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Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual
HeavensBlade23 writes in to let us know that Wikileaks has published a US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual, titled Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004). "The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."
That's what we were told would be necessary for Iraq. A lollipop, and then there would be hugs.
That's the picture of war we were sold by the various governments, along with the usual crap bout freedom and honour.
This just goes to prove how much utter bullshit that is, along with all the US rhetoric about freedom and humanity.
I find it interesting that HeavensBlade23 submitted it, knowing that Bush will only follow his invisible leader in the sky. Nothing bad about the submitter at all so don't interpret this the wrong way; it just made me remember some of excuses of with dumb war that came from "Mr. President"'s own mouth. And I thought he said the mission was accomplished. The question I ask is which mission was that?
Babykiller.
Just like Venezuela and Bolivia!!
Congrats on hating the US. I'm sure that will help your social standing among your fellows. Your social skills in the area of groupthink are finely honed. Bravo.
And you really showed the US too. Hypocrites. Telling people that freedom is a good thing. And honor? They should be telling people to be dishonorable and not to like freedom. Because the number one virtue in life is being able to avoid the charge of hypocrisy. And the only way to avoid it for sure is never to be in favor of anything -- good, bad, or neutral. Ideals are for hypocrites.
Can I be in your nasty little social circle? I want to look down on people with ideals too. Looking down on people makes me feel better about myself.
Gee, maybe if we just were more polite, and just asked these bad men nicely we could make a lot of friends! and everyone would like us cuz we hand out candy and stuff and we could omgpwnies in pink together! Comon hippies, how about some loyalty to your coutrymen first and then we'll think about making friends?
traitor
You fail to understand that wars are no longer won with just soldiers and guns. Soldiers and guns are required to give a physical sort of security to the people so that they stop siding with insurgents and start siding with themselves, but they don't win wars.
All you have to do is look at how hard liberals fight to protect and defend those who would cut off your head, hang you from a bridge, and burn your body to see how wars are won.
Abandon the rule of law, honour and integrity and you are the enemy and you become the terrorists.
That's stupid. The terrorists are doing exactly what the prophet of a certain religion did.
They did not -at all- abandon the rule of law - quite the opposite. You will find the terrorists law a *lot* stricter than the current American law.
Honour and integrity are Christian concepts (at least that's how they were passed into America in the first place). If you're a muslim, you don't have them.
Honour in islam is nothing personal. You can do nothing to gain honor, you can only do things to lose it (especially as a woman). It has nothing to do with personal strength of character.
And integrity. I'll just let muhammad do the talking about integrity in islam. Muhammad the prophet actually states that he lies and doesn't respect promises :
'By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find something else better than that. then I do what is better and expiate my oath.' (Sahih Bukhari 7:67:427, but a trivial search for only these words immediately yields over 20 references)
Well in islam it isn't a sin to lie and go back on promises, in fact it's a virtue :
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/015.smt.html#015.4052
Do you seriously think "the rule of law" is the problem with the terrorists ? Sure they don't follow their own laws, but neither did their prophet.
Islam, the name says it by itself, means military domination in arabic (submission would be astaslama). The first and foremost duty of any muslim is "hisbah". Which can be translated into forcing sharia onto others, without violence should be considered, but with violence is the normal option.
The islamic prophet fought over 11 wars. Even muslims only claim a single one of them to be defensive.
And this is how he fought : sending out killers in the night, murdering a mother in front of her children :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asma_bint_Marwan
Do you seriously think anything about the behavior of these terrorists violates any reasonable interpretation of islam ? (besides islam is meant literally, according to quran 3:7, and so killing means killing, and every muslim is a slave with orders to kill (9:111 in the quran)).
The enemy is not terrorism, the enemy is islam. Not muslims, they can be saved (I don't mean converted, I mean they don't have to be killed), but islam has to die if you want to stop terror.
AC,
The only people who can be aitheists are ones that know for sure G-d doesn't exist. That is, they have scoured the entire reality, every inch of this galaxy and the entire existance that we know and dont' know and have conclusively proven that G-d doesn't exist. Now, I doubt you've ever been anywhere that "far", and as such, would label you agnostic, at best.
Good luck with that.
The U.S. are the good guys. You guys to remember that don't you? I know that it might be fun to feign outrage and to rebell in your own little angst-ridden way. But, at the end of the day, I hope you all remember that the U.S. are the good guys. We must win at all cost. Yes, even if we must fib to our enemies. You do know that, right?
Do you mean 'like it was in 1914 and 1939'? As in when the world wars started as opposed to when the US decided to join in?
.... kind of like today.
Well, you have to remember that there was a lot of anti-war sentiment in the US despite the looming danger at the time, and it almost kept us out (until it was too late)
But don't worry, anti-war sentiment in the US is growing stronger, and it seems unlikely that we will involve ourselves as the coming European crisis plays itself out, regardless of the consequences. It will be interesting to see where it begins. Maybe it already has as there are already refugees.
Holland?
Amsterdam and Rotterdam are expected to be in about 2015 the first large majority-Muslim cities. Europe or Eurabia?
UK?
Muslim Britain is becoming one big no-go area
Trouble in Londonistan
France?
Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union
Why 112 cars are burning every day
Elsewhere?
Where did they all go? Who are they training and leading?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell