Distracted by lots of shiny things so far today, and it shows:
The UAE cleverly catches a codeine smuggler using a dastardly new method: her own bloodstream!
A Schneider on Security post about whether showing 'all car bombings, all the time' on the news is the proper way to cover OIF attracts some truly chowderheaded comments:
piglet: He [Tiernan] only wants us to forget that there was no terrorism in Iraq before Bush took the "war on terror" there, and that the terrorists have been able to get huge amounts of explosives because the US army didn't care to guard them.Since my definition of terrorism includes thugocracies, I would contend that Iraq was under terrorist rule from 1979-2003.
Michael Ahlers: All of this assumes the bombings in Iraq are acts of terrorism in the first place. The attacks seem to be aimed at strategic targets, not those which will impose a huge number of civilian casualties.Bombs in markets. Coordinated attacks where a IED goes off, then terrorists ambush the first responders. Yeah, sure, strategic. Pull my other leg.
I have found my new favorite website: PETA Kills Animals (H/T doubleplusgood infotainment).
I was going to touch a few other bases, but something shiny just crossed my field of vision so I'd better post this while I'm still thinking about it.
Posted by Chris at May 12, 2005 01:03 PMThat Ahlers comment is quite possibly the dumbest snippet of military analysis I have ever read.
[shaking head]
Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge at May 12, 2005 03:23 PM