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| Bagram Air Field, the Taliban, Dick Cheney and a Raft of Bad Choices |
| 4.3.07 |
The blogosphere's convulsing over statements made that would seem to cheer on the Taliban and wish for the death of our Vice President.
Yeah. Awful. But not for the reasons being bandied about.
A little background. The Taliban are "the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight." They have no idea how to fight a war or an insurgency. Their use f terrorist tactics are clumsy, haphazard and ham-handed. They only survive, because they are just smart enough not to go around wearing "I'm with Taliban" t-shirts.
They can't even lie well.
Statements from the Taliban concerning targeting Vice President Cheney came only after US media reported that Cheney was at Bagram Air Field after the bomber blew up. It was a "lie of opportunity." The intent was to make them appear to be prescient, knowing the VP's itinerary, so long as no one questioned the timing of the statemtents, which our media is not going to do, instead lapping up every word they utter while dismissing statements of Coalition sources to the contrary as propaganda, as usual.
But it doesn't make them look prescient. I t makes them look like failures. They could have made other statements that would have indicated that they had succeeded in some aspect of their operational goals. instead they go for the sensational (learning form the US media?) . But that statement was that they had tried something and failed.
And it's a lie.
But that's not the outrageous thing. It's just another in a string of stupid moves by the Taliban and the media's adoration of them.
The outrage, is that the whole episode has totally eclipsed the important aspect of what did happen. Three soldiers and 15 Afghan civilians killed by another cowardly terrorist act. Another attack that hurt more Afghans than "occupiers." Another attack that killed more Muslims than "infidels."
I had the honor to be on the flight from Bagram, I was there that morning, that carried the body of a South Korean soldier.
But the blogs would rather play silly bastards, being outraged over stupid people making stupid and callous statements about something that didn't even happen when the real callousness, the real outrage is the neglect and denigration of the real sacrifice made, by completely ignoring what did happen. |
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