They think nothing of forcing people to do their bidding for the least reasons like funding the lifestyle of those engaged in political "art". At their heart is sociopathic narcissism.
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You there, with the trigger happy Sinktrap gun.....may I would encourage you to examine the most recent 300 years of African history, continue to periodically review news traffic and consult with 'Father Time.'
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You there, with the trigger happy Sinktrap gun.
You called, Besoeker?
Had you used "Westerners" or even "Europeans", I wouldn't have blinked. But you've made a bit of a reputation for yourself, and my trigger finger is the result. We're still going over there, after all, and a great many of those going over are neither white nor men. F'r instance, my doctor's nice nurse-receptionist, who financed her education by serving under a blue beret in Somalia.
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My point is TW, it is my opinion that we, yes, the multiculturally diverse America which I referenced as "white," need no further foreign military misadventures or exercises in "nation buidling", particularly in a region with a history as dreadfully bleak as that mentioned. I have discerned your knowledge of history over the years, so I'll leave examples of the many failed Europeon colonial adventures and exploitations in the region to you and the readership. Are the ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen not sufficient for the moment? Quite enough blood and treasure expended already I'd wager; I suspect the majority of the American people might agree with me on that issue as well. I assume your reference to my "reputation" is a walkabout manner of calling me a 'racist.' Please, simply come out and say it, it's a label which appears to be gaining popularity on an almost daily basis in some sectors of our society. Join that august chorus if you must.
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Besoeker, I just erased the four long paragraphs that constituted the beginning of my response to your #6. Let me try to be briefer.
1. I don't know if you are a racist, not being able to see in your heart. But you've posted things that sound to the modern American ear as racist in the past, and that simply will not do. I merely sinktrapped your #2; anyone can see and respond to what you wrote. I neither deleted it nor banned you.
2. Yes, our guys are stretched dreadfully thin with their current responsibilities, both the war fronts that you list and the other ongoing situations like Central/South America, the Philippines... and Africa. If the stories I've heard are as representative as I think, they are stretched too thin to bear for long, and yet they keep stepping up despite the personal cost. This terrifies me. Those like you who actually know, no doubt feel more strongly about it.
3. Africa is not a new front, as far as I can tell. We've had people there -- Special Forces and some special Marines, I think -- since at least 2003... I think. I wasn't paying close attention to that part of the world at the time. It's my understanding that our guys have been training local police and armies to handle their local jihadi problems, as well has doing some hunting of their own, both in the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan countries.
4. Do we want to be involved in nation-building, and do we need, functionally, to colonize in order to do so? Certainly not in the European mode, I believe. On the other hand, teaching local communities to defend themselves against jihadi attacks, digging wells, bringing in someone to teach scientific farming techniques, connecting entrepreneurial women with micro-lenders who can help them become financially independent... things that enable the local community to disengage from the everlasting fighting and provide the local youths with job opportunities other than joining the jihadi gangs? It's my understanding that the Marines and SF teams have done that as an adjunct to fighting battles for an awfully long time. It would be harder to stop them than support them in this, I think. But as far as I can see, we cannot do in Africa, or even Yemen, the kind of nation-building we did in Iraq. I agree with you that we have neither the man-power nor the infinite funds to fix the world. All we can do is give them a chance to fix themselves should they choose. I would like the alternative to be spanking them firmly until they get the message, but I am a neocon warmonger.
5. Do Americans want to stop fighting all over the world? I am quite sure at least a plurality do -- they voted Democrat in the 2004 election. Phrase the question correctly, and you'll get at least 90% saying, "Hell, yeah. Let the last of our guys to get two legs and part of his brain blown off be the last." On the other hand, do we want the jihadis to take over the world unopposed? We tried that before 9/11, and we got 9/11. But in order to keep the citizenry on the pro-war side, we have to run the war to win, which means changing the rules of engagement. I have my own ideas of what that should look like, but realize there are very good reasons to keep me far from those meetings.
