Skrulls!
So Shady says to me today, "these people are killing each other." Out of the blue after we reviewed his McCain joke. Not realising the topic had changed, I ask which people. He replies, "these skrulls," as he gestures vaguely toward Steve's lawn.
Skrulls in the yard? No, surely not! I proceed to attempt to help his pronunciation of the word squirrels while explaining what a skrull is, and why that's clearly not what he means. I think he's vastly improved his enunciation, and we had a good laugh.
One day, Shady off-handedly states that he thinks McCain should win the election. I ask him why McCain specifically, and he tells me, "because then we'll have world war three!"
Perhaps you don't see why this is a joke coming from Shady. Shady really dislikes war and battles and fighting. The lack of war here is one of the reasons he chose to study in the States.
I do agree that we shouldn't simply leave Iraq despite that we didn't need to go there in the first place, a fact corroborated by Shady's comments on the matter. He's mentioned that there really wasn't terrorist activity there before, but when the US took out the government, many groups were attracted so if we pulled out without re-establishing a stable government capable of defending itself and protecting its people, terrorists would likely rush in and make it into an actual terrorist nation. This, he says, would be very bad for everyone.
It should be noted that I don't believe that Obama intends to abandon Iraq. By the sound of it, he just thinks it more effective to set a timeline for completion. I would guess that a major disparity between planned and actual would be met with revised strategies which may or may not share the same deadlines.
Skrulls in the yard? No, surely not! I proceed to attempt to help his pronunciation of the word squirrels while explaining what a skrull is, and why that's clearly not what he means. I think he's vastly improved his enunciation, and we had a good laugh.
One day, Shady off-handedly states that he thinks McCain should win the election. I ask him why McCain specifically, and he tells me, "because then we'll have world war three!"
Perhaps you don't see why this is a joke coming from Shady. Shady really dislikes war and battles and fighting. The lack of war here is one of the reasons he chose to study in the States.
I do agree that we shouldn't simply leave Iraq despite that we didn't need to go there in the first place, a fact corroborated by Shady's comments on the matter. He's mentioned that there really wasn't terrorist activity there before, but when the US took out the government, many groups were attracted so if we pulled out without re-establishing a stable government capable of defending itself and protecting its people, terrorists would likely rush in and make it into an actual terrorist nation. This, he says, would be very bad for everyone.
It should be noted that I don't believe that Obama intends to abandon Iraq. By the sound of it, he just thinks it more effective to set a timeline for completion. I would guess that a major disparity between planned and actual would be met with revised strategies which may or may not share the same deadlines.