the truth about the enemy we are fighting...

[acroyear]

Bob Cringely:

I eventually finished the piece [on how the religious revolution in Iran changed "dating", turning many single men into cab drivers because that was the only place single men and women could legally be alone in] and decided to go see the war since I had been in Beirut and Angola, but had never seen trench warfare, which is what I was told they had going in Iran. So I took a taxi to the front, introduced myself to the local commander, who had gone, as I recall, to Iowa State, and spent a couple days waiting for the impending human wave attack. That attack was to be conducted primarily with 11-and 12-year-old boys as troops, nearly all of them unarmed. There were several thousand kids and their job was to rise out of the trench, praising Allah, run across No Man's Land, be killed by the Iraqi machine gunners, then go directly to Paradise, do not pass GO, do not collect 200 dinars. And that's exactly what happened in a battle lasting less than 10 minutes. None of the kids fired a shot or made it all the way to the other side. And when I asked the purpose of this exercise, I was told it was to demoralize the cowardly Iraqi soldiers.

It was the most horrific event I have ever seen, and I once covered a cholera epidemic in Bangladesh that killed 40,000 people.

Waiting those two nights for the attack was surreal. Some kids acted as though nothing was wrong while others cried and puked. But when the time came to praise Allah and enter Paradise, not a single boy tried to stay behind.

Now put this in a current context. What effective limit is there to the number of Islamic kids willing to blow themselves to bits? There is no limit, which means that a Bush Doctrine can't really stand in that part of the world.

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Ive got the stomach for its entirty

[nvqrjaaajkss.livejournal.com]

Mind emailing me the entirty and/or link @ tetheredmddotyahoodotcom?

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[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Every now and then I read him, because he's sane and a good writer.

Plus? Best. Column. Title. Ever.

Re: Ive got the stomach for its entirty

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the link of "Bob Cringely" above is all he wrote on it in this week's column. i don't know if there's any more to it.

Re: Ive got the stomach for its entirty

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

oh, now i get it. i think you misunderstood what i meant by "cut" -- i meant enclosed in lj-cut tags so its not right there on everybody's friends page.

Re: Ive got the stomach for its entirty

[nvqrjaaajkss.livejournal.com]

AYEUP...THE BLONDE-AT-THE-ROOTS TODAY completely misunderstood! ;)

Thanks for clarifying!

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