Zimbabwe, formerly the thriving African nation of Rhodesia, lately the basket case of Robert Mugabe, has been elected to head the United Nations "Commission on Sustainable Development." No, this is not an April Fools joke. Both the BBC and the Voice of America are reporting it. VOA reports that inspite of Zimbabwe's 2200 percent inflation, they were selected by a 26 to 21 secret ballot.
BBC sheds a little more light on the matter:
Developing nations appear to have voted for Zimbabwe, the BBC's Laura Trevelyan in New York says.
They respected the decision of the African group to nominate the country for the post in the first place, and they have shown they cannot be pushed around, our correspondent says.
Zimbabwe's Environment Minister Francis Nheme will now become chairman of the CSD.
Mr Nheme is the subject of European Union travel ban because he is a member of President Robert Mugabe's government.
That means he cannot travel to the EU to meet ministers on commission business.
When I was a young man, small signs reading, "Get the US out of the UN" were nailed to trees and posts here and there around the countryside.
For some reason, it was my understanding that the signs had something to do with the socially stigmatized John Birch Society. Today, I wish that I had a truckload of those signs.
We were talking about re-eventing the wheel, I thought of this. Its representative of some of the latest stuff coming out of the EU on matters of military affairs. You could call it the latest unofficial EU counterinsurgency doctrine, except, they don't want to call it that, because COIN is too violent and unlawful.
ReplyDelete"In effect, everyone is [to be] treated as a citizen."
It is about 8 pages though, but can be read if you want to goggle at the naivety of some sections. Immanuel Kant as the great prophet for war-making.
My mistake, the correct link is here.
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ReplyDeleteAl Qaedism, Again
Another straw on the back of the proverbial American camel.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers? After all, the United States — not bin Laden’s rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo? And we did that by bombing the capital of a Christian European nation.
But then, why did a mixed-up Albanian Muslim in Salt Lake City, one Sulejman Talovic, go on a shopping-mall shooting spree? Five innocents were killed in the attack before the murderer himself was shot and killed.
And why, after pouring billions of dollars into Afghanistan, did poor, mixed-up Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghan Muslim, try to run over several innocents in San Francisco near a Jewish center in September 2006?
Or, for that matter, why did an angry Muslim Pakistani gun down Jews in Seattle?
Or, again, why earlier last year, did a 22-year-old Iranian-American Muslim drive his sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone at the University of North Carolina?
Good questions, read the rest here:
Al Qaedism?
ReplyDelete“Militant Islam,” “Salafism,”
“Islamism,” “Wahhabism,” “Qutbism,”“Jihadism,” and even “Islam.” Since most ideologies reflect the integration of various related concepts, theories, and aims that have evolved over time into a broader body of thought, no label is entirely perfect and all are subject to critique.
Rhodesia was stabbed in the back by white liberals who just loved black revolutionary communists.
ReplyDeleteDeuce,
ReplyDeleteYou got Rhodesia right on the money.
As I have said in some previous posts I happen to be in country on several occasions, met some damn brave men.
Of course one of the biggest backers of the blacks was the Democrats right here in the old USA. They were gonna make damn sure that there wasn't an "unliberated black soul in all Africa" Didn't matter if they couldn't turn on a light switch.
Ian Smith was no tyrant, in fact he was quite progressive but he and the land owners were white. Didn't matter they'd been there for a few hundred years.
Now, today, the blacks still can't turn on a light switch and the entire country is a train wreck like the entire continent.
Naw Rhodesia was OK, Zimbabwe is a jungle.
It was another case of the US Democratic Party aiding the Soviets at every turn. I get fired up just think'n about that situation.
We had better go of it getting ole Sal Allende though that marxists bastard.
The last FUBAR was that Nixon was so tied up with Watergate that the Soviets really went on a worldwide picnic knowing he couldn't do a damn thing.
Hmmm,..
ReplyDeleteSo muhmud and his dopey eyed hoes had nothing to do with it?
I wonder what members made up the majority on that UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) vote:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/members.html
MarkSteyn, the brilliant..
ReplyDeleteIslam isn’t interested in winning the debate, it’s interested in winning the real fight – the clash of civilizations, the war, society, culture, the whole magilla. That’s why it doesn’t care about the inherent contradictions of the argument: in the Middle East early in 2002, I lost count of the number of Muslims I met who believed simultaneously (a) that 9/11 was pulled off by the Mossad and (b) that it was a great victory for Islam. Likewise, it’s no stretch to feel affronted at the implication that you’re violently irrational and to threaten to murder anyone who says so. Western societies value logic because we value talk, and talks, and talking, on and on and on: that’s pretty much all we do, to the point where, faced with any challenge from Darfur to the Iranian nuclear program, our objective is to reduce the issue to just something else to talk about interminably. But, if you don’t prize debate and you merely want to win, getting hung up on logic is only going to get in your way. Take the most devastating rapier wit you know – Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward – and put him on a late-night subway train up against a psycho with a baseball bat. The withering putdown, the devastating aphorism will avail him nought
The quality of your argument is only important if you want to win by persuasion. But it’s irrelevant if you want to win by intimidation. I’m personally very happy to defend my columns in robust debate, but after five years I’m a bit bored by having to respond to Muslim groups’ demands (in America) that I be fired and (in Canada) that I be brought before the totalitarian-lite kangaroo courts of the country’s ghastly “human rights commissions”. Publishers like hate-mail; they’re less keen on running up legal bills defending nuisance suits. So it’s easier just to avoid the subject – as an Australian novelist recently discovered when his book on a, ah, certain topical theme was mysteriously canceled.
That’s the advantage of madness as a strategy. If one party to the dispute forswears sanity, then the obligation is on the other to be sane for both of them. Thus, if a bunch of Iranian pirates kidnap some British seamen in Iraqi waters, it is the British whom the world calls on to show restraint and to defuse the situation. If an obscure Danish newspaper prints some offensive cartoons and in reaction Muslims murder people around the planet, well, that just shows we all need to be more sensitive about Islamophobia. But, if Muslims blow up dozens of commuters on the London Underground and in reaction a minor talk-show host ventures some tentative remarks about whether Islam really is a religion of piece, well, that also shows we all need to be more sensitive about Islamophobia. Do this long enough and eventually you’ll achieve the exquisite sensitivity of the European Union’s Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. In 2003, their report on the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe found that “many anti-Semitic incidents were carried out by Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups”, and so (according to The Daily Telegraph) a “political decision” was taken not to publish it because of “fears that it would increase hostility towards Muslims”.
Mark S.
Western societies value logic because we value talk, and talks, and talking, on and on and on: that’s pretty much all we do, to the point where, faced with any challenge from Darfur to the Iranian nuclear program, our objective is to reduce the issue to just something else to talk about interminably. But, if you don’t prize debate and you merely want to win, getting hung up on logic is only going to get in your way. Take the most devastating rapier wit you know – Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward – and put him on a late-night subway train up against a psycho with a baseball bat. The withering putdown, the devastating aphorism will avail him nought
ReplyDeleteIt deserves to be repeated,repeated and repeated. We should have bombed the entire place into rubble nd started talking after that. Believe me they'd have listened more attentively.
First question
ReplyDeleteIs the John Birch Society still stigmatized?
If so ,why? You never hear about them.
If your son or daughter asked your advice on joining the Armed Forces, todays Armed Forces, to be in a fighting unit , what would you tell them besides get a good lawyer?
I hate to say this but if asked I would probably advise them against doing it. I never listened to anyone elses advice but when I see the crew that is in charge and what they are doing to the military, I scratch my head.
ReplyDeleteThe fishing trip delayed for a day,Rhodesia is a good topic.
ReplyDeleteI feel for em, but they are doing it all wrong.
You can't blame whitey, and you can't blame blacky. That's a fools game.
If you are going to farm, you got to do that, and nothing else. For thirty years I farmed, and oh was I in great shape. It was dawn to dusk, until the snow flies.
You got to have that ethic. It's not just fucking around.
A court system that enforces the laws equally is an absolute must.
An ethic, and a court system.
Having that, the farmers talk alot. We talked about what worked and what didn't. We helped one another when we could. If Farmer X goes down, we got up a group to bring his harvest in. Every three or four years that happens around here, and I have participated twice. You'd be amazed at how fast ten or so farmers can knock out the other guys harvest for him, if he is down with a heart attack.
You have to have an intellectual infrastructure,i.e., Washington State University or its equivalent, to do the plant research, year after year, unendingly. They are some of the best plant breeders in the world. My grandfather raised 'Red Russian' a winter wheat. My aunt told me, he could walk into the field and disappear. Now the plant breeders, have put most of the energy in the head, not the stalk, so wheat these days comes up about to your knees.
You can't blame it on whitey you can't blame it on blacky, but you got to do it, yourself, make it a life project, with a good part of society backing it up. Then it might work.
I am extremely attuned to the vagaries of the weather. The Palouse is blessed, but we had one year in my time, 1977, I think, when the rains did not come. Three or four years of that, and the work of generations, all those sweaty t-shirts, would be for naught.But so far, the weather tracks have held, and we have been blessed.
Farming is work, and thought, and nothing else. Until Rhodesia gets that ethic, they are fucked, by themselves.
I think it is idiotic to keep going with the U.N., as it is. Both my father, and his partner, thought so long ago. In my time from what I observe, I have to agree.
I love a well tilled field, and the crops growing in the spring. We have been blessed, but we have helped ourselves, by an ethic, a court system, and intelligence.
Nice Bobalharb, real nice post. I can picture the way you have become part of what you do and who you are.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I am at it, I have been enjoying Habu's posts.
I take that back, red roussian, as it was called, may have been a spring wheat.
ReplyDeleteDeuce,
ReplyDeleteMy brother just came back from a surfin trip at his friend's beach near Haco (Jaco), Costa. Says lots of ex-Special Forces are there, both Israeli and US, basically siting on beach front real-estate waiting to be developed. :) No more South American discounts to be had. :(
You want to invest in Costa Rica. I am putting a nice deal together. I have four slots left at $150K each.
ReplyDeletebobalharb,
ReplyDeleteIt's you farmers who know the dedication and TOIL it takes,physically and mentally to get the job done that make this country great. I sincerely mean that.(the last paragraph isn't too sincere)
A businessman usually doesn't physically toil at his business and I believe it is the mix, physical and mental that come together in farming and fighting that create something special in a man or woman.
I know every time I have a big plate of pigs feet or a bowl of sheeps eyes I'm damn glad I wasn't the one who harvested that meal.
And when I sop up the juices with some wheat bread, well I just feel (fill in blank with how you'd feel)
That was always how you knew you were drunk in a rural pennsylvania tap room. You finished all the hard boiled eggs ( free) and you were deciding whether to get pickled pigs feet or lambs tongue.
ReplyDeleteDeuce,
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for the offer. If I wasn't already sapped dry as far as expenditures ($300,000 for me bro's kanukistani bachelor pad), I would've definitely take you up on the offer.
Deuce,
ReplyDeleteI agree. I do not believe under the current situation I could advise a son or daughter to go into a fighting area of the military.
Perhaps after we've become The United Countries of North America things will change.
Deuce,
ReplyDeleteI just bought more land in Montana, this time near a place call Thompson Falls.
Let's freak whit out with some art work.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Habu, and Deuce.
ReplyDeleteHabu, there has been some tremblings, of late, in Montana, that great state.
I haven't felt them here, but there has been some goings on, around Yellowstone.
Sorry whit, the beer made me do it.
ReplyDeletebobalharb,
ReplyDeleteI read the Helena paper online almost daily so I know what you're talking about.
I was in one in Southern Calif, a 6.8 that will pucker your ass faster than an out of control go kart.
