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		<title>Talking to the Taliban(redux)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A statement so flawed that it, like many other &#8220;news items&#8221;, is scarcely worth my time. But I&#8217;ll rant for a bit because I am glad to see the current successes of Operation Moshtarak and hope for much more. That is the way that wars are ended by achieving goals.
In 2007 an Irishman called Michael Semple was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A statement so flawed that it, like many other &#8220;news items&#8221;, is scarcely worth my time. But I&#8217;ll rant for a bit because I am glad to see the current successes of Operation Moshtarak and hope for much more. That is the way that wars are ended by achieving goals.</p>
<p>In 2007 an Irishman called Michael Semple was thrown out of Afghanistan when the Kharzai government found out he was talking to the Taliban, trying to broker a deal between the British government and the second tier or Pashtun warriors. While Mullah Oman and his cohorts are considered to be official enemies, beyond conversation Britain planned to undercut the Talibans leadership and in fact undercut the Kharzai government by dealing with the men with real power in Pashtunistan.</p>
<p>This didn&#8217;t work because the real Taliban and real mujahadeen gave them the same answer they gave the Soviets. They will not stop fighting until every NATO troop leaves in either body bags or C130s (or Antanovs etc.) I spoke on this as well; there is no talking to the Taliban, they want to mistreat women, kill infidels, harbour murderous jihadis, sell opium, run a backward society and they want the world to be run the same way. There is no compromise with right and wrong.</p>
<p>News media talk about perceptions as if they are divorced from the bad perception NATO has. Ever dead soldier becomes a newsflash every coward and whimpering simpleton becomes a news story. In the Pacific, and on the French shore and countryside <em>hundred of</em> <em>thousands </em>of young men died fighting a war that they were thrown into and they received our support. Now a few hundred die and the pusillanimous  voices that have been allowed to grow too loud want to &#8220;talk&#8221; because the &#8220;Taliban&#8221; are seen to be winning. They are seen to be winning because the press actively makes it look that way. This is done easily by promoting the nay sayers highlighting the faults, overshadowing the supporters and ignoring the successes.</p>
<p>Talking is a defeat firstly because it it works it confirms that the Taliban are already gone, because the Taliban don&#8217;t talk. If it doesn&#8217;t then it is just another defeat for the United States not only against extreme idealism but against the liberal pinko press.</p>
<p>If simple tenants such as the use of force can no longer be used by modern governments then other governments and ideologies who can act without the restraints of its soft headed, self-doubting, self-destructive media will begin to lead the world down very dark and confusing paths.</p>
<p>The darkness and confusion is already present. Three years ago,talking was off the table, now it is back on the table and with gusto. The media is allowed to guesstimate and exaggerate based on reports from Afghani commanders instead of their own countrymen. Withdrawing in disgrace from another inferiorly armed country has become not only an option but a standard and signature maneuver. Helplessness to the &#8220;power&#8221; of China is a theme played out while we demand the inferior and entirely disposable products it produces. The communist tenants of equality stark against the real inequality and poverty is what these &#8220;intelligent&#8221; people hope for. They are <strong>not</strong> seeking equality, they are hoping that instead of a society run by manufacturers of wealth, producers of goods and forgers of new paths, the society will be run by soft headed thinkers of grand ideas and ignorers of reality. They are seeking a society ruled by themselves.</p>
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		<title>The English Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to a lecture by Gilles Kepler and it really brought back to me just how instrumental London is in creating radical Islam.  Almost none of what I am about to say was mentioned by Kepler by the way, but here&#8217;s what I think.