*sigh* I don't know that this attempt is in the end any shorter than my first would have been. But I've tried to honestly address the questions you raised.
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"Senseahumah on run-away" no doubt. Neither congressional candidate LTC(Ret) Allen West or chairman Steele have returned any of my modest donations, but perhaps they don't read the Burg.
Cans of soup or beans can be appropriately labeled. I've found most people however, to be a bit more complex.
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OK my two cents, first, there is nothing in that land mass worth one American life. PERIOD! No FID, no COIN, none of it. Now, on to business. AQ is there, and they are growing. We have learned that European FID/COIN does not work with 4th world S holes. So that leaves us with DA. Lots of it. Go in and scorch the training camps and vilages that are harboring AQ. Done. Screw them. We fed the skinnies that were starving to death at the hands of the warlords and when they got their strength back they drug the very men that fed them through the streets, beating them with the body parts of the other men that fed them until they were dead. If we let them all kill each other it will be too soon in my book. Beo, you were being kind. I would scorch that shit hole.
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Go in and scorch the training camps and vilages that are harboring AQ. Done. Screw them.... Beo, you were being kind. I would scorch that shit hole.
Right-o, Colonel. If I didn't know better, Sah, I'd swear you were Belgian. Drinks at the Club after the ARCLIGHTs? I'll have the manager thrash the wallah spinning the fans if he slips up.
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Neither congressional candidate LTC(Ret) Allen West or chairman Steele have returned any of my modest donations, but perhaps they don't read the Burg.
I'm surprised, what with them being on the North American continent.
Note: we generally don't requote other blogs in full. A link and a one-liner will do. We don't want to steal their work, and they deserve the traffic. AoS.
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I fail to understand the reason the previous Dutch government would give over US$1 million to an American Muslim group to build a mosque for an American congregation on American soil. This completely independent of whether or not the mosque is intended to overshadow Ground Zero...
This will destroy both the left and the fake conservative rent-seekers who are RINOs.
Dems raise taxes. RINOs cut taxes. Neither does what must be done, which is CUT SPENDING, even if those cuts mean lost public sector jobs and fiefdoms. (Some would say "especially".)
Expose people to strong negative consequences for poor work and thought habits and eliminate government guarantees on income stream and you fix many of the nation's problems.
Target the cuts.
Any educators who promote collectivism and cultural Marxism lose all grant money and funding forever. States that continue to fund these types have matching money disappear for any program the Feds fund.
Ditto for bureaucrats and managers in public and quasi-public authorities.
No public sector arts funding, ever.
When the easy money is gone, when their propagandizing and indoctrination and influence become a bane which loses them their income stream instead of a "secret handshake" that lets them into the exclusive club, and they have to do some real work for a change, let's see how high and mighty they are.
Eliminate all funding for NPR and PBS. An entity in broadcasting which cannot exist in the market economy doesn't deserve to exist AT ALL.
Eliminate affirmative action. The president is a black man. The second most likely person to win in 2008 was a woman. The Repubs VP candidate was a woman, and the head of their party is a black man. Affirmative action and its huge associated costs are unnecessary.
Cut the draconian regulatory morass that exists, particularly for small businesses. Those rent seekers who cannot survive without those regulations will fail. Good riddance. Regulations whose compliance costs money are de facto taxes anyways. Just because some rent seeker who runs an OSHA compliance business or a "diversity education" business is receiving the money instead of the government itself doesn't make any difference to the guy running the business and paying the bills. Streamline and/or eliminate excessive regulations and you'll free up a lot of business capital.
Fix social security. Once a person has used up all the money they paid into it plus interest, call the money what they receive what it actually is - welfare for the elderly. Or raise the "retirement" age to what ever it needs to be to keep SS viable. Retroactively on some recipients, if necessary.
