The alleged attack on Afghans by an American soldier in Kandahar, where 91 soldiers have been murdered last year alone, is already receiving the full outrage treatment. Any outrage over the deaths of those 91 soldiers in the province will be completely absent.
There will be no mention of how many of them died because the Obama Administration decided that the lives of Afghan civilians counted for more than the lives of soldiers. No talk of what it is like to walk past houses with gunmen dressed in civilian clothing inside and if you are fired at from those houses, your orders are to retreat. Reminds me of Intifada I
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Looks like the poor guy got caught up in the big bush shopping trip and economic failure of housing and the programming he was getting just didn't go down the right neural network. Perhaps they should stick to movies and being fake instead of trying to run a country much less the world. From what i have read they don't give a shi about anything except money and little kids (naked) ones. Afghanistan was a failure by November the government was already compromised internally! Peace.
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But the question is what value do we place on our lives? What value do we place on theirs?
Its one thing when Op/Ed pieces wander from thought-provoking into the provocative but this bigoted shit is well beneath Rantburgs standards. (IMO)
[Dawn] AS if prospects for an orderly American pull-out from Afghanistan weren't already bleak, the latest news coming out of that country reveals just how messy it's going to be. The Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship... and the Panjwai massacre had already raised urgent questions about the viability of the American presence, but developments in the following days have shown how complicated it will be to determine how and when to unwind that presence. At one end are a war-weary American public about to go to the polls and disagreements within the US administration and military about the timing and scale of the troops' departure. At the other is an Afghan president demanding an early withdrawal. While officials try to conceal the dissonance in public by fudging the specifics, this only confirms the lack of clarity within and between the Obama and Karzai administrations on what the process should look like.
Then there are the Taliban claiming to have suspended American-led talks, now widely seen as a necessary component of the winding down of this war. The talks had always been an opaque affair, and very few people other than those directly involved know how they were progressing, which Taliban were at the table, how involved Afghanistan and Pakistain have been, or even what exactly is being negotiated. It's also unclear to what extent this supposed Taliban suspension has the buy-in of various factions, or what the motivation behind it really was. The Taliban have linked it to an inability to agree on preconditions and the prisoner-swap issue. But given the questions about the American presence that have been asked across the world in the last week, this could just as well be posturing from a perceived position of strength. Given all these unknowns, it is difficult to say that the talks have come to an end. But what the announcement does indicate is that the recent conduct of American troops has given the Taliban more chips to play with even as the US tries to clarify an increasingly fraught exit strategy.
There is also the knotty but sometimes over-looked question of what happens post-2014. The Americans want a scaled-down long-term presence to keep out Al Qaeda but also presumably for geopolitical reasons, and negotiations with Mr Karzai on the issue had made progress before recent events. But it remains unclear how America expects to maintain its presence for another decade and still reach a settlement with an enemy opposed to its presence on Afghan soil. Along with many other uncertainties, it is a question that makes the next few years of Afghanistan's future look increasingly grim.
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Just hurt them really bad, to discourage "harrastment of retreating enemy", then leave. Let Russia worry about Afghan heroin.
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It would only take about three ARCLIGHT strikes down through the heart of Kabul, followed by a dozen villages napalmed into nonexistence for this sh$$ to cease. I have no love for Afghanistan. It's demise would mean nothing to me. If there were another attempt to harm the United States from Afghan soil, I would expect whoever is in the Oval Office to nuke them and Pakistan back to primordial sludge.
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A post at the AnimalPolitico.com blog by Catalina Perez Correa last week detailed the circumstances by which 44 inmates at a prison in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon were killed allegedly by Los Zetas operatives.
According to the post, the deaths were not a brawl, but rather a deliberate and calculated massacre planned by prison officials and executed by Los Zetas operatives, who were then allowed to escape. The new information emerged from what Ms Perez Correa described as bits of information gathered from disparate sources, electronic mostly which painted a mosaic of treachery by prison officials in collusion with criminals.
The official explanation of the Apodaca prison massacre, lamented Ms. Perez Correa, "seems sufficient to overlap the incompetence in the best-of-the authorities and at worst, complicity..."
Unwittingly, Ms. Perez Correa has provided an insight into the problem of the nexus between government officials in the pay of organized crime and government officials unwilling to entertain the possibility of criminal conduct. It is a strong match to the attitude of a Non-Government Organization report released last week.
