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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rictor on August 15, 2004, 10:56:05 am

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Rictor on August 15, 2004, 10:56:05 am

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/thu/aug12w19.htm

Apparently, Mr.Wolfowitz has a cunning plan

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon urged Congress Tuesday to authorize US$500 million for building a network of friendly militias around the world to purge terrorists from "ungoverned areas" and warned Muslim clerics against providing "ideological sanctuary" to radicals. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq war, told the House Armed Services Committee the money would be used "for training and equipping local security forces-- not just armies -- to counter terrorism and insurgencies."

Hell, it worked so well in Afghanistan in the 80s, so why not...

Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Columbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq....the proud tradition continues.

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Hippo on August 15, 2004, 11:16:16 am

has the word 'Backfire' written all over it...

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Flipside on August 15, 2004, 11:30:02 am

Heh, free Terrorist training camps, book here... :rolleyes:

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: karajorma on August 15, 2004, 11:30:07 am

You do have to wonder how many times they're going to burn themselves on this red hot poker before they realise they shouldn't be trying to pick it up :rolleyes:

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Rictor on August 15, 2004, 11:34:13 am

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Originally posted by Hippo
has the word 'Backfire' written all over it...

Blowback - an official CIA term for the unexpected negative consequences of usually illegal US operations in foreign nations.

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Hippo on August 15, 2004, 11:34:55 am

that too

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: vyper on August 15, 2004, 11:44:32 am

Backfire, blowback, blowjob, it doesn't really matter - the end result is more state sponsored terror.

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: magatsu1 on August 15, 2004, 12:23:06 pm

proping up local dictators/militia, then deciding their presence is a credable threat to security doesn't do your credability any good neither..:blah:

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Tiara on August 15, 2004, 12:47:38 pm

Putting militias in a possibly hostile enviroment... Yeah, I think the words 'blowback' and 'backfire' pretty much describe it. :blah:

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Flipside on August 15, 2004, 12:55:52 pm

How about screwup and whackjob? ;)

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Gloriano on August 15, 2004, 01:22:05 pm

Oh great, they want create another terrorist group, That is most worst thing they can do they didn't learn from Afganistan surely
US don't want copy of Bin laden it's seems that they didn't learn from mistakes or ever will be..

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 15, 2004, 01:37:01 pm

Most people learn from experience...

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Moonsword on August 15, 2004, 01:51:36 pm

And unfortunately, Bush doesn't have any with foreign relations... or at least, he didn't before he started learning how to **** them up.

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Flipside on August 15, 2004, 01:55:18 pm

We are the Palestinian Capitalistic Army! We want to bring Big Macs and Virtual Slave Labour to our people! Come, let us learn how Americans fight and where the weak spots are on the Vehicles they have... so that we may improve upon them :nervous:

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Janos on August 15, 2004, 02:00:49 pm

Can I get sponsorship?

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 15, 2004, 02:50:10 pm

God, this is rich. It really does scream "hegemony."

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Sandwich on August 15, 2004, 05:27:29 pm

Well, the US has already dived headlong into outsourcing tech jobs to India ( :wtf: ), why not outsource the war on terror to... "militias"?

:rolleyes: Whatever...

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Rictor on August 15, 2004, 05:30:13 pm

They've already outsourced the war to "security contractors", like CACI, Tempest and Blackwater. Mercs now make up the second largest force in Iraq, next to the US.

...my God, Soldner had it right.

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Bobboau on August 15, 2004, 05:34:14 pm

there going to try this AGAIN!?!
/*tries to count the number of times this has been atemted and failed*/
/*manages to reach the theoretical number of infinity before finishing*/

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Knight Templar on August 16, 2004, 03:25:49 am

But they're FRIENDLY militants!:)

That's good enough for me! :D

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: aldo_14 on August 16, 2004, 03:47:15 am

So....is guantanamo bay a training camp, then?

Title: They may be SOBs, but they're our SOBs.
Post by: Tiara on August 16, 2004, 08:45:29 am

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Originally posted by aldo_14
So....is guantanamo bay a training camp, then?

YES! A great idea! POWs working loyally for the US!!!!1111oneoneoneone

:p