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Its going to be a party on 6 Nov here for me with everyone screaming the doom the US from either Obama or Romney. Just going to kick back and read the posts and laugh.
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Jihadin wrote: Its going to be a party on 6 Nov here for me with everyone screaming the doom the US from either Obama or Romney. Just going to kick back and read the posts and laugh.
Jihadin wrote: Social networking devices...twitter on cell phones...not much of the interenet. Slice of the world is here on Dakka. Besides americans and europeans living in the ME have you seen anyone else post here that was actually from/in the ME?
There is barely a market for 40k or GWs other wargames. It wouldn't make any sense if they were popularly represented on an english language forum. You don't see very many people here from Japan or the rest of asia and I'm pretty sure they have the internet.
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I do believe its against Islam to have an "addiction" SHuma
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Jihadin wrote: I do believe its against Islam to have an "addiction" SHuma
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It's not. You're thinking of islams prohibitions, which are fairly specific though broadly interpreted. "Addictions" and "warhammer" aren't among them.
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Thats your perception. The perception in the ME is not the same as your perception.
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Jihadin wrote: Thats your perception. The perception in the ME is not the same as your perception.
A: Have you even been to the middle east?
B: Have you been outside of one country?
C: Do you speak any language other than english?
I know you style yourself as some sort of expert of human interaction in muslim countries, but you don't seem like you know very much outside of who to consider a "threat".
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Egypt for Bright Star and yes we've been down town
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Afghanistan, Kabal and Kandahar, Jabad, Asbad pretty much down town
Israel, Jerusalem
Karachi, Pakistan
Qatar
UAE
Saudie
What about you Shuma?
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Somalia to swap out C&C birds with 10th Mountain. Two days boots on ground for the inventory. Most the work was conducted on the Iwo Jima
Iraq BIAP to transport back busted helicopters
Germany (station there)
England 7 days leave
Poland to train with their troops
Romania for fun and then for training their troops (movement control for their side)
France for Fun...lots of fun
Italy for fun....lots of fun
Romania for FUN...its a fun country to visit
Kosovo for peacekeeping duty
Bosnia for Peace Keeping duty
Canada for canadian jump wings. Montreal was a blast
Panama for fun and JOTC
South Korea
Japan/Okinawa
Thailand
Taiwan
Woops forgot Manas, Kygykistan but can't go off post. There's a 100m "kill zone" around the post. Former Russian air base
pretty much all the countries I visit for fun or mission oriented.
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Egypt for Bright Star and yes we've been down town Kuwait City, Kuwait Afghanistan, Kabal and Kandahar, Jabad, Asbad pretty much down town Israel, Jerusalem Karachi, Pakistan Qatar UAE Saudie
What about you Shuma?
Afghanistan and Pakistan aren't even in the middle east. So you stayed in a base in Saudi Arabia, trained with the egyptian military, did.. what? In Kuwait? and had your plane stop over in the UAE? Was your role in the military to interact with any of these people?
And you didn't answer my question, do you speak a language other than english? I don't, but I'm not making broadly racist statements about a dozen countries based on my "personal interactions with their people".
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I'm a Movmenet Coordinator so I deal with my counter parts of both the military and their civilian side thats equivalent to me.
Kuwait I can't get into that and no I didn't just pass through.
Qatar I can't talk about
UAE is similiar
I speak Thai besides english. As for this broad racist statement your accusing me hit the "button" and let the MOD decide.
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Jihadin wrote: I'm a Movmenet Coordinator so I deal with my counter parts of both the military and their civilian side thats equivalent to me.
Kuwait I can't get into that and no I didn't just pass through.
Qatar I can't talk about
UAE is similiar
I speak Thai besides english. As for this broad racist statement your accusing me hit the "button" and let the MOD decide.
No, I did that when Pyriel called them monkies. I can't hit that thing too often. They don't intervene much anyway. Also, Thai? Why Thai? Do you have familial ties that speak it?
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Half Thai Shuma. I'm half Thai. Mom who's full blooded Thai made sure I keep with my heritage. I will out eat anyone thats non asian with chopstick on peas. My mom kept no silverware in the house. Just chopstick. She also does not like harsh language. Ever been hit on the side of the head with a wok?
I missed that part then on Pyriel calling them "monkies" or I would have hit the button myself to. You already know I'm racist towards a certain grp at first but afterwards when all said and over even their wounded I make sure is treated quickly as possible.