Cut back on unemployment. It's costing businesses a fortune, and if you were to force some of these folks who have been on it for nearly two years now to work, they would take jobs that illegal aliens now occupy, just to keep from starving ro becoming homeless. Two problems solved with one action.
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Gingrich wasn't so friendly with left not long ago?
#5
A couple of other needed measures:
Outlaw public sector unions at the federal, state and local levels. Invalidate existing contracts with them, even if that takes a constitutional amendment. Make it easier to fire public employees for cause.
Restrict public sector pension plans so that only retired military are eligible. The rest of the public sector employees can fund their own retirements (or not) like the rest of us have to.
#6
I have a feeling after the left is replaced, you're going to find out it's replaced with similar rent-seekers in the GOP
Yeah, the Republicans haven't shown that they have learned a thing over the past couple years. I don't think that they can win if their best slogan is, "We're not as bad as the other guys."
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An egregious example of the adverse consequences of tolerating unions of public sector employees, this one from Michigan.
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Newt makes the same point I have been trying to make for a couple of years now. Republicans need a POSITIVE set of issues to run on. You need to set goals and say we want to do this and this and this and this. You can NOT succeed on a program of simply pointing out the faults of the opposition.
If the train is on the wrong track, you have to show people that there is a different train on a different track that is going to a different destination. You need to clearly describe that destination, not stand there on the platform telling people they don't want to go where that other train is going.
"We suck less than they do" isn't going to get people energized unless you tell them where you are going.
#10
New way forward for the GOP? Like this from a Navy veteran?
(I first saw this on Rantburg by the way)
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Too bad the GOP is too stupid to figure out one of their candidates already has the answers.
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Unfortunately, what really needs to be done is to eliminate about 60% of all government agencies and the people that work for them. We're not going to be able to do that through elections. Something more drastic - and more powerful - will have to be done to get rid of the deadwood. That means firing 90% of all congresscritters, senators, glad-handers, current and former cabinet members, assistants, deputy-assistants, et. cetera, ad nauseum, and most federal employees at the SES-1 rating and higher. Getting rid of the unions won't do any good without a thorough and complete retooling of the civil service statutes, and that will almost take an act of God. I'm not sure there's enough rope in all of North America to do the job.
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You can NOT succeed on a program of simply pointing out the faults of the opposition
As a strategy you are correct. However, as a tactic Queen Nancy did just that in the 2006 election. It worked.
The problem is when both parties point out the failures of the other all they keep building dividends on is the alienation of the people with the whole process. Votes are not 'consent'. If they were, then dictators in the 20th Century like Saddam had 'consent'. Consent is what Lincoln referred to when he articulated 'the last full measure of devotion'. Or as the old sarge used to say 'Are you prepared to die on that hill?' When the Germans were rolling towards Moscow, Stalin knew that the people weren't going to die for him or the party. He had to appeal to 'Mother Russia'. For a the parties and an administration that is fundamentally anti-American (can they even use the word 'illegal') that's going to be a real interesting card to try to play when the time comes.
Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as a "cyber threat analyst" at the U.S. Navy's Network Warfare Command. Within less than a month, she amassed nearly 300 social-network connections among security specialists, military personnel and staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
A handful of pictures on her Facebook page included one of her at a party posing in thigh-high knee socks and a skull-and-crossbones bikini captioned, "doing what I do best."
"Sorry to say, I'm not a Green Beret! Just a cute girl stopping by to say hey!" she rhymingly proclaimed on her Twitter page, concluding, "My life is about info sec [information security] all the way!"
And so it apparently was. She was an avid user of LinkedIn - a social-networking site for professionals sometimes described as "Facebook for grown-ups." Her connections on it included men working for the nation's most senior military officer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and for one of the most secret government agencies of all, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which builds, launches and runs U.S. spy satellites. Others included a senior intelligence official in the U.S. Marine Corps, the chief of staff for a U.S. congressman, and several senior executives at defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. Almost all were seasoned security professionals.
But Robin Sage did not exist.
