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Overwhelmingly wars end in negotiations except wars the US fights. France left Algeria without chaos or French equipment being seized despite a totally bitter war. An exception is that the Khmer Rouge just seized Cambodia.
Since Hitler’s claim to power was that Germany was sold out by traitors in World War I, no one thought a negotiated end was appropriate. The US at first wouldn’t let Japan keep the Emperor, which blocked a far quicker end to the war with Japan, but General MacArthur let him stay.
Vietnam wanted friendship against China and diplomatic relations. But the US left by helicopter from the embassy roof for actually no good reason at all, since Vietnam wanted an embassy with the US not US hostages. One recent time that the US negotiated was due the UN being in charge in Korea, and that armistice gave negotiations a bad name.
The US could quickly leave Afghanistan under the precondition that the Taliban not immediately seize Kabul, and let China or some other country guard Kabul for a while. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Bishop Tutu negotiated, the Transnational Foundation met with Gen. Musharraf in pursuit of peace, Why is that Swedish peace group not repeating its efforts?
http://www.peaceproposal.com/power4.html
Why is the peace movement different now?
Suddenly far fewer Americans are mad at the Taliban since they weren’t harboring bin Laden after all. Can’t there be some other proposal by Congressional peace Reps., than a funds cut off in six months? Enough time for Americans to get mad again.
For some more immediate peace suggestions see, “The War is Over, It ended May 2 . . .”
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/24-24/5945-the-war-is-over-it-ended-may-2-lets-celebrate
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Life is built on precedents. One precedent was the Spanish police trying to arrest the al Qaeda members responsible for the Madrid train bombing with percussion grenades and they blew themselves up taking a police officer with them. Another precedent was Saddam found hiding in the ground after which the medic put a thermometer in his mouth that seemed to be an ideal beginning that ended in a shouting lynch mob type trial. Would a victim and a true believer have unwittingly worked together to disrupt bin Laden’s trial.
The only way the Spanish police officer killed along with the terrorists would have stayed alive if sharp shooters quickly shot them in the temple before they could have blown themselves up. It is incredibly good news that bin Laden didn’t behave the way he makes his followers do. It discombobulates their mindset.
Gold value has dropped dramatically and silver has never been cheaper, indicating that investors don’t hedge on currency collapse like they used to.
Drunken sailors fought each other in the end of the war celebrations after both World Wars. Why are people cheering today? the reasons are mixed. Giving the cheering a bloodthirsty interpretation is the only bad news I can see.
Don’t get me wrong I truly wish that one of the Navy Seals had been a close relative of a bin Laden victim, and he managed to talk the others out of killing anyone and that all the argument over why bin Laden wasn’t dead revolved around him. But a lass I also wish that death would be no more, and joy and success would be everywhere. The news in the real world is far closer to that imaginary one than anyone could have suspected on May 1.
not a war, an occupation.
I want to see it end, but your analysis is shallow.
i believe that the administration has the power to pull out of afghanistan. i really do.
anyhow and has gold really dropped? lemme check. nope, just lost about 1 month of gains