence that these guys are under anything close to 24 hour surveillance by us or anyone we can trust.

[Jackstack99EMAW]

we traded 5 losers for 1 loser.  That's the only bad part.  It's a Dayton Moore-esque trade

The difference is, their losers still want to kill us and our loser has a mushy brain and will be in a psych ward the rest of his life.

We know where their losers are at all times.  they will get droned sooner or later.

Do you really think we're that competent? What makes you think we're that competent? I have zero confidence that these guys are under anything close to 24 hour surveillance by us or anyone we can trust.

Seems like you hate America. 

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

So why the eff did we let him go over there?

We shouldn't have sent him. That's my point!

You're blaming the military for the actions of a deserter and a traitor? This poor man has had quite the journey into his thread, from double agent covert opps to mentally handicapped victim of the man. 

Let's call it like it is. Obama royally mumped this up, politically and strategically, and Bowe belongs in prison, probably the Taliban one.

[steve dave]

we're back to not negotiating at all felix