[WarIsBoring] In a potential conflict with China, it is the U.S. that is geographically and numerically disadvantaged. Further, China has organized military developments for the past two decades around one key principle -- that the U.S. would not be allowed to repeat Desert Storm.
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Why do you think the Chinese have an inveterate fear and disdain of the Japanese? Relatively, a smaller country and population, who seemed to have had their way in China till those Yankees showed up from the other side of the planet.
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P2K, maybe we should have let the Japanese do their thing in China. They could have taken out Mao for us. Hell, we should have helped them. Roosevelt just needed them for an excuse to get into WWII against the Germans.
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More realistic or practical to study Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama's statement on the new IRAN NUKE DEAL, NAMELY EITHER [paraph]"THE US HAS ONLY TWO OPTIONS - IT COMPROMISES AND MAKES PEACE WID IRAN, OR ELSE IT WAGES WAR = "NUCLEAR WAR"? AGZ IRAN".
Mainstream Amerika is still hearing on the MSM-Net how the US STILL can't econ or budget-wise afford to go to war wid anyone andor doesn't want war agz anyone for any reason.
All nice-n-good save for the Bammer can say roughly the same things as per any major MilPol Crisis involving Globie-desired "US-style", "US-par", Co-Superpowers CHINA + PUTINIST RUSSIA, ETC. in support of US-N-Only-The-US, unilateral or strategic, GLOBAL/WORLDWIDE "RETREAT/FALLBACK IS OWG + WORLD PEACE".
WHERE THE US CAN SAFELY GIVE UP POWER-N-INFLUENCE AROUND THE WORLD TO ITS CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED IN THE PROCESS.
Lest we fergit, US-WORLD SOCIALIST ORDER IS THE PRIORITY OR FOCII, NOT NATIONAL SECURITY.
* US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE US HELPS ITS GEOPOL RIVALS = "FRENEMIES" GET STRONGER, NOT WEAKER, RELATIVE TO ITSELF.
[DefenseOne] An FBI analysis of his Google search engine queries revealed a growing interest in martyrdom. In 2013, he reportedly downloaded several videos of Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. His most extreme writings related to Islam come in the form of two religious posts not long before the shooting. They cite martyrdom as a goal but give no explicit indication of an impending attack. The FBI is continuing to investigate Abdulazeez's social media presence, looking for communication exchanges between Abdulazeez and members of known groups like the Islamic State. But none have the fact that no such communication indicators have emerged so far, and that suggests that they likely won't any time soon.
In retrospect, those various actions and clues may suggest a terrorist ready to pop. And that's the danger of retrospective analysis. Even those indicators that have the appearance of being indicative don't speak to a cause of violence. Rather, they are unremarkable behaviors that are correlated with a violent incident. (Many people, including Defense One reporters, have seen videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki and yet have resisted homicidal behavior.) The amount of open-source data available to law enforcement, or journalists, makes correlational analysis easier, but not necessarily more valid.
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The "Great" FDR solved that problem by removing the need to predict. The only internment camp the progressives are eyeing is one for the Tea Party et al. See - Dinesh D'Souza
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The fact that Abdulazee traveled to Jordan for several months in 2014 and returned should have invited a visit from the FBI to inquire about his extended trip to an Islamic country. That visit might have been enough to trigger his paranoia about being watched and discouraged further considerations of jihad. Maybe ATF Form 4473 (Firearms Transaction Form) should ask if you are a Muslim?
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1. Cross-index security clearance rejections with foreign names would seem to be a good place to start. Interview each such case under the guise of making sure discrimination did not occur. Might just find something (or scare the bad guys out of trying to get into security clearance jobs).
2. Monitor everyone coming out of certain Mosques. Perhaps even close the mosque and search the site for toxins that are causing so many people to go Jihadi for no reason. Since the preacher-guy is most likely to have a heavy dose he might require a thorough hospitalization and battery of tests to ensure his health and welfare.
