Iran is very aware of these contructs as is Turkey and perhaps one of the motivations for Karzai to have dinner with the the “president” of Iran.

Lest one forgets;

Looking at a Hopper you need to stand back, looking at a Matisse, one can’t get close enough. Looking at the reactions of the viewers is just as informative.
Has anyone considered that Nail ‘em Up’s last post was “disturbing artwork”?
Craig, should I find myself in the position of riding the horse that’s always the first one to the barn, should I use different hay?

Jackie, I just hope you have the tools to do so as well. Get used to what? What is “it”?
Remember, Jackie, your answer could be an impeachable offense.

Truthteller007, that would be who exactly?

Nail ‘em there are always two ends to a “nine thousand mile long screwdriver”.
Karzai and Ahmadinejad must of had a good laugh at BO’s expense and by extension this country.

Personally, I would not bet on Chicago “smack down” politics winning the day, when matched up against the type of politics practiced in that region of the world. Afghanistan is now the worlds largest supplier of Hashish and “never smack”. So much for the streets of Rotterdam. What is interesting is the Taliban’s offset in the Iran.
It is my understanding that historically, Iran assisted the US initially and they were given a raspberry by Bush in return. Ahmadinejad has called BO an amateur. It is a wicked truth, when the crackpots of the world observe what is obvious and irrefutable. 

What is a guy from Unical running the country for anyway? BO comes in and views Karzai as a “Bush puppet”, thinking the act of publicly supporting the opposition in that there yonder rubble, was a worthy  effort.

Many times we even contribute militarily & financially to both sides of a conflict & then try to claim the moral highground with both winners & loosers. It’s really kinda crazy.

Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry. In the summer of 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish regional government as Iraq wrote its Constitution — tough and sensitive talks not least because of issues like how Iraq would divide its vast oil wealth.
Now Mr. Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
In the constitutional negotiations, he helped the Kurds ram through provisions that gave their region — rather than the central Baghdad government — sole authority over many of their internal affairs, including clauses that he maintains will give the Kurds virtually complete control over all new oil finds on their territory.
Mr. Galbraith, widely viewed in Washington as a smart and bold foreign policy expert, has always described himself as an unpaid adviser to the Kurds, although he has spoken in general terms about having business interests in Kurdistan, as the north of Iraq is known.
So it came as a shock to many last month when a group of Norwegian investigative journalists at the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv began publishing documents linking Mr. Galbraith to a specific Norwegian oil company with major contracts in Iraq.
 

Please note as a student of human behavior I throughly enjoy observing  reactions to propaganda & its influences on group-think. Weak thinkers can be turned on a dime.

De gusitbus…

I’m probably not part of your self assumed collective “we”.

Nail’em up is free to write whatever the NQ editors will post and I’ll read it. And I won’t be one of the ones who tells the writers what they should and should not write.

Why some readers act like some sort of Royalty at this blog, is beyond me?

Are we amused?