Yellowstone has a growing bulge in the lakebed that is demonstrably bigger each year. Scientist say if that caldera goes up in a big one it will wipe out life on earth given the debris it will eject inot the atmosphere, blocking the sun for years and years.
I ain't afeered. I got polartec underwear and I'm learn'n up eaten lychens and moss.
Almost time for NASCAR race.
ReplyDeleteCutler, on previous thread:
ReplyDeleteSomething Pat Buchanan said a long time ago is relevant here:
"The biggest gap in American politics is to the right of Ronald Reagan."
Can say the same of George Bush. Where Goldwater once talked about nukes, nice war has now coopted much of the modern Republican Party.
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That's a policy trend that transcends party. We're all humanitarian interventionists now. International social work in the name of national defense is our calling.
It's all in the names, really: sometimes comically Soviet-sounding, often saccharine, always cheesey.
When did we start giving names like Provide Comfort and Enduring Freedom and Forward Together to our operations? I'm trying to remember; I think it was the mid '80's.
Can we at least go back to random, prosaic names like Operation Bridesmaid or Ham Sandwich? That might be a little step in the right direction.
trish,
ReplyDeleteDidi you have a chance to read the mark steyn piece I posted @ 4:40?...I just think he's correct more times than not.
Well, hell, Habu, if we are going to go, we might as well go gloriously. Till then, good fishin' to you!
ReplyDelete5 from skydiving group killed in Plane crash
ReplyDeletePilot, two instructors, two trainees perish in northwest Montana. crashed right after takeoff.
Proving the old aviation sayings heard mostly around those who do acrobatics
THERE'S NOTHING AS USLESS AS THE SKY ABOVE YOU
That Yellowstone caldera does point up how iffy things is. I remember seeing pictures of those Italians long ago, in stone, frozen during their mid day meal, from an old eruption. I remember in grandfathers house, reading all the old Time magazines, that my aunt, the librarian, had saved, about WWII, and thinking, as a a young kid, what the hell kind of a world have I gotten myself into?
ReplyDeleteBut there is love, and work, and as Robert Frost said, I don't know anywhere else where love goes any better.
It's nuts, but it is glorious, and I have got myself convinced, there is always something more.
Like Woody Allen said,'I don't mind death, I just don't want to be there when it happens'.
It's dinner time, habu, but I'll read it more closely afterward and think of something cranky and critical to say.
ReplyDelete"Western societies value logic because we value talk, and talks, and talking, on and on and on: that’s pretty much all we do, to the point where, faced with any challenge from Darfur to the Iranian nuclear program, our objective is to reduce the issue to just something else to talk about interminably."
ReplyDeleteWhat did the outgoing SAC say to Der Spiegel? Our plate is already full.
How long do you want to keep it that way?
bobalharb
ReplyDeleteWhat a great Woody Allen quote. I think all we can do is our best.
Be able to look yourself in the face after you've shaved your legs..uh, I mean face.
We do that and the rest we leave to the Lord.
If you've done your best and things don't work out then it's still alright, you've done your part.
Habu--you have my outlook in a nut-shell--you don't have to know every last thing--just try to do really well what comes to you--my best to you, Habu.
ReplyDeleteCANBERRA, Australia (Associated Press) -- Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday the Australian government has banned the country's cricket team from touring Zimbabwe in September because he does not want to support the regime of a "grubby dictator."
ReplyDeleteHoward told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television that his foreign minister has written to the organization of Cricket Australia calling off the tour.
"We don't do this lightly, but we are convinced that for the tour to go ahead there would be an enormous propaganda boost to the Mugabe regime," he said of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
"The Mugabe regime is behaving like the Gestapo toward its political opponents. The living standards in the country are probably the lowest of any in the world, you have an absolutely unbelievable rate of inflation. I have no doubt that if this tour goes ahead, it will be an enormous boost to this grubby dictator."
Imagine if white farmers did to the blacks what the blacks have done to the whites. There are only about 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe, down from 4,500 in 1999. That was the year Mr Mugabe was defeated in a referendum; from 2000 the government decided to "fast-track" land reform in an effort to win over a hostile electorate, resulting in farm seizures by supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party who claimed to be landless veterans of the country's war for independence. Dozens of white farmers and black farm workers were killed in violent land seizures. No white liberals give a shit, assholes that they are.