[DAWN] FOR every political misstep or transgression by the military in Sindh, the PPP led by former president Asif Ali Zardari appears willing and able to outdo its uniformed counterparts. The capital of Sindh, where the PPP has been in power for the last seven years, is Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Karachi is the seat of the provincial government; Karachi is the principal political office of the PPP; Karachi is where Mr Zardari has an enormous and thoroughly fortified home; and Karachi is where the PPP-led government should meet to take decisions concerning the province of Sindh. Not Dubai. But Mr Zardari and the PPP appear oblivious to the accepted laws of politics and seem determined to make up their own rules. What else can explain the Sindh chief minister, Qaim Ali Shah, and several senior ministers flying out to Dubai -- on whose expense? -- to hold a PPP summit with Mr Zardari and Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... ? Perhaps it was to discuss the cabinet reshuffle in Sindh. Or perhaps it was to discuss the recent administrative changes in the province, the decisions taken by the apex committee, the upcoming Sindh local government elections or steps taken to prepare for potential flooding in the rural parts of the province. Nothing explains why any of these issues had to be discussed in Dubai.
Is Asif Ali Zardari apprehensive? Is he hiding something? Surely, for a leader who often talks about his years in jail and his supposed fearlessness, this is the wrong time to be outside Pakistain. Should the public and the media interpret that Mr Zardari is in self-exile, rattled by the recent military-led push against alleged corruption in Sindh? Or is the PPP's real message that governing Sindh is so easy and problem-free that it can be done remotely from ultra-luxurious Dubai? It may have seemed impossible, but the PPP government in Sindh appears to be on the verge of outdoing the Aslam Raisani-led previous provincial government in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... in its indifference -- and its indifference to its tragically terrible reputation. Distressing as it may be from a democratic point of view, the juxtaposition between an alert military and disinterested civilians is there for all to see. When a security tragedy strikes, such as the Safoora Goth carnage, the military is seen to go into overdrive. When a human crisis hits, such as the heatwave-related deaths, the civilians are seen decamping to Dubai. Truly, what is the PPP thinking?
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Coulda been worse, coulda been SLIP over ISDN in Dubai.
[DAWN] RECENTLY, the World Justice Project (WJP) assessed the rule of law in 102 countries. According to its global index, Pakistain ranked 98, India came in at 59, China 71 and Afghanistan 101, while the United States stood at 19. Without rule of law, sustained development remains an elusive goal; governance, peace, investment and development are all linked with the rule of law.
To compile the index, more than 100,000 households and experts overall were surveyed, around 980 household and experts per country. The rankings were determined on the basis of nine factors, including constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice and criminal justice.
The results are not surprising although they can be questioned on grounds of both methodology and scope. For example, in Pakistain the survey included Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Lahore and Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , while leaving Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , KP and Islamabad out of the equation. Moreover, it only looks at rule of law in urban areas and fails to reflect the situation in rural Pakistain.
Rule of law is a legal dictum. It regulates social life and human interaction to ensure that the 'elite' and ordinary citizens are subject to the same law. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in developing societies rule of law is often sacrificed at the altar of discretion and personal whims.
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[Overt Action] For all the talk over the last few years about the need to shed light on the workings of the intelligence community, the truth of the matter is "transparency" and "intelligence activities" are not natural bedfellows. Perhaps this is why, despite a flood of public rhetoric promising greater IC transparency, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper forbade his workforce last year from making unauthorized media contacts, or why many of the transparency initiatives undertaken thus far involve looking backwards, such as through document declassification, rather than at the present or future direction of the intelligence community.
Most thoughtful people understand that a fully transparent intelligence community is neither realistic nor desirable. What's driving calls for greater transparency isn't ill will toward intelligence professionals or even curiosity: rather, it's a lack of trust. The ODNI's 'Principles of Intelligence Transparency' seem to acknowledge this. However, merely shedding light on specific issues will only go so far to reshaping public perceptions.
The pursuit of 'greater transparency' for its own sake is a quixotic, if not disingenuous, goal for an industry that trades in secrets. Just because you know everything about a person doesn't mean that you trust them. Trust is only built through consistency -- and even then it takes time and persistence. By shifting the focus to "building trust" rather than to "increasing transparency," the focus of reform efforts would thus shift from releasing information to engaging the public. I emphatically agree with author Phillip Lohaus. Unfortunately, I suspect 'Public Trust' has been lost indefinitely.
