Taliban Outspent 65-1
It’s funny that conservatives are always going on about how patriotic they are while complaining about the media, universities and every elite institution in the country. It’s like saying you hate cheese, bread and tomato sauce but love pizza. If all educated people in this country hold views that sicken me am I supposed to feel like a patriot because the guy who pumps my gas agrees with my views on NAMs and homosexuals?
I thought about this as I read this story. A girl in a military uniform is a repulsive sight. More so than an MLK poster at an elementary school or a Human Rights Commission employee.
WASHINGTON – Nobody wants to buy them a beer.
Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home.
More than 230,000 American women have fought in those recent wars and at least 120 have died doing so, yet the public still doesn’t completely understand their contributions on the modern battlefield.
For some, it’s a lonely transition as they struggle to find their place.
Aimee Sherrod, an Air Force veteran who did three war tours, said years went by when she didn’t tell people she was a veteran. After facing sexual harassment during two tours and mortar attacks in Iraq, the 29-year-old mother of two from Bells, Tenn., was medically discharged in 2005 with post-traumatic stress disorder.
She’s haunted by nightmares and wakes up some nights thinking she’s under attack. She’s moody as a result of PTSD and can’t function enough to work or attend college. Like some other veterans, she felt she improperly received a low disability rating by the Department of Veterans Affairs that left her with a token monthly payment. She was frustrated that her paperwork mentioned she was pregnant, a factor she thought was irrelevant.
“I just gave up on it and I didn’t tell anyone about ever being in the military because I was so ashamed over everything,” Sherrod said.
As you should be.
Former Army Sgt. Kayla Williams, an Iraq veteran who has written about her experience, said she was surprised by the response she and other women from the 101st Airborne Division received from people in Clarksville, Tenn., near Fort Campbell, Ky.
She said residents just assumed they were girlfriends or wives of military men.
“People didn’t come up to us and thank us for our service in the same way. They didn’t give us free beers in bars in the same way when we first got back,” said Williams, 34, of Ashburn, Va. “Even if you’re vaguely aware of it, it still colors how you see yourself in some ways.”
Genevieve Chase, 32, of Alexandria, Va., a staff sergeant in the Army Reserves, said the same guys who were her buddies in Afghanistan didn’t invite her for drinks later on because their wives or girlfriends wouldn’t approve.
“One of the hardest things that I had to deal with was, being a woman, was losing my best friends or my comrades to their families,” Chase said.
Aww…you’re not a boy. Get over it.
McNeill said that when she’s been out at restaurants and bars with the guys in her unit, they make sure she gets some recognition when the free beers go around.
“They’ll make a point … usually to say, ‘She was over there with us, she was right next to us,’” McNeill said.
What beta wimps. I’m looking forward to these pathetic butch creatures and their feminized enablers running home with their tails between their legs, having lost to men who in this modern world have against all odds retained an ounce of self respect.
According to The New York Times.
Estimates of the Taliban’s annual revenue vary widely. Proceeds from the illicit drug trade alone range from $70 million to $400 million a year, according to Pentagon and United Nations officials. By diversifying their revenue stream beyond opium, the Taliban are frustrating American and NATO efforts to weaken the insurgency by cutting off its economic lifelines, the officials say…
The C.I.A. recently estimated in a classified report that Taliban leaders and their associates had received $106 million in the past year from donors outside Afghanistan, a figure first reported last month by The Washington Post. Private citizens from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and some Persian Gulf nations are the largest individual contributors, an American counterterrorism official said.
So we can estimate the Taliban’s funding to be at most $500 million a year. The US has spent $234 billion on the project. If we divide that by nine years, it’s $26 billion.
Some “heroes.” They outspend the enemy 65-to one! And they’re still going to lose! That’s not counting the weapons already developed and taken in there. If we factored all that in I wouldn’t be surprised if the Americans outspent the Afghanis by more than a thousand to one.
Speaking of which, two writers for Foreign Policy answer my questions about Obama’s motivations for the Afghanistan escalation. They say it’s a political move.
And that is why the United States is now headed for certain defeat in Afghanistan. Obama’s new “strategy” is no strategy at all. It is a cynical and politically motivated rehash of Iraq policy: Toss in a few more troops, throw together something resembling local security forces, buy off the enemies, and get the hell out before it all blows up. Even the dimmest bulb listening to the president’s speech could not have missed the obvious link between the withdrawal date for combat troops from Iraq (2010), the date for beginning troop reductions in Afghanistan (2011), and the domestic U.S. election cycle.
