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mahnmutNow. Where to begin. The good or the bad news?
Okay. First the good. The global War On Terror has ended with success. Mission Accomplished, folks! But this time for real! Terrorism has been defeated. There's no more terrorism. Hooray! Right?
The bad news is, there's a "but". There's always a "but" whenever there's some bombastic claim like the one I just made. Terrorism was really wiped out from the face of Earth, BUT this didn't happen thanks to the endless spec ops by the US military, Russian army, or the 24/7 efforts of the good guys from FBI, CIA, FSB, GRU, MI-6, etc. The victory wasn't achieved through multi-billion military budgets for various repressive agencies and organizations. Both the guys with earphones on their neck and those with pen in hand, or night-vision hi-tech gadgets all over, have turned out helpless against the global threat. The drone operators launching missiles from an office full of laptops have failed to do the job, too. Large-scale espionage and surveillance didn't achieve anything. They wiretapped everyone, from top politicians to mere citizens, the latter in turn footing the bill for all that - and yet it had no effect.
No. The victory was forged by the complete (theoretical) and diametrical difference between the secretive, shadowy security structures, and the bad brown guys with the turbans and big beards that they were fighting. In fact, the two were so diametrically opposite to each other that at some point they even managed to meet at the opposite side of the spectrum. I'll now tell you how that happened.
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Okay. First the good. The global War On Terror has ended with success. Mission Accomplished, folks! But this time for real! Terrorism has been defeated. There's no more terrorism. Hooray! Right?
The bad news is, there's a "but". There's always a "but" whenever there's some bombastic claim like the one I just made. Terrorism was really wiped out from the face of Earth, BUT this didn't happen thanks to the endless spec ops by the US military, Russian army, or the 24/7 efforts of the good guys from FBI, CIA, FSB, GRU, MI-6, etc. The victory wasn't achieved through multi-billion military budgets for various repressive agencies and organizations. Both the guys with earphones on their neck and those with pen in hand, or night-vision hi-tech gadgets all over, have turned out helpless against the global threat. The drone operators launching missiles from an office full of laptops have failed to do the job, too. Large-scale espionage and surveillance didn't achieve anything. They wiretapped everyone, from top politicians to mere citizens, the latter in turn footing the bill for all that - and yet it had no effect.
No. The victory was forged by the complete (theoretical) and diametrical difference between the secretive, shadowy security structures, and the bad brown guys with the turbans and big beards that they were fighting. In fact, the two were so diametrically opposite to each other that at some point they even managed to meet at the opposite side of the spectrum. I'll now tell you how that happened.
( Read more... )
