A video, the link to which was provided by moderator Besoeker on an M-14 rifle by James River Armory. Not a Springfield M1A rifle, which is the civilian version of the Springfield M-14 rifle.
Second, very good news: Israeli firm Command Arms and Accessories soon will be producing AKs in the US. This time with a little help from their friends. Among their friends is the Russian Kalashnikov firearms firm. Kalashnikov is banned from importing their products, but their investment in CAA is not.
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady across the board. Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were higher across the board. Prices for used rifles were higher across the board.
New Lows:
Arizona: 30-30 Winchester Lever Action: Winchester Ranger: $450
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Depot, HSM Cowboy Action, RNFP, Brass Casing, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Hyperion Munitions, Own Brand, RN, Brass casing, Reloads .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Midsouth Shooters Supplies, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Supply, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .31 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .21 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Vizards Guns and Ammo, Remington, Brass Case, SP, .93 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Hornady Whitetail, Brass Case, SP, 1.04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: +.08 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Case, JSP, 2.38 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Case, FMJ, 2.40 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Supply, Federal, RNL, .05 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 3,250 rounds: Ammomen, Federal Champion, RNL, .05 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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It appears that Ammo prices, across the board, are starting to level off. One local supplier told me he thinks once current inventories are depleted, for common rounds anyway, we should see prices drop. He also said the usual hoarders aren't buying as much so availability should also increase.
Long read but well worth the time
[TabletMag] So when does the other shoe drop? Who’s going to break the story proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the president of the United States is so deeply connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the White House has become a Muscovite colony in all but name?
Time to use some common sense—it’s not going to happen, there is no story. The narrative that Donald Trump is effectively Putin’s prison wife is an information operation orchestrated by Democratic hands, many of whom served in the Obama administration, sectors of the intelligence community, and much of the American press. The purpose of the campaign is to delegitimize Trump’s presidency by continuing to hit on themes drawn from the narrative that Russia “hacked” the election and stole it away from Clinton.
The narrative is contorted because it’s not journalism. It’s a story that could only make sense in a profoundly corrupted public sphere, one in which, for instance, Graydon Carter is celebrated for speaking truth to power with an editor’s letter critical of Trump in a magazine that has no other ontological ground in the universe except to celebrate power.
Oh, sure, there are regular hints that there’s still more to come on Trump and his staff’s ties to Russia—the big one is about to hit. But the steady sound of drip-drip-drip is the telltale sign of a political campaign, where items are leaked bit by bit to paralyze the target. Journalists, on the other hand, have to get their story out there as quickly, and as fully, as possible because they’re always worried the competition is going to beat them to it.
No, if Trump really was in bed with the Russians, the story would already be out there, and I’m pretty sure it would have had a Wayne Barrett byline.
When I worked at the Village Voice in the mid-1990s, my office was right around the corner from Barrett’s and his bullpen of interns, a team that kept the heat on local politicians like Rudy Giuliani, Ed Koch, and others. Barrett was the first journalist who wrote at length about Trump, starting in the mid-1970s. His biography, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, was published in 1992, and reissued in 2016 as Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention.
When Trump won the nomination and the pace of Trump stories picked up, Barrett became something of an official archivist, with reporters visiting his Brooklyn house to go through his files in the basement. Anyone who wanted to know what Trump’s deal with Russia was, for instance, would want to talk to Barrett because either he or his team of interns, 40 years’ worth, would have it. After all, New York City is the world capital for information on Russians, even better than Israel—because even though the city got a smaller number of post-Cold War immigrants, New York got a higher percentage of mobsters.
Let’s compare the institution of Wayne Barrett, a subset of the institution of journalism, to the so-called Russia dossier, the document placing Trump in a shady underworld governed by Putin and other Russian thugs. The former includes not only Barrett’s body of work over nearly half a century, but that of the hundreds of journalists he trained, and many thousands of sources whose information is, therefore, able to be cross-checked.
The latter, a congeries of preadolescent pornographic fantasy and spy tales, was authored by a British intelligence officer who has gone to ground since the dossier was made public. The dossier started as work made for hire, first paid for by Republican opponents of Trump and then the Clinton camp, and is sourced to Russian “contacts” who are clearly using the document as an opportunity to proliferate an information operation for perhaps various and as yet unknown purposes. The former is journalism. The latter, part oppo research and part intelligence dump, is garbage. Clearly, it is also the new standard in the field, which is why journalists on both sides of the political spectrum are boasting about their willingness to let their bylines be used as bulletin boards for spy services and call it a “scoop.” More at the link
#1
Long, but interesting. Obama used the transition from news media to information management to his advantage.
