[No Shit, Sherlock!]

But we need it to be part of a gold-plated multi-billion-dollar weapons system, otherwise this idea will have no credibility.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

11 years later, the US figures out what it means to win hearts and minds.

In another 11 years maybe they'll figure out how to do it.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

The military will always have problems with that, bombing the shit out of people always tends towards being disruptive to somebody's way of life

keep to the Fen Causeway

To...

stop doing things that people interpret as insulting or challenging to their way of life...

...is only the first precondition, the satisfaction of which means you have a chance. Actually succeeding is even more difficult, especially to sustain. Lies, force and intimidation are so much easier and come so much more naturally. Which idiots authorized this embarrassing study?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

gk:

Buried deep down in the article:

"We're going to need to change the way they interpret things that happen and we're going to need to stop doing things that people interpret as insulting or challenging to their way of life."

"...but after turning their heads around first. then they'll understand why it was necessary and forget the 'old narrative', junk it like an old jalopy once they climb into the shiny smoothmobile."

mind games piled on more mind games, how do these guys hope to ever get their stories straight.

well spotted!


The power of knowledge is in mortal combat with the knowledge of power. It really is that simple... That's the Edenic apple we are all munching on.