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barracuda wrote:Realistically, the Central Asian theater is a new kind of war, in which the object is not to win, but merely to create the impression of needing to remain. About half of all operations there are designed to give the "enemy" a meager chance of maintaining some semblance of a narrative will to fight. The U.S. supplies weapons to the Taliban. We pay enemy warlords huge sums to allow supply convoys access to troop stations. The CIA funds heroin production. Et cetera, et cetera. This latest story is just another part of the pattern and strategy.
I'm starting to believe that Afghanistan is our garbage dump for all the Rambo's that the US doesn't want coming back home to act out their PTSD, while they collect unemployment.barracuda wrote:Realistically, the Central Asian theater is a new kind of war, in which the object is not to win, but merely to create the impression of needing to remain. About half of all operations there are designed to give the "enemy" a meager chance of maintaining some semblance of a narrative will to fight. The U.S. supplies weapons to the Taliban. We pay enemy warlords huge sums to allow supply convoys access to troop stations. The CIA funds heroin production. Et cetera, et cetera. This latest story is just another part of the pattern and strategy.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:C'mon. Get real, RI. This disinfo story's objective is obvious.
"Ewww. Gross! Lots of dead Afghan babies!
But maybe it was caused by al-Queda trying to discredit the virtuous CIA-Blackwater sharpshooting team!"
And that kind of nonsense also leads to-
"Planes hijacked by software on 9/11? Maybe it was al-Queda outsmarting the entire US military avionics industry!"
DoYouEverWonder wrote:I'm starting to believe that Afghanistan is our garbage dump for all the Rambo's that the US doesn't want coming back home to act out their PTSD, while they collect unemployment.barracuda wrote:Realistically, the Central Asian theater is a new kind of war, in which the object is not to win, but merely to create the impression of needing to remain. About half of all operations there are designed to give the "enemy" a meager chance of maintaining some semblance of a narrative will to fight. The U.S. supplies weapons to the Taliban. We pay enemy warlords huge sums to allow supply convoys access to troop stations. The CIA funds heroin production. Et cetera, et cetera. This latest story is just another part of the pattern and strategy.
For those trying to get on to the Twitter website presently, one need not bother: a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army claims to have hacked the site.
Users on the micro-blogging service were presented with a new home page, apparently protesting the United States. It appears to be a DNS attack, redirecting users to the new page.
The new home page emerged at 6 a.m. GMT today.
In the poorly translated English (full text noted here), there is an odd reference to an embargo list, and that the hackers were against the Iranian people being stimulated. The hackers gave the address of iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com.
This publication will hold back on Tweeting till the hacking problem is resolved.
It marks an already difficult week on Twitter. Twitter application Twitterfeed had a data migration, leaving many users with a reduced service.
Update: Within an hour, Twitter restored its service.
barracuda wrote:If you have the time, could you expand your line of thought so that I might understand what point you're trying to make?
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