Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com
Watch for those guys in the new administration. They are still hell-bent on improving your social morality and your political culture. Never mind that the improvement of the state of your morality and politics is not on your mind this week as you prepare to celebrate the New Year, or that you had never at any time in the past reached out to these well-meaning folks and asked them to help you along in that endeavor.
But, yep, you want to know right from wrong, check with George, Condi, Don, Paul, Dick, et. al. because they know what's best for you. And never mind that we had been around the block a few times, learning our poli-sci lessons the hard way, at the whetstone of activist experience, with some of us ending up either in jail, hunted down or in exile, because we had felt so strongly about the issue that we tried to do something about it.
But the US, I say, is hell-bent on "introducing" you and me to Jeffersonian principles of civil rights, human rights, women's rights, political rights, democratic rights and heck, name the rights, and these bozos will take them out from under their armpit and hand them over to you like a bouquet of roses. Seriously, folks, the issue here is not the intrinsic worth of these values, which clearly are a necessary function of the growth of any vibrant society, but the hypocrisy and nuttiness of American foreign policy in our part of the world.
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Never have so many strawmen been constructed and demolished in one screech, complete with Paleo stupidity and the implied Jooo bogeyman, in some time. Take a deep breath there Fawaz. Then shoot yourself if the urge to write comes over you again.
Thank you very much for your input, however. My pony is very happy with the new fodder.
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So would you buy a used car, or a master plan for democracy, from this hypocritical salesman? Not by a long shot.
So you're against us. Just make sure you're not carrying an AK within shooting range of any US Military.
At a conference on Middle East democracy in Morocco Dec. 1, attended by representatives from 30 countries, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, it would appear, according to media accounts, that Arab officials, along with delegates from nongovernmental groups, universally focused on how US policies in Palestine and Iraq were responsible for planting the seeds of terrorism in the region. But US officials rejected that, and Arab officials rejected the rejection.
Translation: It's not our fault we support those who murder indiscriminately. Really. No, really, it isn't. We can't help it. We murder folks ourselves in our own countries and we support murderers in 'Palestine' and elsewhere. But it is all the US fault. Stop us before we kill again.
Oh wait...
That's what you are doing.
I don’t know what it’s playing. Explain it to me, dear reader, because, I’ll find an explanation of the Stonehenge mystery and what those enigmatic Easter Island heads are saying before I can explain such a petulant posture by a country that dubs itself the greatest exporter of, eh, what is it, that’s right, democracy — which I take it means I’m able to read and write what I darn well please. So sneer along with me, will you?
What's another four years of years of sneering against the 20 already in?
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note to the world's propagandists: That whole "Palestine" thing, it's just not working anymore.
As for the whining about how your wildly acclaimed "report" wasn't sufficiently admired by the White House, because it was little more than an anti-American screed - it just shows how little you understand the concept that Democracy is a government "of the people". If you want democracy, you gotta break the habit of looking for a mommy or a daddy to fix your problems and blame when they don't buy you a new car. In a democracy, you are the mommy and daddy. So, you can grow up and be free, or you can spend your life living in the garage under someone else's rules...but blaming GW shows you just don't grasp the whole process.
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But, yep, you want to know right from wrong, check with George, Condi, Don, Paul, Dick, et. al. because they know what’s best for you.
I beg to differ. These individuals "don't know what's best for you" but know what is best about America, and how the best of America (as always) actually knows what's best.
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It's either genetic, or something's in the water. Collective stupidity.
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Just imagine what Fawaz could do if he had a little more Juche....
Take a prozac, lie down and relax. You'll feel better, and maybe you'll come up with something worth listening to.
Anybody have any patience left for this story? Bueller?
To the French, he's an uncouth cowboy — a swaggering statesman in a Stetson who shoots from the hip and asks questions later, if he asks them at all.
We think of him as a man who says what he's going to do and then does it. We think of the Frenchies as being wrapped up in Old World Sophistication™ to the point where they're incapable of accomplishing much of anything, enamoured of a status quo that produces piles of corpses on a daily basis and happy to break bread with bloody handed dictators in the pursuit of the almighty Euro.
They're not the only ones who think so. From Berlin to Beijing, President Bush was widely scorned abroad during his first term as a headstrong hombre more interested in action than consultation.
Where are the accomplishments of the people scorning him?
