COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Monday, April 11, 2016

The US / ISIS Debacle: Given the history of American intervention in the developing world, it would be nearly impossible for a U.S. led conceptual effort to succeed. Invading Iraq to establish a shining example of democracy; a notion espoused by some neocons, was simply specious and did an inestimable amount of damage to our international credibility.

HAT TIP: SAM

Identifying the Threat: What Senior Officials Still Don’t Understand

“Two European foreign fighters were killed on the same day in recent U.S. airstrikes, a Pentagon spokesman announced Thursday.” Thus begins yet another article addressing the killing of foreign fighters in Iraq or Syria. Published on 7 April, 2016, it continues stating, “Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the coalition against ISIS, identified the two as Abu al-Zubair al-Bosni and Khaled Othman Al Timawi. Al-Bosni was a Swedish national of Bosnian decent who was killed in Bajar, Iraq, and Al Timawi was a Swedish-born foreign fighter, described by Warren as ISIS’s deputy emir of the Anwar al Awlaki brigade.” 

In order to fix any problem, a fundamental rule of management is that you have to first isolate and identify it. Using root cause analysis insures you are addressing the actual basis of the problem and not just the symptoms. Terrorism, be it suicide bombings, beheadings, destruction of antiquities, or attempts to acquire and hold territory, is a symptom, not the cause. Yet, we continually focus on fighting these obvious abominations, and fail to correctly identify the real basis of the problem. Following the egregious attacks of 9/11 the U.S. declared war on terror even though many experts realized that terrorism was a means to an end, not an object that could be defeated. 

The situation has not gotten much better. Since the inception of al Qaeda, most Defense and Intelligence Community officials have attempted to objectify both al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL using geographic parameters. As in the referenced article, the location at happenstance of birth often is used as a defining factor for identity. That is an error, which, until rectified will prevent more serious efforts in substantially diminishing or eliminating that threat. Simply put, Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is a concept not a place or a thing; a notion I addressed about a year ago. The conflict’s name changed several times but our lack of a coherent and viable objective remains problematic. 

As if to emphasis the non-territorial aspect of the issue, Admiral Mike Rogers, commander of the latest combatant command, U.S. Cyber Command, stated “that ISIS could start to view cyber as a weapon system” to attack critical infrastructure in the U.S. In fact, those associated with information warfare often struggle when attempting to finger the geographical location of an attacker. It is even more complicated when trying to formally associate any specific hacker with their government. On occasions the linkage can be made, but often not.

All of the responses to Islamic terrorism appear to be tactical rather than strategic in nature, aka whack-a-mole. While these seem like logical steps when you don’t know what to do, those efforts fail consistently. After more than a year of constant bombing, while there have been some territorial losses for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, their strength remains about constant and they have made territorial gains in other areas, especially North Africa. The leadership decapitation tactics against them have not worked. Week after week there are announcements pertaining to the demise of one ISIS or al Qaeda leader after another. In reality, these targeting killings do little more than provide career opportunities for those ascending through the ranks behind them.

The reality is that ISIS could have been eliminated in Iraq and Syria months ago, and it would not have required ever-increasing numbers of American forces. The solution required realignment of coalition forces. Instead, Turkey is now engaging most our effective anti-ISIS allies, the Kurds, who in turn have allowed retaliation with attacks in Istanbul. Iran has fought ISIS; but with Russia, supports the Assad regime in Syria. Saudi Arabia battles Yemeni Houthi rebels who are supported by Iran. There, however, the bombing missions have raise serious issues about collateral damage and some observers called them possible war crimes. American interests come into play as U.S. Central Command supported the Saudi actions by indicating that the laws of war are being observed. Meanwhile the media focuses on the American origin of the bombs and aircraft attacking Yemen.

All of these actions have helped facilitate ISIS, and other related terrorist groups, recruitment efforts. For ISIS members who are ideologically drive, death is anticipated, a desired outcome, and not to be avoided. Seemingly forgotten are the tenants articulated in the prescient article in The Atlantic by Graeme Wood titled What ISIS Really Wants. Specifically he noted that ISIS wanted to hold territory (a vulnerability) yet anticipates decimation and near extinction in order to precipitate Armageddon, the final days.

Competing social media programs have played interesting roles in the geography-free Netherlands of cyberspace. While techniques morph over time, media-savvy ISIS members adroitly entice a constant stream of vulnerable and willing recruits. Recently coalition elements have begun to engage in competitive messaging in an attempt to assuage would-be volunteers from venturing forth. There is debate about the attraction of ISIS. Some analysts hold radicle Islamic ideology plays a central role. Others suggest that enticement is more like the recruiting methods of gangs. That is they appeal as a chance for valor, belonging, and an opportunity to do something of meaningful. While you can argue about the apparently misguided virtues of the end-states proffered by ISIS, these values are potent in the minds of restless or estranged youth. 

Less clear is the acceptance of these values by the highly educated people who have joined the radical Islamic cause and committed horrific acts. Consider the case of Tareq Kemleh, an Australian medical doctor, who made a video attempting to recruit other Western doctors to join ISIS. Not an isolated case, Bilal Abdullah, a British doctor, attempted a suicide attack at Glasgow International Airport. And then there is Major Nidal Hassan, M.D., who killed 13 soldiers and wounded more than 30 others in an attack at Ft Hood, Texas. Clearly, the attraction is more than to just the alienated, or adventure-seeking youth. However, lacking an overall strategy, the coalition resorts to tactical counter-recruitment techniques. 

Similarly, ISIS logistics and finance have targeted by coalition forces. It is hard to determine just how effective these efforts have been. What is known is that ISIS continues to function and wage attacks suggesting that they do have adequate resources to carry the fight forward. The continued bombing campaign has had a deleterious effect on U.S. Air Force readiness. To offset stress on the B-1 fleet, recently added to the effort is the venerable B-52 (sometimes known unkindly as the BUFF). While the B-52 can carry a lot of ordnance, even with new sensor systems, precision is not its strong suit. There has got to be more done to countering logistics and finance than simply attacking the oil under ISIS control and intercepting international banking transactions. 

What is needed is a new, comprehensive strategy that acknowledges the realities of the global totality of the situation. First, we must recognize that the threat is a concept not an object. There are deep underlying issues that cannot be bombed or killed out of existence. While ISIS, with its horrific behavior, grabs most of the current headlines, there are a host of philosophically aligned organizations that act similarly. Al Qaeda, Boko Harem, al Shabaab, are a few of the better known ones. However, we can be sure that even if those elements are annihilated, without addressing the root causes, new groups will emerge and take their place.
Second, concepts transcend all borders, and thus there are no foreign fighters. Except for legal purposes we should stop addressing combatants based on their geographic location at birth. 