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[CBC] Bad things happen when a nation tries to fight too many wars with too few troops. The blunt fact about the U.S. army and Marines -- whose difficulties have become the stuff of headlines -- is that they are exhausted and at their wits' end.
Armies wear out rapidly under the unique stress of combat, and for a decade now U.S. ground troops have been rotated through three, four and five combat tours lasting up to a year in each case (15 months at the height of Iraq fighting).
This is not an excuse for the soldier who ran amok in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 16 civilians, many of them children; nor for the recent burnings of the Qur'an or any of the other almost incomprehensible incidents we regularly hear about in Afghanistan or Iraq.
But at the same time we need to appreciate the high level of mental illness, substance abuse and severe depression that is ravaging American ranks and making such incidents a constant risk.
No other NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... units comes close to the length of time U.S. troops have spent in these wars, nor has anyone else taken anything like the grinding number of casualties.
The Canadian army was seriously tired when it withdrew from Afghanistan combat last year -- yet our ranks could only imagine the far greater strain on U.S. soldiers.
Since 2001, over 6,200 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan; over 47,000 have been maimed.
What's more, almost three-quarters of these casualties have been borne by ground troops and, of these, over 30 per cent suffered serious brain and spine injuries.
'Trauma in the mind' To me it has always seemed shocking that Washington's current political class, relatively few of whom served in the military, have been so careless in allowing their military units to wear down like this. Perhaps because the generals constant "can do" mantra tends to blot out the reality of exhaustion.
Now, however, a few senior voices, such as former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and former defence secretary Robert Gates, are speaking out about the human cost of these campaigns and of sending large land armies abroad.
And this week, a former commandant of the prestigious U.S. Army War College, retired Gen. Robert Scales, wrote in the Washington Post that if someone wants to place blame for the Kandahar shooting "it should be on a succession of national leaders who fail to recognize that combat units, particularly infantry, just wear out."
A Vietnam veteran, Scales believes today's vets suffer even more than his generation because "close fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was more pervasive and lasting, thus more likely to cause personal trauma in the mind."
As a news hound, who has covered wars, including Afghanistan, I have a sense of the trauma he is speaking of.
I was always struck by the constant level of tension that surrounded our soldiers whenever they left a main base. It seemed quite different from conventional wars where there were always areas away from the front lines where a soldier could relax a bit.
In Iraq, troops called it 360/365, for the stress came from not knowing from where or when the next firefight would come -- 360 degrees, 365 days a year.
A social time bomb President Barack Obama Because I won... clearly wants to bring the last big contingent of his Afghan troops home as soon as decently possible -- by 2014 at the latest.
But the statistics suggest that this will inevitably transfer the problems of an emotionally drained army to the home front, where many have already taken the brunt of the economic crisis.
Up to 30 per cent of returning soldiers develop serious mental health problems within three to four months of coming home. Up to 25 per cent suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, which many psychologists feel is an underestimation.
In recent years it has not been uncommon to have more than 300 suicides annually by U.S. veterans, with failed attempts running at over 1,500 a year.
The Pentagon has also been fighting an epidemic of sexual assault among troops. It reports an astonishing 19,000 military men and women were sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers in 2010 alone.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... rates of domestic violence surged by over 30 per cent among military families between 2006 and 2011, along with drug and alcohol abuse, rates that Gen. Peter Chiarelli says has grown out of a length of combat "our nation has never experienced before."
And if that weren't enough, the growing fear of violence on U.S. bases has been heightened in recent years by a steady infiltration of street gang members into the military.
Every major gang in America is represented on domestic and foreign bases, according to the FBI. Some members are said to have joined up to try to escape gang life. But at least some seem intent on picking up military skills and more deadly weapons.
So I fear this latest crazed act of a deeply disturbed U.S. soldier is not going to be the last of its kind.
Too many tired and joyless men, who have been soldiering since they were teens, are still fighting for a cause that few understand, alongside fickle allies and among a population that partially despises them and their culture.
An exhausted army is prone to disasters, and this one has surely been pushed to the limit.
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An exhausted army is prone to disasters, and this one has surely been pushed to the limit.
This article presents what is surely a one-sided and not very well proven point of view.
I could just as easily write an article about how experienced and therefore deadly the American military has become through constant practice and need to think about tactics and present one or two tidbits that got me to that conclusion.
Confirmation bias is an ugly thing.