ReplyDeletePanama - Operation Just Cause
ReplyDeleteSomaliai - Operation Restore Hope
Haiti - Operation Uphold Democracy
Grenada - Operation Urgent Fury (a little better)
Operation Overlord - (much better.
The Battle of Midway
ReplyDeleteHasting, 1066
Trafalgar
Bull Run
Bannockburn
Seige of Veil
The Battle of Actium
Bunker Hill
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Barbary war
Tecumseh's War
Alamo
Battle of Bulge
Fort Sumter
D-Day
Omaha Beach
Guadecanal
Battle of the Somme
Galipoli
Peloponnesian
and then we have the new age operations......
Is that Young Algore?
ReplyDeleteBirch Society also advocated removing the Warren Court.
ReplyDeleteWhat a better country this would be, had that in fact taken place.
"Vandergrift and Lay broadcast a call to a Chinese restaurant in which the caller, in an exaggerated accent, placed an order for "shrimp flied lice," claimed he was a student of kung fu, and compared menu items to employees' body parts.
ReplyDeleteThe initial airing of the call went unnoticed, but a rebroadcast after Imus's firing prompted an outcry from Asian-American groups. Vandergrift and Lay were initially suspended without pay, but Asian-Americans quickly demanded the same penalty applied to the much higher-profile Imus.
"This is a victory not only for the Asian-American community, but for all communities who find themselves constant targets of racist and sexist programming," said Jeanette Wang, an executive with the Organization of Chinese Americans."
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Aikon sexually molests 15 year olds in public and is defended by the New York Times.
Two DJ's make some silly comments and get fired.
The ultimate in selective enforcement.
We live in a time when censoring folks for a cause deemed worthy by the MSM/Dem cabal is a good thing.
A nation full of people primed to be offended for profit or political gain.
Taking the War Out of a Child Soldier
ReplyDeleteSalifou Yankene, who was forced to be a soldier in Ivory Coast at age 15, is starting a new life in New York.
Slide Show: An Uncertain Future.
They're carefully scripted and stage-managed, high (political) profile, Madison Avenue-type affairs nowadays.
ReplyDeleteObviously, the stage management doesn't ensure success.
5 US soldiers killed and 3 missing - one possibly an interpreter.
No doubt about it, it's the 3 you really feel for.
Probably the single best public/published example I have ever seen of walking the talk, and because of that, it may also be the best blog post I have ever read.
ReplyDeletePowerline says to DNC "Sue us".
2164..
ReplyDeleteAs I said earlier just thinking about Rhodesia/Zimbabwe the way it all came about and how it has gone from a once beautiful country to the one of the lowest hell holes on Earth really really pisses me off. I had a chance to make some friends in the Rhodesian Air Force and some ground units. Did some partying and recce.
Most of them were killed. Some went to Australia and a few to S.Africa.
I do not say in jest that colonialism ended 100 years too soon.
The African continent is an entire continent of tribal savages. It's hard for the average American to understand that it wasn't headed in that direction. It once had an upward trajectory for all peoples, but the anti colonial powers, the American abolitionist press, and the KGB deconstructed the white governments and left the place to the lions.
I ask for the hundreth time. Where is Al Sharpton,Jesse Jackson,Vernon Jordan, the rich rappers, the super rich Michael Jordans et. al in helping their "African" part of African-American...I'll tell you where....any place but Africa. Not one out of a thousand African Americans could name five African tribes much less which one thy might be from...they don't give a shit about Africa, it just provides them with leverage in the USA to prey on white guilt and raid the treasury ... those parts of our metropolitan areas that are predominately black are basically tribal once again. Two years ago 100% of all Negro births within the city of Detroit were out of wedlock births. blah,blah,yadda,yadda
From The Sunday TimesMay 13, 2007
ReplyDeleteAl-Qaeda planning militant Islamic state within Iraq
A RADICAL plan by Al-Qaeda to take over the Sunni heartland of Iraq and turn it into a militant Islamic state once American troops have withdrawn is causing alarm among US intelligence officials.