Conclusion: Some Village Voice guy has been keeping a Trump file for 40 years and if there was anything to the Russian Connection, he'd have had the news out months ago.
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Another conclusion: Businessmen are always eeeevil to leftist journalists. While they are looking for dirt in a clean corner, what's going on elsewhere?
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While they are looking for dirt in a clean corner, what's going on elsewhere?
#4
I sit calmly in the background ignoring the media. I have been aware of their tricks since Vietnam. Then Watergate, an orchestrated hit piece on Nixon. My confidence in Trump has never been shaken. I am certain he is much more intelligent and will move along in the most effective way possible. He will not cower but will return fire most effectively. The holdovers must be removed as soon as possible. Their only interest is their ideas being preserved and subversion of the current legal government. Legal action at every opportunity. Can you imagine a gag order. :)
[SCMP] Since the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... and antagonistic attacks on China regarding issues ranging from currency and trade to Taiwan and the South China Sea have prompted much speculation that the world’s two largest economies are embarking on a dangerous path of confrontation.
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...The problem now is that the What-Comes-Next(TM) could be worse than what we have now. If we had worked with the Chinese even a decade ago on getting rid of the Kims and helping to set up a unified, non-nuclear and neutral Republic of Korea, it still could have been done. Expensive and difficult but possible.
Now, however, North Korea is so far gone that it would take multi-trillion-dollar commitments from us and the PRC, Japan, and the UN as a whole (I know, I know) and decades of work to accomplish - and it might still require writing off as hopeless the entire current population of the DPRK. (Hopeless in the sense that they will never be able to be assimilated, that is) And by now, you know the Kims have set up a stay-behind force to wreck whatever comes after them, regardless of who's involved. And if they do, it's a cinch they have some very, very bad toys to make their point with. Compared to them, ISIS would indeed be the JV.
At this point, quite honestly, I don't know what we can do. It's possible that if the Chinese are as fiendishly clever as we think then they've made the necessary plans and all they need do is make a phone call. But I firmly believe that no matter how 'peaceful' the breakdown, we will be in for decades of terrifyingly expensive effort and vicious fighting.
Something must be done - but we're at a point where there are no longer any 'good' options.
Mike
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The DailyMail UK, of course, has plenty of images to go with this. Go take a look.
Heartrending. There are no polite words for the politicians and all those polite people who work so hard to cover this up.
I didn't come to Sweden for the riots. Or because of Trump. In fact, I was supposed to be here in December — before airline strikes stood in my way.
I came because I was asked. Repeatedly.
Swedish women reaching out by email, by letter, to quietly show me what has become of their country.
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#1
it really annoys me when people blame "feminists" for silencing people like this 27-year-old
It is not and never has been "feminists" this is just an ugly way for some conservatives to try to turn back the clock to 1950 and has nothing to do with the situation.
This problem is caused by mass migration and "multiculturalists" not feminists
feminists have nothing to do with it. I see so many women speaking out against this and they are never supported or given air time by Milo or Gavin McInnes
when was the last time they hosted any of the following women (from both left and right) who speak out against Islamofascism:
#3
You are saying that there are good feminists. You are certainly right about that. But are there bad feminists also?
Are there people who denounce anyone who says something they dislike as a racist and homophobe and islamophobe?
You probably think they are phonies and Democrats, which is probably true.
But they are the poster children for feminism today mostly because they refuse to be ignored.
#4
I agree with Grins Snese4215, anon1. I'm afraid that the current wave of feminism is less interested in women than in things like
Then, as now, I felt that white heterosexual cis women’s faces were those that typically represented anti-rape advocacy, perhaps to the detriment of the broader movement -- women of color, trans women and queer women may hesitate to get involved where they do not see themselves reflected, and cis and trans men may struggle to find a place in the movement.
...written by a "black queer feminist intellectual activist" who also happens to be a male sociology professor. Women such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Nonie Darwish are rejected by such modern "feminists", who also reject the idea that females by definition were born with two X chromosomes and a uterus.
