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China Rewards Porn Snitches
MinimeMongo writes that the "Associated Press reports that China's police ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut...The online crackdown is part of a sweeping official morality campaign launched this year on orders from communist leaders."
Who knew that a communist regime could be moral
This is the best evidence yet against those who accuse Open Source people as being communists. As is known, we Open Source people are very much into porn.
Oops... did I say we?
1> Accept that we are still at war
Most lefty types simply insist "we should not have gone to war" and have no thought beyond that. Presumably, most of them want to pull out tomorrow, neverminding the chaos and bloodbath that would follow. Apparently, in their minds, backward error recovery will instantly follow from a convincing a majority of voters that "we should not have gone to war" and all people will be un-killed, all butterfly wings will be un-flapped, and all dictators will be restored to tryranical power. Unfortunately, in reality, there is only forward error recovery in human affairs and Kerry's likely voters don't have much patience for that. For all they rhetoric about fixing the world and helping the poor, they have no will to actually do it; they prefer giving hand-outs.
2> Add enough properly supplied troops to the level necessary for tactical victories, and control the entire country (not just the parts on camera)
Absolutely. By allowing the terrorists to fester in uncontested parts of the country, Bush is only encouraging them. There must be no part of Iraq that is not controlled by the Iraq/Coalition authorities.
3> Bring our allies back to help, like in 1990, when it cost us only about $5B (instead of the $200B so far this time) and we all bore the casualties. That will also remove lots of recruiting propaganda about "Iraq vs. America". Our allies include, first and foremost, Iraqis.
This will not happen under any president's leadership. The UN and International Community, despite whatever rosy language they choose to use, don't give a shit about Iraq or Iraqis and will never give more than token help out of spite to the world's superpower.
4> Rebuild infrastructure to keep Iraqis vested interest in peace, rather than keeping them with nothing to lose
#3 seems to be a sticking point for making #4 work.
it's fairly obvious that that sort of thing has never been acceptable
Maybe where YOU live. Outside the United States of Puritan Wack-jobs, it's fairly obvious that that sort of thing is totally innocuous. The only interesting thing about the incident was the way that Americans seemed to lose their minds over it.
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