“Imagine if you had a neighbor like that,” Mom once said to me. “What would you do?” (read more)
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"Here’s a question. If — and this is a big if — the United States could dispatch a swarm of heretofore secret super-drones to find and kill every member of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, would you be in favor of doing it?
"I’ll even modify it for those of you who are squeamish about killing terrorists who slaughter men, women, and children with abandon. What if the drones could simply paralyze the terrorists long enough for the U.S., or the Nigerians, or some duly authorized force of U.N.-sanctioned “good guys” to apprehend them? Would you favor it then? (read more)
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"We do not create trouble but we are not afraid of trouble," Fang said (chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army) at a Pentagon news conference after meetings with Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Dempsey appeared to be slightly irritated as he waited to comment while listening to a long-winded response by Fang on the current dispute with Vietnam over offshore oil drilling rights. (read more)
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You have to be pretty stupid not to figure out you can kill a HOSP in a bag instantly by swinging it against anything good and solid.
Cardinal Fang was Terry Gilliam, IIRC.
"Here’s a question. If — and this is a big if — the United States could dispatch a swarm of heretofore secret super-drones to find and kill every member of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, would you be in favor of doing it?
Mostly I'm of the same mind on that as I am on the issue of Russia/Ukraine: It's none of our business.
And while I'm usually okay with the slaughter of the bad guys in this kind of situation, there are plenty of questions about this particular case (the abduction of the school girls) that I would hesitate to do so in this case.
From the Christian Science Monitor on May 12, 2014:
For all the urgent headlines and advocacy, however, what is still missing are basic facts. It is unclear how many girls were abducted, who they are, who did it, at what time, and exactly how – a dearth of solid information that has deepened the distress and anger in Nigeria and spurred global calls for action.
For starters, the number of girls taken away by the self-described Islamist radical Boko Haram and later rescued keeps changing. First it was 129 girls rescued. Then 121 were rescued and 8 were missing. The next day, none had been rescued at all. No collective set of photos of the girls appears to exist, or even all their names (some websites with photos of the girls have used
Given all that, plus the government of Nigeria saying that the guy that did it was actually dead the whole time, this is resembling a Monty Python sketch about Ireland.
“Imagine if you had a neighbor like that,” Mom once said to me.
Recently had a neighbor almost as bad. Eventually he got his dumb ass hauled off to jail (and will eventually end up in prison) and lost his house. (Well, the foreclosure isn't over yet, but it's getting close.)
And it was Michael Palin that spoke the Spanish Inquisition lines.
And General Fang sounds a bit like the late Mayor Daley.
"The Islamist band of psychopaths has made headlines with its abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, which is horrible enough. But among these terrorists’ crimes, this isn’t necessarily the worst thing they’ve done. They’ve been burning, butchering, murdering, raping, and torturing their way through Nigeria for years. The group’s stated ambition is to impose an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria." -Jonah G
Good thing the left wing elite collective, like Hillary and the Move-On.Org, insist that Boko Haram IS NOT A TERRORIST group.
The elite leftwing will not justify anything that might make George W Bush correct. Let the crazy radial Islamist slaughterhouse continue. It's just a simple cultural difference after all. Nothing worth fighting over. Perhaps we should give Boko Haram a re-set button?
Hey, all cultures are equal, right? Where is Crack to explain this to us?
The big "if"?
No sweat. We don't fight them there, we'll be fighting them here (if we aren't already). This assumes the existence of drones that can sniff out BH membership cards.
That said, however, Ice is right about it not being our fight - for now. (BH, in some ways, can be viewed as just another gang; who says there aren't people inside the prisons who aren't adherents??
As for the Red Chinese, they've told us their intent for the past decade.
Yes, the Chinese are going to bury us in cheap consumer goods.
The elite left only care about what or who instigates terror.
They cannot really do this with young girls because the narrative isn't there.
However, this is why the collective left media and the elites covered by the leftwing elite media blame Benghazi on a Youtube video. It's a total fabrication and a diversion from the truth, but it fits in with their pre-concocted delusion that no matter what- radical crazy Islam does what it does because someone pissed them off. In other words, the left refuse to believe terrorism exists.
to the left, the real villain is the entity who instigated. If there is no instigator, they make on up.
The bluebird is a shy bird, too beautiful to live;
The sparrow is a cockroach, a killer with a shiv.
There oughta be a law you say and perhaps there is:
The tough enough get ugly; the lovely get the biz.
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
PMJ for the win. Though I'm not sure if he means Boko Haram, English house sparrows or government press conferences.
Actually, bluebirds are pretty evil, too.
We lost four tree swallow babies because two bluebirds would attack the parents to keep them from feeding their babies.
Wouldn't let them in the house.
Evolution's a bitch.
We had a wren offed by a HOSP.
We had a chickadee offed by a wren.
Shit rolls downhill, apparently.
ot: Certain leftwing types refuse to acknowledge Harry Reid's insanity, hypocrisy and corruption.
It is refreshing to see some lefty dems tackle the problem of Harry.
Video: Jon Stewart skewers Harry Reid’s Koch hypocrisy
And it was Michael Palin that spoke the Spanish Inquisition lines.
I lifted it the "Quotable Quotes" link. You are right that it was M Palin's character that delivered the lines.
I'll change it to the characters name.
April Apple said... Good thing the left wing elite collective, like Hillary and the Move-On.Org, insist that Boko Haram IS NOT A TERRORIST group.
Here's a problem I have with attacking Hillary over not putting Boko Haram on the State Dept.'s list of terrorist groups -- the Bush Admin. never put the Taliban on that list.
I haven't yet seen any Democrat/MSM pieces pointing this out, but they surely will sooner or later. Anyway, it seems to lessen the impact of Hillary's decision re Boko Haram.
Good on John Kerry for adding Boko to the list.
Hillary really dropped the ball. er... re-set button. She's in the "lets treat terrorists like delicate flowers so they won't hurt us" camp.
But former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, who served under Clinton, told reporters last week that the convoluted socio-economic dynamics of Nigeria required a more holistic and nuanced approach than the security focus of anti-terrorism efforts.
yes that's what we need- holistic nuance.
What a pant load. During her stint at State, she proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she is a unqualified disaster.
Plus - MoveOn.org has pull with the Clintons. Right?
"the Bush Admin. never put the Taliban on that list."
How does that excuse anything? Both were dumb. Bush isn't the presumptive next President. That's why what she did or didn't do is important, as is any past stupidity from any Repub nominee. We need to start hiring people based on past performance, not their suitability for having a beer or the other narcissism of assuaging our collective guilt.
I didn't say it excuses anything, only that it takes the punch out of Hillary's non-listing of the group.
By the way, the Taliban in Afghanistan is still not on the list. Only the Pakistani Taliban was added, and not until 2010.
The State Dept. is a very strange place.
I thought that the idea was that Terrorists are, by nature and inclination, attention seeking publicity whores... so putting them on a "Terror Group" list would play into their game and sense of their own importance.
Now, supposedly, there are things that our government is *allowed to do* when some group is on that list... and that seems more of a problem to me. We make dumb rules for ourselves and then use them as excuses for not doing whatever little pointless thing we could do to deny some self-important little sh*t a tiny slice of foreign aid or something...
The "problem" seems to be that the government in Nigeria doesn't have the *will* to strongly oppose Boko Haram and protect Christians. Now, maybe our government could do something about that. Does Nigeria get any aid from us? End it. All of it.
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