The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Otto]

2009/12/8 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
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> Minister Jung --- "a pawn"??
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Ok, maybe he was more of a rook but the other two ones who had to go
before him were pawns. It didn't work out so the former Secretary of
Defense had to go.

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> (I always love it when people who haven't got the faintest idea about the
> game think they have to use chess metaphors ...)
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Well, the term "Bauernopfer" is widely used in other contexts.

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> And no, it's NOT the Afghan people's choice.
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I don't believe that a revolution imposed from outside can be
successful. After 9/11 the West went there and smashed to pieces what
had been left after more than twenty years of war and so I think that
there is an obligation to put those people in a position where they at
least have a chance to govern themselves. This is the premise under
which we, the Germans, are there.

The trick to sell this war to the people was to call it not a war but
"nation building". If this is not the true purpose it's illegal. And
if the deadline isn't meant seriously it would be bad but I think that
Obama is serious about it. Does anybody really believe the guy is
happy about leading those two wars?