Now, as the world spins into a new year, many are eyeing his second term with a mixture of caution, frustration and resignation. Denied the chance to wipe the slate clean with a Kerry administration, nations like France — snubbed and sidelined by a bitter trans-Atlantic rift over Iraq and other foreign policy squabbles — can only hope that Bush will cast a less imposing shadow over the next four years.
I wouldn't count too much on that. We're not done yet. Stirring the stagnation of the Middle East has released a lot of foul odors that won't dissipate for years.
The angst and suspense underscore a simple, if jarring, truism: Like it or not, America, the world's only remaining superpower, still calls the shots on everything from global warming to peace in the Middle East. "The Old Europe faces Bush anew," the French newspaper Le Figaro headlined over an editorial imploring Bush's second administration to be more conciliatory than his first.
You go first...
France and Germany, which tangled the most fiercely with Washington over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, "greet Bush's second mandate with prudence and suspicion," columnist Luc de Barochez said. "They caress the hope that, like the second presidencies of Reagan and Clinton, the second mandate of the guest in the White House — unlike the first — will be marked by a desire for international cooperation," he wrote.
There was lots of opportunity for international cooperation during the first G.W. Bush administration. Too bad the Frenchies and the Fritzies missed it. Maybe they'll do better this time.
Bush has promised to visit Europe soon after his Jan. 19 inauguration.
Lemme see: How about Rome, Warsaw, Bucharest and Sofia? Sound like a good itinerary? And London, of course...
The French and Germans will be watching closely to see whether he merely jets off to Britain to huddle with Prime Minister Tony Blair, his biggest ally in the war on terror, or takes the initiative to mend relations with stops in Paris and Berlin.
They say Bucharest is lovely this time of year...
To do otherwise would be "a wrong signal," said Eberhard Sandschneider, a German foreign policy analyst. Sometimes a phone call isn't enough, and "it's helpful to sit with someone over a cup of coffee," he said.
True. When's Stoiber available?
Europe's alienated powerhouse nations aren't the only ones wondering what four more years will mean to the rest of the international community. The Israelis and Palestinians have the most to gain, viewing Washington as the only force with serious mediating leverage. Yasser Arafat's death has renewed hopes for peace, and the world is looking to Bush to seize the moment with a more vigorous diplomatic effort than that of his first administration. Bush refused to have any dealings with Arafat, and an early test of his intentions will be how he treats the Arafat successor to be elected next month.
I'd guess he's going to treat Abbas as a somewhat adversarial representative of the Paleostinians, but that he'll deal honestly with him and try to deal with him fairly. He'll do that up until the point where it becomes obvious that Abbas isn't doing what he says he's going to do, or the Karine B arrives with another load of weaponry.
In Asia, Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen reflected a widely held view when he accused Bush in a newspaper commentary of trying to "rule over the whole world with overwhelming force."
That's mere propaganda. He's not trying to do it, and demonstrably so. But neither is he tolerating obstructionism. We're kicking over the traces of the old international order, Qian. This is what revolution actually looks like.
Not so in Japan, where Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi recently tossed roses rather than thorns at Bush. Koizumi said he admired Bush's ability to face down critics, gushing: "It's impressive. I'll have to learn from him."
I think the difference is that Qian's starting out from the premise that Bush doesn't mean what he says — that there's a deeper meaning, unspoken intentions, "real reasons" rather than the stated reasons. Unvarnished, unhedged statements are just about unheard of in international politix. Koizumi's taking Bush at his word and expecting him to keep it. So far he has...
Bush's re-election eases the pressure on Koizumi to pull his country's 550 troops out of Iraq. Japanese resistance to continued involvement in the U.S.-led coalition has soared since Islamic militants, demanding that Japan withdraw, killed a Japanese hostage.
Japan's Left is no more imaginative than any other country's Left.
In South Korea, where the Pentagon intends to draw down troop levels by 12,500 over the next few years, the government hopes to build on the close ties it forged with the first George W. Bush administration for help in easing the nuclear standoff with North Korea.
That's an interesting interpretation. I'd say that the 12,500 troop reduction comes in response to South Korea's ingratitude and Roh's snuggling with his own Left. But it's their country, and if they want to screw it up, they're free to do so, as long as it doesn't upset our apple cart. Relations with the next SKor administration may be entirely different, but right now I'd call them next thing to frosty.
But the most immediate challenge awaits in Europe, where denigrating Bush is a blood sport.
... that seems to draw more European blood than American.
Icy Franco-American relations have spawned an new underground newspaper in Paris, L'Anti-Americain, filled with venom, toilet humor and general disrespect for the United States. "We are all anti-American!" its masthead taunts.
