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2010-04-17 Terror Networks

Fight al-Qaeda with satire, ridicule, say UK researchers

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Posted by tipper 2010-04-17 03:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Life imitating art, well sort of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-17 07:00|| 2010-04-17 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, more cartoons. That's the ticket.

Posted by Swanimote 2010-04-17 08:03|| 2010-04-17 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 How about a cartoon of dead al-Qaeda being thrown into a cesspit with dead pigs? Or a pit full of live pigs that will eat him?

They would both make great anigifs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-17 09:40|| 2010-04-17 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Next Minister of Defense?

http://stashpocket.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/johncleese.jpg

Posted by WacoINMN 2010-04-17 09:43|| 2010-04-17 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Only about five or so years after it was first advocated...

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-17 09:45|| 2010-04-17 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Rantburg has been doing this since around 9-11, no?

Posted by ryuge 2010-04-17 09:50|| 2010-04-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to call the Flying Circus back out of retirement.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2010-04-17 11:17|| 2010-04-17 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 now that we are putting conventional warheads on ICBMs, maybe we can load some satire or sarcasm along with targeted bunker busters and really make them laugh......

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-04-17 12:07|| 2010-04-17 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 So just how thick does satire have to be to stop incoming blast and fragmentation?

Posted by ed 2010-04-17 17:32|| 2010-04-17 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 So just how thick does satire have to be to stop incoming blast and fragmentation?

Kinda like Joe Stalin's "How many divisions does the Pope have?".

You might've noticed that Stalin and the USSR aren't around anymore, either.

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-17 20:12|| 2010-04-17 20:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Islamic terrorism will be with us and growing no matter how (suddenly) funny Saturday Night Live becomes. Conquest of the kufr is islam's core principle.

Posted by ed 2010-04-17 20:27|| 2010-04-17 20:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Conquest of the kufr is islam's core principle.

Gee, thank you for the lesson, Professor ed. Kinda takes away part of my regret of not having gone to the Naval War College.

I don't recall reading anywhere where satire and derisive humor were to be the sole weapons. And the target isn't necessarily just the SNL audience.

Part of winning a war is to look at everything as a potential weapon against your enemy. Everything.

BTW, is that a nuke in your pocket, or you just happy to see me?

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-17 22:39|| 2010-04-17 22:39|| Front Page Top

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