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In which case I think that, at least in Iraq and Afghanistan, the HTS programme has been, not just a failure, but a devastatingly costly own goal.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jun 21st, 2009 at 05:36:07 AM EST
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HTS is another one of the too-clever-by-half labels affixed to counter-intelligence tactics since, say, export of Donald Duck comics to Berlin. This school of war fare replaces WWII "morale bombing."

And I think it no coincidence that the "target" demographic of McWorld freedom is --in Iraq, "Af-Pak," and Iran for example-- are adolescents. After all, 20th-century "conflict" was all about annihilating cultural foundations and stripping natural resources from ROW. Seasonal tilling the land, if you will, in order to sow seeds not of democracy but corporate fealty. In a country like Vietnam the "enterprise zones" rise around slums of the very young and very old in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

The very old await death. The very young, sensing "somthing is not quite right" with choosing between one colonial steward and another, riot. Periodically. So the Westworld NGOs and such harvest the birth of another "movement".

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Jun 21st, 2009 at 08:22:41 AM EST
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