Comments | posttrainwreck: Strategy and violence

posttrainwreck

Strategy and violence

Jan 17, 2009 16:22

That's something that really grabs my attention. Strategy. It doesn't matter if you agree with the goal of a strategy, it's still interesting to examine and discuss how that goal is being achieved. And strategy is easier to look at objectively, because even if you don't like a particular "team," you can still appreciate the effectiveness of their ( Read more... )

war, conservative, geopolitics, politics, israel, strategy, violence, liberal, gaza

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unasked for update posttrainwreck January 18 2009, 13:03:25 UTC

22 days in, there's a cease fire. I don't predict it will last since the one thing remaining Hamas are demanding is for all IDF troops to leave Gaza, but Israel has said it won't leave until Hamas has given up.
Though I expect otherwise, I hope for the best.

spikeyapples January 28 2009, 05:03:49 UTC

1. thanks for adding me as a friend, though i have no idea why and how you came upon my humble mumble blog ( ... )

pineapples posttrainwreck January 28 2009, 10:46:58 UTC

2. Conventional war is one thing, like when you have two states that agree to a general code of conduct. Then, when a people is conquered they can be brought to see the errors of their ways because they were just following orders, like the Allies defeating the Axis in WWII. When the situation is a clash of military industrial power, then you can only hope to prevent the situation (like caring for the German people after WWI instead of demanding reparations and brewing the conditions for another war) or hit them first and hit them hardest ( ... )

Re: pineapples spikeyapples January 28 2009, 13:51:41 UTC

i respect what you say, but a) mugabe and the likes do not seem to mind in the least, when their corporate profits are cut(he, lukashenko, and others maybe take little sighs time to time, due to being unable to visit Paris or London, but they still opress their people with gusto), b) prohibition was itself a forceful measure, and in that sense i'd precisely compare it to removal of Saddam and other such actions, c)i am to a point surprised actually, how well did the 'surge' in Iraq go, because we somehow managed to kick the terrorists' butts there, while still wearing kidgloves, which shows that even such a vicious and smart enemy CAN be defeated; d) I believe Vietnamese communists had killed way more people both before and after our invasion, and unlike our actions, directed at particular places presumed to harbor enemy, they carried out planned policies of elimination of whole social strata, especially of intellectuals, in particular school teachers, and affluent and mid-leve farmers-- that is, engaged in open genocide, not unlike ( ... )

Re: pineapples posttrainwreck January 31 2009, 22:06:37 UTC

Mugabe: Billionair Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, the largest landowner in Zimbabwe, has been personally propping up the Mugabe regime for quite a while. As economic pressures are already putting the endurance of his reign into question, coupled with epidemics and starvation, I would bet that he will not last another 5 years. If a benevolent world policeman were to skillfully use military force to eject him now, there's no telling what would happen to fill the void left by chaos. But of course, every case is different ( ... )

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