Saturday, August 19, 2006
Martyrus interruptus
The ten-jet jihadis apparently preconfessed in "martyr videos". If it doesn't damage the case, Scotland Yard should make these videos available on the web. Victory in this war will depend on discrediting these idiots; we should be mocking and humiliating them at every opportunity, and if that includes putting their blown martyr videos on Youtube for distributed pillory at the hands of every blogger and comedian who wants to win this war, so be it.
CWCID: K-Lo.
3 Comments:
By 
Chris Cameron, at
Sat Aug 19, 11:18:00 AM:
Well, I know I would certainly love to get a gander at the tapes. We were really lucky we won this little battle and some yucks might be in order.
By 
, at
Sat Aug 19, 03:16:00 PM:
This is more than just having a good laugh at these bastards. The Israelis produced a video mocking and insultonf Hizbollah chief terrorist Nasrallah. It is good psychological warfare. How we would ever get something past the PC censors in Foggy Bottom escapes me. Have a look at http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=2477
By Buce, at
Wed Aug 23, 10:02:00 PM:
Tiger, you are a business exec, I believe? Do you ever control the budgets of subordinates? If a subordinate tells you that you shouldn’t worry about his costs because he is only a small part of the whole, are you impressed?
As a business exec, I suspect you entertain skepticism of the power of government to solve problems, yes? Have you ever said “you can’t solve a problem by throwing money at it”--?
Do you think returns to defense spending are linear? Would we twice as safe if we spent twice as much?
Framing the previous question differently, in The New American Militarism, Andrew Bacevich argues that extra military spending actually makes us less safe, rather than more. Setting aside the question whether you think this to be the case now, do you think it ever could be the case? Is it, in other words, an issue worth pondering?
You fulminate against “The shocking pattern … in the growth of social welfare spending for the middle class.” Is there any government program that you favor that does not entail the use of explosives?
As an executive, I assume you are interested in cost controls? Do you know any principles of cost control that you might think relevant to the Pentagon? For extra credit, would you like to offer thoughts on how to apply them to the health care establishment, so as to reduce the pain of the entitlement transfers that you so disparage?
