link Taliban Dream Team: Who are the 5 prisoners traded for Bergdahls freedom? | Fox News.
The release of 5 Taliban guys in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl is an event that has to anger or annoy at least one person. That would be the number 6 terrorist on the release list. The link describes the various nefarious exploits of the top 5 Taliban guys and we must suppose that the number 6 guy didn’t quite cause as much mayhem and destruction as the top 5 did. As we’ve determined before, that consternation must come with mixed feelings. On the one hand, all the guys below 5 get to still live in relative comfort without the corporate pressure of plotting the next successful hit. On the other hand, they miss out on the adulation of their peeps back at home.
History is replete with the exploits of those that went above and beyond and were able to distinguish themselves from the vast majority of people who toil anonymously in their chosen fields. Even in the mass murder and mayhem business, it seems that excellence in the field is rewarded. You would think by now that some of the foot-soldiers in the Jihad movement would be a little less eager to don the ball bearing vest when they see that their superiors get fed and coddled by the enemy and then feted by their own people upon their release. All that the plebes get are promises of untouched women in the great beyond.
What’s the lesson here? It’s the universal one: whatever you do, strive to be the best at it if you want to be treated well by society. We can foresee the Taliban guys giving inspirational speeches at high school graduations. The incumbent president seems to be taking that philosophy as his operating beacon as well. Not content to be just a number in the string of Presidents through history, he appears intent on cementing his position as the worst thereby ensuring his immortality. At this point, Jimmy Carter is rightfully miffed and Woodrow Wilson is convulsing in his grave.
The only certainty about attaining recognition for being the best at what you do is that someone will always come along trying to top that position. In the case of the 5 Taliban guys just recently released, you can bet that some in the ranks will want to surpass their positions like golfers trying to oust Tiger Woods as number 1. We can expect more killings, more destruction and larger scale mayhem. In the case of someone one day trying to usurp Obama’s role in history, well that’s a race to the bottom nobody should want to celebrate.
link Taliban Mocks Shutdown: Lawmakers ‘Sucking The Blood Of Their Own People’ « CBS DC.
You know it’s not good when the widely acknowledged scourge and enemy of the western world makes fun of you…and it’s accurate. Somewhere in the middle eastern moonscape, Taliban leaders must be huddling together after suddenly reaching an epiphany. They conclude that if they do nothing, the U.S. will destroy themselves from within! No need to send suicide bombers and mount expensive terror campaigns, unless of course it’s for amusement.
As the U.S. government ‘shuts down’ because of congressional impasse, stories of hysteria and woe, many absurd, are making the media rounds. By now we know that the furloughing of government employees has ‘forced’ the shutdown of heretofore public facilities. Even the war memorial in DC was closed to the public, which is amusing because it’s essentially a plaza. It’s unclear why a large public standing area needs to be closed. It’s unclear why national parks like the Grand Canyon need to be closed. Is the government operating the views? Does someone have to turn on Old Faithful at Yellowstone? Trying to rope off the Atlantic ocean in Florida is the best one.
If you think about it, the fact that the government shutdown even matters at all is scary; after all, why should the government be involved in so many aspects of people’s daily lives anyways? This is the issue that no one is playing up. If you can’t operate through a day without having to navigate some kind of government bureaucracy, THAT is the problem. Over successive generations, much of what should be private sector stuff has been ceded to government oversight. The notion that the government makes a citizen a law breaker just for trying to access something that the public owns is outrageous. Instead, all media coverage is spent finger pointing at (mostly) one side or the other.
The flashpoint for all of this recent kefuffle is The Affordable Care Act, affectionately dubbed Obamacare. If the government is prepared to deny people access to things they already own such as parks and monuments, what makes anyone think that government control of healthcare is a good thing? What if you needed a mole removed and someone at the clinic turned you away under threat of tazering? As usual, low information voters think they are getting something for nothing. They need Obamacare like they need a third nipple, but since they’re giving them away, may as well get one.
The Taliban may as well sit back and smoke hookah pipes until the U.S. just collapses from their citizens’ own collective stupidity.