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| Rubble doesn't make trouble |
| 2008-11-03 |
| Derb on what the Pakistanis are doing in rebel-held territory. Rubble Doesn't Make Trouble (Cont.) Â… Well, at least somebody gets it. The Pakistani army is going Roman on the Taliban, according to this report from Strategy Page. Most of the civilian population has fled, as trying to use civilians as human shields does not work against the Pakistani army Â… [O]utsiders have conquered Bajaur before. Alexander the Great did it 2,500 years ago, and the Mongols did so 700 years ago. But in both cases, conquest was accomplished in the Roman fashion ( "they created a desert and called it peace.") Â… [T]he army is going old-school on the Taliban, with most of the civilians fleeing, and any resistance getting blasted to rubble. When victory comes, it will be celebrated in a depopulated desert of rubble and empty homes. Hey, if it worked for Alexander and the Romans, it works for me. I only wish we had the guts to do it ourselves, as our fathers did over Germany and Japan, instead of bribing corrupt third-world gangsters with armies of illiterate peasant boys to do it for us while we strike moral poses and swoon in admiration of our own high-mindedness. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #7 "Going ROMAN" > similar prob = plot defect for THE DA VINCI CODE movie [Tom Hanks] ala HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL Book. NO ONE MORTAL SURVIVES THE ROMAN CRUCIFIXION PROCESS - FOR THAT MATTER, TMK DITTO FOR THE NON-ROMAN ONES AS WELL. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-11-03 22:50 |
| #6 The Japanese military made their HQ right around Shuri Castle in Okinawa, and put up a tremendous resistance there. The battleship Mississippi shelled it for 3 days in late May, 1945 and reduced it to rubble. But because of the extensive underground fortifications, bouncing the rubble did not stop the trouble, in this case. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-11-03 22:15 |
| #5 My uncle was in the USAAF during the Battle of Midway & was somewhat amazed that military personnel were obliged to avoid molesting protected species on Midway. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-11-03 20:47 |
| #4 LOL 'Moosey, there's this Monestary in Italy.... |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-11-03 18:19 |
| #3 Americans have long been rubble conscious. Even in WWII, we went to tremendous lengths to not destroy religious and historical sites, if at all possible. Entire cities were bombed to rubble, but smack in the dab would be a 700 year old cathedral with only a window or two cracked. Japan was different, both because we had little understanding of their cherished places, and their cities were built of wood. And there were times when we definitely targeted things that would hurt their leaders, such as burning down the Imperial groves. Which, I might add, strongly impacted them. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-11-03 15:35 |
| #2 Why should we bounce rubble and anger the Afghans when the Pakistanis are finally doing part of what should have been done a generation or more ago? Or possibly wouldn't need to be done had they even half tried to run their country properly in the first place? Because the Pakistanis are finally cleaning out the wasp nests they fostered in the lands of the Pashtuns, etc., the wasps are swarming Punjabistan. May it bring them as much joy as they've bestowed on the Less Pure over the years. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-11-03 15:04 |
| #1 Hear, hear. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 14:44 |