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2004-02-05 Afghanistan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-05 12:20:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dan: you do yeoman's work which I appreciate, but could you, like, break up these longish articles with some pithy commentary?

Posted by someone 2004-2-5 12:26:51 AM|| 2004-2-5 12:26:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, I normally post these articles before going to bed and am generally rather tired, hence the noticeable lack of commentary. I figure they're good in of themselves for the information, though.

That and I don't know a thing about the internal politicking of the Northern Alliance ;)

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-5 12:28:41 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-5 12:28:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, let's have some smartassery!!!

Posted by Rafael 2004-2-5 12:29:20 AM|| 2004-2-5 12:29:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, I get about halfway through D's articles and really feel a need for a pith break.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-2-5 12:29:27 AM|| 2004-2-5 12:29:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 DD, but don't ever go away!

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-5 12:59:40 AM|| 2004-2-5 12:59:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL, I don't plan to, guys.

I'm in this one for the long haul, same as Fred and the rest of you. We keep on Rantburging until the war ends or we're all dead or enslaved in the Khalifah. That's what it'll take and I think we're more than up to the challenge.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-5 1:06:24 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-5 1:06:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 One small correction, Dan: neither you, nor I, nor any citizen on Rantburg will ever be enslaved in the Khalifah.

Posted by Steve White 2004-2-5 1:45:46 AM|| 2004-2-5 1:45:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hear! Hear!

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-5 6:29:50 AM|| 2004-2-5 6:29:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Rantburg: Now with 20% more smartassery (and fresh lemony scent)!

Posted by Dar 2004-2-5 8:02:35 AM|| 2004-2-5 8:02:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Key smartassery for the above - how this intell chief screwed up by not stopping the assasination of Massoud. Which, BTW, took place on Sept 10th, 2001. The guys were AQ agents posing as journalists - not a very good job of vetting them was done. If Massoud had lived, the post war Afghan political situation would have been very different to say the least.

All of the above sounds like good news. Karzai is gradually gaining control over the central govt, and limiting the role of the Panjshiri-Northern Alliance types - but doing it subtly and moderately - he didnt replace the old intell chief with a Pashtun, but with another more "modernist" Panjshiri. Also by appointing new provincial governors, he is extending the writ of the central govt in the provinces. He is even pushing it west, hemming in the turf of "moderate" islamist warlord Ismail Khan, the "emir" of Herat.

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-5 9:31:21 AM|| 2004-2-5 9:31:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 He was removed by presidential decree and appointed as an adviser to the president without portfolio

I guess that means they gave him a title and a paycheck to keep him from becoming an enemy. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer..as they say.

PS DAN - by leaving out the smartassery, it just gives the rest of us a blank canvas to work on without having to go find our own articles. Thanks

Posted by B 2004-2-5 11:11:56 AM|| 2004-2-5 11:11:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Is it citizen on Rantburg or citizen of Rantburg. Certainly when I come here I feel I'm among like minds!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-5 3:31:11 PM|| 2004-2-5 3:31:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Tony: It's actually faculty, students, alumni, and associates of the University of Rantburg (UR, nor RU), with the expressed motto of "Live Free Through Better Intelligence". Our mission is to educate the rest of the self-inflicted, self-inflated dumba$$es into why their leftist, victim mentality is unworthy of continued support. Our secondary goal is to seek out, understand, and destroy those cultures who wish to enslave us with their seventh-century stupidity. Our weapon of choice is truth, intelligently intertwined around smartassery to mask its power during its subtle intrusion into their limited minds.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-5 4:10:19 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-5 4:10:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I like Uncle Cecil's motto Fightin Ingnorance since 1973

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-5 4:50:32 PM|| 2004-2-5 4:50:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Our weapon of choice is truth, intelligently intertwined around smartassery to mask its power during its subtle intrusion into their limited minds.

Damn, that's good.... worked on me.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-5 5:57:17 PM|| 2004-2-5 5:57:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 In a sense the Internet has taken us back 200 years to before the days of mass media and the consenses they manufacture. Its like living in town where there are a thousand town meetings every day and you can go to as many as you like.

Never again will elites be able to impose their views through bias, spin and false dichotomies.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-5 6:28:47 PM|| 2004-2-5 6:28:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "Modernizing the intel service."

Maybe they could give us some ideas???

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-2-5 6:51:47 PM|| 2004-2-5 6:51:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Its like living in town where there are a thousand town meetings every day and you can go to as many as you like.

Apt analogy, phil. Especially since every so often one of the village idiots stumbles through the door to amuse us...

Posted by Pappy 2004-2-5 11:07:18 PM|| 2004-2-5 11:07:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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