Third, to counter a concept a more attractive alternative is required. Given the history of American intervention in the developing world, it would be nearly impossible for a U.S. led conceptual effort to succeed. Invading Iraq to establish a shining example of democracy; a notion espoused by some neocons, was simply specious and did an inestimable amount of damage to our international credibility.

Since Islamic fundamentalism is an integral part of the problem, it is essential that more moderate Muslim leaders of the world develop the alternative solution. The strategy must be global, encompassing more than the Middle East. The alternative concept must be inclusive of competing beliefs and values, yet demonstrate abhorrence for violent behavior to accomplish political means (terrorism will not be tolerated or condoned). 

It will be extremely difficult to accomplish. Confounding factors include the long-existing Sunni-Shia conflagrations and counterfactual attitudes exacerbated by information technology. Unfortunately we have entered an information age in which facts are irrelevant to large segments of societies. Even well educated people often abandon facts and reason to advance their emotionally-driven positions. 

There will be geographic realignments as the antiquated Eurocentric artificial subdivisions of areas continue to dissolve. As with prior decolonization, devolution is likely to be a painful process, albeit a necessary one. Success in countering terrorist’s behavior will only come when the vast majority of the world’s population believes that they have a reasonable and equitable chance at personal advancement. We are a long way from that at the moment, and possibly regressing rather than making improvements.

Terroristic behavior will not stop in the near future. How, we need to reset the stage and move to a strategic approach to identifying and resolving the problems. Whack-a-mole is not working.

127 comments:

  1. The bottom line is that the US is so flawed in its absurd Middle Eastern policies and specifically Israel’s Occupation Project, the situation will only get worse with more US military action.

    70 years of endless US fighting and losing needless wars and our absurd support of Israeli fascism and occupation will only create one version of ISiS after another.

    The rot continues.

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    1. Israel’s Occupation Project?

      Israeli fascism?

      Yep another day, another example of Israel derangement syndrome.

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    2. I posted an excellent well researched article the other day that showed there really is no 'Israeli Occupation Project'.

      But people will believe what they want to believe, regardless.

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  2. Saudi King Salman called Sunday for a joint fight against “terrorism” in the Middle East at a time when Riyadh is engaged in several conflicts the region.

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    For Saudi Arabia, which is in competition with regional rival Iran, keeping Egypt under its aegis is crucial, and it has played a key role in propping up Egypt’s economy.

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  3. The Gideon Levy interview is a sobering reinforcement of the Huffington Post article.

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  4. The thought of four years of Hillary Clinton and four more years of the same could be the undoing.

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  5. War is an intense, brutal, and an inhumane cold dark hell that destroys the participants, immediately or slowly over time. Any nation that engages in constant war is a nation that is a failure.

    YET


    The Pentagon has had months to deal with it.

    “We're expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” USA Today quoted Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh as saying in December.

    Since then Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has asked Congress to include funding for 45,000 smart bombs in the Defense Department’s 2017 budget. But it could take a while to rebuild the stockpile.

    “The US maintains a pretty steady inventory of bombs and missiles for full-on war scenarios,” says Roman Schweizer, aerospace and defense policy analyst at Guggenheim Securities in Washington. “But 2 1/2 years of fighting ISIS and continued bombing in Afghanistan have exceeded weapons-use projections.”

    Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant flies bombing missions in Syria and Iraq. The United States, which flies a majority of the missions, strikes ISIS targets with laser- and GPS-guided bombs, Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs, Joint Standoff Weapons, and air-to-ground missiles, such as the Hellfire. Per unit pricetags on these munitions range from around $25,000 to close to $400,000.

    "In the early days of the [Syria] campaign the Navy fired a bunch of Tomahawk cruise missiles," notes Schweizer, "and those are in the $1 million cost range — but they're really the higher end of what you might use if you have a contested airspace and you don't want to put aircraft over targets."

    In the war against ISIS, the United States and its allies control the airspace, allowing their planes to fly low and close to targets. "Pilots are able to get close because you are not fighting a very sophisticated — albeit a brutal — enemy, and you're able to use shorter range- but more precision-guided munitions."

    There is good reason for precision, notes Schweizer.

    "Because these are obviously some congested environments, and the enemy adapts and puts himself in positions where he's hard to target without collateral damage or civilian casualties." Estimates of the numbers of civilian deaths in the air war against ISIS vary, but the independent watchdog group Airwars.org estimates more than 1,000 civilians killed, mostly by Russian or Syrian air strikes.

    The United States dropped more than 20,000 guided bombs and missiles on Iraq and Syria in 2015. In recent months the US has transferred additional quantities of bombs to allies in the region. “There are also NATO and Gulf Cooperation Council allies participating in these strikes as well, and in some cases they’re drawing off of US stockpiles because their own domestic inventories may not be sufficient.”


    http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-10/us-dropping-bombs-quicker-it-can-make-them

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  6. In 2015 the US dropped 20,000 guided bombs and missiles on Iraq and Syria, and that will lessen terrorism?

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    I'll get back to the subject at hand in a minute but I wanted to put this post up before I forgot it.

    For Idaho Bjorn


    ‘Hello, Sweden speaking’: Official hotline connects you with a random Swedish resident

    Call http://theswedishnumber.com/

    —46-771-793-336, or 46-771-SWEDEN


    and actually learn something about Sweden from someone who should be able to provide some insight.


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    1. Listen up, Polaski, I've been to Sweden, know all about it. Back in the day, my brother and I strolled the beaches of the warm Baltic in summer, came upon a lovely nude Swedish lass, a-sunning, full frontal, hearing us, she lazily turned her bare beautied breasts to the sand, showing us her full blonde hair and beautifully bottomed bikinied backside, Beauty Its Very Self My Mother Of God.

      I've played outdoor chess in the parks of Stockholm, to the cheers of the crowds, checkmating my Doctor Brother. I've driven the backroads around Malmo, looking for the old stead, the small fields, surrounded by rock walls built over the centuries from the heaving of the rocky glacial soil, the forests of thin pine from the lack of nutrients, the well cared crops full ripe in the sun....