So we are faced with a conundrum. Obama is one of the most intelligent men ever to hold the U.S. presidency. But no intelligent person could really believe that adding 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, a country four times larger than Vietnam, for a year or two, following the same game plan that has resulted in dismal failure there for the past eight years, could possibly have any impact on the outcome of the conflict.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes used to say that “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” The only conclusion one can reach from the president’s speech, after eliminating the impossible, is that the administration has made a difficult but pragmatic decision: The war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, and the president’s second term and progressive domestic agenda cannot be sacrificed to a lost cause the way that President Lyndon B. Johnson’s was for Vietnam.
LBJ’s liberal agenda was sacrificed? I would’ve hate to have seen what it would’ve been like had it succeeded!
26 Comments
Dec 14, 2009 11:25 am |
I know you are hostile to the idea of women in the military but at least they are American. The Taliban are a bunch of stinking savages and barbarians. Scum of the earth. If we killed all of them in the most horrific ways, it would be less then what they deserved. Letting your hostility to feminism to praise the Taliban as manly is degrading and disgusting. Feminists are bad but the Taliban are not even in our moral universe.
Dec 14, 2009 12:35 pm |
America would be Canada.
Dec 14, 2009 12:35 pm |
This is the problem with those on the right. Do you not think that liberals see those who want to restore freedom of association or roll back feminism as worse than the Taliban? Look at the moral terms they use to unequivocally condemn the South of 50 years ago compared to the nuance used to talk about Muslim extremists today.
I have no problem with the Taliban. Did they cause white women to have one baby each or whites to become hated minorities in their own land? Did they set up university brainwashing sessions that turn whites into self-hating masochists? Did they wreck four generations and counting of intelligent Western minds?
And no matter what you think about what I said, the bravery of the Muslims in fighting the American occupiers can’t be denied.
Dec 14, 2009 1:11 pm |
I would acknowledge the bravery of animals or aliens from outer space before I would acknowledge the bravery of Muslim terrorist swine like Al-queda or their enablers the Taliban. They are scum and should have been exterminated like the Red Indian. I do not acknowledge any kind of equality or equivalence with them. Nor should you.
Dec 14, 2009 1:50 pm |
“They are scum and should have been exterminated like the Red Indian. ”
Sounds like a Trotskyite troll from the UK.
Dec 14, 2009 2:01 pm |
No, I am not a Trotskyist and I am not from the UK, nor am I a troll.
Dec 14, 2009 2:13 pm |
You are a genocidal feminist weirdo, though.
Dec 14, 2009 2:14 pm |
Robert,
You’re right. Whenever there’s someone who doesn’t live like a modern Westerner he should be covered with honey and a tiger should be unleashed upon him. Then while he’s being eaten we should all pour salt in his wounds.
Dec 14, 2009 2:34 pm |
Sounds good to me.
Dec 14, 2009 2:37 pm |
At least when it comes to the Taliban, Al-Queda, Muslim terrorists, sympathizers, etc. The feminist and other leftist scum get their turn later.
Dec 14, 2009 3:21 pm |
but check out the content & then comments to this article
“There is much uncomfortable knowledge to be found in genetics, and in our increasing understanding of the brain’s miraculous workings. Take the notion that men and women’s intelligence is different: women cluster around the average where men display more extremes of intelligence. Helena Cronin, a philosopher at the London School of Economics, calls it the “more dumb-bells, more Nobels” effect. I shudder at being the average shadow of more brilliant men, but I have no wish to shuffle the theory under a carpet and sit on it.
Our ever-deepening understanding of behavioural genetics throws up uncomfortable knowledge. It’s the old nature-nurture argument writ large, but with the implication that we are prisoners of our genes.”
- Rushton’s Race Evolution & Behaviour even gets linked!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6952298.ece
Dec 14, 2009 4:04 pm |
I know you are hostile to the idea of women in the military but at least they are American.
So was the guy who shot up Fort Hood. So is Barack Obama and all those Mexican anchor babies. The USA is about as real as the USSR. Calling someone an ‘American’ in 2009 is as meaningless as calling Latvians, Russians, and Georgians ‘Soviets’ when the USSR was still around.
Dec 14, 2009 4:09 pm |
robert is a jew.
Dec 14, 2009 4:22 pm |
(I can’t read the last 15 or so characters of each line in the comments section)
I would acknowledge the bravery of animals or aliens from outer space before I would…Al-queda or their enablers the Taliban. They are scum and should have been exterminated
The Taliban fighters are braver than the Americans with their drones or the Europeans who are hiding in their barracks. The Taliban is representing the largest ethnic group in their country. The USA and their lapdogs are the invaders, just like the Red Army of 30 years ago. Opposing the invasion of one’s homeland is perfectly natural…unless you are a US Republican.
