Comments on: Simply Appalling http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vengeance7 http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380398 Vengeance7 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:39:07 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380398 and there it is... Angry Texan. I believe there is much more of this type of thinking by most of the policy makers than anything close to reality lest we wouldn't be charging ahead with. 1.opium eradication, or as I call it "our great big never ending Taliban recruitment drive" 2. A surge... "more big FOB isolates" 3. force protection. ...conflict evassion and host national demonization 2+3= guarantee that coin/counter-insurgency "WIN" won't happen. and there it is…

Angry Texan.

I believe there is much more of this type of thinking by most of the policy makers than anything close to reality lest we wouldn’t be charging ahead with.

1.opium eradication, or as I call it “our great big never ending Taliban recruitment drive”

2. A surge… “more big FOB isolates”

3. force protection. …conflict evassion and host national demonization

2+3= guarantee that coin/counter-insurgency “WIN” won’t happen.

]]> By: Michael Hancock http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380396 Michael Hancock Sun, 31 May 2009 21:03:28 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380396 Writing us off as Lefties isn't just insulting, it's inaccurate. Fuck the Left, and Fuck the Right, and especially Fuck people who think the Uyghurs owe us anything. It's us that have misused and abused them - the reason we're letting them out of Gitmo is that they shouldn't have been there in the first place! And no thanks to W., China knows it can burn them in oil when they get back with little or no outcry from the West, since we agreed to add bullshit East Turkestan groups to our terrorist watch list. I think you see this issue differently, and that's understandable - the Uyghur situation is not something you can walk up to and get. There's a history, a long, twisted history, and thinking of them as part of some mythical al-Qaeda or Taliban fundamentalist super organization like Cobra from GI Joe is more comical than it is accurate. Writing us off as Lefties isn’t just insulting, it’s inaccurate. Fuck the Left, and Fuck the Right, and especially Fuck people who think the Uyghurs owe us anything. It’s us that have misused and abused them – the reason we’re letting them out of Gitmo is that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place! And no thanks to W., China knows it can burn them in oil when they get back with little or no outcry from the West, since we agreed to add bullshit East Turkestan groups to our terrorist watch list.

I think you see this issue differently, and that’s understandable – the Uyghur situation is not something you can walk up to and get. There’s a history, a long, twisted history, and thinking of them as part of some mythical al-Qaeda or Taliban fundamentalist super organization like Cobra from GI Joe is more comical than it is accurate.

]]> By: Transitionland http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380390 Transitionland Sun, 31 May 2009 04:36:21 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380390 "that looks pretty damn good." Oh really? Would you actually be ok with living like that? Hmmm? “that looks pretty damn good.”

Oh really? Would you actually be ok with living like that? Hmmm?

]]> By: Joshua Foust http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380389 Joshua Foust Sun, 31 May 2009 03:13:46 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380389 Angry Texan, I assume you'd feel otherwise if your family members were held in jail for over seven years not only without charges, but with multiple levels of court rulings in favor of their innocence. Yep, being unjustly held in prison is a fucking <i>picnic</i>. Angry Texan, I assume you’d feel otherwise if your family members were held in jail for over seven years not only without charges, but with multiple levels of court rulings in favor of their innocence. Yep, being unjustly held in prison is a fucking picnic.

]]> By: Angry Texan http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380388 Angry Texan Sun, 31 May 2009 02:28:03 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380388 Sorry lefties, but we don't owe them a damn thing. The Uighurs can either return to China and take their chances, or stay as our guests at Gitmo. They're getting three hots, a bed, and free medical care. For those of us who are unemployed (thanks for the hordes of illegals swamping our economy), that looks pretty damn good. Sorry lefties, but we don’t owe them a damn thing. The Uighurs can either return to China and take their chances, or stay as our guests at Gitmo. They’re getting three hots, a bed, and free medical care. For those of us who are unemployed (thanks for the hordes of illegals swamping our economy), that looks pretty damn good.

]]> By: Admiral http://registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/comment-page-1/#comment-380376 Admiral Sat, 30 May 2009 03:58:16 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/05/29/simply-appalling/#comment-380376 It's okay, it's oooookay. The argument is just that there isn't a *right* for the Uighurs and that the decision is up to the political branches. They are still, as you so deeply desire, *eligible* for asylum. Hopefully the Obama administration will act accordingly. It’s okay, it’s oooookay. The argument is just that there isn’t a *right* for the Uighurs and that the decision is up to the political branches. They are still, as you so deeply desire, *eligible* for asylum. Hopefully the Obama administration will act accordingly.

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