Unsustainable Consumption

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by hermit22
Also, Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. To say it was part of their sphere of influence is, well, really just wrong. .

Well, if my neighbor has tanks in my front yard, I'd have to conceed he has influence until I kick them out. South Vietnam was in the US sphere until we got kicked out of there, and we weren't even neighbors.

Originally posted by socrates
What you are saying is that I am branching off at best or rambling at worst.

No, what *I* am saying is that until you establish a connection, it's not branching or rambling, it's a non sequitur; it literally "doesn't follow". I can't "ramble" from 1 to 3 unless I pass though 2 on the way there. Going directly from A to C isn't "branching", it's teleportation. :-)

Of course, if the topic is actually "random Yankee bashing", then, as I said, you don't really need a connection.