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This is just the Left recycling its Vietnam War stereotypes of the crazed veterans coming home from Vietnam and butchering civilians both abroad and back home.
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[CBC] Bad things happen when a nation tries to fight too many wars with too few troops. The blunt fact about the U.S. army and Marines -- whose difficulties have become the stuff of headlines -- is that they are exhausted and at their wits' end.
Armies wear out rapidly under the unique stress of combat, and for a decade now U.S. ground troops have been rotated through three, four and five combat tours lasting up to a year in each case (15 months at the height of Iraq fighting).
Not surprising that the CBC has beclowned themselves: The blunt fact is that "too many wars with too few troops" is not the same as "two wars fought over a decade. Another proof that liberals have no functional ability to discern equality, and thus are unfit to be judges and legislators.
But what is pertinent to the point is that Americans (not just american soldiers) have had experience with this sort of 360/365 stress before, during western expansion into regions dominated by tribal peoples not unlike those in Afghanistan and Iraq when it came to combat scruples. The Jacksonian way of war, documented by Walter Russel Mead and Victor Davis Hanson, that advocates high intensity, short duration, "total war" combat operations oriented toward achieving "total victory" (as opposed to "partial" or "local" victory), overcomes the problems cited by the CBC.
Of course the CBC, and their fellow travelers, would scream to high heaven if we actually DID that, but I somehow doubt that they actually have the good health and condition of American troops, much less Americans as a whole, in heart.
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Oh, and nothing beats relieving the stress of combat on US ground troops than an ARCLIGHT strike.
If the miilitary has forgotten how to do those, I know we have a couple of Rantburg regulars who can come out of retirement to show them how it's done.
At "Cost Plus", it'd be cheaper than two assembly line jobs at Solyndra, and have a better Return On Investment to boot.
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It's also the cost of a PC military. For thousands of years grunts have had means to let off the stress. Most of those have been outlawed, prohibited, and banished in the name of correctness under the guise of discipline. We've thrown out our social rituals because they're too damn ancient. Instead we substitute analysis, psychotropic drugs, group therapy as modern alternatives. There are consequences. However, I'll assure you that like teaching professionals, the powers to be will not examine what used to provide some results before because, being professionals, they know better and will drive on with their existing programs. We'll have a military as effective as our education system.
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It's interesting that the author, writing from outside the US, doesn't suggest that American troops wouldn't be pulling four of five tours if America's allies would order their troops to march to the sound of the guns instead of the dining hall. (And I don't mean Canada or Britain --they've done their share.) Let's re-write one of the author's sentences a bit:
"To me it has always seemed shocking that Washington's Brussels' current political class have been so careless in allowing their American military units to wear down like this. Perhaps because the generals constant "can do" mantra tends to blot out the the Euros could care less about the reality of dead Americans."
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Yah, Vietnam was the last winless war. We thought.
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Not having served in either Iraq or Afghanistan, I can't attack or confirm this story, although I'm forwarding it to my peeps that have been there recently.
But having seen Restrepo, that documentary seems to have summed up Patient Zero scenario for a lot of the behaviors/problems listed in this article. World War II, as bad as it was, lasted half as long, and there were exit points to look at - Berlin and Toyko.
Is that sexual assault number even close to accurate? If so, that's mind boggling.
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A study of more than 1,000 prisoners by the group Veterans in Prison put the figure at 9.1%, while Home Office research carried out between 2001 and 2003 concluded that 5% of the prison population were veterans.
[Dawn] WHEN long-forgotten skeletons start emerging from the basement into the glare of publicity, those who hid them have good reason to be embarrassed.
So when Younus Habib was wheeled into the Supreme Court, many people were shocked to see him.
But clearly, those who bankroll our spymasters are made of durable stuff. In Habib's case, while his revelations had the power to titillate, they were hardly surprising. After all, Asad Durrani had already deposed before the Supreme Court that he had doled out millions to sundry seedy politicians in a signed affidavit in 1996.
The retired general and ex-director of the ISI now says that he paid off anti-PPP politicians in his personal capacity at the behest of Aslam Beg, then army chief, and Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the powerful president of the day. This, of course, is rubbish. Would Younus Habib have obliged Durrani with large amounts of cash if he had not been the head of the ISI?
