[geeks] more on dune

[hike]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:41:40PM -0400, hike wrote:
>
>> Thank you for including these details.
>> While older people are more mature and generally have a stabilizing
>> influence in tense situations, to the military, they are more expendable.
>>
>
> Not in Israel. They were chosen because no resistance was promised and they
> would be respected more than a bunch of teenagers carry M-16s that are
> pssoibly older than they are.
>
>
>  I have seen nothing of the paintball guns (non-lethal weapons) and wonder
>> how a small group of "activists" could overpower, disarm, abuse and
>> evacuate
>> (with extreme prejudice) a group of Israeli soldiers.
>>
>
> I'm not surprised you have seen nothing of the paintball guns, it's been
> ignored by the international press. Someday when you wake up and realize
> you
> are living in a Arab country, run under sharia law, you will figure out
> that
> allowing the press to be so pro-arab, and letting the mosques preach Jihad,
> wasn't a good idea.
>

I am already awake!  As is a large segment of the USA population.  I have
been aware of this principle and its application to life in the USA since
the 1980's.


> The English are starting to learn that lesson and might recover, while it's
> probably too late for the French.
>
> The reason the mob could do what they did is as the soldiers were lowered
> one by one from a helicopter, they were immediately shot at and attacked by
> a lynch mob.
> If this were Iran or Afganistan, you would not be seeing videos of the
> terrorist supporters attacking the soldiers, you would read a small
> article on a middle page of the NYT that US soldiers went in to stop an
> arms shipment and after being fired upon, sunk the ships with missles
> from the air, with no terrorists surviving.
>
>
> Geoff.
>
> --
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM
> New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
> understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
> i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
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