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Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
The Founders read real history, not studies. They came to the conclusion that there will never be the 'right' person or persons when enough power gets concentrated. They chose the smaller injustices and unfairness created by the inefficiencies of a constrained government over the greater injustices and inefficiencies of a tyrannical centralization of power and wealth.
h/t Instapundit
Language is the first casualty of wars over foreign policy. To paraphrase Thucydides, during ideological conflict, words have to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which is now given them.
One word that has been central to our foreign policy for over a century is "colonialism." Rather than describing a historical phenomenon----with all the complexity, mixture of good and evil, and conflicting motives found on every page of history----"colonialism" is now an ideological artifact that functions as a crude epithet. As a result, our foreign policy decisions are deformed by self-loathing and guilt eagerly exploited by our adversaries.
...This leftist interpretation of words like colonialism and imperialism transforms them into ideologically loaded terms that ultimately distort the tragic truths of history. They imply that Europe's explorations and conquests constituted a new order of evil. In reality, the movements of peoples in search of resources, as well as the destruction of those already in possession of them, is the perennial dynamic of history.
Whether it was the Romans in Gaul, the Arabs throughout the Mediterranean and Southern Asia, the Huns in Eastern Europe, the Mongols in China, the Turks in the Middle East and the Balkans, the Bantu in southern Africa, the Khmer in East Asia, the Aztecs in Mexico, the Iroquois in the Northeast, or the Sioux throughout the Great Plains, human history has been stained by man's continual use of brutal violence to acquire land and resources and destroy or replace those possessing them. Scholars may find subtle nuances of evil in the European version of this ubiquitous aggression, but for the victims such fine discriminations are irrelevant.
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Actullay whatever the real motivations behind the XIXth century colonization it was sold to public opinion as intended to protect Blacks against all too real Muslim slave-taking raids. Colonial troops had many fights with slave-takers. That is another "Inconvenient Truth" for the philo-islamic left.
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About the Aztecs. Cortez never had more than one thousand men with him. Fra too few to encircle Tenocthtitlan's (aka Mexico City) lake, let alone provide reasonable security to his communication lines. This was provided by thousands of Tlazcaltecs thirsty of Aztec blood after seeing many of their brethren sacrified on Astec altars. Actually Aztec prisoners had to be guarded by Spaniards in order to prevent them fro being killed and eaten.
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Of course when the colony is one of Eastern European territories labeled "Peoples Democratic Republic of" or an ancient vassal state like North Korea Goguryeo, it's not 'colonialism'. Cause when the Left does it, it's not colonialism, it's just 'collectivism' on the large scale.
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Might be helpful to show a before and after, and then another after. slideshow of all these Colonial hellholes that they've become. Roads, not pony paths and tracks, food, not groundnuts, and clothes! These days unicorns grow on trees....
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About the Aztecs. Cortez never had more than one thousand men with him. You have to give the Aztecs credit for inventing Mexican food. They made it out of REAL Mexicans.
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human history has been stained by man's continual use of brutal violence to acquire land and resources and destroy or replace those possessing them
Yup. That's been true for all human tribes, ever since the beginning. Political correctness now uses terms like "colonialism" and "imperialism" as a sledgehammer to knock down their opponents and to gain POWER.
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the victims such fine discriminations are irrelevant. When my NA relatives start beefing about this subject, I tell them the land was stolen fair and square, and, like Gandalf, ask them what they intend to do with their time remaining.
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[DefenseOne] An FBI analysis of his Google search engine queries revealed a growing interest in martyrdom. In 2013, he reportedly downloaded several videos of Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. His most extreme writings related to Islam come in the form of two religious posts not long before the shooting. They cite martyrdom as a goal but give no explicit indication of an impending attack. The FBI is continuing to investigate Abdulazeez's social media presence, looking for communication exchanges between Abdulazeez and members of known groups like the Islamic State. But none have the fact that no such communication indicators have emerged so far, and that suggests that they likely won't any time soon.
