tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post4521402854775466451..comments2024-01-19T07:30:41.591-08:00Comments on An Average American Patriot: Al-Shabab avow 'massive' Somali war, attack Mogadishu hotel, killing at least 31 people, in war on "invaders" So it begins!jmsjoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-59393665085089620082010-08-26T02:36:53.006-07:002010-08-26T02:36:53.006-07:00Hey Tim, you may want to search Bush's forever...Hey Tim, you may want to search Bush's forever war here too because that is what I started to call it and that is what it is period!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-54667397271841178192010-08-26T02:28:38.287-07:002010-08-26T02:28:38.287-07:00This came home to me when I spoke to an American m...This came home to me when I spoke to an American military man who had helped produce the US Counter-Insurgency Manual. How long did he think the "long war" - as many now call it - would last? It is the kind of question journalists ask, and I did not expect that he would put a number on it. But he did. "Thirty years if we get it right," he said. "A hundred years if we get it wrong." <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7297139.stm" rel="nofollow">That's not pessimism that's optimistic Realism</a><br /><br />I have said it a million times these so called experts don't have a clue! War with Iran was only one of the reasons for attacking Iraq and this total world eruption will make the 100 years war look short. Depressions, wars, they don't get less significant over time they get more pronounced and much worse as time goes by. This will be no exception! Old regional wars were a prelude to WW1. WW1 was a preparation for WW2, and WW2 was a warning if we were stupid enough to allow it to happen, WW3 would be the longest and the worst!<br /><br />*In closing I was going through stories on the instigation to war with Iran by Britain, Israel, the US, and by Iran's Revolutionary Guard as there has been so many provocations since 2003. I had 275 stories so I figured there was too much. You remember the IRG boarding a British boat, Border crossings by the IRG, the recent temporary capture of an Iraqi oil field, numerous instigation by the US and Iran. I do not know what is going to set this off but something will and it will not be good!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-89421385520316535252010-08-26T02:28:00.779-07:002010-08-26T02:28:00.779-07:00Okay Tim, well you got it. I said just that so man...Okay Tim, well you got it. I said just that so many times since day one it is sickening that no one of consequence gets it or listens. Anyway you can search the subject her but:<br /><br />Last but not least as I always say, Experts don't have a damn clue! The world's anti-terrorism experts met for a conference in Stockholm and, as Roger Hardy, the BBC's Islamic Affairs Analyst, found, optimism was in short supply. What struck me most, in three days of debate, was the degree of pessimism about the task at hand. Yes, there has been a learning curve. It is now widely recognized that Muslim hearts and minds matter and that military successes mean little if the battle of ideas is being lost. But there is still a long way to go.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-46427504564613649382010-08-26T02:26:07.780-07:002010-08-26T02:26:07.780-07:00Okay Tim, well you got it. I said just that so man...Okay Tim, well you got it. I said just that so many times since day one it is sickening that no one of consequence gets it or listens. Anyway you can search the subject her but:<br /><br />Last but not least as I always say, Experts don't have a damn clue! The world's anti-terrorism experts met for a conference in Stockholm and, as Roger Hardy, the BBC's Islamic Affairs Analyst, found, optimism was in short supply. What struck me most, in three days of debate, was the degree of pessimism about the task at hand. Yes, there has been a learning curve. It is now widely recognized that Muslim hearts and minds matter and that military successes mean little if the battle of ideas is being lost. But there is still a long way to go.<br /><br />This came home to me when I spoke to an American military man who had helped produce the US Counter-Insurgency Manual. How long did he think the "long war" - as many now call it - would last? It is the kind of question journalists ask, and I did not expect that he would put a number on it. But he did. "Thirty years if we get it right," he said. "A hundred years if we get it wrong." <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7297139.stm" rel="nofollow">That's not pessimism that's optimistic Realism</a><br /><br />I have said it a million times these so called experts don't have a clue! War with Iran was only one of the reasons for attacking Iraq and this total world eruption will make the 100 years war look short. Depressions, wars, they don't get less significant over time they get more pronounced and much worse as time goes by. This will be no exception! Old regional wars were a prelude to WW1. WW1 was a preparation for WW2, and WW2 was a warning if we were stupid enough to allow it to happen, WW3 would be the longest and the worst!<br /><br />*In closing I was going through stories on the instigation to war with Iran by Britain, Israel, the US, and by Iran's Revolutionary Guard as there has been so many provocations since 2003. I had 275 stories so I figured there was too much. You remember the IRG boarding a British boat, Border crossings by the IRG, the recent temporary capture of an Iraqi oil field, numerous instigation by the US and Iran. I do not know what is going to set this off but something will and it will not be good!