http://www.lobelog.com/afghan-govt-in-a-box-has-a-rap-sheet/ Personality Blogs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.lobelog.com/afghan-govt-in-a-box-has-a-rap-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-109720 bgflanagan Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:37:51 +0000 http://www.lobelog.com/?p=859#comment-109720 Government in a box... hmmm isn't that the same as government on the fly? Government ready to roll? Government ready to shape consensus? I posit that government in a box = government on the run, and correctly identified by Mr Gharib here. Wouldn't Professor Chomsky be proud of how we box it and sell it to market? . See, anyone who has spent any time in central Asia knows the whole thing is pokazukha, for show. If you spend years there as I have you know how funny it is (to the locals) to watch the charade of soldiers propping weapons into the hands of just-interested locals, and telling them "There, aim there, and shoot!" - and the target is of course invariably a cousin or a fellow Hajji. . People! Soldiers are trained to break things and to kill people, not to place weapons in others' hands and train them to shoot their extended families! . Just as we "trained" (unsuccessfully) locals in S Vietnam to hopefully shoot NVA - everyone there knew it would not work. . Well done article, Mr. Gharib. -bgflanagan Government in a box… hmmm isn’t that the same as government on the fly? Government ready to roll? Government ready to shape consensus? I posit that government in a box = government on the run, and correctly identified by Mr Gharib here. Wouldn’t Professor Chomsky be proud of how we box it and sell it to market?
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See, anyone who has spent any time in central Asia knows the whole thing is pokazukha, for show. If you spend years there as I have you know how funny it is (to the locals) to watch the charade of soldiers propping weapons into the hands of just-interested locals, and telling them “There, aim there, and shoot!” – and the target is of course invariably a cousin or a fellow Hajji.
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People! Soldiers are trained to break things and to kill people, not to place weapons in others’ hands and train them to shoot their extended families!
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Just as we “trained” (unsuccessfully) locals in S Vietnam to hopefully shoot NVA – everyone there knew it would not work.
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Well done article, Mr. Gharib.
-bgflanagan

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