#5
no, grom. Multiculturalists decided that instead of simply defending the borders that they would try to grow the population with migration
and culture be damned.
you know what is to blame? the people who wanted migration to make a quick economic boom and import cheap labor: instead of simply living with a stable or declining population and letting it correct itself naturally.
Nothing to do with feminists unless you think it's a great idea to chain women to their reproductive capacity and/or take away their right to equality. Newsflash: we're never going back. That's what's bullsh*t.
The people who opened up the borders did so because they wanted population increase through migration for economic reasons.
Trying to shift the blame where it is not due is just like the people who say the lastest Islamist attack is because of "mental illness"
1) it lets the real culpret off the hook,
2) it's a lie, and
3) it ensures that the same mistake goes on being made and is never addressed.
#6
Newsflash: we're never going back. That's what's bullsh*t.
Don't know much history do you? And women are going back, because - at present - there are lots of women in jobs (from school teachers to university professors) to which they are less suited than the men who used to hold these jobs in the past. So, either the western societies fix this, or go under.
#7
incorrect, grom. Women are entitled to an equal and fair shot at jobs, and if they are able to do them then they are entitled to be hired. And we are entitled to be paid equal amounts for equal work, and we are never going back.
And the fact that you would excuse the real villains: Islamists and multiculturalists
while blaming something else you want to attack that has nothing to do with the real problem here tells me 2 things:
1) you are unwilling to let the free market and higher wages sort out the declining birth rate without government-dictated mass migration, and
2) you are unwilling to blame religion. Now why is this when religion is the problem, namely Islam?
I say this second reason is because religious people in the west will blame ANY thing other than religion including Islam
because they think that if they blame Islam the secular will win again
and they think Islam showed them a good example of how religion can claw back the power it lost to the secularists in the last 50 years
so they don't actually hate the head-chopping, crucifying islamists, they open the door for them in order to get what they want: a return to power for the church in the West and an expulsion of equal rights for women
I think it's just evil to tell a lie myself, and to deny equal rights to people based on a physical characteristic over which they have no control is wicked and wrong.
If people have equal talent and ability they have to have equal access to the labor market.
It is the societies that DON'T do this that collapse, and that is why their teeming starving millions are flooding in here and all we need to do is maintain our borders and turn them back
And if we need Israel-style conscription in order to do that, then I'm happy for that and I'll be the happiest conscriptee.
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#6 Newsflash: we're never going back. That's what's bullsh*t.
I recommend you read Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historisism. I'll summarize it for you. Those who think they know what the future holds, blind themselves both to what can happen and what is happening.
#9
Anon1, I've never heard any feminists speak out against Islamic treatment of women. I have heard women that speak out against Islamic treatment of women be ostracized by the left.
If it happens it gets zero play in the MSM, but I seriously doubt it happens..
#10
Indeed, just about all card-carrying congregants of organised, capitalised Feminism go very demure and ladylike when real, political Islam pops up in its throbbing, hairy physicality. Grotesquely, stereotypically woo-woo and feelzy, even, at least in front of cameras. Damned disappointing to us who like the taste of equality Kool-Aid.
And speaking of the author... I wouldn't have known her from Adam a year ago, either, but such a crush I have.
Sure, Hopkins is always a lady,
But will she stay sexy at eighty,
Like Faye, say, or Beatty
(but maybe less weighty)?
You bet I'll be waiting, eh, Katie!
BLUF: [Wash Times] Mr. Sessions is a man of integrity and plain dealing, and he will survive the sticks, stones and hatchets. But he is well advised not to let his "friends" have access to his back. Those "friends" are well advised that the Democrats are continuing to collect rope, and not all of it is for the neck of the attorney general.
The Democrats call their scorched-earth attacks on the new president "the resistance." But it is accurately described as "an insurrection." They’re determined to destroy a duly elected president of the United States, by resignation or impeachment if they can, and if that doesn’t work, maybe something more sinister will be employed. We’ve never before seen anything like this. We’re sailing in uncharted water. Emphasis added.
[The Politistic] Former Obama secretary of labor, communist illegal alien advocate Tom Perez, was elected to be the new chair of the Democratic National Election (DNC) on Saturday. His first act was to name second-place finisher, anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood stooge Keith Ellison as vice chair.