That's okay. We're all anti-French over here, but only when we pause to think about it. How's it feel to be of little consequence?
If Bush needs friends, he need only turn to staunch U.S. allies such as Poland, where many are charmed by what they see as his sincerity and simplicity. They say it reminds them of Ronald Reagan, revered by Poles for helping to end the Cold War. He can also look to Italy, where Premier Silvio Berlusconi describes himself as a close friend and bucked the pro-Kerry sentiment that swept most of the continent — including his own country — by openly rooting for Bush. Even though there's minimal chance Europe will send any troops to Iraq, some of its leaders past and present are doing what they can to break the impasse.
Actually, there are European troops in Iraq, some of them Italian and Polish. Mr. AP Writer appears to have momentarily forgotten that, or to think that only French and German troops are "European"...
Key European powers, including anti-war France, Germany and Russia, have agreed to join U.S.-led efforts to get Iraq's economy back on track by forgiving its debts. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow called it a "real milestone" that "shows the trans-Atlantic alliance remains a strong force for good in the world."
He really is very polite, isn't he? Always handing out compliments...
French President Jacques Chirac, who clashed publicly and repeatedly with Bush, wrote a "Dear George" letter congratulating the American president on his re-election and expressing his wish "to reinforce the French-American friendship." One former French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, famously snarled that Bush's victory would leave the world with a "hangover." But another, Herve de Charette, recently urged France. to let bygones be bygones and "renew strategic dialogue with the Americans"
No hurry. We can wait. They're assuming it matters to us...
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, also anxious to improve relations with the United States, has moved from rhetoric to action by launching a program to train Iraqi soldiers and police outside Iraq as an alternative to involvement in the U.S.-led peacekeeping effort. But Schroeder, like many Europeans who resent having lost their voice in world affairs, insists he should be able to criticize U.S. policy without automatically being branded as anti-American. "I hope they realize that one can win wars alone, but not peace," Schroeder said recently. "And that the conclusion will be drawn that they should consult more carefully than ever with the partners who have to be there afterward."
I hope the Fritzies realize that we can win wars in spite of their efforts, and that we'll be able to "win peace" despite their efforts. The conclusion should be drawn that the "partners," rather than gnawing our national ankle, might want to do some serious consulting prior to the festivities commencing. And if they don't want to get on board, a polite neutrality is much more becoming than taking the side of our adversaries.
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Article: But Schroeder, like many Europeans who resent having lost their voice in world affairs, insists he should be able to criticize U.S. policy without automatically being branded as anti-American.
And Americans should be able to criticize European policy without automatically being branded anti-Europe.
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Feeeeelingsssss...Nothing more than feeeeelingsss...Trying to forget my...Feelings of total indifference to "enlightened" European opinion...
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Given the French's pathological sense of self importance, it must send them into an impotent fury to realise that we don't give a good goddamn what they think of us.
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World feels bullied by Washington? Too damned bad. That's the nature of a superpower. Quit your pathetic blah, blah, blah whining and get out in the world and do something. Russia: stop selling nuclear hardware and start selling generators and water pumps. South Korea: beef up your defense so our troops can be reduced further. China: Taiwan is independent -- get over it. France: just STFU.
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12/22/2004 8:35 Comments ||
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I'm feeling that much of the world wants to oppress me. The only solution is to pick a target and bomb them to hell. To do otherwise would be "a wrong signal."
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And Americans should be able to criticize European policy without automatically being branded anti-Europe.
But I am anti-Europe. ;) Old, Leftist Europe, that is. Poland and the rest of "New" Europe I like just fine.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats ||
12/22/2004 9:00 Comments ||
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Nice rant Fred.
Posted by: ed ||
12/22/2004 9:17 Comments ||
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Stop whinning and give me your lunch money euroBoy.
Posted by: Washington ||
12/22/2004 9:39 Comments ||
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we don't need their steenking money
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/22/2004 9:44 Comments ||
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World Feels
Stop right there!
Anything that comes after "feels" isn't worth my time.
Let me know when you start actually thinking and doing, World. (And whining doesn't count as doing.)
I don't give a rat's ass in Hades how you feel. Take it up with Oprah.
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FEELINGS= an emotion subject to outside influences such as: other stronger folks, money in large denominations, girly man angst,etc.
BELIEF= the bedrock of action as a consistent roadmap to a specific location or goal.
