Posted under Interventionism
I have a pro-Southern friend who’s not only stuck on the Left Coast, but also spars with me from time to time on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s for ‘em, I’m against ‘em. On his blog, he recently condemned Obama for rejecting the recommendations of the national security team. The blogger, Stogie, whose nom-de-blog acknowledges his taste for fine cigars, concluded Obama would not send additional troops into Afghanistan.
However, I don’t believe Obama could’ve been nominated if he didn’t support the Empire’s wars. So I posted this comment and challenge:
I’ll bet Obama’s just sending up trial balloons to gauge the American sheeples’ reaction before he ups the number of boots on the ground.
I’ll go one step further: I’ll bet you a sample pack of CAO Black cigars that by the 1st of March, 2010, Obama will have sent in at least 12,000 more troops, boosting the total from the present 68,000 to 80,000.
If you win, I’ll post a picture of myself on my blog buying your cigars. And if I win, you can send me a bottle of Rebel Yell bourbon. Interested?
The challenge was quickly accepted:
Sure OR. It’s a deal. I’d buy you a bottle of Rebel Yell anyway, even more so if you would come over and smoke those cigars with me while we down the bourbon!
So I responded in kind:
Now I’d like that. Talk about win-win! It’d be like Denny Crane and Alan Shore relaxing at twilight on their office balcony.
Thus the gauntlet has been thrown down and taken up! What will happen? Two headstrong and determined bloggers, each seeking the vindication of his views and his preferred poison, await the outcome.
Stay tuned!
Weaver on 13 Nov 2009 at 8:30 pm #
Wait, but if America jumps into Iran and relocates troops there you could lose. That’s a risky bet.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 14 Nov 2009 at 2:59 pm #
Uh-oh…
S.L. Toddard on 14 Nov 2009 at 7:48 pm #
I’d like to ask a question of the Southern gentlemen here:
What is your favorite brand of bourbon? And what do you think of Knob Creek?
roho on 15 Nov 2009 at 9:22 pm #
There is a lot of preasure on AWOL soldiers in jail, to have their record wiped clean if they will go to Afghanastan?
Many are not getting the treatments that they need, as a result of multiple deployments, and head injuries, and stress.
They are in the thousands, welcoming ANY kind of discharge, and ready to go home to their families!
Instead, they are sitting in jail cells, the process being slowed to a crawl, simply trying to break them as if they are the enemy, just to sign an agreement to re-enter a war that they are exausted from, in a different theatre.
It’s time to tell NATO “Match us man for man, plane for plane, ship for ship, etc, or WE ARE GONE”!……………..And come home to 24% unemployment.
HarrisonBergeron on 16 Nov 2009 at 5:56 pm #
S.L. Toddard,
I’m not picky at all. Whenever I’m at a party, I drink whatever is available, exclusively.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 16 Nov 2009 at 6:02 pm #
roho,
Yes, it’s tough on the troops. DC treats them like cannon fodder. The recent story of the mother whose child was taken into protective services so she could go to war says everything we need to know about the Empire and its values.
Weaver on 17 Nov 2009 at 6:32 pm #
S.L. Toddard,
I’ve quit drinking since I came of legal age (not all that recent). I used to like Wild Turkey bourbon whisky.