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posted by [personal profile] caramida at 03:30pm on 10/07/2006 under ,

[profile] name_redacted, I assume you've already heard this one. After Oklahoma City, the Armed Forces really tightened up their requirements for entry, specifically with an eye towards weeding out the white supremacists, and Christian extremists. Recently though, in the wake of increasing recruitment pressures, the Defense Department has apparently relaxed these restrictions. So basically, in order to fight the war against foreign terrorists, we're training our future domestic terrorists. So we're now seeing Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad, a predictable (although unintentioned) result of such policies. When these guys come home with weapons and explosives training, what other predictable results might we expect? Just another example of your administration making the world safe for from terrorists.

Well, there goes my good mood. 

Credit where credit is due:  

  • With no thanks to Kingdaddy, for the information. I don't know why I read this guy who depresses me so much, except that he's one of the most cogent foreign policy analysts I've read, and an all-around smart guy, too boot.
  • The icon comes from Doonesbury, by Gary Trudeau.

 

Music:: Battle Hymn of the Republic, trad., words by Julia W. Howe
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posted by [identity profile] eriktdahl.livejournal.com at 11:26pm on 10/07/2006
I thought we were fighting them there so we wouldn't have to fight them here? Ugh. :(
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posted by [identity profile] ophymirage.livejournal.com at 12:01am on 11/07/2006
We won't be fighting them here. If by "them" you mean "brown people".

if, on the other hand, you mean more Timothy McVeighs? crazy talk. No self-respecting white boy would act like that. :-)
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posted by [identity profile] caramida.livejournal.com at 01:02am on 11/07/2006
Self-respecting people aren't a the problem. It's the low-self-image types looking for an identity group in service of a Righteous Cause that I am concerned about, especially if we've already used taxpayer funding for their training and equipment.
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posted by [identity profile] name-redacted.livejournal.com at 04:22pm on 12/07/2006
Yep, I read that a while ago. It's going to be so nice to run a game that isn't ripped from the headlines, and where the news isn't scarier that the horror of my imagination...
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posted by [identity profile] name-redacted.livejournal.com at 04:46pm on 12/07/2006
Yep, I read that a while ago. It's going to be so nice to run a game that isn't ripped from the headlines, and where the news isn't scarier that the horror of my imagination...

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