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-54629042253048369562010-08-25T20:23:03.713-07:002010-08-25T20:23:03.713-07:00So I'm absorbing all your comments,what it sou...So I'm absorbing all your comments,what it sounds like to me is a hundred year War. Xe is probably having a jubilation Party.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13183815338714438681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-69898114613661817532010-08-25T15:55:38.156-07:002010-08-25T15:55:38.156-07:00Wease looking around I saw a variation but when al...Wease looking around I saw a variation but when all is said and done no one know.<br /><br /> What are the Natural resources of Somalia?<br />In: Manufacturing, Energy and Utilities, Mining [Edit categories]<br />[Improve]<br /><br />Uranium, Natural gas, Possibly Oil and extensive fish and marine life off the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea <br /><br />Those so called militants are everywhere. I will never forget Black Hawk Down. Somalia is worse than Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined. That is a bad place and if we have to go in it has to be with a total blanket take no prisoner offense. Al Shabab and the rest are the worst of the worst!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-50747883334078241532010-08-25T15:19:09.840-07:002010-08-25T15:19:09.840-07:00I've checked in on the CIA Factbook from time ...I've checked in on the CIA Factbook from time to time.<br /><br />In the late 1990s I remember the CIA Factbook showing that Somalia has some oil reserves. Not huge, but enough to provide a nice profit center for one of the oil majors.<br /><br />Recently I mentioned that on a forum and someone said I was wrong. So I looked it up, and the Factbook said Somalia has no oil reserves.<br /><br />Then I look again today and I see:<br /><br /><b>Natural resources:<br /> Field info displayed for all countries in alpha order.<br />uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, natural gas, likely oil reserves.</b><br /><br /><br />Funny how that works. That nation's natural resources change every time I look.Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-52116992810560833232010-08-25T10:45:37.711-07:002010-08-25T10:45:37.711-07:00Atlantic Star! Our biggest problem believe it or n...Atlantic Star! Our biggest problem believe it or not is that Bush the idiot with his illegal war frees Iran up to instigate for her version of new order not ours. Like him or not Saddam lying about wmd kept Iran in check. This is barely beginning and remember, religious wars are the longest and the dirtiest.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-74209768954107130542010-08-25T10:27:04.517-07:002010-08-25T10:27:04.517-07:00Hi Atlantic star, welcome! We have big trouble and...Hi Atlantic star, welcome! We have big trouble and I tell my 3 career military sons to relax because they are in it for the long haul and who knows where they will be next.<br /><br /> War with Iran is coming but aside from that with Yemen and Somalia I figure the Gulf of Aden to be the next front. With a weak puppet Government in Somalia I just hope to hell we are not stupid enough to go back in there.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-83503631241016412102010-08-25T08:56:23.188-07:002010-08-25T08:56:23.188-07:00Oh, Demuer, you are right. Mogadishu isn't con...Oh, Demuer, you are right. Mogadishu isn't controlled by anyone but warlords. I was in neighbouring countries last year and a friend looking after me was one of the heads of the UN Somali Peacekeeping Mission, and they only had control of the airbase there, and one hospital or university... Def. not under control. He lost that many men from being shot down, that's why I wasn't allowed into the country. I tried!Atlantic Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327412857558655730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-29666856240483333002010-08-25T08:52:56.601-07:002010-08-25T08:52:56.601-07:00Somalia perhaps next, which is a huge concern in i...Somalia perhaps next, which is a huge concern in itself, but what is going through my mind is Egypt, Sudan and Iran.... Imagine that one. With all of the landlocked countries inside that possible Jihad zone! While America is strategically basing their military around the world.... As too are the Islamic fundamentalists, and of not fundamentalists, at least Arabs with huge potential to be.... <br /><br />http://atlanticstarproductions.blogspot.comAtlantic Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327412857558655730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-10697438404146558542010-08-25T08:00:09.325-07:002010-08-25T08:00:09.325-07:00Demeur it's old news and as I pointed out I ha...Demeur it's old news and as I pointed out I have written in the past about Mogadishu falling. My concern knowing this whole so called war on terror is barely beginning and remembering Black Hawk down is that this is going to be hell!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-3054894497911777712010-08-25T07:18:46.508-07:002010-08-25T07:18:46.508-07:00I hate to be the one to clue you in Jim but the go...I hate to be the one to clue you in Jim but the government barely controls Mogadishu. Saw a documentary by Richard Engle on this and he didn't sound to happy about being in the country. The rest of the country is run by war lords and pirates.<br /><br />This sounds like a republicans wet dream. No laws or regulations to get in your way.Demeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01935263659097273535noreply@blogger.com