It kind of ruins the whole point of a rant when it is PC. But in spite of its all too politically correct tone, this rant spells out things that a lot of people don’t seem to be able to understand.
Rant of the Week: 9/4/09-9/10/09
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Essay of the Week: 9/4/09-9/10/09
This week’s easy of the week is about facing death.
How fast can you hit the ground?
Since I can’t figure out how to embed it, click on the link.
Posts from the Ethereal Land
Due to upgrade in the software, post from around the Ethereal Land are not being automatically pulled like they use to be. Here is a couple of the more noteworthy ones that have been missed.
Gifted (Chicken Man)
The Empty Couch (The Silverware Thief)
Assumptions make a fool out of you (Ape Man)
Of course, many others are not being pulled. Maybe we will get that fixed one day.
Links For Today
Don’t worry about the swine flue, worry about this.
Who do you think is buying the majority of treasury bonds now? You could make the case that it was better when it was the Chinese who were doing most of the buying.
Links For Today
A French spy movie makes the Russians very mad. Who would have thought?
Three solvable problems put together produce an unsolvable problem.
Everything turned to blood. The video clip is all right, but the pictures further down in the article are really cool.
Links For Today
Scandalous behavior by school children.
Everyone wants New York’s Governor to go. They should be careful about what they wish for.
This is why you can’t escape from black bears by climbing a tree.
Poem of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
This week’s essay of the week calls to mind Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” in a very ironic way.
Rant of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
Essay of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
It ought to be considered a war crime to send people out to kill and die for no reason. If such things ever do become an indictable offense, Michael Yon’s latest essay would be evidence enough to start a criminal case.
It is clear from Yon’s post and from other newspaper reports that Great Britian is sending its troops off to kill and die in Afghanistan for no reason whatsoever. They don’t have enough troops to take the battle to then enemy that the old school doctrines of warfare call for. They don’t have enough troops to protect the population according to modern theories of counterinsurgency warfare. All they are doing is fighting and dying for the sheer pleasure of existing in Afghanistan.
They are paying for things that they destroy when they defend themselves. They are giving free medical treatment to people that they know are their enemies. They are letting prisoners go because they are afraid of trouble if they don’t. They are doing all this in the hopes of winning support by being nice.
But if they can’t defend the population, the population will never support them no matter how nice they are. Even if a sizable portion of the population supports the British, they will never dare act on that support while the Taliban have control. And it is manifestly clear that the British cannot secure the population with the force that they sent to do the job.
What is worse is that it is clear that the powers that be don’t even expect them to secure the population or defeat the Taliban. They just expect them to fight and die for the appearance of doing something.