Monday, November 22, 2010
Operation Hemorrhage
This is something of a first, I think ...
Warmaking governments never boast about the cheapness and easiness of their efforts: they always want the enemy to see an overwhelming force whether it exists or not.
In this case, the "brothers" have no need to look impressive, because the West has already surrendered. So they're quite properly boasting about frugality, which is frankly rather attractive and worth emulating.
Attractive? Yes. I'd rather be governed by people who know how to get things done decisively and cheaply.
Worth emulating? Yes. If we chose to spend only $4200 to "defend" against this, we'd be vastly better off. And the simplest way to spend nothing is (1) eliminate all the screening (2) allow passengers and pilots to carry anything they want (3) allow passengers, pilots and freight agents to use their own judgment without fear of discrimination lawsuits.
If the Arab vermin had to assume that every human passenger was ready, willing and able to recognize and kill them, they wouldn't even try.
Of course the best approach of all would be two simple laws: (1) When a human kills an Arab, he receives a bounty, not a punishment. (2) When an Arab kills a human, we depopulate a randomly chosen Arab country.
But the "strategy to bleed the enemy to death" is not new at all. It's part of Sheikh Osama's explicitly stated and tremendously successful plan:
Al Qaeda has boasted that a plane printer bomb plot foiled in Britain and Dubai was a 'bargain' which 'cost only $4,200 and was run by less than six brothers'.
In an extraordinary article on the terror group's online magazine Inspire, organisers claim that the thwarted attacks - dubbed Operation Hemorrhage - were part of a new strategy to 'bleed the enemy to death'.
The authors even include a shopping list for the operation - 'two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up to a total bill of $4,200'.
'That is all what Operation Hemorrhage cost us,' they add.
Warmaking governments never boast about the cheapness and easiness of their efforts: they always want the enemy to see an overwhelming force whether it exists or not.
In this case, the "brothers" have no need to look impressive, because the West has already surrendered. So they're quite properly boasting about frugality, which is frankly rather attractive and worth emulating.
Attractive? Yes. I'd rather be governed by people who know how to get things done decisively and cheaply.
Worth emulating? Yes. If we chose to spend only $4200 to "defend" against this, we'd be vastly better off. And the simplest way to spend nothing is (1) eliminate all the screening (2) allow passengers and pilots to carry anything they want (3) allow passengers, pilots and freight agents to use their own judgment without fear of discrimination lawsuits.
If the Arab vermin had to assume that every human passenger was ready, willing and able to recognize and kill them, they wouldn't even try.
Of course the best approach of all would be two simple laws: (1) When a human kills an Arab, he receives a bounty, not a punishment. (2) When an Arab kills a human, we depopulate a randomly chosen Arab country.
But the "strategy to bleed the enemy to death" is not new at all. It's part of Sheikh Osama's explicitly stated and tremendously successful plan:
Mujahidin, be patient and think of the hereafter, for this path in life requires sacrifices, maybe with your life. You scare the enemy but they do not scare you, and you are well aware that the burning issues of the umma today are the jihads in Palestine and in Iraq. So be very sure to help them, be sure to know that there is a rare and golden opportunity today to make America bleed in Iraq, in economic, human, and psychological terms. So don't waste this opportunity and regret it afterwards.¶ 7:01 AM
