Drop A Bomb, Gestate A Terrorist; Drop A Bomb, Sprout A Refugee (November 16, 2015)
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J “The problem is the continuing and recurring problem. Dropping bombs caused the problem; dropping more bombs causes more problems; dropping even more bombs causes even more problems.”
K “Everyone is gasping and grasping for a solution without understanding the problem.”
J “Everyone is so gripped with fear that no one is thinking clearly.”
. . .
K “When someone drops 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 google mega-tons of bombs on ISIS or ISIL or whatever it is and kills all the ISISists or ISILists or whateverists, what will result?”
J “ISIS 2.0.”
K “Yup. I refer to it as ‘ISIL Part Two.’ Coming to a troubled region near you. In 2024.”
J “Those who failed to anticipate and prepare for ISIS 1.0 are not anticipating or preparing for ISIS 2.0. And what if it transmogrifies into ILIS?”
K “We are doomed. Of our own doing.”
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[See the e-commentary at Intended Consequences In Iraq (August 3, 2015) and Staying the Collision Course In Iraq and The Mid-East (September 25, 2006).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Think Big; Think Long; Heck, Think.
What happens in the Middle East stays in the Middle East.
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
There is no money in the Truth.
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