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Bush has promised to visit Europe soon after his Jan. 19 inauguration. The French and Germans will be watching closely to see whether he merely jets off to Britain to huddle with Prime Minister Tony Blair, his biggest ally in the war on terror, or takes the initiative to mend relations with stops in Paris and Berlin.
Huh? GWB has to be the one to "take the initiative" to mend relations? Puuuhleeeeease.
What happened in Iraq is something that shouldn't have been allowed to carry on as long as it did, no thanks to the machinations of the despicable French and the rest of their partners.
To do otherwise would be "a wrong signal," said Eberhard Sandschneider, a German foreign policy analyst.
Ohhhh....my...
"I hope they realize that one can win wars alone, but not peace," Schroeder said recently. "And that the conclusion will be drawn that they should consult more carefully than ever with the partners who have to be there afterward."
WTF is this asshole talking about???? The Germans aren't in Iraq NOW doing the damned dirty work, and he finds reason to COMPLAIN??? Un-phuquing-believable....
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BAR-Amen. They are going to contribute nothing, other than a hand held out for contract rights. OK-I'm pissing everyone off today, so might as well stick with it-he should blow off Germany and France. They are spoilt rotten-throw em in their rooms, leave em crying until they are ready to get off their political soapboxes and come out with some positive moves towards US.
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TGA, is the German visit on the heels of his meeting with Putin in Slovakia? Wonder whether Bush will also visit Poland. It's got more clout in Ukraine.
This is the French nightmare realized: the center of gravity in Europe has shifted irrevocably to the east. When Turkey joins the EU, it will shift still further east.
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Memo to France, and German leaders who are acting French:
1) Whatever debt we owed Lafayette for helping us out has been repaid....twice. We are not coming over there a third time to clean up your mess.
2) Stop ignoring good opportunities to shut up.
3) Don't even think you are in any position to give us military advice. The last general you had who could actually win battles lived about 200 years ago, and he was Corsican.
4) The guy living in the White House is not a "guest", he is a president. You may call him "sir". When we elect a female president, you may call her "ma'am".
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Bush will be in Brussels on February 22nd to meet with NATO and EU officials and visit Germany the day after. The location is still kept secret which will give all those demonstrators a headache.
One Rantburg poster is likely to meet him. He can say no more.
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Might be a good time to visit the Baltics and Denmark while in the area. Make it a northeastern Europe tour. Build alliances where there is a snowball's chance in hel* of actually finding allies.
I have this image of a cluster of dour-looking officials with one guy in the middle jumping up and down and waving an American flag.
You Da Man, TGA.
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12/22/2004 15:49 Comments ||
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Nah, no American flag, Matt. Just a little twinkle in his eye, a hint of a smile curving the mouth *just so*, and a firm handshake with a scrap of paper that reads "www.rantburg.com. Meet me in the O-Club at 9:30."
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Hey Yurrup. Want more Trans-Atlantic cooperation?
Start cooperating then.
...a man who says what he's going to do and then does it.
This is exactly what drives them nuts, Fred. The whole concept of saying what you are going to do and then doing exactly that is utterly foreign to 'sophisticated' people.
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The visit of President Bush will happen after the Iraqi elections and shortly after the International Security Conference in Munich. Schroeder and Condi Rice will attend, Rummy will probably show up as well. We are likely to see a more significant German contribution to Iraq as a result.
#29
Germany is contributing, though it's not well advertised. They are funding and overseeing the production of a 30-minute daily election coverage TV show for broadcast in Iraq. I think that's very significant.
#30
It's indeed not much advertised. Also German defense minister Struck has announced that more Iraqi troops and officers will be trained in Germany and in the Emirates.
I also expect some significant developments in the Iran crisis
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Developments of the sort that makes Rantburgers smile? *crossed fingers*
Oooh, I wish I had a "54-40 or Fight!" lapel pin mic to send you so all RBer's could listen in. :)
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You know, it might just be time to 'win' the peace in France and Germany. Clearly we haven't gotten rid of all the Vichy French and Nationalist Socialist Party allies. Don't we have about 100,000 troops over there? Shouldn't be too hard to start the process.
Time magazine has named a Person of the Year -- it's that Bush fellow you may have heard about. (He's been in all the papers.) The choice may strike some as smart or obvious, but you just know some staffers wanted to give the honor to those new single-serve coffee-pod machines.
