Monthly Archives: September 2009
Non-victory makes perfect sense in the political context of someone whose idea of a solution is a ‘deal’
Read The real thing @ TBC. America won’t be run out of Afghanistan. It will lose interest and walk away. 6. Nomenklatura: ‘Managing a conflict’, which means actually extending it for the mutual convenience of collaborators in Washington and Karachi, … Continue reading
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Filed under Idea War, The Forgotten War
Mr. Brokaw, the news media simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokaw’s World Implodes Americans have learned the hard way that there was and is a serious effort by some of the most powerful figures in American journalism to quite deliberately keep Americans from making “informed decisions” by … Continue reading
Filed under Old Media
Two kids with a video camera and some cheesy clothes have done what all the talk show hosts haven’t been able to do over the last year
Found in a comment at TAH: 8 Dave Thul Says: September 15th, 2009 at 10:07 pm Whatever else comes of this, you have to admire the two people behind the camera. The film maker said on Beck that they had … Continue reading
Chicom Police Mentoring Team in RC North?
Strategy Page list this under Peacekeeping: September 7, 2009: China has quietly been training Afghan police, in the area along the China/Afghan border (the Wakhan Corridor). This area has never been very violent, and escaped most of the fighting that … Continue reading
Filed under IW, The Forgotten War
“If God didn’t want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep”
Everything I know about mobilizing Village Self Defense Militias I learned from Yul Brynner and Anthony Quinn. Dr. Ron Holt thinks Afghan Village Militias might be a People-Centric Strategy to Win. We’re discussing that at SWJ.
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Filed under IW, The Forgotten War
Uniforms For the Civilian National Security Force
The Civilian Conservation Corps look. Purple T-shirts. Red T-shirts. Brown shirts. One of their classic uniforms. Much more flattering to the gravitationally challenged than the skin tight XXXL T-shirt
