like one wasn ' t a result of the other . Thereby hangs the tail , right ? One was a result of the other , but it was also almost completely unconnected . The war in Afghanistan ? Gotchya . They were literally harboring the mastermind of the 911 attacks . Fire away . But Iraq ? It had nothing to do with 911 . Not a fucking thing . I was swept up with the rest of the idiots at the time , mind you . I was all for it . Very gungho . And now I regret that . So someone who had the presence of mind to resist the unresistible tide of exuberance and anguish and realize that it was a red herring even at the time ? That person is well above average in wisdom , and has my respect . <| sep |> All those years of being blessed by Stalin , and that is how he repays the motherland truly shameful .