Her profile was a ruse set up by security consultant Thomas Ryan as part of an effort to expose weaknesses in the nation's defense and intelligence communities - what Mr. Ryan calls "an independent 'red team' exercise."
It is not the first time "white-hat" hackers have carried out such a social-engineering experiment, but military and intelligence security specialists told The Washington Times that the exercise reveals important vulnerabilities in the use of social networking by people in the national security field.
Ms. Sage's connections invited her to speak at a private-sector security conference in Miami, and to review an important technical paper by a NASA researcher. Several invited her to dinner. And there were many invitations to apply for jobs.
"If I can ever be of assistance with job opportunities here at Lockheed Martin, don't hesitate to contact me, as I'm at your service," one executive at the company told her.
#1
Inspectors General should hire some REAL femme fatales to entice staffers at all levels, then fire the asses who get entrapped. This is pour encourager les autres.
In three short years, Samir Khan went from blogging about jihad from his parents' North Carolina basement to editing al-Qaida's new online magazine in Yemen -- all under the FBI radar. The 24-year-old Khan is now helping America's Enemy No. 1 recruit Muslims to kill fellow Americans as Webmaster of al-Qaida's splashy new propaganda organ, which provides instructions in English on how to "make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom."And the FBI and U.S. intelligence never saw it coming.
The ability to search the internet for key words and phrases was forbidden to U.S. intelligence agencies as a result of left wing outrage at invasion of privacy. Blindfolding the investigators impacts their ability to investigate.
The Khan case is the latest example of a disturbing trend in U.S. intelligence lapses involving radicalized Muslims. From the Fort Hood shooting to the Christmas Day airline bombing to the Times Square car-bomb plot, warning signs are ignored, dots left unconnected.
Indeed.
In October, Khan visited Yemen and hooked up with fugitive al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki, another American terrorist turncoat. He was allowed to make the connection, despite sounding security alarms while living in the U.S. From Charlotte, N.C., he ran a Web site praising Osama bin Laden and calling for the death of U.S. troops. He even made death threats against a private detective in Florida. The investigator filed a complaint with the FBI, but the bureau took no action. The known jihadist wasn't even added to the no-fly list.
"How far does someone have to go before we take them seriously?" asked Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., who warned about Khan in 2007, only to have her concerns brushed aside. Khan was exercising his free speech, she was told. Yes, he might have been promoting jihad, but technically, he wasn't soliciting violent acts. And he was viewed as a lone jihadist, unconnected to a terrorist group -- even though we now know he'd forged links with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula while he was here in the U.S. "That was not followed up with the intelligence community," complained Myrick, a House Intelligence Committee member.
Authorities and the local media were also assured by Khan's family mosque, the Islamic Center of Charlotte, or ICC, that he wasn't a threat -- even though that assurance should have been discounted, given the mosque's terror ties. Turns out ICC is owned and controlled by the radical North American Islamic Trust, which the Justice Department has implicated in a plot to funnel millions to Hamas suicide bombers.
Still, Khan was given a pass by the government -- literally. While posting video of attacks on U.S. soldiers that "brought great happiness to me," he even managed to land a job with a federal contractor, Convergys Corp., which was awarded a $2.5 billion deal to set up emergency communications centers in the event of terror attacks.
Khan, a naturalized American from Saudi Arabia, was virulently anti-American and didn't try to conceal his hatred. He also wore a Taliban beard and Islamic skull cap, telegraphing his zealotry. Yet nobody seemed to think he was dangerous, save Myrick and a local TV news correspondent. (Molly Grantham of the Charlotte CBS affiliate staked out Khan's home and office. He then targeted her on his blog.) He was just another misunderstood young Muslim man practicing the "religion of peace."
We know different now, but it's too late: Terror experts say Khan is safely (from his Yemeni redoubt) aiding al-Qaida in its new push to recruit English-speaking American converts to Islam to carry out attacks on the homeland. The terrorist group is successfully using the Web as a recruiting tool. Of last year's 15 al-Qaida or homegrown terrorist plots, nine defendants had downloaded jihad videos or English jihad publications from the Internet.
