Petreus: okay now where's that remote -- let me just put this gosh-darned song on 'blue shadows' it's just a beautiful song
Joe Biden: oh that's a wonderful song
military intelligence attache Englund: sir, if i may, it wasn't dusty springfield, chevy chase's character, that was challenged to a gunslinging duel by the german that used to worship him and later felt disillusioned and disgusted by his own worship and uncomfortable awareness of his own gunslinging mastery, it was martin short's character: Ned --- hence the difficulty with the overly large arm to bear -- Ned preferred a teeny-tiny pistol more suited to his effeminate body and persona
Petreus: right, well anyway, look, down to brass tacks --- although it's generally unstated -- our general over-riding mission statement since 9/11 here in afghanistan was to prevent another attack on american land or territory originating from a training camp or some such thing here in afghanistan..... other projects like developing afghanistan's mining industry -- there's no concerted vision and drive to make that happen...... if anything, this rolling stone mishap with the subsequent forced-retirement of general macchrystal only serves to highlight the nature of wars fought by democracies.... this is not alexander's never-ending series of conquests ...... a lot of you soldiers will not dedicate more than a couple of years of your lives to service outside the states.... but the local population were here before we arrived and will be here after we leave....... part of the 9/11 attacks originating from afghanistan theory subscribes that this is a population that has seen war for decades, but let me ask you this, is it possible that an english-man with a van in the 1960s could have driven from england to india non-stop with safe passage through afghanistan?
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