War Porn

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Derrick Crowe
Posted: August 14, 2009 12:41 PM

War Porn

The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Wednesday that while American forces have been making progress in the region it is still too early to tell what success might look like. "We'll know it when we see it," said Richard Holbrooke, referencing the "Supreme Court test" of how to identify pornographic material.

If one does not have a definition of success, one cannot create a strategy to get there. Thus, if no definition of success exists other than a warm fuzzy feeling in the administration's collective gut, we don't have a strategy in Afghanistan. Like Rob says in High Fidelity:

"I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old and, frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains."

"We'll know it when we see it" means we can't tell you clearly why your tax dollars and your sons and daughters are killing people in your name right now. "We'll know it when we see it" means that we're measuring success like we're measuring pornography--whatever turns you on, man. The difference between ill-defined standards for pornography and a directionless war, of course, is that one of these vagaries leads to a happy ending. The other leads to years, lives and treasure wasted on a pile of corpses for which we have nothing tangible to show--except the missing years, lives and treasure.

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2. I thought that's why the fascists hatched up their phony "war (of terror) w/o end" in the 1st place

No end goal to ruin it for em by bringing the chaos and profiteering to a close.

Shit, at that rate they'll have to scheme up yet another phantom bogeyman who could be ANYWHERE...