tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post1142045161295911643..comments2024-01-25T15:09:03.714-08:00Comments on Whiskey's Place: A New Hollywood Creative Paradigm?Whiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-87971851342694588412017-05-16T07:40:11.061-07:002017-05-16T07:40:11.061-07:00Booking Buddy is the biggest travel search engine,...<b><a href="http://booking.syntaxlinks.com/r/BookingBuddy" rel="nofollow">Booking Buddy</a></b> is the biggest travel search engine, which you can use to compare travel deals from all the big travel booking websites.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-35129942693280864852011-09-27T01:25:42.345-07:002011-09-27T01:25:42.345-07:00Whiskey
Everything you said is applicable to the ...Whiskey<br /><br />Everything you said is applicable to the AfPak theater, Yemen, and parts of Africa. Iraq on the other hand fits in nowhere. <br /><br />The premise of the Iraq war was a fraud and the criminal enterprise has cost tens of thousands of people their limbs and lives, diverted massive amounts of resources, manpower, and money from where it belonged, and created a messy political siutation who's ultimate outcome is yet unknown. I'm aware that you believe control of oil and petrodollars is important which I accept but then that should be the stated mission.Commander Shepardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-25523675750330179972011-09-25T23:50:22.392-07:002011-09-25T23:50:22.392-07:00I don't know if the public in London really wa...I don't know if the public in London really wants it. Their legislative, executive and judicial systems are far more democratic (at the whim of the mob) and simultaneously dictatorial. When the mob wants gun rights or the death penalty they are overruled but its democracy when it comes to bread and circuses. <br />Not that they're a great people, any country where "consultants" are still being hired to recommend schools stop using white papers to prevent racism is going down the drain.Julesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-89094068154422869422011-09-25T23:26:07.543-07:002011-09-25T23:26:07.543-07:00Look at Britain. they cannot even deport London bo...Look at Britain. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041629/21-7-terrorist-Siraj-Yassin-Abdullah-Ali-pictured-using-public-transport-London.html" rel="nofollow">they cannot even deport London bomber accomplices</a> because Human Rights laws forbid it. The public WANTS this stuff, the nice and PC things and no sending these guys back to wherever. <br /><br />But they also don't want stuff blowing up in London. Since these guys were a bunch of middle class Muslims who did not know how to blow stuff up, the solution has been for the US and UK to kill the bomb-instructors in Pakistan, which is exactly what they are doing. You might as well ask, what has changed in Britain to stop more London tube attacks?<br /><br />Killing bomb making teachers in Pakistan, basically. YES IT IS STUPID. But that is all PC and Multiculturalism allows. Most people in Britain want both stuff not blowing up all the time, and PC/Multiculturalism.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-11518892102487823202011-09-25T23:21:44.568-07:002011-09-25T23:21:44.568-07:00What whacking these guys constantly (which again r...What whacking these guys constantly (which again requires on the ground intel, not a Tom Clancy like sat feed) does is make them unable to come up with new plans. No say, remotely piloted "do it yourself UAVs" loaded with mustard gas, sarin, or chlorine, basic WWI technology married with off-the-shelf components. AQ had a big section researching poison gas, imagine that combo headed for a college football stadium. Or Yankee stadium, guided by an operator in a freighter off NYC ready to dump the equipment when done. Or imagine a Bombay-style series of attacks in NYC, Boston, etc. with gunmen to draw away SWAT while second waves attack schools, office towers, the like.<br /><br />Your average AQ guy is going to be trying to set off a bomb in Times Square without much luck ... as long as the guys who know how to make effective bombs are dead, hiding, and can't reach him. There are not that many of them that know how to do this, the most effective way to stop them is to kill them. Which basically means a lot of Marine Scout-Snipers, Delta, SEALs, and other Spec-Ops folks spooking around Afghanistan/Pakistan to find these guys out based on tips, and guide the hellfire missiles in.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-53396121095855554482011-09-25T23:14:02.587-07:002011-09-25T23:14:02.587-07:00Kaz, yes. You need to know who to whack, and the w...Kaz, yes. You need to know who to whack, and the whacking has not just been in "remote parts of Pakistan" but populated areas, including let me remind you Abbottabad, where Bin Laden holed up. <br /><br />Being in Afghanistan and Iraq brought us into direct contact with people who for their own ends, sought to use us against Jihad rivals. They always have rivals and enemies. This led us to a lot of physical evidence (we are running a massive spy/scout operation deep inside Pakistan from Afghanistan) that is required to know just where to hit.<br /><br />Clinton fired lots of cruise missiles, which killed no one, because by the time they hit anyone who was anyone was long gone. They weren't stupid. They did not hang around for long after a meeting, figuring it was betrayed. Being so close, means we can hit it, when say a courier arrives. Or tag him and follow him to roll up a network all at once. We've killed conservative estimate, about 5,000 fairly high level jihadis. These are the money men, the tribal leaders, the go-to-guys. <br /><br />It is true the Muslim world is over-run with Mohammeds willing to blow stuff up, and sometimes themselves. But there are far fewer guys who can move money around, buy weapons, train people, run safehouses, connect with intelligence services (a lot of the jihadis we killed in Pakistan are active ISI or Pakistan military btw). We have not been hit because we have prevented the top planners from planning, their daily routine being stay alive.<br /><br />AQ during the 90's evolved, from the Van Bomb (Oklahoma City style which was itself a re-run of Beirut) to attacks on the Cole, Embassy van bombs in Africa, and attempted missile attacks in Kenya on airliners. Culminating in something they'd never done before -- fly planes into buildings.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-20534282567223021982011-09-25T20:01:07.190-07:002011-09-25T20:01:07.190-07:00Do you really think there hasn't been another ...Do you really think there hasn't been another 9/11 because we're out there in Iraq, Afghanistan, and drone bombing remote parts of Pakistan?Kaznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-88777031408556856312011-09-25T14:29:14.669-07:002011-09-25T14:29:14.669-07:00Meh, I'd rather watch The Wire again.Meh, I'd rather watch The Wire again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-46252467951829418002011-09-25T11:46:46.219-07:002011-09-25T11:46:46.219-07:00What's interesting is that CBS in particular p...What's interesting is that CBS in particular pioneered the "SWPL-anti-crime team" approach. Older guy (sometimes not always White, see Lawrence Fishburne and Dennis Haysbert), lead a team of "diverse" including at least one hot chick, people to solve crimes (against the PC order) and restore SWPL order. Never ever breaking the law, using technology to preserve PC. <br /><br />See, CSI. Or NCIS.<br /><br />Now CBS is effectively throwing that out. Amazing.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-86442266392323568222011-09-25T09:24:56.287-07:002011-09-25T09:24:56.287-07:00I think Americans prefer heroes over governments f...I think Americans prefer heroes over governments fixing things. Governments do everything with publicity in mind(making themselves look good) while heroes focus on the mission. And while heroes violate people's rights they're not doing so out of desire of controlling the populace as our government is wont to do. And most importantly if they go rouge we can do something about them. Our government has been rouge for generations now and we can't do crap all about it.rednoreply@blogger.com