MARCH 1, 2017
Last weekend, 46 leaders from 24 states—passionate volunteers that have stepped up to manage Community Engagement Fellowship participants and mentor students in OFA's Campus Academy—huddled together in Chicago to get trained on the tools and best practices they'll need to make their programs a success.
OFA Link
[Breitbart] Radio host Mark Levin used his Thursday evening show to outline the known steps taken by President Barack Obama’s administration in its last months to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, later, his new administration.
Levin called Obama’s effort "police state" tactics, and suggested that Obama’s actions, rather than conspiracy theories about alleged Russian interference in the presidential election to help Trump, should be the target of congressional investigation.
Drawing on sources including the New York Times and the Washington Post, Levin described the case against Obama so far, based on what is already publicly known. The following is an expanded version of that case, including events that Levin did not mention specifically but are important to the overall timeline.
#1
I thought at the time that Obama's warm reception and desires for 'Trump administration success' as stated at the WH transition meeting were a bit out of character. In the popular vernacular, a 'head fake.'
[Breitbart] Former CIA case officer Sabrina De Sousa thanked the Trump administration for intervening to save her from extradition to Italy and imprisonment in a statement on Friday.
"I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the Trump administration for all their efforts on my behalf. Without their support I would be spending tonight in an Italian prison," said De Sousa, in a statement quoted by Fox News.
"The Obama administration and former CIA Director John Brennan abandoned De Sousa the last seven years, and in six weeks, the Trump team made her freedom possible," Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) told Fox News. Skipping down a bit to a very interesting comparison:
Rep. Hoekstra compared De Sousa’s case to President Obama’s abandonment of Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who played a crucial role in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
#3
Doesn't buy any cred with the spooks for Trump as the CIA already decided to let her twist in the wind. Maybe individuals who worked with her get a feel-good moment over it, maybe not.
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I hope she has some well-placed and influential friends.
[DAWN] GEN Bajwa hands over a list of 76 hard boyz based across the border to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. The Afghan government hands over a list of 85 hard boyz it claims are operating from within Pakistain. Our army chief summons Afghan diplomats to GHQ. The Afghan army deputy chief summons our ambassador in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... to his office. And on goes the blame game between the two countries, even as thousands are killed by hard boyz on both sides of the border.
Pakistain and India play the same game across their border and the LoC. India blames Pakistain for a string of attacks on its soil, while we blame the Indians for financing and arming nationalist gunnies in Balochistan Continued on Page 49
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2100 words across and down for "kabuki"
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Back in Obama’s first months on the throne, Rick Santelli, a TV personality, was “reporting” from the floor of the stock exchange. He responded to a question about Obama’s housing plan with a rant about socialism, finishing it off with a call for a new Tea Party. Whether it was spontaneous or choreographed is hard to know, but at the time people took it to be entirely spontaneous. Santelli is a carny barker prone to getting carried away on the air and his rant had the feel of an old fashioned stem winder.
Regardless of the intent or the execution, the rant went viral and the Tea Party Movement was born. Middle America was ready to be pissed off due to the terribleness of the Bush years, so Obama’s poor start put the normies in a fighting mood. Before long people were showing up at town hall meetings, dressed as Samuel Adams, giving their congressman the business about reckless government behavior that had made a hash of things. Since the Democrats were the majority, they got the brunt of the abuse.
It did not take long for the moonbats to declare the whole thing a racist conspiracy cooked up by the twelfth invisible Hitler in league with the eternal cyclops of the KKK. This was when the fake hate crime stuff got its start as a daily phenomenon. It was also when it became apparent to a lot of people that the news is mostly fake. The increasingly deranged Nancy Pelosi, slurring about “Astroturf” was so weird, it begged a challenge, but the news people carried on like it was manifestly true.
The claim that middle aged suburbanites, dressed in tricorne hats, were paid agents of a nefarious conspiracy was so nutty that the response from the press should have been laughter and then derision. After all, it has been known for decades that the Left uses rent-a-mobs. They pay people to show up and hold signs. Unions have been doing this since the days of Jimmy Hoffa. For the Democrats to clutch their pearls and call the Tea Party inauthentic should have been too much of a farce for even the very liberal press corp.
