They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means

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Mixed feelings on the subject myself (my brother is going to Afghanistan next month), but still funny and true.

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Tom Lehrer is certainly of considerable stature.

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"'Til somebody we like can be elected" Man, not only was the guy a prophet but things just never change.

Also: I know things weren't all that great in the early 60s, but frankly I'd kill to live in a time like that when television was actually entertaining - in spite of the screen being 11" diagonally and in black and white.

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my brother is going to Afghanistan next month

Wow, that's rough. I wonder whose brother he'll be fighting over there? Not someone who would ever come here and fight, I'm betting.

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I'm sorry to hear that your brother is about to be deployed to Afghanistan. While I consider myself a patriotic American, and I respect and appreciate our armed services, I sometimes have doubts about the old fat men who send our kids out to fight and their reasons for doing so. I opposed (and still do,) the invasion of Iraq, for example.

But I'm torn over Afghanistan. There was a great open letter written to President Obama by William R. Polk:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091019/polk

I don't want to see Pakistan's nuclear weapons fall into the hands of terrorists, but I doubt that will happen no matter what we do. I think Professor Polk's ideas have a lot of merit, especially since he knows the history of the region and has experience with foreign wars.

But I wish your brother, (and his squad,) well. I hope they all come back to us unharmed from what can only be described as the most dangerous job on the planet.

BTW - I'm also a huge fan of Ton Lehrer.