Misha is the nearest thing to a combat veteran without portfolio the internet has. Oh hell there are up and comers, and, most likely thousands I've not yet stumbed across, but for someone who has not seen Service in combat against America's enemies the Rottweiler does just fine. It's an attitude. Not just a crazed rant every now and again to assure the faithful that there's balls-a-plenty on the other end of the monitor. One has it or one does not. Curled up in a fetal ball while spilling blood on foreign soil is one way to get that attitude down pat. But I do believe that the lad would pay his pound of flesh were the shit to hit the fan, and so I think of him as a comrade in arms.
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"Just read that a former ambassador of the Taliban, Rahmatullah Hashemi, is currently a Yale student on a student visa.
The urge to bang my head against the table is powerful indeed.
This cretin, this subhuman medievalist was a ranking member of a terrorist regime that embraced torture, oppression, terrorism and fighting without regard for the laws and customs of war, and he’s studying at Yale now? Based on his history alone, he should’ve been apprehended, put before a tribunal and promptly hanged, yet he’s a freshman at Yale.
We’re not serious about this war. Sure, this Hashemi business is a minor thing, but if you look at all of the other half-measures and failures to act decisively that have ensured that we’re now stuck in the fifth year of a war with no end in sight, it’s emblematic of our complete and utter failure to take this whole thing seriously.
War isn’t something that one should enter into unless one really means it. Really, really means it. It’s dirty, dangerous and costly business but, most of all, you can’t win a war unless you’re serious about it. Hostilities might cease once everybody get sick and tired of it, but that’s not an end to the problem, it’s not even a conclusion to the conflict, it’s merely a ceasefire."
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We need guys like him, just as we need guys like Dennis The Peasant. There's a time for all out war, and there's also the real need for a referee when the bloodlust blots out all thoughts but kill every last one of the bastards. Just to be sure. Being sure is what it is all about. Half ass gets you into the position we now find ourselves in...wait...
I need to go read Dennis for a little while, see ya later...
1 comment:
Good for Yale! They've admitted someone who is clearly intelligent, curious about the world, capable of doing the work, and eager to learn. If you read the NY Times article about the man, you'll learn that he never fought against the US - in fact, all he ever had was desk jobs. He became disenchanted with the Taliban long ago, and is now absorbing all the knowledge a great university has to offer. There is no doubt that his experience studying at Yale will change the man, and it is quite likely that he will return to Afghanistan after he finishes his degree and make his country a better place because of his experiences here.
Lux et veritas = light and truth. Way to go, Yale!
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