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Americans from all political walks have already indicated loudly we need to send home our Troops. And that will happen soon enough.
Excuse me?
Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein
The two candidates for the U.S. presidency seem to be trying to outshout each other concerning Iran, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Each is claiming he is doing more to support the same objectives. Isn't it therefore strange that no similar verbal contest is going on at the moment concerning Afghanistan? [ Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty] In February 2012, some Korans were burned by U.S. soldiers, which led to violent public protests in Afghanistan. (Photo: Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty
And that will happen soon enough. Then we will all watch on cable how Karzi and his tribal chiefs go running to the Taliban for support, and will watch the smuggled videos months later of Karzi and his gang getting their throats slit.
Afghanistan is no Iraq.
First, the Pashtun prefer to hand their puppets...;}
Second, you're correct. The Afghans have no oil and Iraq has no opium.
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"Rome had its imperial myth, as did Spain, Britain, and just about any other empire you care to think of—but the American version of it deserves close attention, because it obscures factors that need to be understood as the American empire hurtles down the curve of its decline.
The mythology runs more or less like this: in the aftermath of the First World War, America withdrew from the international responsibilities it had briefly taken up during that war, refusing to join the League of Nations and distancing itself from global politics. In the vacuum thus formed, the coming of the Great Depression sent the conflicts that drove the world to war in 1914 spinning out of control again. As Japan invaded China and Germany prepared for war, the United States faced a sharp political conflict between isolationists, who more or less wanted to build a wall around the country and shut the rest of the world out, and those who recognized America’s responsibility to the rest of the world. That struggle only came to an end with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; thereafter the American people united to win the war. Once it was won, in turn, they refused to repeat the mistake of 1919, and took up the burden of global leadership that America retains to this day.
Thus the mythology. The reality was considerably more complex.
As I have said right from the start, debt forgiveness on a massive scale is the only answer: it is too late in the day now for anything else. There is no such thing as ‘austere simulation’: it is just another mad oxymoron invented by the Brussels morons.
Yesterday, The Slog told everyone that the necrophilia will continue until more sane voices are allowed to be heard. As usual, you read it here first.
From the Archives: Either forgive debt, or face disaster.
You mean, what you get from the Taliban when you shift from being terrain focused to enemy focused? Explain this, please.
You are seeing more bombings in the East now because the outposts/fire bases were turned over to Afghans, and the US BDEs started more mobile operations in the vallies. It has helped the rural towns fend off the Taliban, but risk is increased by allowing a few "leakers" to get to Kabul.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein
The two candidates for the U.S. presidency seem to be trying to outshout each other concerning Iran, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Each is claiming he is doing more to support the same objectives. Isn't it therefore strange that no similar verbal contest is going on at the moment concerning Afghanistan? [ Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty] In February 2012, some Korans were burned by U.S. soldiers, which led to violent public protests in Afghanistan. (Photo: Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty
Yep, gun boat diplomacy at its worst.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
As I have said right from the start, debt forgiveness on a massive scale is the only answer: it is too late in the day now for anything else. There is no such thing as ‘austere simulation’: it is just another mad oxymoron invented by the Brussels morons.
Yesterday, The Slog told everyone that the necrophilia will continue until more sane voices are allowed to be heard. As usual, you read it here first.
From the Archives: Either forgive debt, or face disaster.
Disaster, coming right up.... :twisted: :? 8-)
It will be disaster mac. Man cannot heal the pain and suffering of the world no matter how hard "man" tries.
As you have probably realized I am an Army officer with multiple tours to very inhospitable locations over the past 20+ years. I was asked by a fellow officer, a few years ahead of me on his way to 'stars', about what I thought the solution was for a peaceful Iraq. I chuckled and asked him when was the last time Iraq was peaceful. I then told him something that shocked him...Jesus Christ is the only answer, and we should be encouraging missionaries in the region instead of handing despots our American dough, which ends up in radical cleric's pockets, who then fashion explosives to kill our youngsters serving on the line. I then told him even evangelizing the Islamic regions will not bring peace to the earth. Only the Second Coming of Christ when He reigns will bring true peace.
