They don’t. It’s much easier and safer to hide their collective heads in the sand than to confront the problem.

I wonder who they’ll call when it does hit their doorstep and they realize its too late to muster the willpower and force to repel the chaos?

We in the West have become enamoured of precision guided bombs because they’re technologically sexy. We thought that we could just break a people’s stuff and then they’ed surrender. It doesn’t work that way. The people themselves must be broken, not just the equipment.

Think Tokyo firebombing, Dresden firebombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. In both Germany and Japan we defeated a broken and ruined people. They WANTED to surrender. When the GI’s arrived they were (mostly) respected and feared.

It’s time to put away the military scalpul and get out the chainsaw. No more feminine style war. If we want to win we’re going to have to get serious. Ironically, fewer people will in the long run.

Al-Islam also demanded the release of Libyan officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi who is serving a life sentence in Britain for the 1998 bombing of a Pan Am flight over the Scottish village of Lockerbie that killed 270 people.

“We believe that al-Megrahi is innocent in the same way you believe that your nurses are innocent,” he said.

**cough, cough**

Even after the defeat of the Islamists in Somalia, that country was still going to be a heavily flawed place. Here’s further evidence of that. The African Union, which has pledged 8000 troops for a peacekeeping mission in Somalia, has only managed to….

“And they’re all thinking of Somalia as a “peacekeeping” operation, when inserting troops would actually be more like a “peacemaking” operation.”

You’ve summed up the problem with the UN ideal in a single sentence.

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case; you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

We have the resources, we lack the will. Hopefully, we will all find our collective spines before it is too late.

I’m not posting this to rebuke any of the AU’s member states. The fact is, they don’t have the resources on hand

Oh come on… you can’t find one AU member with resources to throw around?

Ghadafi brings in cars, gold as present for leaders

Libyan leader Muamar Ghadafi has brought in 15 cars and two bags full of gold as a gift for African heads of states who are expected to participate in the 8th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, scheduled to open tomorrow, Monday, January 29th.

… meanwhile, Kaddafi is still extorting ransom money for his Western nurse hostages.

Wait–they need peacekeepers to bring peace to a region that is dominated by the religion of peace?

Why, indeed?

The rest of the world lacks the manpower to defend itself and does not yet understand how close the danger truly is.

I’d rewrite this as:

The rest of the world lacks the willpower to defend itself and does not yet acknowledge how close the danger truly is.

I don’t think manpower (or lack of it) is the biggest problem. We (the U.S.) has the manpower by ourselves, getting manpower from some of the bigger U.N. member states would be possible, if they had the willpower. They don’t. It’s much easier and safer to hide their collective heads in the sand than to confront the problem. Do any of the people who think it isn’t our (collectively) problem REALLY believe that the chaos will be confined to one country?