Monday, July 31, 2006

Whee!

I am 41% Asshole/Bitch.
Part Time Asshole/Bitch.
I may think I am an a asshole or a bitch, but the truth is I am a good person at heart. Yeah sure, I can have a mean streak in me, but most of the people I meet like me.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Smack my ass and call me Chadwick!

Hello, all my cheeky little monkeys! I know, I didn't update last week. What a fucktard am I. But I digress. I got to talk to Flaco Mexicano, who is currently railing off about how severely he dislikes Army personnel. Being a Marine, he naturally feels that all other military branches are inferior, but in this case, I would have to agree with him. His job is to protect the engineers who get rid of Improvised Explosive Devices, and he gets to see some world-class dipshits get themselves blown up by being dumbasses. Here is an example. The following story is told roughly as it was told to me: An Army patrol is out, obviously, patrolling. They are driving along, when they see an IED, but not in time to stop. Fortunately, God is merciful, and the device does not explode. The soldiers get out of the Humvee to examine it. (Stupid-ass motherfucking mistake #1) Then, curious as to why the device didn't explode, the group decides that someone should kick it. (Stupid-ass motherfucking mistake #2) Despite how stupid that sounds, one guy (The Grand Asshat of the group) actually kicks it, activating the device's secondary trigger. The damn thing goes off, and the shithead only loses a leg. I say only, because A.) The IED could have been a lot more powerful, and taken out his entire squad, and B.) None of his brothers-in-arms were injured. Now don't get me wrong, it sucks that the guy lost his leg; he has my condolences. But straight up, I shit you not, this guy is a fucking moron. Who the hell kicks an explosive device?! What could possibly make that sound like a good idea?! Okay, it didn't go off at first, which was a stroke of luck, but why in the hell would you then kick the damn thing? I always try to believe that infantry grunts are not as stupid as they are made out to be, but when shit like this happens, I find it pretty difficult.
NOTE: I am not ragging on the military. I am simply pointing out that some soldiers are too stupid to breathe, and are not much help to our Armed Forces.

And now I would like to end my rant by saying this: Fuck Hezbollah, fuck Hamas, fuck Jamaat-i-Islam, fuck Sepah, and fuck Billie Joe Armstrong, because that guy pisses me off!


Salaam Aleykum, Bitches!

Friday, July 21, 2006

Wonky

So I was at work Thursday, when I ran into an old friend from high school. She jsut got back from Lebanon, and is still pretty shaken up. She just so happens to be Lebanese, so the last couple of weeks have been doubly painful. The Israelis invaded about half an hour after her flight took off, and she still hasn't heard from her cousin in Tripoli. To make matters worse, she was watching the news, and saw the apartment where her friend lives get hit by rockets; fortunately, her friend had already moved out. As much as I agree with the Israelis, it is difficult to look a Lebanese person in the eye and say so. Israel has to go into Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah, but a lot of innocent Lebanese are pretty much getting fucked over. It's like burning everything in the south, in order to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan. They're assholes, but hitting them means hitting a lot of people who haven't done anything wrong.
I'm not saying Israel should pull out of Lebanon, I'm just saying that Lebanon is kind of getting fucked over. If Israel wants to beat Hezbollah, it has to go to the source: Hezbollah was trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Looks like confrontation with Iran may be inevitable. Oh, well. Fuck 'em. They've had an ass-kicking on layaway for some time now, guess it's just about time to deliver!

Salaam Aleykum, Bitches!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Some food for thought:

As I have stated before, one of the main problems plagueing our military today is the vast preponderance of rear echelon people making the decisions. However, there is a second problem for which the rear echelon people are to blame. Our infantry is not trained to fight against irregular infantry, such as we are facing now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Against a mechanized opponent, we are unbeatable. Like the Macedonian phalanx of the ancient world, we will steamroll over anyone stupid and/or crazy enough to stand against us. Unfortunately, the opponents we now face are more akin to the horse-archers of the Eurasian Steppes, and the phalanx was completely useless against such foes. Alexander the Great conquered these people, but without the use of the phalanx. He defeated them with troops that were armed and equipped in a similar fashion, mostly recruits from just south of the Steppes, who fought in basically the same way as their neighbors to the north. To use a familiar cliche', he learned to fight fire with fire, defeating an unfamilar opponent by using similar troops to fight on a level playing field.