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Jihadin wrote: Its going to be a party on 6 Nov here for me with everyone screaming the doom the US from either Obama or Romney. Just going to kick back and read the posts and laugh.
It is a good idea to keep perspective and the ability to laugh. The South Park 2008 election episode was on the other night; all the Obama supporters are being drunken celebratory idiots, all the McCain supporters are freaking out and fleeing town to hide in a bomb shelter, and the whole time Obama and McCain are actually working together, Ocean's 11-style, to steal a diamond.
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Jihadin wrote: Its going to be a party on 6 Nov here for me with everyone screaming the doom the US from either Obama or Romney. Just going to kick back and read the posts and laugh.
It is a good idea to keep perspective and the ability to laugh. The South Park 2008 election episode was on the other night; all the Obama supporters are being drunken celebratory idiots, all the McCain supporters are freaking out and fleeing town to hide in a bomb shelter, and the whole time Obama and McCain are actually working together, Ocean's 11-style, to steal a diamond.
I remember when that came out... THAT.WAS. AWESOME!
A Florida man preparing for the end of the world is under investigation for stealing vehicles and building a “doomsday bunker” in his backyard.
Cops discovered the man’s bizarre plan to survive the apocalypse while investigating a stolen trailer in Kissimmee, Fla. on Tuesday.
“He was building a doomsday-type bunker,” Kissimmee Police spokesman Stacie Miller told ABC’s WFTS-TV.
They found the trailer at the man’s home, where he had apparently been stockpiling stolen vehicles and burying them in the backyard to create an underground shelter.
“We had a tip that the trailer might be in front of his house,” Miller said. “And there it was.”
Police found two trailers buried on top of each other as well as a stolen food truck, and the man reportedly told them he had planned to drill so that he could travel between both pieces.
The man had already sparked concern among his neighbors for digging a hole behind his home with a backhoe, prompting them to call the authorities.
“He had this crane, and he worked there for about three weeks,” a neighbor told WFTS “Pulling, and just digging and digging. You could see him over the fence, and the next thing I know, I couldn’t see him at all.”
“I called the city because I was afraid he would flood my yard,” his neighbor Betty Ryan told local CBS affiliate WTSP. “I thought he was digging a pool. And he goes, ‘I’m digging a fish pond, just a little fish pond.’”
"It's scary. I'm seven months pregnant we have little kids that live with us I don't know what could happen," neighbor Anna Demoss told WKMG-TV.
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The man had already sparked concern among his neighbors for digging a hole behind his home with a backhoe, prompting them to call the authorities.
The man’s identity has not yet been released, as he potentially faces charges in connection with the thefts.
Not only was he trying to build the bunker out of stolen materials, but he was apparently also in violation of local building codes, which require permits and prohibit burying trailers.
Though the man reportedly told police he did not have a prediction for when the world would end, chances are he wouldn’t have survived the end times in his makeshift shelter even if he had gotten away with building it.
“A trailer is not structurally sound,” Craig Holland, the city’s development-services director, told the Orlando Sentinel. “I don’t think it would have protected him from much.”
Some people are already executing their plans already...
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I see Sudan turned down the additional marine security platoon. Do believe the additional security platoons to the embassies need to go on hold status or not deployed at all. Putting them in is just adding "fuel to the fire". Everyone needs to get on the same sheet of music including Romney to put the embers out. We do not need additional flame up or next summer fighting season in Afghanistan going to be literally force on force.
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We're removing excess staffers and their families from Sudan and tunisia because of that too. I agree with you, it's better to remove ourselves from the less stable states than put up difficult to defend civilian targets who won't be able to do their jobs in this environment anyway. We can reestablish normalized diplomatic ties once they stop turning into failed states.
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ShumaGorath wrote: We're removing excess staffers and their families from Sudan and tunisia because of that too. I agree with you, it's better to remove ourselves from the less stable states than put up difficult to defend civilian targets who won't be able to do their jobs in this environment anyway. We can reestablish normalized diplomatic ties once they stop turning into failed states.
With respect to Sudan and Tunisia I'd agree...
But, I've read somewhere that the Omanning and Egyptian government has asked us to stay...
ShumaGorath wrote: We're removing excess staffers and their families from Sudan and tunisia because of that too. I agree with you, it's better to remove ourselves from the less stable states than put up difficult to defend civilian targets who won't be able to do their jobs in this environment anyway. We can reestablish normalized diplomatic ties once they stop turning into failed states.
