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Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 8:05 pm
what on earth am I talking about
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35485
Look how they frame this stuff. It would make you puke. Our own media here in Ireland weren't much better. Claimed 18 Israelis had been killed this year and 42 Palestinians had died in their report. Would make you despair.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 3:11 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14258
embedded tweets dont seem to work for me, but for those that can see them:
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 12:04 am
TIER 1 Essential Critical Infrastructure Worker
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:08 pm Posts: 4738 Location: 5th floor, Bay 7, position 5740
Wow. I considered myself to be a Republican in the early ‘00s but the W administration really disillusioned me from the party. They sure have not done anything to woo me back.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 2:07 pm
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am Posts: 5595
elliseamos wrote:
After early attempts to fund 'moderate' rebels ended up with competing State Dept and CIA backed factions that immediately disbanded after contact with Islamist factions, I think it was appropriate for the US to admit that it was incompetent at this and pack it all in.
If Turkey were a willing intermediary like Pakistan was with the Afghans in the 80s it might have worked out differently. Unfortunately they are far more interested in supressing Kurds than liberating Arabs.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Sun July 03, 2022 8:10 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Thu January 10, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 8898 Location: SOUTH PORTLAND
Quote:
The documents and interviews provide the most detailed picture yet of an obscure funding authority that allows American commandos to conduct counterterrorism operations “by, with, and through” foreign and irregular partner forces around the world. Basic information about these missions — where they are conducted, their frequency and targets, and the foreign forces the U.S. relies on to carry them out — are unknown even to most members of relevant congressional committees and key State Department personnel.
I haven't finished reading this, but thought others might want to:
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Sun September 04, 2022 6:19 am
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am Posts: 5595
Reconsidering the US hesitancy to rescue hostages overseas.
We probably figured we had resolved this once and for all after dealing with the Barbary States.
(Most of the European powers were fine with paying them off. We* said no)
We just now have a massive gulf between foreign policy and our stated hostage policy. There's a one off of some nun recently getting rescued. It's embarrassing. American hostages should get met by tomahawks on the guys that okayed it on day 2.
An Italian nun hostage would have been paid free by month 3.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Fri November 11, 2022 12:26 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Thu January 10, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 8898 Location: SOUTH PORTLAND
Quote:
A rough transcript of a 2004 interview George W. Bush and Dick Cheney gave to a government commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks provides a glimpse of the former president’s and vice president’s views of the seminal event that defined their eight years in the White House.
Just slipping this into the news whilst the country counts hanging chads.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Fri November 11, 2022 1:20 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14258
elliseamos wrote:
Quote:
A rough transcript of a 2004 interview George W. Bush and Dick Cheney gave to a government commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks provides a glimpse of the former president’s and vice president’s views of the seminal event that defined their eight years in the White House.
Just slipping this into the news whilst the country counts hanging chads.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Fri January 13, 2023 1:08 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14258
elliseamos wrote:
Isreal. We hardly knew ye?
Don't do them dirty.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
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