Interesting Links for 27-09-2015

[andrewducker]

• The Netflix Chaos Engineering approach is damned impressive
  • (tags: engineering failure technology Netflix )
• Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models
  • (tags: globalwarming history ViaLiamProven )
• David Cameron ignored Tory MPs - and his mum - over legalisation of marriage equality
  • (tags: LGBT davidcameron

Comments

[bart_calendar]

The thing is that Afghan thing isn't just one kid. It's hundreds according to the most recent news reports

[andrewducker]

But what about the rest of it - the line I can certainly see the American military command making cold-blooded calculations and saying “It’s not worth destroying our mission in Afghanistan and alienating one of our only allies just for the sake of one kid.” is where he finishes that argument.

[bart_calendar]

Well. having a sane policy where we simply say "If you want to be a US supported military leader in the new Afghanistan stop stealing kids from local villages and raping them" makes the rest of the argument moot.

[andrewducker]

That works if they need our help more than we need theirs.

So far as I can tell, that's not the case here. Otherwise the soldier wouldn't have been ordered to do that...

(Edited because I got a bit the wrong way around)

[ext_2864067]

So...they tramp around local Muslim families' houses with their boots on and with sniffer dogs, out of pragmatism, and thus offend the locals by trampling on their faith.

But they're willing to stamp on their own soldiers' consciences in order to -avoid- offending the locals by stopping child-rape.

There's something monumentally incoherent going on with their approach to cultural sensitivity.