While this latest political scandal will no doubt keep our TV channels in a high state of excitement until the next one comes along, it has reopened long-simmering questions about civil-military relations. The National Assembly's unanimous resolution to frame a law that will rein in our intelligence agencies is a foretaste of things to come.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... simply passing laws is not enough to control our spooks. After all, forming political groupings, buying and bullying politicians and rigging elections is hardly in the ISI's remit. And yet, all our principal intelligence agencies, including MI and IB, have been dabbling in politics for decades. Naturally, all this skulduggery goes on in the name of national security.
Indeed, the number of crimes committed in the name of this elusive security would fill several volumes. All countries have intelligence agencies, but few intelligence agencies have countries. In Pakistain, the ISI in particular has acquired such a fearsome image that the imminent change at the top has made headlines the world over.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the agency's reputation has taken several huge knocks of late. The year 2011 began badly for the ISI: Raymond Davis bumped off two would-be robbers in broad daylight in Lahore, and we thus learned that CIA contractors and agents were operating in the country without the ISI's knowledge.
The ISI was caught in a cleft stick when the late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... was found to be living in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... for over five years -- and in Pakistain for even longer. The May 2 American commando raid placed the ISI in an untenable position: either it knew about the Al Qaeda chief's presence and had concealed it from the Americans, or it had no idea about it. So it was either complicit or inept.
In the event, the ISI pleaded ignorance, but such is its reputation for duplicity abroad that to this day, many people continue to believe that it had sheltered Bin Laden all along. Personally, knowing the agency's abysmal track record in its primary function of intelligence-gathering and analysis, I was sure that it genuinely had no idea that the world's most-wanted terrorist was living in the shadow of the country's premier military academy in Abbottabad, a major garrison town.
Then there was the kidnapping, torture and murder of Saleem Shahzad. Although the intelligence apparatus has always denied any involvement, the journalist's earlier allegations about threats he had received have made it suspect. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... allegations of double dealing with jihad boy groups have further tarnished its image.
Currently, the bizarre memogate scandal in which Mansoor Ijaz, once the ISI's fiercest critic, has made allegations implicating the president in a bid to seek American support to block a feared army coup is occupying the limelight.
Both the army chief and the head of the ISI, Gen Pasha, insisted on a very public enquiry, aided and abetted by Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... who filed a petition before the Supreme Court, asking for a judicial probe. The resultant commission has not exactly set the Indus on fire with its findings thus far.
Indeed, the early enthusiasm seems to have faded, together with whatever credibility Mansoor Ijaz had to begin with.
Increasingly, the whole thing smacked of a deliberate attempt to destabilise the government before the recent Senate elections.
In any case, the ISI has not emerged with much glory from this latest confrontation with an elected government.
By the very nature of their work, intelligence agencies generally stay out of the spotlight. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... by constantly dabbling in domestic politics, it was inevitable that the ISI would feature largely in the media, and now finds itself in the dock. The days
when it could bully and bribe the media into silence are long gone.
But perhaps some good will come from this series of disasters that have befallen the ISI. Maybe there will be an internal review of the agency's role. There needs to be a realisation that it cannot simultaneously be a covert organization devoted to internal
and external military intelligence, as well as a political player.
More important is the need to establish political control over the ISI. When this government tried to place the ISI under the interior ministry, its ill-judged attempt was quickly rebuffed. But now, the top military and civilian leadership ought to sit down, out of the glare of publicity, and hammer out a new charter for the ISI, MI and IB.
Currently, there is no oversight over the ISI's budget. Similarly, there is minimum information on military expenditure in the national budget. There is no parliamentary debate on the country's largest single expenditure. Clearly, this needs to change, and our defence forces ought to justify their budgetary proposals to our elected representatives.
These suggestions need not alarm our generals. Given the propensity of our politicians to roll over before them, it is unlikely that their budgetary requests will be denied by the National Assembly. Let us not forget that when the ISI chief appeared before parliament in the wake of the Abbottabad raid, no politician had any words of criticism.
In an act of rage and frustration, the ISI has levelled Osama bin Laden's house as if its demolition will erase its shame. And bizarrely, it has charged the dead terrorist's widows and children with illegal entry into Pakistain. It's a pity they couldn't have included Bin Laden in this charge while he was still alive.
HOW would you react to an advertisement offering employment to 'an ordinary man of normal temperament'? Would you apply for the job? It may sound dull but it could be exciting.
