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Kaye Syrah SyrahSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:49pm
This completely pisses me off.
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  iGatsbyKaye Syrah Syrah
  1/07/16 12:52pm
  Why? War goes many different ways... Things turn on fluid events and projects that are built on future expectations are sunk costs. This is no different than any other area of strategic planning.
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  this article is pretty dumbiGatsby
  1/07/16 12:55pm
  Well, at least we fixed Afghanistan and it was a completely worthwhile war. In fact, we did such a good job, we can’t really leave! We just keep going back in for more.
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Donald PumpSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:51pm
Money that could have gone to schools, the homeless, infrastucture projects. Literally fucking anything that could benefit American citizens. Instead it goes to line the pockets of defense contractors. I am *not* a smaller-government right winger, but this type of government bloat and un-needed spending should be criminal. It’s outrageous that we have people here *starving on our streets* while we are building empty buildings in our psuedo-colonies.
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  ThidrekrDonald Pump
  1/07/16 12:55pm
  Corporate welfare at its finest, and they’re the only “people” that matter anymore.
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  this article is pretty dumbDonald Pump
  1/07/16 1:01pm
  Money that could have gone to schools, the homeless, infrastucture projects. Literally fucking anything that could benefit American citizens.
  
  Well, there’s your problem. Right there. What you’re talking about doesn’t benefit “American citizens.” It benefits the poor, minorities, the elderly, etc… Last time I checked, those weren’t really “American citizens.” To be considered a real American citizen, you need to have a household income of AT LEAST 250K, a skin tone slightly lighter than rye toast, and a weiner.
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GregoireSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:44pm
They can make that money back on AirBNB with a few adventurous German tourists in two months max.
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  WhyDoesItBurnWhenIPostGregoire
  1/07/16 12:48pm
  In just 2 months? . Thats alot of chest shitting.
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  RooseveltsRevengeGregoire
  1/07/16 12:53pm
  No, no, no. Ted Cruz has already explained:
  
  Once he’s elected President, it will fulfill its intended purpose, and will remain fully staffed & teeming with marines until at least the year 2116.
  
  No doubt about it.
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WhySoCiceroSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:44pm
Going to be funny when the Taliban turns it into a headquarters building.

Like, Coen Brothers funny.
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  OpenSourceDWORDWhySoCicero
  1/07/16 12:48pm
  Like, Donald Trump funny.
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  Forrest TrumpWhySoCicero
  1/07/16 12:50pm
  That was my first thought too. Well, the Taliban HQ part. Not the fantastic Coen Bros. twist part.
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GHUASam Biddle
1/07/16 12:54pm
Considering what they were spending on air conditioning in Iraq, $25mil for an unused building sounds like a bargan.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-iraq-war-b…
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  cepalgGHUA
  1/07/16 1:10pm
  That, at least, is not COMPLETELY retarded.
  
  The thing that won America superpower status in World War 2 was the revelation that a soldier who couldn’t find his ass with both hands, lead by an officer who couldn’t find his ass with both hands, commanded by a general who couldn’t find his ass with both hands, was the equal of any five elite commandos you care to name as long as you put two thousand pounds of material support behind him. A chocolate bar once a week goes a lot further than you’d think it would in compensating for the fact your commanding officer’s command experience, in its entirety, is “managed a retail outlet in Boise.”
  
  One of the more hilarious examples of same: the US submarine corps was probably the most effective submarine corps in the war. Our subs were inferior in pretty much every way to the German ones, and our torpedoes were inferior in pretty much every way to the Japanese ones.
  
  But our subs had air conditioning.
  
  And it turns out that doing firing calculations is a lot easier in a 78-degree tin can than it is in a 95-degree tin can.
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  JohnnyBravocepalg
  1/07/16 1:32pm
  Is there somewhere I can read more about this? It’s fascinating
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Sid and FinancySam Biddle
1/07/16 12:52pm
To be fair, this building cost 10x as much in current dollars, and even less gets accomplished within:

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  Low Information BoaterSid and Financy
  1/07/16 1:15pm
  The rotunda and statuary hall are a fabulous setting for lasertag.
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OpenSourceDWORDSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:47pm
What part of this building is “state of the art” again? What “art” are we talking about?
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  DogRidingRodeoMonkeyOpenSourceDWORD
  1/07/16 12:53pm
  It’s a corporate cubism thing.
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  skefflesOpenSourceDWORD
  1/07/16 1:07pm
  Farce is a type of art.
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Gamblor JDSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:52pm
Hey rednecks, got a great federal building for you to occupy.
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  NicoGamblor JD
  1/07/16 4:10pm
  NO! You send them over there and they’ll realize how much they have in common.
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lobstrSam Biddle
1/07/16 2:11pm
They seriously just took a bunch of random ill-fitting pieces of office furniture (discards from various Halliburton offices, sold at a premium?) and threw ‘em haphazardly together; “Fuck ‘em, these Afghans have never seen an office before, they’ll totally think it’s five-star...”

On the positive side, who knew that there were so many styles among second-hand office chairs?
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vhmckenzieSam Biddle
1/07/16 12:50pm
I’d even be ok with spending another $25 million if they would turn this into a school for Afghan girls.
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