      I've wrested reindeer in the fall north, skied the mountains with Nordics, satiated beauties in Swedish bordellos (they said I was best, welcomed me back for free), sailed the fjords, fly fished the salmon filled streams, praising I all summer long whatever is begotten, born and dies....

      I warned them of the muzz invasion before it happened, warned them they must not destroy their beautiful country, an old Vandal, I, a tribe you and ratbrain thought hailed from Germany....

      I've seen the old preserved Viking ships in the museums, 24/7/12 in a mist of water, to preserve the hearty wood....

      I have worn Viking armor, vizored, hefted mighty Vandal swords of finest Swedish steel....carried Vandal shields....

      I've driven the finest Swedish Volvo sports cars at 120 mph on their few freeways....

      I have drunken the mead.....

      I don't care to put my number in to your site.....I reject the idea of speaking to some muzz in my old wonderful wonderland, now fallen on a bad ere.....alas, alas....

      But when the fighting finally begins to rid my ancient noble land of the interlopers, then I shall return, to do my part, for the salvation of my nation, my heart and soul and spirit....

      Ja,ja

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      Sometimes it's still hard for me to write in a lower language like English.

      Sometimes, jag orka inte....

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      And when you go back Interpol will be waiting.

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    Let’s end America’s hopeless war for the Middle East

    The country’s longest war is unwinnable, and the US has more important things to do.


    A hundred years ago, the armies of World War I fought to a bloody stalemate on the Western Front and desperately searched for ways to break it and gain an edge. They field-tested tanks and poison gas, rolling barrages and storm-trooper tactics. Today, the United States is stuck in an analogous stalemate in the Middle East and Islamic world in general. And we are field-testing all manner of novelties, much like the great armies of Europe mired in the trenches: the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs and counterinsurgency, precision-guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles, not to mention such passing fancies as “overwhelming force,” “shock and awe,” and “air occupation.”

    Yet as was the case a century ago, the introduction of some new battlefield technique does not necessarily signify progress. On the contrary, it only deepens the stalemate.

    To reflect on this longest of American wars—why it goes on and on, and at such a cost of blood and treasure—is to confront two questions. First, why has the world’s mightiest military achieved so little even while absorbing very considerable losses and inflicting even greater damage on the subjects of America’s supposed beneficence? Second, why in the face of such unsatisfactory outcomes has the United States refused to chart a different course? In short, why can’t we win? And since we haven’t won, why can’t we get out?

    The answer to these questions starts with questioning the premise. The tendency to see the region and Islamic world primarily as a problem that will yield to an American military solution is, in fact, precisely the problem.
    To an unseemly and ultimately self-destructive degree, we have endorsed the misguided militarization of U.S. foreign policy. As a consequence, we have allowed our country to be pulled into the impossible task of trying to “shape” the region through martial means.

    It’s long past time to stop trying (a conclusion that even President Obama appears to be edging his way toward, judging from his recent comments to The Atlantic).


    The United States plunged militarily into the Middle East out of the mistaken belief that the privileged status that Americans take as their birthright was at risk. Way back in 1948, George Kennan, State Department director of policy planning, noted that the United States then possessed “about 50 percent of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 percent of its population.” The challenge facing U.S. policymakers, he believed, was “to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security.” The overarching aim of American statecraft, in other words, was to sustain the uniquely favorable situation to which the United States had ascended by the end of World War II.

    A half century later, that strategy succeeded and the Soviet Union collapsed. But the passing of the Cold War period left our massive national security apparatus underemployed while rendering obsolete the policy underlying postwar U.S. military policy—energetically preparing for global war in order to prevent it. The armed services and their various clients came face to face with a crisis of the first order. With the likelihood of World War III subsiding to somewhere between remote and infinitesimal—with the overarching purpose for which the postwar U.S. military establishment had been created thereby fulfilled—what exactly did that establishment and all of its ancillary agencies, institutes, collaborators, and profit-making auxiliaries exist to do?


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      In stark contrast to the Cold War, American purposes and U.S. military policy in the Islamic world have never aligned.

      The Pentagon wasted no time in providing an answer to that question. Rather than keeping the peace, it declared, the new key to perpetuating Kennan’s position of disparity was to “shape” the global order. Shaping now became the military’s primary job. In 1992, the Defense Planning Guidance drafted under the aegis of Paul Wolfowitz spelled out this argument in detail. Pointing proudly to the “new international environment” that had already “been shaped by the victory” over Saddam Hussein the year before, that document provided a blueprint explaining how American power could “shape the future.”

      The Greater Middle East was to serve—indeed, was even then already serving—as the chosen arena for honing military power into a utensil that would maintain America’s privileged position and, not so incidentally, provide a continuing rationale for the entire apparatus of national security. That region’s predominantly Muslim population thereby became the subjects of experiments ranging from the nominally benign—peacekeeping, peacemaking and humanitarian intervention—to the nakedly coercive. Beginning in 1980, U.S. forces ventured into the Greater Middle East to reassure, warn, intimidate, suppress, pacify, rescue, liberate, eliminate, transform and overawe. They bombed, raided, invaded, occupied and worked through proxies of various stripes. In 1992, Wolfowitz had expressed the earnest hope of American might addressing the “sources of regional instability in ways that promote international law, limit international violence, and encourage the spread of democratic government and open economic systems.” The results actually produced over the course of several decades of trying have never come even remotely close to satisfying such expectations...


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      Why in this instance doesn’t the ostensibly superior power of the United States confer choice? How can it be that even today, large segments of the policy elite entertain fantasies of salvaging victory if only a smart president will make the requisite smart moves?

      To understand the persistence of such illusions requires appreciating several assumptions that promote in Washington a deeply pernicious collective naiveté. Seldom explicitly articulated, these assumptions pervade the U.S. national security establishment.

      The first assumption is that those responsible for formulating U.S. policy in the Greater Middle East—not only elected and appointed officials but also the military officers assigned to senior posts—are able to discern the historical forces at work in the region. But they can’t...


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      A second assumption takes it for granted that as the sole global superpower the United States possesses not only the wisdom but also the wherewithal to control or direct such forces. In the 20th century, “our” side won because American industry and ingenuity produced not only superior military might but also a superior way of life based on consumption and choice—so at least Americans have been thoroughly conditioned to believe. A third assumption asserts that U.S. military power offers the most expeditious means of ensuring that universal freedom prevails—that the armed might of the United States, made manifest in the presence of airplanes, warships and fighting troops, serves as an irreplaceable facilitator or catalyst in moving history toward its foreordained destination.