Al-Qaida's ambitious new online recruiting tool, "Inspire," is a slick magazine with bright graphics splashed across 67 pages, which feature articles by bin Laden and Awlaki. U.S. intelligence suspects Khan's encrypting messages to suicide cells within the graphics.
Treasury should freeze Khan's assets, including any accounts tied to his upscale parents, as it last week finally did with Awlaki. More, the CIA should add Khan to its hit list, alongside his pal Awlaki. To do less would allow Khan to keep inciting mass murder of fellow Americans. It would also send a message to recruits in the U.S. that we're not serious about punishing treason in a time of war.
The Web-savvy, Americanized Khan is a plum for al-Qaida. Its latest recruit is our latest intelligence failure.
"Terrorists Exploit Adolescents, Telling Them that If They Carry Out Suicide Operations and Kill and Destroy... the Dark-Eyed Virgins Will Welcome Them in Paradise"
"Two things induce me to write about sex in paradise. First, the fact that the terrorists exploit adolescents, telling them that if they carry out suicide operations and kill and destroy, they will become martyrs, and as soon as they die, the dark-eyed virgins will welcome them in Paradise. Second, I have discovered that a number of religious scholars and prominent intellectuals believe that sex is practiced in Paradise, so much so that one of them [even] wrote a book in which he described this fantasy in great detail. And he said that the 'immortal boys' mentioned in the Koran [Koran 56:17] are intended for [the pleasure of] those people of Paradise who were inclined in this world to sodomy, but who denied and restrained themselves from practicing this perversion. So Allah rewards them in Paradise with these immortal boys. This distorts the image of Paradise in the minds of Muslims and causes disdain among their enemies.
Yes. Yes, it does.
"The terrorists and other deviants benefit from this wrong understanding and exploit it to seduce young people. This is so not only in our times; it also occurred in the days of Nizam Al-Mulk and Salah Al-Din, when the assassins of the Batini sect [were active].[1] This gang was established by Hassan Bin Sabah, who set up for them an [imaginary] Paradise and Hell, so as to toy with the emotions of the youth and to push them toward terrorism and assassinations. Today, we find that the terrorists make use of all the methods used by Hassan bin Sabah and his followers in order to convince the young men of the reality of the dark-eyed virgins. [The terrorists] give them a distorted [understanding] of suicide, killing, and destruction, and distribute drugs among them...
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Hold on a second, So they blow themselves up, meet the 40 "dark-eyed virgins/boys" and their dick falls off. Serves them right.
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That also explains how the 'virgins' cannot be deflowered. First the great cowards of Islam don't have any equipment to deflower them with and second - there isn't anything there to deflower....
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I was waiting for the debate on whether the dark eyed virgins would be mad of mostly the treasurers of the dungeons and dragons club or attendees of Star Trek conventions.
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Maybe they should seek advice from some experts, Clinton-Gore '92-'96. There's the ticket.
#1
The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity.
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The administration managed to very quickly change the focus of the Sherrod incident by firing her. It wasn't about Sherrod, it was about the reaction to her words from the audience. The purpose was not to show that Sherrod was a racist, but that the NAACP members listening to her were racist in their reactions to what she was saying.
By firing her, they have managed to shift the focus away from what was really going on and from what the point of the story was.
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In other news: Tearful Robert Gibbs announces in White House press conference he has been diagnosed as having later stages of ....... Shi* or go Blind Disease. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack admits to having affair with Russian parachuting donkey. Obama discovers Shirley Sherrod is his 4th cousin, awards her Presidential Freedom Medal in private White House beer luncheon ceremony.
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Gosh...it's almost like the leftist media made a premature judgement without investigating all the facts. Hmmm...now where have I heard that one before?
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