Why? Well, the advertiser may be the Pakistain Electronic Media Authority (Pemra) whose proposed rules for the electronic media include a paragraph which offers a unique and brand new definition/interpretation of the word 'indecent'.
"...[W]hatsoever may amount to any incentive, sensuality and excitement of impure thoughts in the mind of an ordinary man of normal temperament, and has the tendency to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and which are deemed to be to such immoral influence, and which are deemed to be detrimental to public morals and calculated to produce a pernicious effect, in depraving and debauching the mind o[f] persons ..."
So, to judge whether a media organization is guilty of carrying indecent content, wouldn't Pemra have to employ an ordinary man (what about ordinary women?) of normal temperament who'd have to watch TV and in turn experience some of the listed emotions for a case to be made?
This isn't an attempt to be facetious about a serious issue but just to give you a flavour of what may be on the regulator's mind as media owners and professionals have so far failed to agree to a code of conduct/rules to cover the content of their 24/7 channels.
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From Genesis to Scandal, here is a round up of the latest and the historic politicking revolving around the ISI's most (in)famous cell
The Latest Claim
As the Mehran Bank Scandal unfolds and evolves into the finer trappings of the Asghar Khan Case, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, out of all the joes in the federal cabinet, has come up with a curve ball. The ISI has always had a political wing, claims the man who has kept a very low profile throughout the PPP government's tenure, even during the tense moments of the 'state within the state' speech/debacle caused by Memogate's fluttering this last winter and even after the May 2, 2011's Operation Neptune Spear. Thus, when a discrete man like Mukhtar speaks, assume the orders are from high, high up, and the strategy is long, drawn out.
The Latest Spin
Does Mukhtar's posturing mean that Gilani and Zardari, comfortably uninvolved with the Mehran Bank hearings, want to clamp down on the ISI during its 'vulnerable' transition phase?
Even though Mukhtar is the inheritor of a cabinet portfolio which has for long been jokingly referred to as the Ministry of Self-Defence, his timely reiteration has come with an interesting qualification: that the prime minister and the president will be informed about the agency's policies and requirements by newly-appointed ISI Director General Zahirul Islam ( Dawn March 12). This is critical. Does Mukhtar's posturing mean that the Gilani/Zardari, comfortably uninvolved with the Mehran Bank hearings, want to clamp down on the ISI during its 'vulnerable' transition phase (which it is already undergoing with full flow)?
One ISI higher-up (who preferred to remain anonymous as the ISI does not allow attribution) I spoke to played Mukhtar's comments down with some confidence: "There is no political wing any more. That's the end of that. And as for the Defence Minister, well, with due respect, he has had to chew his own words in the past too."
Much more at the link, for those readers interested in such things.
Small Wars Journal's Kip Whittington discusses the implications of the changes since Israel went into Lebanon in 2006. A taste:
In the middle of a region experiencing unprecedented change, a question lingers: Will Israel attack Iran? As a result, a flurry of writings have appeared attempting to answer this pertinent question. A "yes" comes with a list of consequences of which the most troubling is the threat of an escalating regional conflict. In the middle of this regional war it is said that the most powerful non-state actor in the Middle East, Lebanon's Hezbollah, would be a key player.
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today's Hezbollah is fundamentally different from the one that fought Israel for 34-days during the summer of 2006
More importantly, today's Israel is fundamentally different from the one that let savages & degenerates World Community dictate its actions for 60 years.
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The Hezbys took out 29 of the world's best battle tanks during the 2008 intervention. IEDs have escalated the conflict. The next conflict won't be so dainty.
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Hezbollah may well attack Israel if their last supporter after Syria fails is attacked. They would be responsible for answering what all the funds and arms were for if not for this particular case. On the other hand, commentors talking about 40,000 missiles swamping Israel's ability to defend itself is just wishful thinking from the Hezbo wing. Israel tries to prevent civilian casualties and if that factor is removed due to a massive rain of missiles then all bets are off on how long the last Hesbo lives. Swarming UAVs, day and night, will make life unbearable for any launch site capable of hitting Israel and if that's in northern Lebanon then the entire Lebanese population will get to watch this one. NEVER again!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship...
[Dawn] WHEN long-forgotten skeletons start emerging from the basement into the glare of publicity, those who hid them have good reason to be embarrassed.
Nawaz Sharif
HOW would you react to an advertisement offering employment to 'an ordinary man of normal temperament'? Would you apply for the job? It may sound dull but it could be exciting.