      That the commitment of American armed might could actually backfire and make matters worse is a proposition that few authorities in Washington are willing to entertain...


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      Dang, the article is pretty long. I've been skipping over section but their is a lot left.
      Just a couple more points that were made.

      In circumstances such as this, there are two broad ways of employing military power. The first is to wait things out—insulating yourself from the problem’s worst effects while promoting a nonviolent solution from within. This requires patience and comes with no guarantee of ultimate success. With all the usual caveats attached, this is the approach the United States took during the Cold War. The second approach is more direct. It aims to eliminate the problem through sustained, relentless military action. This entails less patience but incurs greater near-term costs. After a certain amount of shilly-shallying, it was this head-on approach that the Union adopted during the Civil War.

      In the War for the Greater Middle East, the United States chose neither to contain nor to crush, instead charting a course midway in between. In effect, it chose aggravation...


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      In what ranks as the ultimate irony, the circumstances that had made the Persian Gulf worth fighting for in the first place have ceased to pertain. If today the American way of life still depends, for better or for worse, on having access to plentiful reserves of oil and natural gas, then the Western Hemisphere, not the Persian Gulf, deserves top billing in the Pentagon’s hierarchy of strategic priorities. Defending Canada and Venezuela should take precedence over defending Saudi Arabia and Iraq. To put it another way, the United States would be better served to secure its own neighborhood rather than vainly attempting to police the Greater Middle East—and it would likely enjoy greater success, to boot...

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      Even so, shorn of its initial rationale, the War for the Greater Middle East continues. That the ongoing enterprise may someday end—that U.S. troops will finally depart—appears so unlikely as to make the prospect unworthy of discussion. Like the war on drugs or the war on poverty, the War for the Greater Middle East has become a permanent fixture in American life and is accepted as such.

      Partly this is because the ongoing war has long since acquired a perfidious seal of bipartisan approval, with both Republicans and Democrats alike implicated. Politicians aspiring to high office, especially those contemplating a bid for the presidency, find it more expedient to “support the troops” (and therefore the war) than to question the war’s efficacy or to propose alternative approaches to satisfying U.S. objectives in the Islamic world...


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      Perhaps most important, there is this: Thus far, at least, Americans themselves appear oblivious to what is occurring. Policymakers have successfully insulated the public from the war’s negative effects. Reliance on a professional military places the burden of service and sacrifice onto a very small percentage of citizens and lets everyone else off the hook. The resort to deficit spending to underwrite the war’s costs sloughs off onto future generations the onus of paying the bills.

      It’s not that Americans today actively support the war in the same sense that their grandparents supported World War II. It’s that they see no particular reason to attend one way or another to the war’s progress or likely outcome. In a fundamental sense, the war is not their concern.

      In the 21st century, the prerequisites of freedom, abundance and security are changing. Geopolitically, Asia is eclipsing in importance all other regions apart perhaps from North America itself. The emerging problem set—coping with the effects of climate change, for example—is global and will require a global response. Whether Americans are able to preserve the privileged position to which they are accustomed will depend on how well and how quickly the United States adapts the existing “pattern of relationships” to fit these fresh circumstances.

      Amid such challenges, the afflictions besetting large portions of the Islamic world will undoubtedly persist. But their relative importance to the United States as determinants of American well-being will diminish, a process even today already well advanced even if U.S. national security priorities have yet to reflect this fact.

      In this context, the War for the Greater Middle East becomes a diversion that Americans can ill afford.


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    8. B-52's in theatre soon...

      Relax...

      And soon we shall, if needed, Trump that with nukes....

      Relax, relax....

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    9. Notice, gentle readers, as that world class laugher 'The Rat Doctrine' having failed miserably, the Rufuian pin pricks having become a sad joke, the BUFF's are back, the nukes not far behind...

      Our two house Generals Jack "Memorial Day" Hawkins, and Rufus "Forth of July" Galopin2 having been 'Fired'.

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    10. Great article. Added to the insane support for the Eastern European resettlement and occupation guilt trip and we have what we have.

      The obvious absurdity is that one day it will all end. Badly.

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    11. Someday, in the not too distant future, Islamist crazies, jacked up on meth and Allah, will do an Israeli nuclear double tap on The Colony Club. The delivery vehicle for the weapon will be in a Toyota, upwind outside of Israel’s occupied frontier with a followup attack into Israeli territory, taking advantage of the nuclear shock and awe.

      Astonishingly predictable and not stoppable.

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    12. The white whale swims under the wine dark sea.

      Peg legged Ahab grasps his spy glass, his eyes glazed.

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  9. UK “Equalities” chief admits: Muslims WON'T assimilate

    Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 10:33 am

    UK “Equalities” chief admits: Muslims WON'T assimilate

    It was Trevor Phillips who first gave the spurious propaganda term “Islamophobia” an intellectual veneer. Now he is admitting he was wrong all along, and has enabled and abetted the creation of Sharia enclaves in Britain and all over Europe. So what is he going to do about it now? Can the damage done to […]

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    Jihad Watch

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  10. Hillary's and Bernie's Friend: Al Sharpton Called for Murder of 'Crackers' and 'Pigs'

    William A. Levinson

    Based on the company they keep, it's not clear that the two Democratic candidates for president want the votes of whites,Asians, policeman, or even reliably liberal constituencies like Jews and gays.

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    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/hillarys_and_bernies_friend_al_sharpton_called_for_murder_of_crackers_and_pigs.html

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  11. I agree with Crazy Bernie on one thing:

    I believe a City Slicker like Quirk has too many deodorant choices.

    That fellow needs a little more earthy smell, some sweaty horse aroma.

    I've come think of Quirk as just another disgusting Detroit Deodorant Dandy.

    Whew, jeez, head for the exits...

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      Don't worry. Given the prevailing winds, the malodorous stench rising out of Idaho presents a reeking fetidness sufficient to choke every farm animal from Moscow to Manhattan.

      To attempt to add to that fetor would represent vainglorious chutzpah.

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  12. Last year there were 30,000 of them; this year there are 15,000.

    Let's just keep doing this, and see how it looks next year.

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    1. Yes, let's keep the pressure on the Detroit Deodorant Dandies.

      We need to rid of the earth of their sordid urban smells.

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      When we start accepting cartoon numbers as fact, we are truly lost.

      Kahil Gibran

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  13. Euroweenies

    Moscow (AFP) - Belarusian singer Ivan plans to take next month's Eurovision Song Contest by storm -- performing completely naked with a wolf at his side.

