Tesseract
22nd September 2013, 22:07
Just the last ~24 hours:
78 dead in Church bombing in Pakistan
65 dead in Shiite funeral bombing in Iraq
12 dead in Sunni funeral bombing in Iraq
68 dead in Kenya shopping mall attack
3 coalition troops killed by their own ally in Afghanistan
Who would have thought that these terrorists, which to nations were, 20 years ago, about as distracting and as threatening as a fly, would one day present legitimate threats to entire sovereign states (Mali, for example, and Yemen and Syria and Pakistan)? Who would have thought that their numbers would swell into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions? Who would have thought that they would successfully con the western powers into directly providing them arms, money and training, as well as a whole country (Libya) to use as a refuge and staging ground?
Kids who were 10 years old when the USA invaded Iraq are now, for those who survived, 23. How many of them, traumatised, hardened and corrupted by the circumstances forced upon them are now the terrorists of today? In that country terror is now an institution. A bombing that kills 50 people would have been a leading news item, no matter where it occurred, a decade and a half ago. Today such an atrocity in Iraq only warrants a perfunctory minor headline halfway down a news web page.
22960
Monthly deaths in Iraq
How many of the terrorists in Pakistan would be wreaking such havoc if the US had not spent more than a decade defiling Afghanistan and almost as many years firing hellfire missiles at targets in Pakistan? And now the great Satan wants to bomb Syria too, and Iran. In each country a new investment of injustice, inequality and inhumanity. What we are seeing is the whole new generation of terrorists that the peace activists (those traitors who dared to criticize their countries’ own military aims) warned about right at the beginning. From Western leaders, still there is almost no admission of error, no contrition, no guilt, no accountability and no call for accountability (except by those who are not listened to).
There are, unfortunately, those in Western government who prefer that countries in Africa and the Middle East remain largely undeveloped, or even suffer degenerate chaos, if they are not to become policy slaves to those same Western governments. To them the war on terror has been quite productive. There are still a few thorns in the side, like Robert Mugabe, who was again democratically re-elected. He beat his opponent who is still supported by the West, despite being caught on video apparently discussing plans to assassinate Mugabe. The West still plays its demonization game, in bitterness, especially for England, against the president of Zimbabwe, the ‘tyrant’ who, embarrassingly, has domestic popularity ratings far exceeding those of his western counterparts. Watch for a tide of western backed violence when he eventually dies.
22958
We'd like our country back, thank you.
The war on terror is now institutionalised in the US armed forces with the Global War on Terrorism service medal, that little propaganda trinket which was so poignantly hurled away in disgust by dozens of de-programmed ex-military personnel at the anti-NATO rally in Chicago last year. The population in general shakes its head from time to time, when an intense episode grabs the media’s attention, but any hope one gets from this concern is a false hope, for no sooner is there a whisper of discontent than they are re-affirming their support for the ‘war’ by voting for the same parties that lead it. And from our leaders, still, despite the headlines such as those at the top of this post, we are told that we are making the world a safer place. Please don’t let it get any safer.
22959
Getting ready to throw the medals away, NATO is behind the fence deciding to occupy Afghanistan for another quarter-decade.
78 dead in Church bombing in Pakistan
65 dead in Shiite funeral bombing in Iraq
12 dead in Sunni funeral bombing in Iraq
68 dead in Kenya shopping mall attack
3 coalition troops killed by their own ally in Afghanistan
Who would have thought that these terrorists, which to nations were, 20 years ago, about as distracting and as threatening as a fly, would one day present legitimate threats to entire sovereign states (Mali, for example, and Yemen and Syria and Pakistan)? Who would have thought that their numbers would swell into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions? Who would have thought that they would successfully con the western powers into directly providing them arms, money and training, as well as a whole country (Libya) to use as a refuge and staging ground?
Kids who were 10 years old when the USA invaded Iraq are now, for those who survived, 23. How many of them, traumatised, hardened and corrupted by the circumstances forced upon them are now the terrorists of today? In that country terror is now an institution. A bombing that kills 50 people would have been a leading news item, no matter where it occurred, a decade and a half ago. Today such an atrocity in Iraq only warrants a perfunctory minor headline halfway down a news web page.
22960
Monthly deaths in Iraq
How many of the terrorists in Pakistan would be wreaking such havoc if the US had not spent more than a decade defiling Afghanistan and almost as many years firing hellfire missiles at targets in Pakistan? And now the great Satan wants to bomb Syria too, and Iran. In each country a new investment of injustice, inequality and inhumanity. What we are seeing is the whole new generation of terrorists that the peace activists (those traitors who dared to criticize their countries’ own military aims) warned about right at the beginning. From Western leaders, still there is almost no admission of error, no contrition, no guilt, no accountability and no call for accountability (except by those who are not listened to).
There are, unfortunately, those in Western government who prefer that countries in Africa and the Middle East remain largely undeveloped, or even suffer degenerate chaos, if they are not to become policy slaves to those same Western governments. To them the war on terror has been quite productive. There are still a few thorns in the side, like Robert Mugabe, who was again democratically re-elected. He beat his opponent who is still supported by the West, despite being caught on video apparently discussing plans to assassinate Mugabe. The West still plays its demonization game, in bitterness, especially for England, against the president of Zimbabwe, the ‘tyrant’ who, embarrassingly, has domestic popularity ratings far exceeding those of his western counterparts. Watch for a tide of western backed violence when he eventually dies.
22958
We'd like our country back, thank you.
The war on terror is now institutionalised in the US armed forces with the Global War on Terrorism service medal, that little propaganda trinket which was so poignantly hurled away in disgust by dozens of de-programmed ex-military personnel at the anti-NATO rally in Chicago last year. The population in general shakes its head from time to time, when an intense episode grabs the media’s attention, but any hope one gets from this concern is a false hope, for no sooner is there a whisper of discontent than they are re-affirming their support for the ‘war’ by voting for the same parties that lead it. And from our leaders, still, despite the headlines such as those at the top of this post, we are told that we are making the world a safer place. Please don’t let it get any safer.
22959
Getting ready to throw the medals away, NATO is behind the fence deciding to occupy Afghanistan for another quarter-decade.