English guy (T.E. Lawrence) goes riding through Arabia inciting Anti [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was listening to a lecture by Gilles Kepler and it really brought back to me just how instrumental London is in creating radical Islam.  Almost none of what I am about to say was mentioned by Kepler by the way, but here&#8217;s what I think.</p>
<p>English guy (T.E. Lawrence) goes riding through Arabia inciting Anti Ottoman and Anti German sentiment. This leads to the defeat of two empires one in the Middle East and the other a bit later in North Africa. The Middle East and Africa is divvied up between the French and English. In a similar fashion, later Germany and Europe is divvied up between the USA and Russia.</p>
<p>England decides to break up Indiostan into Muslim and a Hindu countries, making one country that has two parts and another much larger one dividing it and leaving a large plot of land unallocated. The two new countries, India and Pakistan-Bangladesh fall into fighting and civil war as Muslims and Hindus become displaced and soon one set of Muslims(The Bengalis) decide not to be part of the other set (The Pakistanis). Both countries soon acquire nuclear weapons, Allah/Vishnu know where from, and proceed to start not only racing to destruction but proliferating weapons of mass destruction to every rag head, bearded prophet and wild eyed dictator that can fork over oil money.</p>
<p>Along with the lovely Muslim and Hindu countries, England &#8220;loses control&#8221; of its large Jewish population and by lose control I mean encourages and assists;  to grab a large swathe of land which displaces a Muslim population and creates a contentious Jewish country.</p>
<p>Later, England loses control of the Persian population and by loses control I mean the puppet that was exploiting his people and allowing BP to plunder the oil was thrown out in a revolution that put a serious dent in global wealth via the crash of 1979 and creates a serious enemy of the West in the form of Khomeini and his Iranian successors.</p>
<p>One massive country with oil slips away but thanks to billions of dollars worth of planes in the Al Yamamah agreements another is held tightly as a friend. Over the years the Saudi government with its Yemeni refugees proves to be an invaluable source of information, insurgents and energy.</p>
<p>England has also been inviting uneducated unfamiliar populations from India, Pakistan and dozens of Arab and North African countries into England to essentially graft themselves onto the UK population. They can become &#8220;British&#8221; but they can never be &#8220;English&#8221;. England is a country of Caucasians that was known for sending several crusades into these same countries and with much foreign office meddling (see above for Lawrence of Arabia or various &#8220;Chatham House Version&#8221; incursions).  The British are the populations that pay taxes do the menial jobs and get used and sponsored in efforts to bring down the governments of the countries that they left behind.</p>
<p>Sooner or later the Muslims start talking. Yes they are helping the Muslim brotherhood fight Egypt, Syria and Libya, and yes they are helping the Mujahideen fight the Soviets but they also start trading stories about Palestine, and the fact that most of the apostate Governments and &#8220;near enemies&#8221; are actually part sponsored by English and Western taxes.</p>
<p>The story can get confusing because there is so much happening all at once but the Muslims eventually seem to get the point that England and its set of Western colonies(The states of America) are the real (far)enemy. Even young Nigerians bear a taint of London schooling as they board American flights on Christmas day with the intent of setting their crotch on fire to the demise of people heading home to eat figgy pudding and some honey roasted ham with their loved ones.</p>
<p>The English threat is very obvious to the Arab, North African, Persian and South Asian populations, its not a threat of direct force but a threat of machination. But the double talking double dealing lessons have been learned by the target populations along with a sense of cynicism and paranoia. India, Pakistan, Iran Israel and Saudi Arabia exchange pleasantries one day and threaten each other existentially the very next. What once threatened Spain, Germany and France in one form two centuries ago now threatens the future of humanity in this one. It&#8217;s not England but it&#8217;s unmistakably English.</p>
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		<title>Don’t ask don’t tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember this lecture from  Alain de Botton about employers and sex. Essentially employers don’t want people having sex not because of the complications or the relationships but simply because the employer needs the employee focused on the given and unnatural task of labour and not on the innate and natural task of arranging for going into labour.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This should be changed. It should be a changed to “just don’t fuck and we don’t give a fuck.” I will probably always come across as a little homophobic. Being raised in one of the more conservative parts and times of the world, homosexuality is something I tend to relegate to the times of the Greeks and some over populated types of animals. On the other hand the military is an institution that lumps tough women and scores and scores of even tougher men together for months maybe years on end. They are lumped together to make war, not love. I remember this lecture from  <strong>Alain de Botton</strong> about employers and sex. Essentially employers don’t want people having sex not because of the complications or the relationships but simply because the employer needs the employee focused on the given and unnatural task of labour and not on the innate and natural task of arranging for going into labour.</p>
<p>The Congress is worried when it finds out that 13000 gay men and women have been discharged from the military just because they happen to be gay. This is 13000 people less that could be discharging their weapons at the Taliban, terrorists and Russians. Given that a typical military weapon can discharge around 800 rounds per minute this means an infantry loss of 10 million bullets a minute not fired. If these people who volunteered to murder for their country were still hard at work, the military would be able to kill the entire world in around 10 hours with just the gays!</p>
<p>Wear the uniform correctly, kill who and when I want and keep your dick in your pants when on duty. These are my only conditions for a soldier of any sexual predilection. I would lay this rule down indiscriminately. Issues like HIV have to be addressed as a separate issue but again this is another universal norm.</p>
<p>“Sailors wives” and cabin boys are euphemisms that the navy has kept hidden away for longer than ships went over the oceans, when the greatest of fleets puttered around the coasts of the Mediterranean. Even in land campaigns squires enjoyed a certain, air of mystery as they served the generals in the tents at night while the soldiers had to satisfy themselves with pillage and the raping of village wenches.</p>
<p>It’s modern times in Afghanistan, so modern that generals are following in the steps of Alexander and going head to head with a nation where “every man is an Alexander”. The great Persian knew that a bit of man-love did not soften fighting spirit so perhaps it is time the new invaders from the West adopt his proven tactics?</p>
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