The Payoff
With fans like these...
Well, that was American lives and taxpayer money well spent. But hey, when we're finally gone and the entire stinking shithole completes its backslide into barbarism and theocracy, it'll all be worth it, now won't it?
Years ago, I read a book on the military history of the post-Civil War Old West. Therein was described a technique, widely utilized by the U.S. Army Cavalry units spread across the West and charged with protecting settlers from Indians. They called it "Injun Baiting."
Essentially, if the cavalry commander knew there were two hostile, raiding tribes in relatively close proximity, he'd have his scouts set up false trails which would lead the scouts of the two respective indian tribes to find each other. Often hating each other even more than the white settlers, each would immediately set at the other tribe's throat. This had a two-fold effect: first, it kept them occupied and made the local cavalry commander's job easier; secondly, it thinned their numbers considerably, thereby reducing the long-term threat to a more manageable level.
Look at a map of the Middle East.
During victory celebrations following a match on Saturday between the Shiite villages of Sinjar and Enana [in Iraq], a fan accidentally shot the victorious goalie to death...
During the celebrations, an off-duty policeman started firing his pistol in the air but lost control of it... A bullet struck the Sinjar goalie, an 18-year-old high school senior named Mohammed Amin, in the head, killing him instantly
There was no indication of foul play; the policeman was himself a Sinjar fan.
Well, that was American lives and taxpayer money well spent. But hey, when we're finally gone and the entire stinking shithole completes its backslide into barbarism and theocracy, it'll all be worth it, now won't it?
Years ago, I read a book on the military history of the post-Civil War Old West. Therein was described a technique, widely utilized by the U.S. Army Cavalry units spread across the West and charged with protecting settlers from Indians. They called it "Injun Baiting."
Essentially, if the cavalry commander knew there were two hostile, raiding tribes in relatively close proximity, he'd have his scouts set up false trails which would lead the scouts of the two respective indian tribes to find each other. Often hating each other even more than the white settlers, each would immediately set at the other tribe's throat. This had a two-fold effect: first, it kept them occupied and made the local cavalry commander's job easier; secondly, it thinned their numbers considerably, thereby reducing the long-term threat to a more manageable level.
Look at a map of the Middle East.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:14
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