    But his plan may prove too much even for a show known as an annual celebration of weirdness, held this year in Stockholm in May.

    The act by the lanky 21-year-old with a mane of reddish blond hair was dreamt up by Viktor Drobysh, a well-known Russian producer with a strong Eurovision track record.

    "It's undoubtedly an experience, a great experience," Ivan, whose real name is Alexander Ivanov, told AFP in an interview at Drobysh's Moscow studio.

    "Especially as I have never performed on stage before in my birthday suit and with wild animals."

    The problem? It is not clear whether the act will be allowed to go ahead.

    Eurovision bans animals on stage. And while there is no rule on nudity, spokesman Paul Jordan told AFP this is "not appropriate" for a family show.

    Drobysh insists the performance is an artistic statement.....

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/nude-singing-wolves-belarus-test-eurovision-limits-071722810.html


    Out this way we howl nude with the wolves all the time. What's the big deal ?

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  14. Joint forces liberate two areas in Heet District, dozens of ISIS fighters killed

    (IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Heet District Council in Anbar Province announced on Sunday, that the security forces started to cleanse the areas of al-Qalaa and al-Omal neighborhood in Heet District, while pointed out to the killing of dozens of ISIS members west of Ramadi.

    The Head of Heet District Council Mohammed Mohannad al-Hiti said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The joint forces managed to cleanse the areas of al-Qalaa and al-Omal neighborhood in Heet District after fierce battles, while killed dozens of ISIS fighters and destroyed a number of their vehicles.”

    Hiti added, “The cleansing battles of Heet are now different,” pointing out that, “ISIS is carrying out suicide attacks, street fights and sniping operations in an attempt to open havens for its fighters to escape from the city.”

    Hiti continued, “We will liberate other parts of Heet and raise the Iraqi flag over the government buildings in the coming few hours, after dismantling the improvised explosive devices and booby-trapped buildings that impede the advance of the security forces in the remaining areas of the city.”

    Iraqinews

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    1. The most intelligent military operation of my lifetime continues.

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  15. And, at the current rate, will continue until you die, and long after.

    We drop leaflets on ISIS oil tankers telling the drivers to get out, you're going to be bombed, then come back in an hour or so.....and who's around ?

    Pure genius.

    We bomb 'bed down locations' for gods sakes, and the Pentagon perpetually lies about our 'progress'.

    We bomb inoperable backhoes, and report it as 'progress'.

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    1. This was all supposed to be over by last Memorial Day, or Fourth of July, according to some expert prognosticators.

      Now we're finally bring in the BUFF's but probably under the same old rules of engagement.

      Good luck with that.

      100 bed down locations carpet bombed today !

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    2. Practically everyone in the area is buying ISIS oil, their main source of money, but we don't bomb the oil wells.....might cause environmental damage.

      And where do they get their seemingly endless supply of explosives, ammo, weapons ?

      I get it that a lot was captured in the early days....but still, they've fired off lots of stuff.

      Who is resupplying them ?

      And the Turks are in the are in the tank for ISIS. Maybe the Turks are supplying them with explosives and weapons...?

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    3. .

      It could be worse.

      Prior to Iraq, Cheney said...

      "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months"

      Early on in Libya, Oboma said...

      I expect this transition to take place in days not weeks.



      Chutzpah is most prominent before the fight begins.

      .

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  16. The B-52's can be just as pinpoint as any other planes, but in greater quantity.

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    1. .

      :o)

      And this is the same man who told us the Lockheed C-130 was ill-equipped for close ground support.

      .

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    2. I said the C-130 was unsuited for Urban close air support (in situations such as we have in Iraq.)

      But, that has absolutely Nothing to do with the B-52.

      The C-130 is a Transport Plane that can be fitted with cannons and gatling guns. The B-52 is a very sophisticated Bomber that can deploy the most precise weapons available to Any air platform.

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    3. That said, we are using the C-130 in Iraq and Syria. It's slow getting there, but it can stay on station a long time, and there are situations where it is fairly effective.

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  17. B-52's can be extremely accurate for sure.

    They should help.

    And I'm not saying no progress has been made. It has.

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  18. Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 07:21:00 AM EDT
    Someday, in the not too distant future, Islamist crazies, jacked up on meth and Allah, will do an Israeli nuclear double tap on The Colony Club. The delivery vehicle for the weapon will be in a Toyota, upwind outside of Israel’s occupied frontier with a followup attack into Israeli territory, taking advantage of the nuclear shock and awe.

    Astonishingly predictable and not stoppable.



    Deuce, the glee that you make that prediction make me wonder how truly sick you are....

    But your point raises a real question.....

    IF you are correct, why should Israel not nuke it's enemies 1st?

    By your logic?

    Israel SHOULD.

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    1. Deuce is telling Israel to destroy, forever, the islamic world.

      There is no compromise with Islam. It's either Israel or Islam.

      So Deuce has proposed the solution.

      It's either Israel or Islam.

      To de-nuke Islam?

      All Islamic power plants must be destroyed.

      All major Islamic population sites must be destroyed.

      All Islamic centers of science and technology must be nuked.

      Good solution Deuce, thanks

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    2. Since States are, almost always, first in the business of protecting their people, the conclusion follows relentlessly. A State that doesn't protect its people doesn't last long.

      Also, I posted an excellent and well researched article the other day that showed there really is no 'Israeli Occupation Project'.

      But people will believe what they want to believe, regardless.

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    3. Israel can’t hold territory in Lebanon. You are delusional id you think Israel can defeat 1.4 billion people.

      Get it through your head: In the long run Israel has no long run.

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    4. People will believe what they wish to believe.

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    5. Iraq is breaking up into parts.

      Syria is breaking up into parts.

      Libya is breaking up into parts.

      Israel is not breaking up into parts.

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    6. Israel doesn't hold territory in Lebanon.

      But you are delusional to think that 1.4 billion people are at war with israel.

      The good news?

      The 1.4 billion people are at war with themselves...

      Great example?

      Syria and Iraq...

      How many dead? How many homeless? How much destruction?

      tally up the numbers...

      iran/iraq war

      syria war

      iraq/isis war

      and on and on...

      Islam is killing it's self..

      From Nigeria to Indonesia...

      From Pakistan to Libya....

      From the Arabs in the Sinai to Chechnya

      Bucket up as the moslems will be targeting China, Russia, Europe and the USA (and more)

      It's not about Israel and the few square miles of disputed lands...