A power struggle has emerged between the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, an organisation with ambitions to become a state which has been set up by Al-Qaeda, and more moderate Sunni groups. They are battling for the long-term control of central and western areas which they believe could break away from Kurdish and Shi’ite-dominated provinces once the coalition forces depart.
According to an analysis compiled by US intelligence agencies, the Islamic State has ambitions to create a terrorist enclave in the Iraqi provinces of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala, Salah al-Din, Nineveh and parts of Babil.
“Al-Qaeda are on the way to establish their first stronghold in the Middle East,” warned an American official. “If they succeed, it will be a catastrophe and an imminent danger to Saudi Arabia and Jordan.”
So ya wanna boogie out of Iraq huh?
Aq to take over Iraq
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ReplyDeleteThose 2,500 Sunni aQ Iraq, takin' on the 250,000 man Iraqi Army and other Security forces, that the US trained and supplied, and aQ is seen as the percieved victor of the coming confrontation.
ReplyDeleteWe must really suck at training and supplying. Four years of effort, with nothing to show for it. Our "allies" percieved by US as pure losers and incompetents.
But then we won't give lessons in floor maintaince, to the Iraqi, either.
Michael Yon's Mystery Audio:
ReplyDeleteCome on EB, win one for Deuce and Whit!
By Lisa Burgess, and John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
ReplyDeleteMideast edition, Thursday, May 10, 2007
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Army is sending a company of Europe-based soldiers back to Iraq before the unit has had a full 12 months of “dwell time,” or at-home rest.
Members of the 1st Armored Division’s 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, Company A, learned Tuesday that they are scheduled to head back to Iraq in November, just nine months after the 150-soldier company left the combat zone in February after a 13-month deployment.
The company’s return would seem to counter a pledge made by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on April 11, when he announced that all active-duty soldiers will spend 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan, instead of a year.
The primary reason for the extension, Gates said, was to make sure that Army units, and their personnel, had enough time to rest and renew themselves for the fight between deployments.
“What we’re trying to do here is provide some long-term predictability for the soldiers and their families about how long their deployments will be and how long they will be at home, and particularly guaranteeing that they will be at home for a full 12 months,” Gates said April 11.
But asked late Wednesday about the situation, Gates said he could not explain why the Army was sending back the company from Germany just nine months after its last Iraq deployment.
“I'll be very interested in finding out more about that,” Gates said. “We just need to find out about that, because I made it clear that people would have 12 months at home.”
It was the Army who asked for the change to 15-month deployments, because “we need to now maintain the sanctity of those 12 months” at home station, Army Lt. Gen. James Lovelace, the Army’s chief of operations, told Pentagon reporters April 12.
“This is about winning,” Lovelace said. “It’s about ensuring then that [units] are trained, ready, [and] equipped … And we do that by maintaining the 12 months dwell back at home station.”
But when the Department of Defense announced Tuesday that the 2nd Brigade Combat Team was slated for a November deployment, it looked like Company A of the 1/6 was going to be spending another Christmas far from home.
In addition to the personal sacrifice for the families, that also meant the company was going to get three months less to do the kind of training and preparation that Lovelace had identified as critical.
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"So ya wanna boogie out of Iraq huh?"
Absolutely. Right after we gather to bases and spend six months delivering some tender loving care to al Qaeda from the air. Not a bad way to go.
Or. We can babysit the mess til the cows come home.
Trish,
ReplyDeleteYou and DR make good points.
It'll be interesting to see how life unfolds in the next five or so years. I may get that motorcycle yet.
I know one thing. I've got no clue anymore.
I will say Trish, as you know ,like feeding our enemy death from above so we're simpatico there.
Perhaps Jordan will unleash some secret army...The Royal AspEaters & Defenders of Allah Grand Army.
