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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    From a while back, it's actually a very nice feel-good story.

  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,518 Standard Supporter

    From a while back, it's actually a very nice feel-good story.

    Newfies are like retarded Irishmen.

  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    I've probably gone through a dozen or more War on Terror books in the last year. A certain side-ism has come through between them.
    • #TeamFBI - FBI was doing things the right was, but was undermined by the CIA and underutilized by policymakers.
    • #TeamMilitary - The armed services—SpecOps in particular—have the training and tools necessary for the job. FBI & CIA just make trouble on the periphery.
    • #TeamCIA - This team is smaller. CIA has infrastructure and methods for the job, but has been underfunded and mismanaged.
    Dirty Wars, written by someone from The Nation, surprisingly was #TeamCIA and very suspicious of JSOC. A contention raised several times in the book was that the CIA had more Congressional oversight, whereas JSOC could go rogue and no one would ever hear about it.

    Bush gets smacked around, as is custom. However, the author has harsh assessments of Obama. To wit, perhaps weº didn't give him enough credit as a ruthless killer of brown people around the Middle East. The extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, both US citizens, is a central part of the book. The Bush admin harassed al-Awlaki. Obama vaporized him and his kid. I probably cheered it at the tim. The author makes a strong case that al-Awlaki had nothing to do with 9/11 hijackers, as alleged.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,551 Founders Club

    Those were books I’d read recently that I liked.

    Official recommendation list would include:

    Blood Meridian
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    1984
    The Thrawn trilogy
    1776
    The Hunt for Red October
    Moneyball
    The Right Stuff

    Just to name a few...

    I’ll add them and figure out a way to post the Google sheet without Doxing myself.
    Just create another google account like "twogaydadsintohardcore@gmail.com"(probably taken) and then have THAT account share the doc. That's what I did for the first couple of podcasts.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    The late @Crow_T_Robot might appreciate Sowell's tracing of what is essentially Fast Strategy culture in the South to the shitty parts of Great Britain. Good book.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,551 Founders Club
    Reading currently: For whom the bell tolls

    Was reading: The Plague by Albert Camus but had to put it down when shit got real in February or so, been slowly getting back into that.

    Other shit I've been picking up and putting down this year: Democracy in America, the Elminster series from Forgotten Realms(DnD nerd shit), Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond(can't have a desert compound without water)
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    Weº do a lot of the fallacies.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,551 Founders Club



    Weº do a lot of the fallacies.