Dec 14, 2009 4:44 pm |
I’m going to side with Robert on this one. I’d rather die out from apathy and poor fertility than thrive in the embarrassing excuse for a civilization that is the Taliban. I also don’t think that women being in the military is as big of a problem as it might seem, as they free up men to participate in the combat oriented positions. Women are still not allowed in combat units (for good reason), which is why they become casualties at an exponentially lower rate than men.
Dec 14, 2009 5:49 pm |
“I’d rather die out from apathy and poor fertility than thrive in the embarrassing excuse for a civilization that is the Taliban.”
You so crazy. The Taliban have some significant virtues that we lack.
It isn’t their fault that their IQs are too low for them to accomplish much in intellectually demanding fields.
Dec 14, 2009 8:12 pm |
So I am a Jew, eh Matra? Well nobody knows if you Matra are a Hindoo or Mohammadan on this site? That attitude would be common among beaten men from beaten races and Lothrop Stoddard would spit you out of his mouth. Praising the Taliban? Filthy Mohammadan savages? Does no one here have any pride of race, nation and civilization? You spit on feminists, leftists and decry their destruction of Western civilization but you really don’t want to stop them and reverse the evils of what they have done. You just say well America deserves to lose and it deserves to die and the Taliban are such nice folks. If you want to preserve the white race, hatred of the others is not sufficient to preserve it. What do you love so much that you would die to save it?
Dec 14, 2009 8:13 pm |
Dane, are you white?
Dec 14, 2009 10:33 pm |
So I am a Jew, eh Matra?
I never said that. You are more likely an Anglo-American conservative with too much faith in your government.
Dec 15, 2009 3:13 am |
Yeah, I’m White. What’s it to you, jew?
Dec 15, 2009 4:33 am |
Robert: “u spit on feminists, leftists and decry their destruction of Western civilization but you really don’t want to stop them and reverse the evils of what they have done. You just say well America deserves to lose and it deserves to die”
Robert, it’s not that we don’t want to reverse it, it’s that we can’t. The system is too powerful, too oppressive to free thought that we cannot even say these things out loud. And when a Western system, which should be the epitome of pluralism gets to such a point, then we rightly condemn it as deserving of its punishment.
That does not mean we do not mourn – the author of this blog does so every day. But the anger, it sometimes takes over.
If you would rather die in America than live under Taliban-like “whiteopia” conditions then you are positioning yourself to be a loser in the genetic game of life. The #1 purpose of all species is to reproduce. Your statement is shortsighted in light of your race and the circumstances surrounding its doom.
Dec 15, 2009 10:06 am |
The Taliban look quite noble and proud. The Afghan army look like the dregs.
Will they beat the other empire?
Dec 15, 2009 10:46 am |
This site is officially jumped the shark.
Dec 15, 2009 10:46 am |
“has” officially jumped the shark.
Dec 15, 2009 3:23 pm |
Phil,
Do you deny that the Pro-Feminist Military is going to suffer defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the much less well equipped Taliban?
Do you deny that this defeat of the US Military should be a cause of celebration for conservatives everywhere?
Dec 15, 2009 4:32 pm |
“I have no problem with the Taliban. Did they cause white women to have one baby each or whites to become hated minorities in their own land? Did they set up university brainwashing sessions that turn whites into self-hating masochists? Did they wreck four generations and counting of intelligent Western minds?”
It wasn’t feminism either. Damn Hoste, you’re smart and energetic. Think.
Surely militant feminism is awful and it lowered fertility rates, but feminism got started AFTER the demographic transition — from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates — which started in France around 1850 or so. Look it up. Randy from demographymatters.blogspot.com has a lot of stuff about this. Another great source is Jean-Claude Chesnais’ “The Demographic Transition”, full of wonderful HBD data. PC Academia and feminism are bad things, agreed. But that’s not what started and caused low and ever lower birth rates.
It was
1) 19th century laissez-faire economics that made people wealthier than ever;
2) this lead to societal progress, i.e. medicine, education, free time and spared families of the need to have 8 or more children for their own survival
3) life span increased, and the demographic transition set in.
After that, yes, feminism, birth postponement, the pill and PC all played a role in pushing TFR’s to extinction rates, BUT feminism wasn’t the cause of the decline in Western TFR’s. Indeed, the whole world, excepting Africa ofcourse, is now following the West in this pattern.
Also, you’re forgetting something crucial. Birth rates are averages, TFR’s differ wildly among groups. Some people will always have higher offspring than others. Those who do, are being selected for right now. R.A. Fisher wrote an interesting paper on this.
Read here: R.A. Fisher – The Actuarial Treatment of Official Birth Records.
http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/special/fisher/60.pdf
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