Comments on: Update III: Murder By Majority (Or Mercy Killing)

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:03:19 +0000

Ilana – I would guess that several hundred million Moslems were not upset by 9/11 and probably 100 million were downright elated. But “condoning attacks” is not the same as becoming a hide-in-the-caves active Jihadist. It takes some extra oomph to cross that line.

There was plenty of anti-Semitic literature in Germany pre-Hitler but it took Adolph and a dedicated few to rouse 70 million into doing a Holocaust. Back in the bottle, the Jew-killing disease is now dormant among most Germans.

However, if the number of ACTIVE Jihadists (not sympathizers) is near 1%, we have got a big, big, big problem. Sort of like the difference between a BENIGN tumor and a MALIGNANT tumor! However, like malignancies, murderous lunatics are difficult to model and predict (hence my comment on the behavior of outliers).

Since we are not going to destroy 1 billion Moslems, we might as well defeat the malignant ones, isolate the benign ones, and not try to spread the disease by unnecessary “liberations” and “occupations”. I don’t think we are that far in disagreement on this.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:15:39 +0000

Apparently the CIA/Pakistanis just captured some capo of the Taliban. If we had some brains, we might try to “negoatiate” with him and his buddies – e.g. you stop messing with us or sheltering those who do and we will leave you alone in Talibanistan. Instead, we will just have another jackass to sit around some jail while we go around blowing up more weddings.

About Al Queda’s motiviations – since .999999 Moselms do not attack the US, it is an outlying phenomena and the exact workings of someone’s demented mind is difficult to pin down. But the Taliban were just LOCAL thugs and America widened the war to manufacture more enemies.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:12:58 +0000

1. For a variety of reasons mostly derived from our meddling overseas, Al Queda attacks us. Correction: For a variety of reasons mostly derived from the commandments of the Koran and the example of Mohammed, Al Qaeda attacked us.

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:03:52 +0000

It’s probably an academic point, but where precisely is the declaration of war that gives Obama the power to wage this insane war against a backward country on the other side of the globe? The last time I checked, Article I, Section 8 has yet to be amended permitting the executive to commit troops absent such an authority.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:49:30 +0000

1. For a variety of reasons mostly derived from our meddling overseas, Al Queda attacks us.

2. The USA, therefore, wants to retaliate against Al Queda (so far makes sense).

3. The Taliban, a backwards Pushtun-dominated government, refuses to turn over Al Queda.

4. So the USA attacks Al Queda AND the Taliban (making less sense). We then install Karzai and a corrupt centralized government instead of old King Zahir Shah and a decentralized government (ERROR!). Then we get distracted and “liberate” Iraq.

5. Soon America starts attacking drug warlords “friendly” with the Taliban (Why?).

6. Then we attack Pushtun tribal leaders who “cooperate” with the warlords or object to the shakedowns of Karzai’s corrupt mob.

7. Then America attacks civilians associated with the tribal leaders. Next are the relatives of the civilians who seek revenge. Mind you, Al Queda has long ago abandoned Afghanistan but we have this war that is spinning out of control, was never declared by Congress, and has no strategy for termination.

8. But it is just a volunteer military and contractors – so even though 99 % of Americans have no ties to Afghanistan, we just simply don’t give a hoot.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:48:56 +0000

Taleban is a religious term for ‘one who seeks understanding’ or something similar. It isn’t a centralized government but groups of ‘warlords’. They have returned to the Feudal system, with all of its barbarianism, violence, suppression of the citizenry and glory seeking. The Taleban didn’t destroy the twin towers; that was a terrorist organization with a training camp in Afghanistan. The terrorists had and have training camps scattered all over the Middle East and Europe. We attacked Afghanistan because the US thought the leadership was there and the Taleban refused to turn him over to us. The Taleban are some of the worst examples of religious and human oppression working together; but, we can’t and the Afghanistan Central Government won’t take the steps to return it to any semblance of the twentieth century. All we can do is kill more of our soldiers and their citizens, creating more hate on both sides.

By: Hugo Schmidt

Hugo Schmidt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:05:52 +0000

Well, yes. It would be far better just to let the Taleban regain total control of Afghanistan. It’s not like that policy ever had any unfortunate repercussions for America…