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podrock — 9/12/2014 3:44:15 AM (archived)

Refresh my memory, which leader said, in a moment of pure foreboding, that if we broke it we owned it?

We broke the hell outta that place.

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Emergent phenomenon? - ER - 9/11/2014 2:54:22 PM
- The manipulation is by choice . . . - DanS - 9/12/2014 6:28:18 PM
- No one gets it or cares. The US loses, period. And creates more enemies. So it can keep fighting. - bowser - 9/12/2014 4:23:32 AM
  - In which case, we have to ask, is America broken beyond all hope of repair? - mcfly - 9/12/2014 1:05:00 PM
    - Great question, simple answer. - bowser - 9/12/2014 6:48:10 PM
- But is a military solution part of the problem? - mcfly - 9/12/2014 12:44:13 AM
  - That's a good point, and it has some merit. - ER - 9/12/2014 2:47:18 AM
    - Pottery Barn Rules - podrock - 9/12/2014 3:44:15 AM
      - I think it was Colin Powell. - ER - 9/12/2014 12:33:20 PM
        
        I think we're both right. - bowser - 9/12/2014 12:39:43 PM
      - Condaleeza Rice. - bowser - 9/12/2014 4:22:23 AM
- If IS didn't exist, the US would have to invent it. (In fact, it did.) - bowser - 9/11/2014 10:29:14 PM
- On a related issue. - ER - 9/11/2014 3:38:55 PM

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