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Just finished listening to historian and author Steven Pressfield’s video blogs (see parts 1-5 on the subtitle bar, or left sidebar) on tribalism and Afghanistan. Good stuff for the most part, although I think his hierarchical characterization of the Afghan tribes (at least) is contradictory to the codes of Pashtunwali, which teaches that every man [...] In late November of last year, 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar e Toiyba (the army of the “righteous”) launched a terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. When the smoke had cleared after four days of horror, nearly two hundred people had been killed and over 300 wounded. UAVs have it: Max Boot has a generally favorable review of General Stanley McChrystal’s strategy in Afghanistan in the WSJ: Two new books by British soldiers – one a sniper in Iraq, the other an Apache driver in the Af – are reviewed by the Weekly Standard’s Stuart Koehl. The government has finally grasped the nettle of those poor Uighers caught up in the GWOT net and sent to a tropical island for detention by sending them to Palau, a tropical island chain. In a return to the policies of 9/10, the GWOT Long War Overseas Contingency Operation(s) are now to be increasingly prosecuted as a law enforcement issue, rather than as a military/intelligence problem: Fouad Ajami says that the battle to help the Pakistani army retake the Swat Valley – and save the soul of Pakistan – could use a little more sweep and a little less cynicism. An ideological underpinning, if you will. The president says that the US went badly off course in its conduct of the GWOT, the former Vice President disagrees. All the usual lines are drawn in the sand, nothing new to learn and few, if any, minds to change. Another reason to keep GTMO operating: |
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