Hey, Time named the computer in '82, so there's precedent for giving the honor to an inanimate object. And the coffee-pod machines have the added virtue of NOT BEING THAT USURPING CHIMP! But to no avail. Trying to push from their minds the thought of Michael Moore gently weeping in the lobby of his apartment as he unrolls his Time from the mailbox, the editors made their decision.
A no-brainer, President Bush. (Take that as you please.) But more interesting was the award for "Blog of the Year." The honoree -- Power Line, at powerlineblog.com -- is part of a loose band of confederates who delight in bringing the old media order down. Time's choice sounds a little defensive, as if it has discovered that the best way to deal with barbarians inside the gate is to grant them citizenship and hope they behave.
Obligatory old-media insert: What's a blog? Sorry. If you have to ask, it's too late for you. Granted, the very word is ugly -- something your dog coughs up, or a slimy creature you find under a hosta leaf. (Or both.) But the very fact that Time can say "Blog of the Year" as if we all know what it means shows how far the medium has come. No one has to explain what the AM in AM radio stands for, either.
Full disclosure: This writer knows the Power Line guys, and has a Web site of his own. Good thing, too; the Internet is going to make gigs like this obsolete, once enough people realize that some guy in his basement is capable of turning out commentary as insightful as a tenured eminence who was handed a column 30 years ago and has spent the last 10 coasting on a scoop from the Reagan years. It takes dynamite to get some writers out of the paper.
In the new media, however, a clever blog can spring up overnight and get 100,000 readers in a day. That number can quickly fall to zero if the blogger gets a terminal case of the stupids.
What's more, if the blog allows comments, the readers can grapple with the writer on the very blog itself, which is like a columnist standing outside the newspaper building 24/7, arguing with anyone with a gripe. This is new. Bloggers question authority, as the beloved college T-shirt slogan has it. Isn't that good?
Apparently not, if the authority you're questioning is Dan Rather. Another blogger, a D.C.-based political snark-vendor called Wonkette, sniffed at bloggers' accomplishments to Newsweek:
"I think they did a disservice to the debate because they made the debate about the documents and not about the president of the United States. There was another half to that story that had to do with verifiable events of what Bush may have been up to."
Here we learn the flaw of the blogs: Instead of going after the real truth, which is that George W. Bush is a stupid evil Jesus-freak AWOL Hitler, agenda-driven bloggers concentrated on the falsehood put forth to advance the truth. In short: They get in the way. At the most inconvenient times.
In a sense, blogging is so 2004. The next big thing will be videoblogs. You can fit a rudimentary TV studio in a suitcase -- a laptop, a camcorder, a few cables, and a nearby Starbucks with Wi-Fi you can leech onto to upload your reports. This too will be good. One hundred thousand pairs of eyes looking high and low, versus CBS' staring monocular orb. We'll all turn to the nets to see what they think we should think. And then we'll hit the blogs for the rest of the story.
It's the end of the old media, but only the start of the new. If blogs dispensed single-serve rations of French roast, they would have owned that Time cover.
Who will win the award next year? No idea -- because the blog probably doesn't exist. It'll be born to comment on a big event that hasn't yet happened. And in a month it'll have twice the readership of the New Republic.
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Another blogger, a D.C.-based political snark-vendor called Wonkette...
Gee, I didn't know that having a fascination with anal sex (and the part time prostitutes that practice it) was "political".
Most everyone on the blogosphere has probably followed the Glenn Reynolds link to a Mosul chaplain's blog. More than 20 people, including US military and civilian personnel, were killed in a mortar attack on a base mess tent in Mosul. Chaplain Lewis was at the site. His narrative of the followup attack on the wounded and the medical personnel who responded stood out.
Regardless of what some may say, these are not stupid people. Any attack with casualties will naturally mean that eventually a very large number of care givers will be concentrated in one location. They took full advantage of that. In the middle of the mayhem the first mortar round hit about 100 to 200 meters away. Everyone started shouting to get the wounded into the hospital which is solid concrete and much safer than being in the open. Soon, the next mortar hit quite a bit closer than the first as they "walked" their rounds toward their intended target...us. Everyone began to rush toward the building. I stood at the door shoving as many people inside as I could. Just before heading in myself, the last one hit directly on top of the hospital. I was standing next to the building so was shielded from any flying shrapnel. In fact, the building, being built as a bunker took the hit with little effect. However, I couldn't have been more than 10 to 15 meters from the point of impact and brother did I feel the shock. That'll wake you up! I rushed inside to find doctors and nurses draped over patients, others on the floor or under something. I ducked low and quickly moved as far inside as I could. After a few tense moments people began to move around again and the business of patching bodies and healing minds continued in earnest.
