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So They Want To Use Tribes To Bing Law and Order.



Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008

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Well golly gee once again a brainstorm. Give people local control over their own destiny and bingo things happen. I am speaking about Afghanistan and yes like in Iraq when it finally sunk in and we allowed the Sunni to protect their own, there was a major shift in the war. How amazing. We called it surge, surge what? Now not to take away from our gallant troops who have to deal with politics, controlled warfare and everything else, the simple facts are if it wasn't for that one critical aspect helping to change the climate we still did not have enough boots on the ground. Yes even with those extra troops and still don't and won't. We put in all we had and have, fact. Oh I'm sorry, I keep using fact.

Now it seems local tribesmen armed with primitive weapons have chased the Taliban from there local area. Now the facts are that these area's are made up of complex tribe relationships, all intertwined. That evidently never seemed to dawn on these super intelligent scholars of the finest Ivy league Schools. Certainly our boots on the ground, our special forces know this but do we allow them to exploit that. I think not. Yes in limited ways but not to the full extent. It is that way right now in Pakistan and yet do we exploit that?

No only when we our politicians suddenly see it working do we jump onto the bandwagon. Hey why not listen to those doing the bleeding? Now to think there will ever be social stability in any of these regions in the short haul is foolish at best. We are seeing feudal systems at work in our modern age. Poverty, religion and ethic clashes all about.

No what works is going back to the feudal era and studying alliances.The enemy of my enemy sort of thing. Who won and who lost and why and most likely you will see emerge some kind of local control and $$$$ or wealth involved. Yes Pakistan, another nightmare waiting to happen. They, are moving closer to Red China day by day. Notice I did not say Free Market China. They never were. They always were and still are Red China and to think otherwise is to be the fool. What happens when they move in and they will.

It is like someone married to a drug addict. They think they can change them but until that person wants to change nothing can change them. The same with China. We hope and we gamble and frankly we give our technology and the means to destroy us to them. Yes and we even give them our money to pay for it all. Yes and you, yes you are happy as a pig in mud and I'm using a nicer term then I originally wrote. You figure it out. Yes, you still vote for them.

Hey I just thought I'd point it out. Oh, I'm sorry, I did not want to make you mad by saying what is fact. As Mr. McCain stated, fact is fact and you can't change that when addressing an issue last night. Ok bad analogy using him. I'll accept that, but what he said, well fact.

The fact is you can make change state by state. It is called CHANGE CONGRESS. It is as simple as that. Yes and send a message loud and clear. It can be done if you will. Otherwise, please pass me another burger and another beer, oh don't have any, too expensive, foreign owned, Oh, how about a water?

Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright 2008 Robert Melaccio Sr.



Robert Melaccio Sr. has worked in the computer industry for 40 plus years in a diversified business and managerial environments. He enjoys freelance writing, giving seminars for young adults and teen groups as well as being an accomplished award winning poet of published poetry. He has worked teaching and as a youth minister. He is married and has three children and three grandchildren.

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