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Military Steps Up War On Blogs
An anonymous reader writes "The military's war on blogs, first reported last spring, is picking up. Now the Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read. One senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so 'utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.'"
They have intelligence to lose?
Lets keep the terrorist out of this and go with Iraq. Making relationships there would mean selling out the rest of the country. The people fighting that aren't terrorist are people wanting control. Is this something your willing to do? And what happens when the other half decides it doesn't want a relationship now and starts violence again? Do we ditch the original fighter in lei of the original peaceful people? Do we just give up and allow one side to dominate the other with oppression? Or do we tuff it out and attempt to ensure a democratic form of government until both sides determine they can get a fair representation in it and then let the country as a whole decide if they want to change it? The later means more violence and war.
How much of that are you willing to accept? Do you have some idea on making relationships that isn't a magical "if they were friends, they wouldn't fight us" that possibly could change the outcome of anything?
Now lets bring terrorist into the mix. Are you willing to allow female genital mutilation in order to become friends or have a relationship? Are you willing to sucumb to all their demands like women covering every thing up? How about no alcohol? How about up and leaving the area and allow them (along with other groups) to attack Israel and persecute the jews again? Are you willing to sell them weapons? What are you willing to give up, if anything, in order to have a relationship with them? How could you ensure it would be peaceful? What can you do with the terrorist like Al Qeada that would create a relationship that we are not only peaceful but safe from future attacks? And what would you give up in the process? They aren't all the sudden going to stop shooting at us or blowing things up and then show up for bridge club every friday night because we asked them for a relationship and stopped shooting at them.
I can't read blogs, myspace, or facebook at work either. This is far from censorship.
Your a piece of human shit. If you didn't know that, know it now.
At the end of the day you go home to your comforts, to do what you will.
Others, not so fortunate.
Three tours in and waiting for your ticket getting punched. In the streets it's just a matter of time. Sniper... IED, rpg, mortar.
"I bagged an insurgent today. It wasn't a clean kill for a pot shooter found ducking around corners. I took out a lung with the best shot available and by the blood trail it took him some time to die. When I made my way to the body for confirmation he lay somewhat propped against a wall, eyes still open in death, a picture of wife and children in hand. I took the photo for addition into my scrapbook of memories. It wasn't necessary, the images of this war indelibly burn into the brain with each passing event. I am not growing as calloused to the carnage as I'd hoped. Children are the worse in witness when liberated."
Well I guess I see your point plus three insightful. It is just another day on the job. In nine months we get to clock out and go home for a while. If we make it.
Wow, copponex, you sound really unhappy living in the good ole US of A. Maybe it's time for you to start looking for somewhere else to call home.
Ignore the cries of injustice in the inner city.
That sentence made me laugh. You really dug deep for that one. The "cries of injustice in the inner city". Tell me, what do "cries of injustice in the inner city" sound like? Does it sound like this: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed?"