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SAVE THE WORLD ON A BUDGET
I was passing time at the airport yesterday and was leafing through all the latest books and magazines when I came across one of the most frightening things I had ever seen. In this magazine called something like 'Something News and World Report' (Mind you, I don't usually bother trying to read about such things but I was being eyed by a woman wearing glasses, so I felt obligated) It was all a load of cack but one story in particular caught my eye. A story that I really wish I hadn't seen at all.
Apparently the US Army is calling upon civilians (that's army lingo for all the rest of us who don't feel the urge to go to foreign countries and kill all their citizens) to help them with something they don't seem to be able to get their head around. And that is the so-called 'War on Terror'. What they are asking is for all you 'civilians' (the word itself seem to connotate a certain civility. I wonder why that is?) to let them know by writing and submitting a paper explaining how they might go about 'countering insurgency'.
The reason they are asking is because apparently they just don't know. Directly quoting from the source, "The Army needs to understand about counter insurgency..." and surmises, "Nothing less than the future of the civilised world might depend on it". And to show that they are not just trying to be ironic, they have even offered the princely sum of US $1,000 for the 'winning' entry. Imagine that. That a paper some over-patriotic cunt will write, will not only save the world but in turn for this herculean task, will be compensated for their noble act with an amount that just might pay for a month's worth of petrol, a Mars bar and 'a little something from the top rack' whilst waiting for their tank to fill.
I'm sorry, but this is beyond comprehension. If this isn't some sort of big hardy-fucking-har, then I am sure that we're much more fucked than we ever could imagine. We KNOW that Bush is a completely clueless idiot but has working with him over that last 5-6 years, rubbed off on the generals who are suppose to be experienced in this sort of thing? Has Rumsfeld learned to hypnotise people into forgetting all they ever knew? Are the creators of South Park scripting everyone's lives now? 'Praise the Lord and pass the eraser'.
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(26.4.06 11:45)
Looky here. It's all true. I'm not going to sleep well until they announce the winner. Insurgents might terrorise me and not in a good way.
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(2.5.06 00:37)
They opfferpossible topics. This is my favaourite:
24. Defining victory in the aftermath of a successful maneuver operations campaign: Convincing the enemy to accept defeat.
You will define "victory" bu successfully convincing someone they ahe been defeated. Brillant. That is brilliant.
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(4.5.06 14:42)
And just imagine the knid of answers he will get from the survaaaaaaaavalists ...
God help us.
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