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2006-01-11 Terror Networks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-11 00:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg - as my mom used to always say.

The end result is that we will focus our energies on our Alaska, hybrids, fuel cell and other types of fuel. Then as we decrease our dependence on foreign oil - the Saudi Princes won't have all of that extra cash to build mosques and fill them with Jihad supporters or fund the terrorists. Soo...they win - they lose.

Posted by 2b 2006-01-11 00:27|| 2006-01-11 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd argue that blocking the Straits of Hormuz or the Straits of Malacca is a better strategy. Equivalent to blowing thousands of oil wells.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-11 00:33|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-11 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 It names specific targets in the US, Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, and claims that al-Qaeda could cripple the US economy by attacking its dependence on imported oil.

Why Turkmenistan?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-01-11 00:39|| 2006-01-11 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Why Turkmenistan?

A large natural gas supplier to Europe and I believe particularly nasty to its islamacists.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-11 00:50|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-11 00:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The Falklands War?

As an example of success this is really a stretch.

The Brits were overextended (badly so), the Argentines poorly led (badly so), and the weather was a major factor in virtually every op.

The Brits get a success mainly because their commandoes managed to take and hold S. Island against Argentinian troops that weren't half their equal (the Argies were also out of supply, cut off from any hope of reinforcement, and completely without air cover - the Brits ruled the skies), because the Brits managed to sink the Gen Belgrano (not really even all that credible a threat since it couldn't even find the sub that sank her and couldn't have outranged the Brit missiles with her guns), and because they managed, with difficulty, not to lose more ships than they had to to Argentine aircraft carrying outdated Exocets that shouldn't even have hit the British ships (if they'd had their AAM radars programmed correctly).

A great military victory the Falklands simply was not from the standpoint of most military historians. It may have seemed so, and been touted as such, at the time, but we've had more than 20 years to look back and analyze what really happened.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-01-11 00:51|| 2006-01-11 00:51|| Front Page Top

#6 And yet, still no word from Binny himself...

What's that smell? Did something die around here somewheres?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-01-11 00:54|| 2006-01-11 00:54|| Front Page Top

#7
My sources tell me that the letter from Binny said, "P.S. vote Democratic".

Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-01-11 01:39|| 2006-01-11 01:39|| Front Page Top

#8 To FOTSGreg

If the Argies on the Island had enough supplies already all they needed was better leadership and they could have out-waited the British.

Posted by bernardz 2006-01-11 02:01|| 2006-01-11 02:01|| Front Page Top

#9 A pretty good argument for SA running AQ.
Why. If SA is the only safe oil exporter they command golden prices.
AQ's policy is a definite aid to the SA oil barons.

Posted by 3dc 2006-01-11 02:06|| 2006-01-11 02:06|| Front Page Top

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