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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Suggested Wisdom XXII


Heavy on the Taliban for this installment.

Swedish Meatballs Confidential: On a rather desperate British IO to combat the Taliban's cyber-propaganda primacy in Afghanistan.

Abu Muqawama: On negotiating with the Taliban. The commentary is especially enlightening. No mention of "democracy" which is rather refreshing. Pay particular attention to commentator Terry Tucker.

The Long War Journal: Begins a multi-part investigation into the Pakistani Taliban beginning with the reclusive Waziri talib leader Baitullah Mehsud.

Tdaxp: Despite missing Venezuela (as a Russian friend,) Dan continues his straight on efforts to reduce Russia to the Gap kingpin that it is. Cold War II? Not with Russia.

Simply Jews: The recent death of Austrian minister Joerg Haider is, of course, not due to the basic concept of physics (friction vs inertia, I suspect) but a diabolical and near miraculous Mossad (dem Joos!) design. Snoop reports accordingly.

Good stuff.

2 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Thanks for the link. Oh, and you could also mention another tricky part of the physics: the elasticity - or lack thereof.

Dan tdaxp said...

Thanks for the link!

Venezuela is willing to buy military equipment, but is not close enough to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Compare, I think, with Venezuela's recent denouncing of the FARC.

Like Mao, Chavez seems to be someone intent on revolution at home while playing a realist game abraod. In short, seemingly smarter than Putin.