This suggests that the target was under observation so either the first firing team, or a second enemy mortar team tasked with a followup attack could adjust their fire until they hit the hospital. It will be interesting to see whether the enemy fire originated from a populated area, preventing counterbattery. Many American bases are routinely patrolled by RPVs that run a circuit around possible firing positions. Mortar or rocket positions in the open would be easily detected. But there is no data and it would be useless to speculate on what actually happened. However, it is safe to say that the attack demonstrates assymetrical warfare in action. The enemy chose the weakest point he could find to attack; exploited the known limitations of the American response; and understood that he was to all intents and purposes exempted from the condemnation attendant to attacking the wounded and medical personnel. The chaplain and the medical personnel knew this and did not mill around expecting the Geneva Convention to protect them from those who have never heard of it, except as it applies to their own convenience. They knew the true face of the enemy; a face which bore no resemblance to the heroic countenance often presented by the media to the world.
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Why do the MSM/LLL/etc. remind me so much of the old tyme Gnostic Christians?
The very inability of their (LLL now, Gnostic then) plans and schema to function in the real world is proof (Proof!) that their plans and schema are perfect. Too perfect for the flawed and fallen world, appearently.
That and the utter unwillingness to deal with the world as it is. Or for that matter, utter unwiliingness to take responsibility for much of anything.
I wonder how the early Church fathers kept from going bonkers dealing with the same sort of Gnostic thinking we see today in the LLL. I could benefit from some of that patientce.
As for Europe, with some exceptions (TGA, JFM, et al) they deserve a generation or two under the Islamic yoke. Appearently the Soviet era was not lesson enough.
Sorry about the Ranting, but this stuff before I finish my first coffee is a bit much!
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Too perfect for the flawed and fallen world, apparently. That and the utter unwillingness to deal with the world as it is. Or for that matter, utter unwiliingness to take responsibility for much of anything.
I so agree with you! Many of my friends are liberals and they are wonderful, intelligent, well meaning people. I'd suggest that they just take it on faith.
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We need to get this message out. Yesterday, I drove by the memorial bridge and some moonbats were putting up luminaries for the dead soldiers in the center divider. The press trucks were all over it. It offended me, which is a shame, because in another time or place, it would have been a touching gesture.
I wished I had a cam-corder and was able to stop and interview one of the ghoulish figures lighting the candles. After a few standard questions, I would have like to have asked them,
"How would you respond to the people who say that you are not here to support the troops, but rather to use their deaths as a cheap publicity stunt for partisan purposes?"
#4
The MSM are willing and knowing allies of the terrorists. This article mentions their giving the terrorists cover for attacking wounded and medical personal - the murders know that the MSM would not mention this while going all apeshit over the interrogation rooms in GITMO being too warm (in a tropical area).
Even now the MSM barely mention the rapes by UN troops in Congo or what is happening (murder / rapes) in western Sudan.
And don't forget the Russian school where the MSM was unwilling (no... absolutely refused) to name them as 'terrorists' or even mention that they were, to a person, muslim.
The people you mention 2b are probably more victims of the MSM-Al-Q alliance then anything else. They don't see the mass graves, the gourged out eyes of little girls, the rapes or rape rooms. What they do see is a distored view (over several months) of the Prison abuse, GITMO, etc.... I kind of feel sorry for them -- but not too sorry - they choose to be ignorant.
Luckily the MSM is (hopefully) in a death cycle. All I can say is 'faster please'.
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Faster please! So true. Rather than blame my friends, I prefer to blame those who mislead them. They aren't bad people, they just have been misled - like millions before them - to believe that they are helping, not hurting. It is those who seek to abuse their kindness and compassion that I blame.
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2b-I like your idea. I hope to see as many people as possible confronting the press with this same kind of question:
"How would you respond to the people who say that you are not here to support the troops, but rather to use their deaths as a cheap publicity stunt for partisan purposes?"
Or What do you say to the families of killed servicemen after you accuse their loved ones, American soldiers, of carelessly or intentionally killing Iraqis when those soldiers have just given up their lives to help Iraqis and people the world over?
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It will be interesting to see whether the enemy fire originated from a populated area, preventing counterbattery.
Methinks a change in the ROE would be a good idea. "Sensitivity" has its limits, and as far as I'm concerned, if it wasn't surpassed long ago it was definitely reached with this attack.
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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