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2010-02-25 Southeast Asia

Burma's Kachin army prepares for civil war

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Posted by 3dc 2010-02-25 03:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Tangential point. The tranzie always ignore the reality, as shown here, that group identity whether tribalism or, its big brother, nationalism is alive and thriving among the human community. The only groups who seem to have a 'loyalty' to some sort of international order are largely power hungry bureaucrats [who can't find the power in the other identity groups] and academics, both of whom have a high degree of self worship and self veneration in their cabals, ie the wannabe ruling elite.

Posted by Proocpius2k 2010-02-25 07:38|| 2010-02-25 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 During the war the OSS dropped teams into Northern Burma, organized and supplied the Kachin, and they played a big part in beating the Japanese in Burma. They had quite a reputation.

OSS Detachtment 101

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-25 14:10|| 2010-02-25 14:10|| Front Page Top

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