With respect to Sudan and Tunisia I'd agree...
But, I've read somewhere that the Omanning and Egyptian government has asked us to stay...
The egyptian government (realistically the military which is a titanic political force) relies on us for security funding. As much as we don't like the Muslim Brotherhood the brotherhood doesn't much like Al-Queda right now. Egypt is attempting to rebuild an economy in tatters and you can't do that without a largescale influx of business capitol investment. They're targeting western markets and things like this really, really hurt those efforts. Nothing causes a failed state and extremism more than a lack of an economy. The brotherhood recognizes this. Oman just wants to keep expanding it's economy without risking internal strife.
I personally don't think that Tunisia is a failed state or is nearing it. It's actually somewhat cosmopolitan when compared to the rest of the region. If it can get it's administrative issues in order it'll be all set. It's islamist majority government is more powerful than is likely to be maintained through democracy (they had some issues with how they put parties on ballots in the first go 'round). We don't really need to be there.
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Lets not forget also that Egypt military is in the Sinai to take out some extremist groups there. Israel has raise no official protest of armored combat vehicles (its a armored division) in the Sinai. Sinai is like a non militarize zone going back to the 6 day War.
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Jihadin wrote: Lets not forget also that Egypt military is in the Sinai to take out some extremist groups there. Israel has raise no official protest of armored combat vehicles (its a armored division) in the Sinai. Sinai is like a non militarize zone going back to the 6 day War.
In support of the administration’s attempt to deflect attention from the defects of its policy, our Department of Justice, which is by now little more than an arm of the President’s re-election campaign, has responded by having its subordinates track down and identify the film-maker, release his name and that of at least one of his associates to the press, and haul him in after midnight to check whether he has violated the terms of probation imposed on him two years ago in a bank fraud case. And, of course, the mainstream press – which constitutes this year, as it did four years ago, what one Journolist member in 2008 accurately termed Barack Obama’s “unofficial campaign” – has loyally fallen in line, reporting that the video “sparked” the disturbance in Benghazi and intimating thereby that the attack was a spontaneous outburst.
All of this is meant to obscure the obvious – that the attack was planned well in advance. To begin with, it is not fortuitous that it took place – months after the video was posted – on 11 September. Nor can it have been the case that the perpetrators simply picked up in a fit of righteous anger the rocket launchers in their closets. Equipment of this sort is rarely ready to hand. Moreover, if the attackers bagged an American ambassador, it was surely because they had advance warning of his visit, and this means in turn that they had excellent intelligence of the sort that presupposes the cooperation of someone inside the consulate or the inside the embassy in Tripoli. . . . For the most part, the press’s contribution to the administration’s disinformation campaign is deliberate and calculated. But one must not underestimate the role played by stupidity.
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One thing that one can say about the Obama administration is that it has no shame. In Libya, on this year’s anniversary of 9/11, a makeshift American consulate in Benghazi was successfully attacked by a large mob armed with rocket launchers, and an energetic, dedicated young American ambassador was assassinated. In response, our President, his Secretary of State, and their minions have assiduously sought to deflect attention from the fact that, as Der Spiegel so aptly puts it, “Obama’s Middle East Policy Is in Ruins,” and they have done so by attempting to pin the blame on a hapless Coptic Christian, resident in California, who put up on YouTube some time ago a video highly critical of Islam. I wonder what they would be doing had the perpetrators of this crime used as a pretext the no less anti-Islamic film Religulous made by big-time Obama donor Bill Maher.
In support of the administration’s attempt to deflect attention from the defects of its policy, our Department of Justice, which is by now little more than an arm of the President’s re-election campaign, has responded by having its subordinates track down and identify the film-maker, release his name and that of at least one of his associates to the press, and haul him in after midnight to check whether he has violated the terms of probation imposed on him two years ago in a bank fraud case. And, of course, the mainstream press – which constitutes this year, as it did four years ago, what one Journolist member in 2008 accurately termed Barack Obama’s “unofficial campaign” – has loyally fallen in line, reporting that the video “sparked” the disturbance in Benghazi and intimating thereby that the attack was a spontaneous outburst.