Needless to say, I have not been asked for advice since that day.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Martyrdom attack in Helmand kills 13 puppets, injures 11 others Qari Yousuf Ahmadi E-mail Print PDF Friday, 28 Jamadil Awal 1433 Friday, 20 April 2012 09:26
HELMAND, Apr. 20 – A martyrdom attack hit local police station in Garmsir district southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province yesterday, at about 9:00 p.m. local time, a Mujahideen’s official said.
Official said the a lone heroic Mujahid of Islamic Emirate Hameedullah , resident of Helmand province stormed the station and catch the police off guard while
they were having dinner, upon reaching his target, upon having his targets in sight, martyrdom-seeking combatant, Hameedullah opened fire with heavy and light weapons and as soon as he ran out of ammo, the brave Mujahid blew up his explosive vest, killing and wounding about two dozen of the puppets on the spot.
According to a report, about 13 policemen were killed and a further 11 wounded in both direct shooting and bomb attacks.
It is believed that there was no one outside the station on guard duty, taking advantage of which made it easy for the martyr attack to reach his target within the station and conduct a successful attack.
The martyrdom attack come before the shoot-down of the US invaders low-flying helicopter called in to transfer the dead and wounded from the blast site when it was shot with rocket fire near Khanshin district, killing all the American invaders aboard the helicopter.
The Nato, however, confirmed that only four American soldiers had been killed in the incident claiming it was a “crash”, which was, in fact, no crash but a successful shoot-down carried out by Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate.
A police officer and a commander of militia were among those killed in martyrdom operation.
Something the 'Support Our Troops' USSAMedia never does....;}
Mujahideen shoot down US helicopter; scores of American invaders killed Qari Yousuf Ahmadi E-mail Print PDF Friday, 28 Jamadil Awal 1433 Friday, 20 April 2012 10:09
HELMAND, Apr. 20 – A report says Friday that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate downed the US helicopter in Khanshin district of southern Helmand province last night, killing all the American invades aboard.
The enemy helicopter came under rocket fire after 9:00 p.m. last night while it was flying at lower altitude to airlift the dead and wounded of the puppets
killed in martyrdom operation in Garmsir, Helmand province.
The shoot-down follows the successful martyr attack one of deadliest for the US invaders and their puppets.
The enemy confirmed the death of its only four soldiers while many are believed to have been killed in the shoot-down.
Vietnam ended only because of the Arab Boycott sent our economy into a tail spin.
And so…learning exactly nothing…the US government repeats the Vietnam/oil boycott disaster this time, inflicting the boycott on ourselves by embargoing one of the biggest oil producers on earth: Iran. This suicidal behavior is seen in the latest headlines at Antiwar.com:
1. NATO Officials Fight Back Against Reducing Size of Afghan Military
2. So, to fix this fiscal problem, NATO begs Russia, China claiming that THEY Should Help Pay for Afghanistan After 2014....8D"
I remember this. My first up close encounter with oil pricing.
Gasoline at the Gulf Station went from $0.37 to $0.44. I thought it was crazy until I found out later that even getting gas was a problem elsewhere.
When our colonies elsewhere today see us completely bogged down and stretched out the same thing will happen again.
"5. Since the war spending is the golden goose for Congress and AIPAC, no war or occupation of Muslim nations can ends so to the warmongers running our government into bankruptcy, the 2014 date was “artificial” and that if Afghanistan is such a mess NATO just shouldn’t leave, they say. The Europeans are freaking out because their collective tails are being twisted hard by the Iranians and their economic situation is dire due to overspending by governments and the last thing on earth the people there want is for NATO to be running from one Muslim nation to the next, bogged down in endless wars with enraged natives.
They all want out but the US runs NATO and the US is owned by AIPAC and the wars there will continue until bankruptcy destroys Europe, the US and Japan all at the same time. And history is very clear: all great empires go bankrupt due to foreign interventions that fail due to being futile or costly while taxes are not collected at home due to the very rich refusing to pay for anything at all."
You are seeing more bombings in the East now because the outposts/fire bases were turned over to Afghans, and the US BDEs started more mobile operations in the vallies. It has helped the rural towns fend off the Taliban, but risk is increased by allowing a few "leakers" to get to Kabul.
Exactly VietNam, except no B 52 Carpet Bombing.
A Kabul Offensive after 11 years? And this will be our last.
The 'Tet' Offensive isn't over. There's a Khe Sanh, Kham Duc and then Pleiku waiting....
You do have a singular wit. Saw one in the bird bath out back during the severe drought last year in Central Texas drinking some water. Wife and kids watched from the window (while yellow Lab was going crazy at the door) and said "how cute..." I said, yeah cute, to the boys and told them they would not say that when I enlisted them to help clean up the trash the little critter would no doubt toss that night:)
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
If you look at the "rat lines" that come in from the east towards Kabul, the Taliban have been trying (save one year 2007) to do what they are doing now. Up until Spring 2008 the Taliban and their minions obliged NATO by getting mowed down in those eastern valleys. Then they found out we no longer had the will to fight on the home front, and changed their strategy.
On carpet bombing, you are correct. However, the USAF and USN have dropped a lot of bombs and killed a bunch of Taliban in those eastern valleys for quite a long time. As you know we only hear about the bad bomb drops that hit a wedding reception.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
This was once called treason. Now it's legal, as corporations are now people.
I addressed this with Nolu. Nolu doesn't care for me anymore...;}
Note how hard change is made from the bottom up.
And how easy from the top down.
When is this addressed? Only when the state is in danger. Abe Lincoln, FDR, LBJ danger.
Justice-as-Truth Legal Argument
by W'Lawpsh / April 20th, 2012
Truth is the summit of being: justice is the application of it to affairs…and whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody has credited, justice must prevail, and it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
1. The Constitution precludes imperialism as against “foreign Nations and Indian tribes.”
"20. Certainly those Americans who for their own power, prestige and profit persist in playing “The Great Game” of imperialism are “Enemies” in the treasonable constitutional sense.
21. Their success to date has terminated the existence of the United States as a constitutional democracy under the rule of law. That is the only right to exist that the country claims. Or can claim, pending a duly processed constitutional amendment.
W'Lawpsh is a scholar and author of jurisprudential anthropology, constitutional history, and international human rights law. Read other articles by W'Lawpsh, or visit W'Lawpsh's website.
Up until Spring 2008 the Taliban and their minions obliged NATO by getting mowed down in those eastern valleys. Then they found out we no longer had the will to fight on the home front, and changed their strategy.
On carpet bombing, you are correct. However, the USAF and USN have dropped a lot of bombs and killed a bunch of Taliban in those eastern valleys for quite a long time.
Yes. Thank you. Intelligent comments.
The purpose of every guerrilla war to sap the will of the Core to continue the fight.
4th Gen warfare moving to 5th gen...the essence of which is to do more damage with fewer men and resources.
Again, the Afghans are showing zero weakness while the CoreStateMedia is reduced to not even mentioning the Tet Offensive in Kabul.
Even here at LF you're hard pressed to find developments.
We don't know what we're fighting for. And we're insolvent. Neither of those is a problem for the Taliban.
A new bill moving quickly through the House Armed Services Committee is set to add another $680 million to the billions in annual military aid the US government provides to Israel, with the funding earmarked for paying for more of the "Iron Dome" defensive missiles.
