You may have noticed that we recently started labeling our posts here at Fraters Libertas. Part of the reason was to make our scribbling easier to reference for our valued readers, but mostly it was driven by curiosity about how much we're really writing about topics like health care, hipster doofuses, and hockey.
Labeling posts as they are created is a fairly straight-forward, simple process. The real work comes in back-labeling the nearly fifty-seven-hundred posts that have been created over the last five-plus years (back-labeling not back-dating: our Fraters Inc. stock options are so far under water that even Alvin would have trouble reaching them).
It was in during this tedious back-labeling process that I came upon this gem in a post of mine from March 20th, 2002:
Before we start getting too far ahead of ourselves in the war on terrorism and prepare to move on Iraq, we should ensure that the situation in Afghanistan is much more stable than it is currently. If that means we have to take military action in Pakistan, either with or without the co-operation of the Paki government, then so be it. A replay of the situation in Vietnam with enemy "sanctuaries" in Cambodia and Laos that were off limits for most of the war must not be repeated.
Positively Obamaesque, ain't it? Maybe there is still hope for aught-eight after all...
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