Picture of the Day - 2
(A supporter of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif throws a stone at policemen during a pro-Sharif rally in Rawalpindi near Islamabad, September 10, 2007. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)
(Sometimes it's just because I like the photo. Look at the flow in the fabric.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:26 AM
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We have the best equipped, best armed military in the world. Our soldiers carry automatic weapons and are clad from head to toe in protective armor and high-tech gear.
Yet, despite all our might, we are near-impotent in protecting ourselves from our worst enemy -- the frustrated mind of a man in a cotton tunic and plastic sandals armed with hate and desperation. Indeed, our very might -- or rather the injudicious exercise of that might -- is probably producing more enemies than it is subduing.
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-epm, at 2:52 PM
Yes.
The problem is that we've forfeited all of our soft power.
I think most galling of all is that this administration is being out thought in this new strategic environment.
They don't understand the battlefield.
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mikevotes, at 3:57 PM
The neocon's created an enemy in their fantasy, echo-chamber world. Not only did they create an imaginary enemy, they created a whole imaginary universe for that enemy to live in. Then they went to war against this phantom enemy, based in the phantom reasoning of that phantom world. The only problem is, our real enemies in the real world, with their real cultural histories, etc, etc, reacted much differently than the neocon's cartoons.
Of course, that didn't stop the Bushians from simply stepping harder on the accelerator as they strapped the blindfolds even tighter.
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-epm, at 6:02 PM
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