From our gridlocked Congress....;}
Meanwhile, in Flyover Country:
The more wealth concentrates, their research shows, the feebler a society's investments in infrastructure become. Our nation's long-term decline in federal infrastructure investment — from 3.3 percent of GDP in 1968 to 1.3 percent in 2011 — turns out to mirror almost exactly the long-term shift in income from America's middle class to the richest Americans. And the U.S. states where the rich have gained the most at the expense of the middle class turn out to be the states that invest the least in infrastructure.-billhicksisdead
" So why did Americans so docilely agree to give away the store? Because even though they may want their government services, they don't want to pay for them and hate paying taxes even more. That is the very essence of Spoiled Rotten Nation. Me first and fuck the rest of you...until one day the whole stinking system collapses under the strain, as our deteriorating infrastructure will no doubt eventually do. But it's those last two sentences of the article that really made me laugh. This November, tens of millions of delusional idiots are going to go to the polls and cast their vote for rich, Wall Street asshole Willard Mitt Romney, who will essentially be promising to do what every President since Reagan has done. And tens of millions of other delusional idiots will go to the polls and cast their ballots for President Hopey-Changey, who will blow smoke up their asses like he already has for four grueling years, until he gets reelected and then proceeds to continue doing what every President since Reagan has done. Either way, the infrastructure will remain right where it is today: fucked.
I don't think China is headed for economic collapse, but a slow-down, perhaps. People across the internet keep saying this.
With absolute confidence in the numbers both the USSA and China are putting out.
Where the rule of law has been thrown out the window in every attempt to keep this fetid carcass of 'globalization' going.
China is collapsing as I type. Maybe ten days. Maybe ten weeks, but China has destroyed everything environmental in it's nation.
Without the ecology, you have no civilization.
Not to mention oil is something the Bottom 65% of Chinese never see except in their water supply.
Finally, a loan in China is booked as profit. They invented 'accounting'...;}
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 7:35:16 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: All (#4) China is ahead in one critical area:
Global Pollution and Prevention News: China carbon emissions ... www.enn.com › PollutionApr 29, 2011 – /pollution/article/42639. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, could peak in emissions by 2030 or earlier, says a study from ...
bullshite, China's blown the world's last bubble.
Peak Pollution.
And with Peak Pollution, history really won't be able to record it completely, because the Pop will be busy collapsing.
But before the Pop collapses, the economy will have collapsed.
Look at any vid of China today. Like the one at Qingdao, showing China's ongoing war games. The sky is brown,
China is collapsing now.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 9:10:03 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit
#6. To: All (#5) World Cement Production for instance:
It is impressive that the curve shows no sign of abating whatsoever. Maybe there will be a peak in the coming years, but cement is a form of "persistent pollution." Reducing its production - or even stopping it - won't automatically return built environment to fertile soil. But we can't eat concrete. Will we ever get our land back?
You can bet China's tops there.
The above chart has gone parabolic. There's zero way now that it will do anything but collapse . Parabolic Curves do not linger at asymptote.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 9:17:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit
Again, the Afghans are showing zero weakness while the CoreStateMedia is reduced to not even mentioning the Tet Offensive in Kabul.
I see how you are using a historical example---Tet--to explain what is going on now in Kabul. But Tet was crafted by a central government and had the backing of a standing army. Both of which the Taliban really don't have if you exclude Pakistan. As you mention, however, the intent is the same but not as large a scale as Tet.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
And glad you're from Texas. I love messin' with Texicans....;}
Well a naturalized Texan, not native born. Military service putting me in Texas for the majority of my 20+ years. Once you get used to the very hot summers where it is 95 degrees in the shade, the place grows on "ya." I am even accepted with my NOREASTER accent:)
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
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Just the same way we forgot about Fukushima as quickly as we could to let President Obama start ushering in a “nuclear renaissance.”
But even worse, that we’ve forgotten the Deepwater Horizon shows that Americans are dumber than spit when it comes to one of the most important issues to our current prosperity and our future survival as a civilization and perhaps, a species.
Specifically, oil depletion since peak oil hit in 2006. There’s no reason that BP would’ve been drilling more than a mile under the ocean’s surface if there was any easy-to-find oil left. Fact is, the days of handy on-shore gushers are gone. Now, it’s all about deep water oil, Arctic oil, tar sands, oil shale, oil from fracking and other “unconventional” sources of crude. How much you spend for how much you get
The returns on that kind of oil are nothing like back in the day, when crude from West Texas could give a hundred barrels for every barrel of oil you’d have to spend on drilling or one barrel of oil would give you 30 barrels of Saudi crude. In our era of what Naomi Klein has dubbed “extreme energy,” oil can deliver energy returns as low as 10:1 or below.