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  19. The total exclusion of the actual on the street Republican voter in Colorado stinks to high heaven.

    I think equally bad as the heavy handed unelected by the actual voters SuperDelegates who are backing The Hag by about 95%.

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    1. Republicans cancel presidential election in CO...
      Voters burn registrations in protest...
      1 MILLION REPUBLICANS SIDELINED...
      PAPER: GOP made big mistake....DRUDGE

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    2. "Voterless Victory"

      FURY AS COLORADO HAS NO PRIMARY OR CAUCUS;
      CRUZ CELEBRATES VOTERLESS VICTORY....DRUDGE


      This stinks.

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  20. Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 12:07:00 PM EDT
    Israel can’t hold territory in Lebanon. You are delusional id you think Israel can defeat 1.4 billion people.

    Get it through your head: In the long run Israel has no long run.



    IN the long run?

    Islam has no future.

    It will kill itself off

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  21. Iraq is breaking into parts....has broken into parts.

    Syria is breaking into parts.

    Libya has broken into parts.

    Israel is not breaking into parts.

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  22. Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 07:06:00 AM EDT
    Great article. Added to the insane support for the Eastern European resettlement and occupation guilt trip and we have what we have.

    The obvious absurdity is that one day it will all end. Badly.



    Still interesting how you ignore the 800,000 Jews that were forced into the Jewish state from the Arab world?

    AND of course, you are "european" colonist living in America, what make you think you are immune in Philadelphia?

    Just extrapolating your inane logic of course....

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  23. Israel screwed itself so badly that it is unsustainable as a country.

    Israel thinks a military technological advantage is permanent and ISIS has proven that it is not. Europe is paying the price and others are next.

    There is nothing to be gleeful about.

    I doubt that even a sane Israeli government can undo the damage it has done to itself. That is their problem. The US needs to detach itself and try and minimize damage to the US.

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  24. Actions by the Eastern European State of Israel dislodged the “800,000 Jews”.

    Are you so foolish that you do not see the connections after 1946? It was the Zionist Mission Accomplished moment. What has followed is blowback.

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    1. Are you so foolish to discount 1400 years of Islamic butt fucking?

      No, Israel understands it's neighbors, do you?

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  25. Is the inability to count a recent Israeli degenerative disease?

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  26. 1.4 billion divided by 7 million is a 200 to 1 disadvantage. The most devastating nuclear attack killed less than 100,000 people. If Israel used all 200 of her nuclear weapons, she would kill 20 million.

    1.4 billion reduced by 20 million leaves 98% of Islam standing looking for revenge.

    How do you think that would work out, Genius?

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    1. If the 1.4 billion could agree on anything I'd be worried.

      But the 1.4 billion are so busy killing each other I aint worried.

      Your math sucks.

      As for the most "devastating nuclear attack" it was an atomic bomb, not a nuclear.

      Islam is looking for revenge? Sure are, against the crusaders, YOU....


      But not to fret.

      Islam is killing several hundred thousands of it's own each year....

      Your glee of the demise of the Jewish people is greatly exaggerated....

      :)

      Keep hoping and praying chuckie.


      But your wet dreams will never come true..

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  27. All REAL Americans support Israel.

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    1. No REAL American could support Sharia Law.

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    2. THEREFORE:

      No REAL American could support the establishment of a misogynist, apartheid, racist, aggressive, genocidal Arabstinian Sharia State on the 'West Bank'.

      Q.E.D.

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    3. If the Arabstinians were allowed to sell their holdings on the open market I think many would do so, probably want to come to America, maybe Detroit, perhaps Philly.

      Alas, last I heard, if they did so, they'd be under a death threat from their 'leaders'.

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    4. oh lord - please save us from b00bie logic!

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    5. Why shouldn't the arabs in the West Bank be able to sell their holdings to Jews, or anyone else, Ash ?

      Don't be your usual smart ass dumb shit, just answer the question.

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    6. **Ash should read Ashole

      sorry

      Now answer the question you dumb fucker.

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    7. You are the one here, Bob, who lacks intelligence. Your logic wasn't logical, not even close.

      With respect to the question of Jewish purchase of land from Arabs - purchasing a plot of land, by anyone Jewish or not Jewish shouldn't affect the sovereign status of that land. One of the many problems in the West Bank is that Israelis buy land and then claim that land is part of Israel. Israelis also simply settle on land (no deed of purchase) and claim that land as part of Israel. There are many problems with this but, I realize, for a man of your intellect, this is a bit over your head. You might want to start by examining your logical statement above and see where it fails basic logic.

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    8. The disputed lands of the west bank are not arab sovereign lands.

      Please show me any nation called palestine that ever stood on those lands....

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    9. Now ash, you live in canada...

      what right do you have to live there?

      after all you are squatting on other people's lands...

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    10. Whether lands are a sovereign state called Palestine is beside the point they are not a part of Israel and a purchase does not make it part of Israel.

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    11. .

      Why shouldn't the arabs in the West Bank be able to sell their holdings to Jews, or anyone else, Ash ?

      For the same reason, Palestinians are restricted from buying land in Area of the WB. For the same reason they can't buy or even lease property in Jerusalem. The same reason most residents of East Jerusalem, as reported by Haartz, aren't able to buy land in West Jerusalem. It's why Hebron is divided with 20% of it under IDF control with more soldiers patrolling than the entire population of 500-800 Jewish Settlers even though the city has 215,000 Palestinians. It is why in 2014, over half of all Israeli building permits were in the WB or Jerusalem. It is why Israel subsidizes the settlements. It's why Palestinian development and construction in Area C is all but banned, with 94 percent of Palestinian building-licence requests denied between 2000 and 2012. It's why according to World Bank estimates, Israeli restrictions in Area C cost the Palestinian economy $3.4bn a year, or 33 percent of its GDP.

      It's all about the land.

      Try reading instead of emoting some time, Bjorn.

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    12. .

      ... Palestinians are restricted from buying land in most of Area C of the WB...

      .

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    13. Quirk I guess you don't KNOW shit..

      Arabs buy land all over Israel, including Jerusalem..

      Dumbass

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    1. Ah, come on Deuce, those comments weren't out of line.

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    2. Deuce is just pissed that he KNOWS every Jew is worth 1000 moslems...

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    4. another one bites the dust...

      literally

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  30. Who's up for a long letter from Pam Geller about the UK guy for Moslem integration saying he was wrong all the time, the moslems just don't integrate?.....they club up in their ghettos and demand Sharia...