I’ve often wondered if that was when a lot of people started to think the corruption in Washington was worse than they imagined. The corruption of the Tea Party by Conservative Inc surely turned a lot of people to the dark side, but the priming agent may well have been the AstroTurf stuff. It was so obvious that the media was coordinating their coverage with the Left, it was hard not to notice it. The game was rigged and nothing in the media was on the level. It was not just bias, it was collusion.
#1
Hillary should have been laughed at when she brought up that 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' crap when enabling her rapist husband.
Instead it was treated as gospel.
#4
The violence is already there. A week doesn't go by without a report of attacks on Trump supporters. The 3 of incidents would appear small but one wonders how many slip by. Time to start thinking on what the next 3 phases look like
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No Rex, I'm not talking about this petty violence. I'm talking about the real lock & load kind where these bastards start trying to take over places by force on a wide scale. There's a long dissertation here waiting to be written about the way that the Federal system can compartmentalize this threat.
That's one thing that Obastard and his brown-shirt buddies tried to remove from the government. We've still to see how well he succeeded.
#6
Understood your point AlanC - which is why I mentioned we need to identify the next 3 stages of how that violence builds. You asked the question "when" - how we prepare is to start gaming out the scenarios by which today's background violence becomes hot
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but you know what's needed more? strong borders and proper immigration policy that does not let in mass migrants from non-Western cultures.
we need to rest and stabilise our cultures.
Military solutions can't work without this and nor can soft power because those who benefit from the system will fight you internally like the fifth column they are
soft power can only work if your government backs you up by stopping the migration in of the enemy, and prosecuting for treason those who push sharia.
stage 1 is to protect the homeland
then stage 2 of projecting soft power out can work
you cannot project soft power if your own centre is rotting
#2
The State Department is a failure and must be rebuilt. That whole State Department "soft power" illusion is just that... All you have to do to gauge the failure of "soft power" is review the debacles documented by the SIGAR (Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction)...and look at Iraq.
#4
“We do need to have a vision of how our military actions set conditions on the ground that actually then become the platform from which Secretary Tillerson goes to Geneva to come up with a political solution.”
Not surprisingly the political aspiring generals have defaulted to the diplomatic, global view. Diplomacy failed, hence the flying projectiles. Even a dog is generally wise enough not to return to his own vomit. If there is to be one, let the victor dictate the policy. Not Geneva.
#5
It is also about the “and then what?”...“The grievances of the civil war have to be addressed,
Oh crap. Not this shit again. Tell you what General Doofus, when you get to "THEN" see where you are and what will work best for OUR goals.
This is like a football coach worrying and planning at half time for how the 2 minute drive at the end of the game will play out and not paying attention to the fact that his team is losing or winning by 35. You think that might make a difference?
#6
A political solution is when you knock the other guy down, stick a gun (or a spear point --- this been going on for a looong time) in his face, and say "If you can behave, maybe I won't kill you now".
#7
There really isn't a useful alternative to winning. Somebody wins and somebody loses. PC is not a good idea. Never threaten and never warn.
Think it out then find 'em, Fix 'em in the right place to your advantage, fight 'em, and Finish 'em.
Carry an extra mag...or two.
Let their friends bury them. Count and catalog their friends.
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#8
Interesting, budget times they want a WWII military every year, but don't want a WWII victory included in the strategy.
#10
'Soft Power' as practiced by the West since 2001 is provocative weakness.
'Soft Power' means perpetual militarization of Western public spaces, the imposition of perpetual draconian police state surveillance and harassment on Western populations and the submission of Westerners to Sharia Finlandization because we don't want to give offense.
'Soft Power' is also provoking third parties to adopt a much more aggressive posture vis-a-vis a West perceived as meek and submissive and masochistic.
Hence war in Eastern Europe and the prospect of a big and nasty WMD war in East Asia.
#11
Soft power and diplomacy against the ISIS head-loppers? I think not. Is there really any useful purpose in trying to negotiate and use soft power with groups like ISIS?
#12
Only when the ideology that is Islam has been thoroughly repudiated will civilization again have a chance to florish. Since the adherents of Islam aren't interested in an actual debate, crush their fucking souls and demolish their palaces and mosques.
Then, and only then, can we begin to worry about playing nice.
#13
Soft power is a nation that is confident in itself rather than having half the nation screaming (in movies and media) that that nation is satan incarnate and incapable of judging others. Yes, we could use more of that.
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.
[DAWN] GEN Bajwa hands over a list of 76 
