Bombings in Afghanistan Kill 5You know international television coverage gave the jihadists the idea that this particular tactic is a sensational winner, guaranteed to make the evening news. They believe there is nothing like the pandemonium of a bombing scene with the wail of sirens and survivors to frighten a people into submission. For good measure attack the subsequent funeral processions and occasionally throw down carnage on a wedding party. This is their recipe for success. Forget about hearts and minds, go for the blood and gore.
A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people — including two NATO soldiers — dead.
5 Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombings
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
Seems to me that suicide terror bombings will inevitably result in the opposite of the intended affect. Eventually sympathizers realize what kind of bravo sierra the Ali Babas are blowing up in the neighborhood. But survival is number one and without the security which protects and defends, people will do whatever they need to do to get by. That's one of the COIN lessons we had to relearn in Iraq.
Then you have the ongoing clown show in South America.
Colombia: Chavez Funding FARC Rebels
Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle — expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border.But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the leftist rebels' deadly insurgency.
And in a tit-for-tat move, Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia's national police chief in the cocaine trade.
"Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle — expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border."
ReplyDeleteTroops that never showed up.
Goods that continue to move.
And diplomats working half-time on temporary leave.
It's a beautiful day in Bogota.
But not in Somalia for a few deserving folk. US missile strke in Somalia.
ReplyDelete“Let me tell you bout ahab the arab, the sheik of the burning sand,
ReplyDeleteHe had emeralds and rubies just a-dripping off a him and a ring on every finger of his hand.
He wore a big old turban wrapped around his head, a scimitar by his side
And every evening about midnight hed jump on his camel named clyde.
And ride silently through the night to the sultans tent
Where he would secretly meet up with fatima of the seven veils.
She was the swinginest number one dancer in the sultans whole harem.
It was like him and her they had a little adam going, you see,
Behind the old buggers back.
And you could hear him talking to his camel
And as he rode out across the dunes past the oil wells
His voice would cut through the still night desert air
And hed say, maaaaaaa oyy oyy oyy !!!
Which is arabic for oh, baby ...
And clyde would say, yewrah raaaoww uh uh uh uh uh!
Well, he brought his camel to a screeching halt at the rear of fatimas tent,
Jumped off clyde, snuck around the corner and into the tent he went.
There he saw fatima laying on a, on a zebra skin rug,
With rings on her fingers, bells on her toes and a bone in her nose, eeeeyye.
There she was friends and neighbors, laying there in all her radiant beauty,
She was eating on a raisin, had a grape, and an apricot, and a pomegranate,
A bowl of chitterlings, two bananas, three hershey bars, four burritos,
Sipping on a frozen margarita, listening to a transistor radio,
Watching the grand ole opry, reading rolling stone magazine and singing rocky mountain high.
And ahab walked up to her and he said, yeeeiiaaaahowowhidehowdihi!
Which is arabic for, lets boogie again like we did last summer, baby.
And she said, oh, ahab, ah ha uh, ahab. crazy, baby.
And thats the story about ahab the arab, the sheik of the burning sand,
He had emeralds and rubies just a-dripping off a him and a ring on every finger of his hand.
He wore a big old turban wrapped around his head, a scimitar by his side,
And every evening about midnight hed jump on his camel named clyde ...”
Why are they called bathists when they don't?
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting, Trish. So, all the bluster was for world consumption? Face saving measures?
ReplyDeleteBoth. Yeah. Very much so.
ReplyDeleteWhich is not to say that FARC alone can't decide that it's time to do something ambitious, but even FARC is more interested in husbanding its resources at this point. Political, military, and public pressure have left them with little to gain from audacious acts. And they aren't at the moment yet where there's nothing left to lose.
In re Venezuela: Political tensions are high. But that's what they are - political tensions. Christ, the Venezuelan army can't feed its troops on a closed border, much less the tens of millions in Caracas. Chavez knows who covers Venezuelan food shortages, and it sure as shit isn't Ecuador.
I'd guess internal consumption, whit, more than external.
ReplyDeleteNothing an authoritative State likes more than an external enemy.
Rally round the flag, boys
We need to rally once again!
To shout that battle cry of FREEDOM!!!
Having said that, I did receive my copy of the DOD evacuation plan. Might read it one of these days.
ReplyDelete"I'd guess internal consumption, whit, more than external."
ReplyDeleteAnd that's a really good point. Same thing occurred to me after I posted.
Internal consumption for sure but remember, Chavez plays to a world stage.
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