    It's quite long but I will try later, being tuckered right now.

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  31. WiO wrote:

    "As for the most "devastating nuclear attack" it was an atomic bomb, not a nuclear."

    eh? What planet are you from?

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    1. Ash, might I suggest that you don't KNOW what you are talking about?

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    2. Please educate us how an atomic bomb is not a nuclear weapon.

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    3. Ash please go and google "atomic" bomb verses "nuclear" bomb

      then report back you lazy asshole.

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    4. I did and you are wrong. You made the claim that the atomic bomb isn't a nuclear bomb - support it. There are differences between the types of nuclear - fission vs. fusion but both are nuclear with an atomic bomb being a fission bomb.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

      This is just another case where you show either you are lying or just uninformed. In any case you run and hide hoping I won't call your bluff. You lose.

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  32. Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange

    The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט‎; Arabic: صفقة شاليط‎) followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners


    LOL


    1027 arabs to 1 Jew

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  33. Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 02:18:00 PM EDT
    1.4 billion divided by 7 million is a 200 to 1 disadvantage. The most devastating nuclear attack killed less than 100,000 people. If Israel used all 200 of her nuclear weapons, she would kill 20 million.

    1.4 billion reduced by 20 million leaves 98% of Islam standing looking for revenge.

    How do you think that would work out, Genius?



    Well according to you and Rat, Israel is causing the internal Shiite - Sunni war....

    LOL

    That's caused millions already to die...

    Now throw in a nuke by Pakistan or some shiite group against the sunnis or vice a versa?

    Could be fun....

    Buckle up deuce, Islam is committing suicide...

    :)

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  34. 1946 ?

    Didn't something rather profound happen in the preceding decade in Germany and various spots around the Western World as well as the ME ?

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  35. The first fission ("atomic") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT

    The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 10,000,000 tons of TNT.


    Ash, I hope either are shoved up your ass

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    1. An M-80 would be a more excruciating death, and as certain, unless it occurred in an ER.

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    2. I see you are admitting you were wrong down here but hoping no one would notice. You are a piece of work.

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    3. No, an atomic bomb verses a nuclear bomb....

      either way?

      You are a jihadist loving piece of shit.

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    4. Here, for your reading pleasure:

      "Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 02:18:00 PM EDT

      1.4 billion divided by 7 million is a 200 to 1 disadvantage. The most devastating nuclear attack killed less than 100,000 people. If Israel used all 200 of her nuclear weapons, she would kill 20 million.

      1.4 billion reduced by 20 million leaves 98% of Islam standing looking for revenge.

      How do you think that would work out, Genius?
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      What is "Occupation"Mon Apr 11, 02:26:00 PM EDT

      If the 1.4 billion could agree on anything I'd be worried.

      But the 1.4 billion are so busy killing each other I aint worried.

      Your math sucks.

      As for the most "devastating nuclear attack" it was an atomic bomb, not a nuclear."

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  36. LIMBAUGH: 'IT'S NOT CHEATING, IT'S WINNING'...

    I can't wait to see the video of Limbaugh on his knees servicing Ted.

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  37. In his ongoing analysis of what he terms the world’s “shatterbelts,” those regions constituting sites of instability and ferment, American political geographer Saul B. Cohen has, over a period of almost 50 years, always included the Middle East in his list. Indeed, while other regions of instability come and go, the Middle East is the only region which has remained a constant “shatterbelt” in his constant re-evaluations of changing world politics every 10 to 15 years.

    ...

    Israel, located at the very heart of this geopolitical shatterbelt, is unclear as to whether it is located (geographically) in the East, or (culturally) in the West. Are we part of the Middle East or are we an outlier of Europe?

    Are we part of the hybrid region linking Europe to the Middle East, known as the Mediterranean, with a mix of cultures and religions which rejects exclusion and which attempts to bring peoples together? It requires a greater understanding of the internal human and cultural complexities of this region if we wish to see Israel develop in any other way than as “fortress Israel,” surrounded by walls and fences and, in effect dislocated from, and threatened by, the geographical region within which we are located, a geopolitical outlier in the midst of a hostile environment.


    East and West

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  38. "the fun weekend mom"
    Teen dies getting high on heroin with mother and grandmother

    Mother, grandmother of 16-year-old overdose victim arraigned on involuntary manslaughter charges

    "We have evidence of drug abuse by more than one person, more than one relative of the deceased. It appears his mother, her friend and his grandmother, and a friend of the grandmother, all had a hand in obtaining and disseminating heroin among themselves."
    The teen's mother, Heather Frye, doesn't have custody of her son, and told a detective investigating the case that she wanted to be "the fun weekend mom."

    http://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/Teen-dies-heroin-mother-grandmother-Andrew-Frye-7241233.php

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  39. Ash, it is always interesting to turn a fool’s statement against his latest asinine statement, especially one with ZNMS (Zionist Nuclear Machismo Syndrome).

    To wit, how many times have we heard this?

    ...What is "Occupation"Fri May 20, 09:43:00 AM EDT
    Deuce said...
    Tell us Allen, should New York remain a Christian State? Should Israel reman a Jewish State.


    Since the collective christian world and the collective islamic world has raped, pillaged and destroyed the Jewish people for 2000 years without letup your question seems a tad bit full of shit...

    Israel sits on 1/900 of the middle east, it's population is 20% non-jewish, it is a democracy.

    The arab world sits on 899/900 of the middle east, 1/2 the world’s oil supply, sided with the Nazis during ww2 and have expelled the 600,000 Jews from their historic homes (stolen their property) driving them to Israel.


    ...

    The damage radius of a nuclear weapon increases with the power of the nuclear bomb, approximately in proportion to its cube root.

    For example, If one exploded at the optimum height, a 10-megaton weapon, 1,000 times as powerful as a 10-kiloton weapon, will increase the distance tenfold, that is, out to 17.7 km (11 mi) depending on the terrain for severe damage and 24 km (15 mi) for moderate damage.

    Now if we accept Genius’s oft stated assertion about Israel’s size compared to the Islamic World in the ME, you see the absurdity of an Israeli nuclear offensive strategy.

    3-5 nuclear weapons would put an end to Israel as an effective state and would kill more than 30% of the population. Israel has huge depth of concentrations of population in a fraction of the space of Israeli occupation. Most of them can be hit asymmetrically with unconventional delivery systems with little or no warning.