Recall the joke evoked by Freud in order to render the strange logic of dreams: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you; (2) I returned it to you unbroken; (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you.
Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments confirms what it hopes to deny-that I returned to you a broken kettle.
Doesn't the same inconsistency characterize the way radical Islamists respond to the Holocaust? (1) The Holocaust did not happen. (2) It did happen, but the Jews deserved it. (3) The Jews did not deserve it, but they themselves lost the right to complain by doing to Palestinians what the Nazis did to them.
These conflicting positions are reflected in the views of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently questioned the historical reality of the Holocaust while implying that guilt for complicity in the Nazi genocide had led European countries to support Israel:
Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces, and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that, they condemn that person and throw them in jail. ... Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem? ...
If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe, like in Germany, Austria or other countries, to the Zionists, and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe, and we will support it.
This statement mixes the most disgusting insinuations with a correct insight. The disgusting part is, of course, Holocaust denial or, even more disgusting, the claim that Jews deserved it ("we don't accept this claim": Which one? That Hitler killed million of Jews or that the Jews were innocent and did not deserve to be killed?).
What is correct, though, is the reminder of European hypocrisy: Europe effectively paid for its own guilt with another people's land. So when Ariel Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin said in response, "Just to remind Mr. Ahmadinejad, we've been here long before his ancestors were here. Therefore, we have a birthright to be here in the land of our forefathers and to live here," he evoked a historical right, which, if applied universally, would lead to wholesale slaughter.
That is to say, can one imagine a world in which ethnic groups would constantly "remind" their neighbors that "we've been here before you" (even if this means more than a thousand years ago), and use this fact to justify seizing their neighbor's land?
The big mystery apropos of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is: Why does it persist for so long when everybody knows the only viable solution?-the withdrawal of the Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza, the establishment of a Palestinian state, as well as some kind of a compromise concerning Jerusalem. There is effectively something of a neurotic symptom in the Middle East conflict-everyone sees the way to get rid of the obstacle, and yet, nonetheless, no one wants to remove it, as if there is some kind of pathological libidinal profit gained by persisting in the deadlock.
This is why the Middle East crisis is such a sensitive point for the pragmatic politics that aims to gradually resolve problems in a realistic mode. In this case, the true utopia is precisely that such a "realistic" approach will never work: The only "realistic" solution is the "big" one, to solve the problem at its roots. Here, then, the old motto from 1968 applies: Soyons réalistes, demandons l'impossible! Only a radical gesture that has to appear "impossible" within the existing coordinates will realistically do the job. So, perhaps, the solution "everybody knows" as the only viable one-the withdrawal of the Israelis, the establishment of a Palestinian state, etc.-nonetheless will not do, and one has to change the entire frame and propose a one-state-solution where everyone has equal rights."
Post Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:41 am by mcgowanjm The most censored story of the Century.
How many nukes have Melted Down & Thru:
Dai-Ni has:
2F [Daini] is that contaminated.
There are 4 reactors in 2F [Daini] and all of them stopped. Coolant system is properly working and the temperature is stable, but it’s only reactor 4 to have been recovered. Collecting comments of subcontract companies, I asked about the contamination situation to Tepco workers. They turned to be helpless.
“Yes, true.. I wonder why it’s so contaminated. The operation floor on the top and concrete shielding plug are unbelievably contaminated. Water is even in pedestal (= The room under pressure vissel [sic]).”
A retired employee of an electric company said, “If water is in pedestal, it means pressure vessel had excessive pressure. Control rod or pipes are severely damaged. The bottom of the reactor is broken through. Like Fukushima Dai ichi, it is rational to think there was a hydrogen explosion.”
Toshiba planned to enter reactor 3 it the end of December, but they didn’t.
