"Silly me. I thought the Pushkins left in 1989...

Canada and Pushkin in the same sentence- too bizarre.
I'd seen the results of the polls on the news. Of course the Afghanis are happy to have foreign intervention. The only alternative is the Taliban. If I was an average Afghan citizen, I'd relish in not being dragged to a soccer field and shot.
Just my thoughts.

Ah, those Pushkins! Wonderful poets, but terrible for nepotism...

The only pushpins around here are on my corkboard.
Oh..."pushkins"...as in Alexander...sorry, my bad...

some one forgot that Talibani that got turned over to the Afgan pohleece and beat up!!!!!

please sent jack over there to knee-go-tea-ate with the taliban

Perhaps the commenter meant pashtuns.

Afghanistan is just background noise anymore.

First rule of war is to kill as many of the bastards as possible and civilian casualties are collateral damage and that is an unfortunate reality.

To do this, the enemy must first be vilified and made out to be sub-human. (which shouldn't be to hard with the Taliban and their supporters)

Next you provide the troop strength and equipment to get the job done.

Lastly tell your troops that in a war shit happens and that they won't be put in jail for screwing up once in awhile.

Churchill did that and won. Obama cannot and will not do what is necessary and therefore he and America will lose.

If America loses, we all lose and I will start selling prayer rugs and foot baths right away.

Pushkins, pashtuns, rushtuns, afganstuns..they are all the same..live in the east. Abe Froman what right have you to question those who know...you potential consumer/taxpayer in the quagmire of the unwashed.

The title of this post is apt and very original, it says volumes about our education system; in one simple sentence. Brilliant springs to mind.

Some people would ask, if they heard of Stalin's birthplace, would assume that he was born in the Deep South, in USA.

Yeah those blasted tribes of Slavs. The communists tried to civilize those wild men but their fundamentalist Orthodox Christianity allowed them to remain in their wild lawlessness.

Cossacks and communists don't play to gether well.

Pushkins, pashtu, pushtu......it's all the same, all far away.
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I tend to look with skepticism on any survey done in Asia or in the ME, particularly in war-torn countries. Very often people are afraid to answer truthfully and sometimes the truthful answers lead to them being killed. Furthermore, people over there answers the survey questions the way they think pollsters want them to.
I remember the western survey done last year, after the election of Ahmadinejad. The survey claimed that majority of Iranian support and love their president and it got published during the biggest protest ever against Islamic Republic and Ahmadinejad in particular. ;-)
That said I don't know enough about conditions in Afghanistan. Some of the survey answers seem to be truthful for example the one about majority of Afghanis wanting an Islamic state or the one about support for India.
All in all, I think that many Afghanis really support the surge and NATO/US forces should stay in the country.
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Pushkin was 1/8th African. Betcha didn't know that.

He was killed in a duel, which I think is very exciting. We should stop whining about allergies and bring back duelling.

Black Mamba, I'm sure you know that Alexander Hamilton (us 10 spot) was killed in a duel, by Aaron Burr.

What you may not know is that he is the only person on US coinage/bills not born in the continental US (West Indies)

Not true? I challenge you to a duel. Or maybe we both eat peanuts.

Pushkins!

Sounds like a great name for a line of toddler toys.

Erik: Banjos!

Or RockPaperScissors, yer choice.