All of this is meant to obscure the obvious – that the attack was planned well in advance. To begin with, it is not fortuitous that it took place – months after the video was posted – on 11 September. Nor can it have been the case that the perpetrators simply picked up in a fit of righteous anger the rocket launchers in their closets. Equipment of this sort is rarely ready to hand. Moreover, if the attackers bagged an American ambassador, it was surely because they had advance warning of his visit, and this means in turn that they had excellent intelligence of the sort that presupposes the cooperation of someone inside the consulate or the inside the embassy in Tripoli.
To get an inkling of the truth, one must turn from the intrepid investigative reporters associated with Pravda-on-the-Hudson, Pravda-on-the-Potomac, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and, alas, The Wall Street Journal, who have done little more than to reprint administration handouts, to the foreign press – where one learns that “The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach” and that “the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and ‘lockdown,’ under which movement is severely restricted.” Moreover, one must turn to a blogpost to discover that our State Department is in the grip of panic: “The working assumption is that several American embassies may have been penetrated, or are vulnerable to attack, because so many of them rely on local residents for staff needs at the embassy, and as such may be in a position to breach security if they have been recruited by Al Qaida.”
The American people cannot be allowed to discover that Barack Obama’s policy of appeasement has persuaded our enemies that we are weak and feckless and has elicited aggression on their part. Nor can they be allowed to learn that Hillary Clinton and our minions have been grossly negligent with regard to the security of our embassies, consulates, and other installations in the larger Muslim world. Instead, we must ignore the spirit of the First Amendment and vent our wrath on an inept Coptic Christian immigrant from Egypt.
For the most part, the press’s contribution to the administration’s disinformation campaign is deliberate and calculated. But one must not underestimate the role played by stupidity. Consider Peggy Noonan. She fell hook, line, and sinker for the administration’s disinformation campaign, and in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal she wrote the following:
Whatever the exact impact of the anti-Muhammad hate film that went viral, we have entered an age of would-be Princips.
Gavrilo Princip of course was the assassin who killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914. He was 20, largely friendless and small in stature. He pulled the trigger that killed the archduke which led to the ultimatums that brought the war that misshaped the 20th century. From his act sprang nine million dead, Lenin at the Finland Station, the fall of Russia, the rise of communism, World War II, the Cold War . . .
Maybe all those things would have happened anyway, one way or another. We'll never know. All we know is how it did begin, with one young man and a gun.
Now in the age of technology, with everything disseminated everywhere instantly, it isn't one man with a gun but one man with a camera, or a laptop, or a phone.
To be a Princip is to feel power, whatever the cost to others. It is to need to get your point out there, whatever the price others pay. A Princip has a high sense of authority—he is in possession of urgent truths—and no sense of responsibility.
The maker of the videotape that contributed to the rioting in Egypt is a would-be Princip, as is the American pastor, Terry Jones, who burned the Quran.
We are going to have to think about antidotes to and answers for the new Principism. Because it's not going to go away.
Notice what Noonan did and what she failed to do. She did not compare the murderers of our ambassador with the assassin who killed the Archduke Ferdinand, and she did not suggest that they be hunted down and killed. Instead, she singled out a resident of the United States who exercised in a provocative and obnoxious manner his right under the First Amendment to vigorously criticize a religion he did not like, and she intimated that something comparable to the retribution due Gavrilo Princip should be visited upon the film-maker and anyone who imitates his example.
You do not have to agree with the outlook permeating the video produced by this Coptic Christian to think that we as Americans should honor and protect his right to freedom of speech; and, for the record, I think his contribution to public discourse even more reprehensible than Bill Maher’s Religulous – for Maher did not attempt to pass off his own disgraceful work as something sponsored by an ethnic group to which he did not belong – and I regret that the Copt produced the video. But what Peggy Noonan appears to be advocating – and what the Department of Justice is evidently attempting – is nothing short censorship.
I read that Google has been asked by the administration to remove the video from YouTube and has refused to do so. Good for them.
Whatever we do, we should not let anyone – whether foreigners in the Muslim world or the spinmeisters in our own government – dictate what we can think and say.
Whembly, please stop putting such stupid junk in the threads. It's annoying and disrespectful. No one's going to respond to it in terms respectful to you, as it makes you look terrible just to even relay that crap.
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Mannahnin wrote: Whembly, please stop putting such stupid junk in the threads. It's annoying and disrespectful. No one's going to respond to it in terms respectful to you, as it makes you look terrible just to even relay that crap.
What? That picture of the kid holding that placard?