Pakistan orders army to fire on US troops if they invade Pakistan again. Something about that is a little troubling to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
One thing I don’t understand: if the US cannot be allowed to go into Pakistan, how are they going to capture Bin Ladin the week before the election? Don’t the Pakistanis know how important this mission is to John McCain the free world?
Tucker Carlson is an evil man, but not the stupid one he plays on his TV show. His feigned ignorance is all choreographed, right down to his patented blowfish-like open mouthed, furrowed-brow, Alfred E. Neuman (see under Mad Magazine), deer-in the headlights gaze. 1/
Reminder:
In college, Tucker Carlson was a member of a club named after Harvey Milk's assassin. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-dan-white-society/
There is a deep lesson here. Policing in the USA is deeply, profoundly fucked up. That doesn't that (in the words of Sympathy for the Devil) every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners are saints. But #thinblueline culture is real & entrenched & a grave danger to us all.
@equalityAlec There are lots of unlearning stations. I observed a class on de-escalation usually taught to police cadets; learned that cadets are nearly as likely to propose de-escalating as I am, but their superiors talk them out of having human reactions. That broke my heart a bit.
This Kiké Hernández run is already epic. It's like watching Larry Bird at his prime when he would drop 20, 30, 40 points per night, whatever he was in the mood to drop. @bijancbayne
Alex Verdugo rocking the baby. There are some things that baseball on TV does actually do better than baseball on radio.
How to tell if you're in a Sundman novel:
You are in a maze of twisty passages, each one different.
The walls are made of biological & digital technologies, angst, sex, memories of Africa, ethical conundrums. There is a scary meta-monster. Also, Jesus.
You are in a twisty maze.
The War on Terrorism is a Lie
The war on terrorism is a lie because terrorism is not an enemy, it is a strategy.
Terrorism is a strategy employed by weaker states and non-state actors when fighting an asymmetric war against a more powerful opponent.
No state or non-state actor enters a conventional war against an enemy it has no chance of defeating conventionally.
Since the U.S. has declared that it will maintain military superiority without challenge, it has done everything in its power to do just that. The US defense budget for 2008 is some $700 billion. There is no single state or non-state actor on this planet that can defeat the United States in a conventional war.
Therefore, any single state or non-state actor that finds itself at war with the United States will be forced to fight an asymmetric war. That is, they will be forced to employ terrorism.
Therefore the war on terrorism is a war against anyone at war with the United States. Therefore the war on terrorism is a lie. It is not a war on terrorism at all, but a war to promote and defend US imperialism.