Not such a great development for the fabled "international community."Fighters from Hezb-e-Islami in Afghanistan, allies of the Taliban, are considering joining the Islamic State (IS).
Their commander, known simply as Commander Mirwais, said Muslims everywhere are "thirsty for an Islamic caliphate" and that his fighters are watching to see if IS proves to be "a true Islamic caliphate."According to BBC News, Commander Mirwais referred to IS "by its Arabic acronym Daish." And he made clear that he and his men already "have links with some Daish members."Commander Mirwais added:We are waiting to see if [Daish meets] the requirements for an Islamic caliphate. If we find they do, we are sure that our leadership will announce their allegiance to them. They are great mujahideen. We pray for them, and if we don't see a problem in the way they operate, we will join them.The thought of another terror group joining IS is a daunting one for countries and states already overwhelmed with the task of stopping and turning back current IS gains in Iraq and Syria. And if the terror group that joins IS is associated with the Taliban, as Hezb-e-Islami is, the ante will be raised even higher.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Hey, Most Equal Comrade, shrink and manage this
The jihadists of Afghanistan seem to dig the IS model:
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Sure can't look to the previous administration for management models. What we will end up following is the Soviet model and that of the other "empires" that went there to die.
ReplyDeleteRe: the previous administration: The indispensable John Bolton was definitely underutilized.
ReplyDeleteI know you have a problem with Dick Cheney, but I have never actually been able to figure out what it is.
Too busy to write much now but you can begin to get a clue by refreshing your memory here. 87% of Americans did not like, if not loathed, Dick, by the time he left office. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/
ReplyDeleteCheney in his own words about the surveillance program:
ReplyDeleteOur government prevented attacks and saved lives through the Terrorist Surveillance Program, which let us intercept calls and track contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and persons inside the United States. The program was top secret, and for good reason, until the editors of the New York Times got it and put it on the front page. After 9/11, the Times had spent months publishing the pictures and the stories of everyone killed by al-Qaeda on 9/11. Now here was that same newspaper publishing secrets in a way that could only help al-Qaeda. It impressed the Pulitzer committee, but it damn sure didn't serve the interests of our country, or the safety of our people.
The "torture" charge is horse shit. Waterboarding is not torture.
Re: "detaining innocents": We were - and are - at war. Releasing vicious jihadists who return to jihad has proven to be much more of a problem.
Re: Halliburton: Friedersdorf merely recounts the timetable of CHeney's employment there and tries to insinuate some kind of "revolving door" fishiness without actually stating anything that was done wrong
OK, well then, he looks like a corporate, shall we say, crook. He rarely smiles, and of course, he had not even the ghost of a chance to become president, although I am sure he would have preferred his ilk in power in perpetuity, in a country that actually voted for someone else for president and vice president in greater numbers. The country is still pretty closely split. I won't say better luck next time because it would sure be hard to beat the luck of the chads in 2000.
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