    Israel could use one nuclear weapon or all of them against the Islamic World and make little long term impact on them, Israel would be signing its own death warrant, regardless of their mega tonnage of weapons.

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    1. Sane and intelligent Jews know this and are appalled at what right wing religious fanatics from Jewish cults in Brooklyn have done to Israel.

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    2. Sane and intelligent Jews know that Iran with a nuke is insane

      Sane and intelligent Jews support the Jewish state.

      Sane and intelligent Jews understand that you cannot make peace with jihadist savages.

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    3. If your fantasies are in nuking cities,

      http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html

      Is for you,


      If you are interested in playing with nuclear weapons.

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    4. And yet you have never been...

      you really don't have a CLUE about what you speak..

      Just hatred

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    5. It was YOUR fantasy that projected the nuking of Israel.

      I just responded.

      I prefer the slow and painful self inflicted death of the Islamic world by it's own hands...

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    6. Ariel Sharon used to take visiting VIPs up in a helicopter and point to one side of Israel and then the other to impress upon them how small and vulnerable Israel was.

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    8. so?

      All the more reason to take Deuce's advise and nuke the bastards BEFORE they can nuke you

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  40. Summarizing the different external influences on Morocco, the late king Hassan II eloquently stated that his country was a tree that has its roots in Africa, its trunk in the Arab-Muslim world and its branches in Europe. Today, Moroccans proudly highlight their multiple and composite identity: Amazigh, Arab, Islamic, Jewish, African, Andalusian and Mediterranean, and their time-old tolerance and acceptance of the other.

    Following in the steps of his father king Hassan II treated Moroccan Jews with great deference. He appointed one of them, André Azoulay, as a royal adviser and was instrumental in initiating political contacts between Palestinians and Israelis that led to the Oslo Accords in 1993 which kick-started the Oslo process.

    The present king, Mohammed VI, is no different from his predecessors – he is a man of dialogue and coexistence and Morocco today is a haven of peace and coexistence between all religions and cultures, which is reflected in gold in the Moroccan constitution of 2011.


    Creeds and Cultures

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  41. Israel understands the real threat of an islamic nuke on her....

    Arabs and persians have threatened to burn Israel for 60 years.

    That's why the Jewish state arms it's self.

    If the arabs and persians stopped trying to genocide the Jews tomorrow?

    There would be peace, if the Jews laid their arms down? There would be death for the Jews.

    That's the real story.

    So you can predict an islamic nuking of Israel all you wish and want...

    israel will do it's best to prevent your friends from genociding them


    It's amazing how you bitch like a schoolgirl that the Jews of europe didn't fight well enough against the nazis but when the fight against the islamic nazis you get your panties in a wad...

    deal with it

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  42. Deuce ☂Mon Apr 11, 07:21:00 AM EDT
    Someday, in the not too distant future, Islamist crazies, jacked up on meth and Allah, will do an Israeli nuclear double tap on The Colony Club. The delivery vehicle for the weapon will be in a Toyota, upwind outside of Israel’s occupied frontier with a followup attack into Israeli territory, taking advantage of the nuclear shock and awe.

    Astonishingly predictable and not stoppable.

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    1. Now where would these Islamic crazies GET a couple of NUKES?

      Iran?

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    2. Now that Syria is dismembered, it's time for Iran to be cut apart.....

      :)

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    3. Obama will see to it that the Muzzies are properly Nuked-Up before he leaves office.
      ...even if he has to do it by Executive Action.

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    4. .

      The last remark is as silly as those who accuse Obama of not supporting Israel. Neither match reality.

      .

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  43. .

    Quirk:

    ...For the same reason they can't buy or even lease property in Jerusalem. The same reason most residents of East Jerusalem, as reported by Haartz, aren't able to buy land in West Jerusalem...

    WiO:

    Arabs buy land all over Israel, including Jerusalem..

    Dumbass



    Tell it to Haartz.



    Bibi:

    "Our policy is that Jerusalem residents can purchase apartments anywhere in the city. There is no ban on Arabs buying apartments in the west of the city, and there is no ban on Jews building or buying in the city's east," Netanyahu said in response to the U.S. request to halt a Jewish construction project in East Jerusalem.

    Haartz:

    An examination by Haaretz, however, presented a rather different situation on the ground.

    According to Israel Lands Administration rules, residents of East Jerusalem cannot take ownership of the vast majority of Jerusalem homes.

    When an Israeli citizen purchases an apartment or house, ownership of the land remains with the ILA, which leases it to the purchaser for a period of 49 years, enabling the registration of the home ("tabu"). Article 19 of the ILA lease specifies that a foreign national cannot lease - much less own - ILA land.

    Attorney Yael Azoulay, of Zeev and Naomi Weil Lawyers and Notary Office, explains that if a foreign national purchases an apartment they must show the ILA proof of eligibility to immigrate to Israel in accordance with the Law of Return. Non-Jewish foreigners cannot purchase apartments. This group includes Palestinians from the east of the city, who have Israeli identity cards but are residents rather than citizens of Israel.

    Most residences in West Jerusalem and in the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem are built on ILA land.


    Hmmmm. Who to believe?

    Bibi?

    WiO?


    Or Haartz?


    Gee, that's a toughie.

    .
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/most-arabs-can-t-buy-most-homes-in-west-jerusalem-1.280392

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  44. Russia’s Latest Weapons Sale to Iran Shifts the Balance of Mideast Power

    Iran is purchasing more and more military hardware from Russia, as Tehran moves to aggressively beef up its military capability after decades of international economic sanctions.

    Moscow will deliver S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran in "the nearest time," RIA news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Ministry as saying on Monday.

    Russia and Iran signed an $800 million contract in 2007 for the supply of five S-300 systems, but the advanced defensive weapons system deal was frozen in 2010 due to U.N sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin approved delivery of the air defense missile system in April 2015.

    Iran has also shown interest in buying more advanced, S-400 missile systems, which are currently deployed at Russia’s airbase in Syria, but no formal talks have reportedly been held.

    The news of the S-300’s imminent delivery comes on the heels of an announcement last week on Iran’s Ministry of Defense web site that the Islamic Republic will sign a contract with Russia for the purchase of Sukhoi-30 fighter jets. The fighter jet, which is part of Moscow’s military arsenal in the war in Syria, is said to be comparable to the American F-15E fighter-bomber.

    Rumor has it that Iran actually pays for the weapons it procures.

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