[SevenMinusOne]

Worth the read - Both in and between the lines -

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Primacy of Tribal Politics

[Decepticon]

In a tribal culture suffused with blood feuds, men build their families' strength by having as many sons as possible. In a territory with few roads or schools and virtually no industry, vast numbers of young men are unemployed.

I find it amazing that so many Westerners just don't get it. These people are hard core, interrelated, uneducated mountain people. They have loyalties to tribes and sheiks...all of which can change at a moments notice. They are the equivalent of what westerners would call "indians", but with AK's, rocket launchers and money from radical islam regimes.

It reminds me of a conversation I had with a Bedouin honcho, years ago in Egypt. He said...paraphrasing..."We have lived in these deserts for thousands of years, we'll be here long after your civilizations turn to dust".

Frankly, I believe he was right.....

Thanks for the post.

[MyFreedomIHoldDear]

Bombs Away !!!

[LtKerst]

Taliban militants control much of Waziristan, a rocky, mountainous area twice the size of Long Island along the Pakistani border. Despite a heavy presence of Pakistani troops, Waziristan has become the largest and most protected sanctuary for Islamic militant guerrillas in the Afghan-Pakistani theater of the "global war on terror."

Sometimes you have to "break alot of Eggs to Make a Cake"
A "carpet of daisys" across the Countryside.! Just in time for Spring!!!

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[stand4somethin]

To see the right moment and to seize it, to balance the profit and loss, counting one's own life as a feather in the scales, to strike hard and bold whatever the odds,—such are a few simple soldier lessons

[DoctorMichael]

Waziristan Man.