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In the worst-case and most unlikely scenario, Afghanistan returns to pre-9/11 conditions where insurgent groups again gain control of the nation, reestablish an Islamic Emirate, and grant refuge to transnational terror groups.
Won't happen, because the Soviet Union is gone and the situation that brought the Taliban to power won't happen again - once side armed by the Paks and the other by no one. Uzbeckistan and Tadjickistan will support their ethnic brothers in a civil war.
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We must not get diverted by the financial sectors opposition or by populist rage. We must focus, instead, on the core issue. Trying to make financial systems safer has made them more perilous. Today, as a result, neither market discipline nor regulation is effective. There is a danger, therefore, that this rescue will lead to still greater risk-taking and an even worse crisis at some point in the not too distant future.
Either we impose a credible threat of bankruptcy, or institutions we have to support are made safer, or, better, we have both of these. Open-ended insurance of weakly regulated institutions that take complex gambles is intolerable. We dare not return to business as usual. It is as simple and brutal as that.
Well said. While I like his optimism re: the recovery, I'm not sure that it feels right for what's happening here in the USA. With the realistic fear of continued job losses, I don't see it. But then, expectations can drive the recovery, so I'm willing to feel all hope and changey and pretend that another boom is just around the bend.
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Either we impose a credible threat of bankruptcy,...
Lost in all of this is the lack of accountability of the leadership and boards which seek to maintain their power, privilege and pay by proving institutional traders with 'magic' bottom lines that jeopardize long term health of the businesses. Tie their fortunes to that of the institutions [the company goes belly up, then their gains and assets also go belly up] to insure fiduciary responsibility.
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a Turkish and Arab underclass was imported, which also lives mostly off government subsidies without making economic contributions to the city.
With European governments on the edge of bankruptcy and facing permanently reduced revenues, one wonders what will happen when the inevitable slashing of welfare payments begins.
Hat tip. Instapundit
Here's a thought about the White House's attack on FNC that I have not seen other commentators offer. The attack is directly out of the Saul Alinsky playbook, who in his work, Rules for Radicals, wrote that one of the rules of "power tactics" is to,
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'... Author of article continues with breaking down "the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"
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IIRC, there were some comments made here on RB very recently about the Saul Alinsky tactics being followed by the WH picking a fight with FNC.
Or maybe I saw it on NRO? Either way, the connection is blatantly obvious. Would make a great story if any news outlet had the balls to do it. Can you hear me FNC?
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Just watched the bimbo on MSNBC introduce Jesse Jackson as Rev. Al Sharpton. Guess those biggots can't tell one race hustler from the next? Yeah and FNC is false news outlet. Good laughs!
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So how is the Saul Alinsky playbook working for ya. Not so easy in a country as diverse and independent-minded as this, huh? Getting fixed on some ideology such as the Marxist/Communist ideology ends up fixing and isolating you guys. Doesn't seem like public opinion is really going your way. The more you Alinsky's techniques, the more you reveal yourselves. I'm thinking there is going to be a power shift come 2010 if the Republicans can get there stuff together and get off the Rhino wagon and stop trying to look like liberal Democrats. They did pretty well with the Contract with America back in the 1990s once they developed some ideology purity. Or maybe the Teabaggers who you try to demonize as right wing extremists and dumb hicks will get organized and mount a successful Third Party made up of disenchanted Americans (Republicans, Democrats, and Independents). The latter is probably your worst nightmare. Keep pushing because as you push America comes to really know who you are.
So, we come back to the main question: What methods could these deluded leftists justify using against the rest of us if they really believe we hold such beliefs and values as are inherent in the fake quotes? What couldn't they justify doing to drive such people from politics or even the nation itself? We even have to ask, what level of violence could they justify using against us?
This isn't about Limbaugh. They clearly view Limbaugh as just the most visible manifestation of tens of millions of Americans pining for the good old days of slavery. Make no mistake. They aren't just targeting Limbaugh as someone so evil that they can justify any extremity in fighting him.
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David Horowitz in his autobio talks about in the 60's Bill Ayers and company were talking gleefuly about sending many millions of Americans to re-education camps and forcing them to live under brutal conditions. When it was ponted out that millions would die the response was, 'so?'.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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