Reading the Asia Times earlier in the week I learned a chess term, "zugzwang." (Course-forced.) It's your turn to move and there are no good moves.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's a cliche to say that Iraq is a matter of choosing among unpalatables, but the most unpalatable is to drag this miserable affair, in its present form, out for another year. To continue to do what we've been doing, which is to sell the never-ending nation-building in bloody little 6-12 month installments - to the tune of 120-150,000 per year - is the worst course of action. I don't believe we'll do it. I don't believe the WH will do it.
Going at al Qaeda with our own intel is a worthwhile departing action. And I'd play it for everything's worth. We left knocking the crap out of those we (supposedly, anyway) came for in the first place. We can't do it in Pakistan. Might as well do it there and call it a good day.
"autozugzwang."
ReplyDeleteApplies to GWB
(Course-forced your own actions, or lack thereof.)
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Why CAN'T we do it in Pakistan too?
Agreement between Musharraf and the administration.
ReplyDeleteWe can only pinprick in Pakistan.
A little more about farming--just 10 days or so ago, I had a meeting with two ladies from USDA, natural resources group, on the farm.
ReplyDeleteThese ladies were not afraid to come to the farm, un-burk-ed, with out male escorts--they were American ladies.
I did not know it, until these good gals pointed it out to me, that 12 or so of my acres are 'Original Palouse Prairie'.
I had always thought of it as 'scrub land'--but no, not according to them.
She told me that she could identify upwards of twenty native species given a couple years of observation.
To my mind, it is just a few pine trees, and stuff. But she was really enthused about it.
It is true, never a plow, or the Nez Perce Indians, have touched that land.
There might be the 'Giant Palouse Earth Worm' lurking there, though that fellow seems like the UFO's, we have all heard about them, but no one has really caught one. Like Bigfoot.
I like working with these ladies from USDA--I think that a society that oppresses its women is doomed.
They told me many other things about the plants there that I did not know. I told them some things about the deer and elk and the once in a while moose that they did not know.
I like working with these smart gals from USDA.
"It is true, never a plow, or the Nez Perce Indians, have touched that land."
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How do we know the injuns never touched it?
Doug--cause they said so, and we never plowed up any artifacts. The Perce were a riverine folk, for the most part, they lived around the Snake, Clearwater and Salmon. There are many, many articfacts there, rock art, arrowheads and et al. They fought the Blackfoot in Montana time to time, and they traded down river with the tribes down the Columbia River, to the coast. But they never had to do with the land I farm, only passing through once in a while, on their way to the mountains to hunt.
ReplyDeleteIn the old days, there was a trail past our place, up on the hill there. My aunt told me, they used to stop by, without saying a word, asking for food.
That was long ago and far away. I know that many indigs were dispossed, and you know how I feel about that.
But here, in my little farm, it wasn't that way.
The Nez Perce that I know, and I know a lot of them, say they are over it. My fathers partner was a Jew that married a Sioux--we used to call them the jew and the sioux--great people both. They are dead now.
We have to go on.
Doug--they lived along the rivers, because that was where the easy food stuff was. The salmon, and the steelhead, of all sorts, surged up the rivers, and they caught them, month after month, year after year. There was always another run to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteThey were mostly peaceful, but not always. When Lewis and Clark came back from the coast, they met whats his name, at what is now Asotin, Washington, just back from a trip to the south, fighting the Shoshonis, with a necklace of scalps round his neck.
It is the way it was, and we need now to go on and get a better society for all of us.
How to do that is the argument.
A penny for your thoughts:
ReplyDeleteOn the Snake River, Dam’s Natural Allies Seem to Have a Change of Heart
For a penny I always give my thoughts, a fair trade. I think we should build two or maybe even more, nuclear reactors along the river, take the dams out, bring back the fish big time, and have it both ways.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I would not have thought the dams would ever go out. A few years ago, it was getting to the point where it was almost going to happen. Now with higher fuel costs and the global warming debate, the argument has shifted back the other way.
However one may think about the dams, they don't pollute.
Nukes, that is what Bob says.
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