This is what must be done with our forces now. What we need are light infantry unit to combat the insurgents on equal terms. Using standoff weaponry is a really bad fucking idea in the Middle East. Collateral damage is a problem to begin with, but in the Islamic sphere of influence, it not only causes the occupying force to lose the support of the indigenous population, it actually creates more insurgent fighters. In the Middle East, vengeance is a sacred duty, so every time a woman or child is killed by a bomb or stray bullet, the male relatives will be forced to seek vengeance. In effect, for every two or three insurgents killed by a "smart bomb" or a "surgical strike", at least twice as many fighters will be created by the collateral damage associated with the technology. This shit is not going to work.

The most effective solution is to train light infantry to counter the irregular fighters, with a minimum of collatteral losses. A group of well-trained foot soldiers can eliminate opponents with a great deal more precision than a 500-pound bomb! We have many groups trained in irregular fighting tactics, but they are not light infantry, and they are far too valuable to be used for day-to -day fighting. They are Special Forces, not infantry. They are extremely well trained, the best of the best, and while this makes them the sharpest tip of our spear, it also makes their numbers too small to be used in such a broad capacity. They kick ass, but they should be used for special occaisions only, not grunt work.

Light infantry is the bread-and-butter of our opponents in the east. Hit-and-run tactics are really their best suit. Close-range fighting is their specialty. They are stealthy, accurate, and far more dangerous than the leaders of the west give them credit for. They practice Maneuver Warfare. This is the fighting style that caused a stalemate in Korea and a withdrawal in Vietnam. It is what drove the Russians out of Afghanistan, and is currently kicking their asses in Chechnya. It is what got the Israelis to leave Lebanon in the first place, and what will undoubtedly cause them a great many problems in their current endeavors. If not dealt with effectively, it will cause us many more problems in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I am not criticizing our gents in uniform, they are doing magnificently with the training they were given. Unfortunately, the training they were given is not doing them any favors. Our infantry tactics have changed very little since WW2, and we are not fighting Industrialized armies anymore. We are engaged in a guerilla war, and our troops need to be trained how to handle it effectively. If they are not, more people will die. People dying is part of war, I understand that entirely. But people dying because politicians and other rear echelon people are too stubborn, or too fucking lazy, to adjust to a new situation, is not okay. In a war, soldiers die. That's the way things are. But they shouldn't have to die because some stodgy old general doesn't want things to change at all. Our military needs to adapt to the new threat, because ignoring it is not just ill-advised: It's criminal.

Allah hoo'mah ah'nah. (May God be with us.)

Salaam Aleykum, Bitches!

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

For the Record:

The Fourth of July. The day we officially declared our independance from a corrupt, imperialistic foreign government. It seems strange to think that, not more than two hundred and fifty years ago, we were little more than a backwater colony of a vast empire. And now, we are the premiere power in the world. Funny old world, isn't it? A different type of diplomacy, and we would be like Canada. (Insert shudder here.) But history took its course, and here we stand: Free and damn proud of it. We cut our ties to the crown, and made our own fortunes. Now the United Kingdom is our ally, instead of our master. Strange.

Today we celebrate our freedom, which we won with our own blood and sweat.

I may piss and moan about problems with the government and its various branches, but I do it because I love this country. This country, which allows me to speak my mind. This country, whose own fundamental list of rights guarantees people that they will be treated decently. This country, that promised long ago never to debarr its citizens the right to arm themselves for defense against incursion, both foreign and domestic. I am proud to be an American, and I will always stand against those who would try to encroach on, or try to restrict, these rights. Any politicians who would are not worthy of their positions, and should be stripped of their ranks. Like the Navy commercial says: Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of all who oppose it. Hoo-rah.

God Bless America. God Bless the men and women of the Armed Forces. And Fuck Those Who Say Otherwise.

Salaam Aleykum, Bitches!