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2013-09-11 
A dozen years: A dozen things we've learned
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Posted by Fred 2013-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Well done, Fred..... words that needed verbalization.... may this go viral... in the latest ways we are so good at entertaining ourselves -- I'll start by posting to Facebook... alto --- I have doubts the many-headed Kardashians and their fans, would understand the meaning of even one of the 12.

Thanks for the words.....
Posted by Sherry 2013-09-11 00:56||   2013-09-11 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 All 12 shots hit directly center-mass. Excellent piece Col.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-11 07:42||   2013-09-11 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 why I keep coming back daily
Posted by Frank G 2013-09-11 08:01||   2013-09-11 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred is a colonel?
Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-11 08:05||   2013-09-11 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 back then I thought I had a decent enough knowledge of Islam

I didn't

I found out the Koran is far more into violence terror and triumph than I thought and the Haddith and Sunna more so and the revered commentaries more yet and that several attempts within Islam to contain or reverse these things have been pretty well obliterated or thwarted

after finding that out I was was pretty depressed

I still get that way

the popular movement against the brotherhood in Egypt and similar movements elsewhere in north africa may finally be a way to defang Islam but history is against them
Posted by lord garth 2013-09-11 08:08||   2013-09-11 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Great post Fred!

Might I just suggest a small historical correction?

"Once Aëtius had been murdered Valentinian's own death warrant was sealed, Attila the Hun was free to plunder where he pleased, and the Western Roman Empire itself had only another 22 years to live."

Actually when Valentinian personally murdered Aetius in September 454, Attila had already died (in 453) and his empire was falling apart.

But of course the death of Aetius had most serious implications for the integrity of the Roman Empire. Dalmatia seceded immediately and control of Gallia was gradually lost.
Posted by European Conservative 2013-09-11 09:43||   2013-09-11 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred is a colonel?

Very good piece Fred... May I suggest a field promotion is in order ---> General Fredrick P.
Posted by Au Auric 2013-09-11 09:48||   2013-09-11 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Meb! I was working from memory. I'll edit.
Posted by Fred 2013-09-11 09:50||   2013-09-11 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 There is another thing that seems to hard to understand. Despite 9/11 most victims of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have actually been Muslims.

Yet we are the only people who seriously fight them. And get all the blame for it.

The majority of Muslims is actually scared of Al Qaeda. Few would actually want to live under their rules.

But it's up to the West to free Tomboctou etc.
Posted by European Conservative 2013-09-11 10:03||   2013-09-11 10:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Who funds AlQ and the Taliban and what we doing to target those countries?
Posted by Paul D 2013-09-11 10:19||   2013-09-11 10:19|| Front Page Top

#11 And, no, I was never a colonel.
Posted by Fred 2013-09-11 10:20||   2013-09-11 10:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Should have been a bloody general !
Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-11 10:43||   2013-09-11 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 As a people, we're not good for the long haul. We'd have lost the Hundred Years War. Shucks, we'd have walked away from the Thirty Years War. We'd have quit the Indian Wars if there hadn't been so many Indians. The national attention span isn't doing well at all with the Dozen Years War.

I suspect if we had the television networks then that we have now, we'd have given up on WW2.

And a minor footnote you might like:

We've built a society in which people feel so secure they literally can't imagine not being safe. Our parents and grandparents, in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, raised their children in a cocoon of safety. Wally and the Beave existed, and we were them.

The actor who played Eddie Haskell, Ken Osmond, became a helicopter pilot in one of the services between Korea and Vietnam and eventually wound up in the LAPD, where he was injured in the line of duty.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-11 11:09||   2013-09-11 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I wanna say more, but I have work to do, people to see...
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-11 11:14||   2013-09-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Commodore is as high as I ever got - according to Al-Aska Paul
Posted by Frank G 2013-09-11 14:30||   2013-09-11 14:30|| Front Page Top

#16 #9 There is another thing that seems to hard to understand. Despite 9/11 most victims of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have actually been Muslims.

Yet we are the only people who seriously fight them. And get all the blame for it.

The majority of Muslims is actually scared of Al Qaeda. Few would actually want to live under their rules.
European Conservative

Sounds a bit like race relations and the police in the USA.
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-09-11 14:58||   2013-09-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Lady Liberty on the DSTP is a nice touch. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-11 14:59||   2013-09-11 14:59|| Front Page Top

#18 And, no, I was never a colonel.

Prolly a Sergeant - too smart to have been a bloody ossifer.
Posted by Glenmore 2013-09-11 15:40||   2013-09-11 15:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Good stuff Fred.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-09-11 16:24||   2013-09-11 16:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Agreed Fred great stuff but I can't recall when this was at the top of a Rantburg page

oderint dum metuant
Posted by Beavis 2013-09-11 21:32||   2013-09-11 21:32|| Front Page Top

#21 I think that came down we Zero was elected. Nobody fears us
Posted by Frank G 2013-09-11 22:22||   2013-09-11 22:22|| Front Page Top

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