Shortly after the news of the wildfires in southern California reached Iraq, local troops there did something unheard of: They made a tremendous sacrifice to collect donations toward Californian relief efforts, despite the fact that their nation's economy is less than 1/10th the size of California's.
The Taliban-aligned Pakistani tribesmen? Not quite so helpful:
Local residents donate money for a Jihad or holy war at a camp arranged by supporters of Maulana Fazlullah, a Pakistani military leader, in Manglawor near Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's Swat district bordering Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. About 5,000 Pakistani tribesmen joined a rally led by an alleged Pakistani associate of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader near the Afghan border Tuesday, demanding the government halt military operations against Islamic militants in the country's northwest. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
Comments:
#2 Brian C. Ledbetter 30-Oct-2007
Heh! What's a JDAM between friends, huh? Or [i]enemies[/i], as the case may be..
Regards,
Brian
Regards,
Brian
#3 captainfish 30-Oct-2007
I wanna see the new 30,000 pound bunker buster Pres Bush wants to develop.
I think we need to GPS those reporter's vehicles. They seem to know where all the bad guys are. Well, of course we will wait till the reporters leave the area before we turn it into glass.
And by the way, how come we have not followed the dude that drops off the Bin Laden Videos to Al-Jezeera? If we had some sort of organization that spied on people who wanted to do us harm, they could operate overseas and could gather intelligence and even take out specific targets if necessary. We could even centralize the intelligence gathered so that everyone can know who is who and what is going on with our enemies.
Now that would be something neat to have. This would be the perfect situation. A member of this super secret spy organization could pose as a reporter, lay a tracking device, and then some time during their non-pork dinners with their lovely playmates.... BOOM. Mr JDAM comes knocking at the door.
I think we need to GPS those reporter's vehicles. They seem to know where all the bad guys are. Well, of course we will wait till the reporters leave the area before we turn it into glass.
And by the way, how come we have not followed the dude that drops off the Bin Laden Videos to Al-Jezeera? If we had some sort of organization that spied on people who wanted to do us harm, they could operate overseas and could gather intelligence and even take out specific targets if necessary. We could even centralize the intelligence gathered so that everyone can know who is who and what is going on with our enemies.
Now that would be something neat to have. This would be the perfect situation. A member of this super secret spy organization could pose as a reporter, lay a tracking device, and then some time during their non-pork dinners with their lovely playmates.... BOOM. Mr JDAM comes knocking at the door.
It is so sad.