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If I was a person about to lose my house and voted Obama…
Posted: April 30, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: irony, War on Terror
This story out of Pakistan has a good lesson for the Obama administration:
Emboldened by the government’s concessions (emphasis mine) , Taliban fighters began moving into Buner and nearby Shangla district. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said around 450 Taliban were reported to have sneaked into Buner on Monday.
The fighting that has followed is really the result of those concessions:
The Taliban’s creeping advances across Malakand have raised alarm in the United States that the militants were zeroing in on Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and stoked fears that the Washington’s nuclear-armed ally was on the verge of sliding into chaos.
The administration should take this to heart.
How do we know Iraq is now free?
Posted: April 28, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/newsTags: War on Terror
Because we can see stories like this:
Relatives and supporters of the late Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein are marking his birthday with tributes in his native village, laying wreaths by his grave and chanting slogans against former President George W. Bush.
Saddam would have turned 72 on Tuesday. He is buried in the Tigris River hamlet of Ouja, where he was born, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
A photo exhibition near the grave chronicles his more than two decades in power.
This should please anyone who supports free expression, then again to our friends on the left dissent isn’t as high a form of patriotism as it once was.
The president gets one right in the field of cyberwar:
With increasing attempts by computer hackers in China, Russia and elsewhere to break into and sabotage federal and private computer systems, Obama is set to propose a far larger cyberwarfare program than the $17 billion, five-year effort approved by Congress last year, unnamed military and intelligence officials told Tuesday’s New York Times.
Some interesting details…
Among the computer warfare innovations reportedly being considered by the Pentagon is one that would allow a U.S. programmer to secretly enter a server in a foreign country and destroy a “botnet” before it could be deployed in the United States. Botnets are malicious programs that let users commandeer PCs and use them to spread code to other machines, creating vast networks of zombie computers that can be controlled remotely.
In a country where information technology rules this is where part of the fight has to take place, logistics are very important and can make or brake things in warfare and infrastructure. I’m glad to see these guys on it.
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